Collected Sonnets
Old and New (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Collected Sonnets: Old and New<br><br>Midnight, June 30, 1879.<br><br>Midnight - in no midsummer tune<br>The breakers lash the shores:<br>The cuckoo of a joyless June<br>Is calling out of doors:<br><br>And thou hast vanish'd from thine own<br>To that which looks like rest,<br>True brother, only to be known<br>By those who love thee best.<br><br>II.<br><br>Midnight - and joyless June gone by,<br>And from the deluged park<br>The cuckoo of a worse July<br>Is calling thro' the dark:<br><br>But thou art silent underground,<br>And o'er thee streams the rain,<br>True poet, surely to be found<br>When Truth is found again.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>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.