Excerpt from Browning for the Trenches: Selections From the Poetry of Robert Browning After America's entry into the great war, in 1917, the Boston Browning Society decided to prepare and publish a small book of selections from the poetry of Robert Browning, for Ameri can soldiers and sailors under the title Browning for the Trenches. The endeavor was to select passages that express courage, good cheer and great ideals. Browning's poetry abounds in these, and the principal editorial difficulty was to keep the book small enough for the desired purpose. 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.