Author : Eugene Lee-Hamilton
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ISBN 13 : 9781330660416
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (64 download)
Book Synopsis Poems and Transcripts (Classic Reprint) by : Eugene Lee-Hamilton
Download or read book Poems and Transcripts (Classic Reprint) written by Eugene Lee-Hamilton and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-03 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Poems and Transcripts A Dwarf. In the strong daylight of reality, I came upon a being who belonged Not to the present, but the distant past; A thing mis-issued from the womb of Time, Which called the mind away from present sights, And seemed to give the measure of an age. I saw him at Verona in the street; And with that empty street, in which the sun Poured floods of light upon the heated stones. He seemed as out of keeping as a bat. He was a cripple and a dwarf, of face Close-shaven, warped, and pleasureless, who stood Upon his crutches, in the dreary garb Of a medieval almshouse, eyeing us. He might have been an imp-like ornament, Detached from some cathedral buttress black, And vivified by now forgotten spells; The incarnate spirit of the Ages Dark, Thrown on our path to make us love these days. I let my thoughts revert to those black times, When prowled the monk, the leper, and the witel 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.
