Excerpt from Rose-Leaf and Apple-Leaf: L'envoi Brought with me to America; verses full of sweet sadness, and yet full of joy; for the most joyous poet is not he who sows the desolate highways of this world with the barren seed of laughter but he who makes his sorrow most musical, this indeed being the meaning of joy in art - that incommuni cable element of artistic delight which, in poetry for instance, comes from what Keats called the sensuous life of verse, the element of song in the singing, made so pleasurable to us by that wonder of motion which often has its origin in mere musical impulse, and in painting is to be sought for, from the subject never, but from the pictorial charm only - the scheme and symphony of the colour, the satisfying beauty of the design: so that the ultimate expression of our artistic move. 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.