Poems (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Poems<br><br>Proem<br><br>From the fields of life I bring<br>What I have gathered.<br>More than individual<br>Must be the book that tells<br>The joys and sorrows<br>Successes and failures<br>The ambitions and defeats<br>The longings and desires<br>The aims and experiences<br>The loves and hopes<br>Of a single human life.<br><br>As the years come and go<br>Each one yearns, nay strives<br>To paint his own great pictures<br>To carve his own statues<br>Produce his own sweet music<br>Perfect his own judgments<br>To possess an ideal home<br>Choose and entertain his own friends<br>And be accounted honorable by<br>His neighbors, his town - state - nation<br>So rounded and complete are<br>The endowments of a human being<br>That the least and greatest,<br>Establishes his boundaries<br>According to his own Ideals.<br><br>Would it not be interesting to know<br>The harvest value of a human Life<br>What lovely jewels - God, Master - Poet,<br>Author of vast Creation, offers<br>Each panting soul as the reward<br>Of development.<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.