Excerpt from Selected Poems, Old and New N 0 one who thinks to any purpose will imagine that men can be saved by rhetoric: deeds are more than words; and the only poem which will convert the world is that which is enacted daily in the lives of God and men. Yet the lover is permitted his sonnets, and he who is enamoured of some vision of Truth cannot always keep silence. 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.