Excerpt from To Leda and Other Odes And clouds will no more pause near kings' fair homes, Though queens watch at the casements while their combs Gleam indolently drawn through perfumed tresses Than those swans loitered tell me! Had thy guesses Soared trembling towards Olympus, wonder-eyed? Frail though the empyrean, hadst thou sent Some fond surmise? 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.