Wayside Flowers A Collection Of Short Poems PDF Download

Excerpt from Wayside Flowers: A Collection of Poems Since that most eventful period in the life of every wo man, marriage, among many vicissitudes and domestic cares, Mrs. Loud has still cherished her early fondnesses and predilections, and plucked many way-side flowers from the pleasant paths of poetry. These she has gath ered together, and they are now presented, by the hand to which they were modestly committed for selection and arrangement, without alteration, and with few omissions. Those omissions were the most difficult part of the proof-reader's (for he cannot conscientiously say editor's) task; for where no exception could be taken to any piece, it was hard to decide upon any to except. But it is very important that a volume of poems should not be too large; since the smallness of the package, to use a mercantile metaphor, often suggests the value of the goods. Mrs. Loud has resided, during many of the maturer years of her life, at the South; and hence it is that no small portion of her descriptive poetry is imbued with the warmth and sweetness of a tropical climate. Her present residence is in Philadelphia. The writer does not put his initials to this imperfect introduction with any idea that they will give vogue to productions sufficiently recommended by their intrinsic merit, but simply to show that the opinions expressed are those of a responsible, if not competent critic. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.