Excerpt from Poems To speak of Poetry is to speak of the most subtle, the most delicate, and the most accurate instrument by which to measure Life. Poetry is reality's essence visioned and made mani fest by one endowed with a perception acutely sensi tive to sound, form, and colour, and gifted with a power to shape into rhythmic and rhymed verbal sym bols the reaction to Life's phenomena. The poet moulds that which appears evanescent and ephemeral in image and in mood into everlasting values. In this act of creation he serves eternity. 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.