Excerpt from The Quiet Hour: And Other Verses T is said that the relish for poetry, never very I keen in these later centuries, is declining more and more. Even in these last twenty years verse has become, they tell us, more and more unpopular. The blame may perhaps be laid to a great extent upon excessive newspaper-reading and excessive novel-reading and upon the general fuss and stress of our commercial, money-making, un spiritual age. The daily newspapers, in particular, engross a quite inordinate preportion of the time and energy that the public is willing to give to reading of any kind. 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.