Sonnets and Poems (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Sonnets and Poems<br><br>Ye gave me life and will for life to crave:<br>Desires for mighty suns, or high, or low,<br>For moons mysterious over cliffs of snow,<br>For the wild foam upon the midsea wave;<br>Swift joy in freeman, swift contempt for slave;<br>Thought which would bind and name the stars and know;<br>Passion that chastened in mine overthrow;<br>And speech, to justify my life, ye gave.<br><br>Life of my life, this late return of song<br>I give to you before the close of day;<br>Life of your life! which everlasting wrong<br>Shall have no power to baffle or betray,<br>O father, - mother! for ye watched so long,<br>Ye loved so long, and I was far away.<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.