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Lang: - English, Pages 469. Reprinted in 2019 with the help of original edition published long back [1921]. This book is Printed in black & white, Hardcover, sewing binding for longer life with Matt laminated multi-Colour Dust Cover, Printed on high quality Paper, re-sized as per Current standards, professionally processed without changing its contents. As these are old books, we processed each page manually and make them readable but in some cases some pages which are blur or missing or black spots. If it is multi volume set, then it is only single volume, if you wish to order a specific or all the volumes you may contact us. We expect that you will understand our compulsion in these books. We found this book important for the readers who want to know more about our old treasure so we brought it back to the shelves. (Any type of Customisation is possible with extra charges). Hope you will like it and give your comments and suggestions.

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1919 edition. Excerpt: ...Branch Born at New London, Conn., and still living there. WHILE LOVELINESS GOES BY t Sometimes when all the world seems grey and dun And nothing beautiful, a voice will cry, " Look out, look out! Angels are drawing nigh! " Then my slow burdens leave me one by one, And swiftly does my heart arise and run Even like a child while loveliness goes by--And common folk seem children of the sky, And common things seem shaped of the sun. Oh, pitiful! that I who love them, must So soon perceive their shining garments fade! And slowly, slowly, from my eyes of trust Their flaming banners sink into a shade! While this earth's sunshine seems the golden dust Slow settling from that radiant cavalcade. Anna Hempstead Branch THE TRAIL-MAKERS North and west along the coast among the misty islands, Sullen in the grip of night and smiling in the day: Nunivak and Akutan, with Nome against the highlands, On we drove with plated prow agleam with frozen spray. Loud we sang adventuring and lustily we jested; Quarreled, fought, and then forgot the taunt, the blow, the jeers; Named a friend and clasped a hand--a compact sealed, attested; Shared tobacco, yarns, and drink, and planned surpassing years. Then-.--the snow that locked the trail where famine's shadow followed Out across the blinding white and through the stabbing cold, Past tents along the tundra over faces blotched and hollowed; Toothless mouths that babbled foolish songs of hidden gold. Wisdom, lacking sinews for the toil, gave over trying; Fools, with thews of iron, blundered on and won the fight; Weaklings drifted homeward; else they tarried--worse than dying--With the painted lips and wastrels on the edges of the night. Berries of the saskatoon were ripening and falling; Flowers decked the barren with...

Fc Hi permission to reprint most of the material in this volume, the editor wishes to thank not only the poets whose co-operation has been of such assistance,, but also the publishers, most of whom are holders of the copyright. This indebtedness is alphabetically acknowledged to: Bobbs-M brrill Company for the two poems from The Cont plete f Forks of James Whitcomb Riley. The Century Company for the selections from Merchants from Cathay by William Rose Bent, Songs for the New A pe by James Oppenheim, and Challenge by Louis Untermeyer. DoDD, Mead Company for the two poems from Lyrics of Lowly Life by Paul Laurence Dunbar. DouBLEDAT, PAGE COMPANY for the Selections from Tohog ganning on Parnassus by Franklin P. A dams, The Man with the Hoe and Lincoln and Other Poems by Edwin Markham. y Georoe H. Doran Company for the selections from In Deep Places by A melia Josephine Burr and Trees and Other P oems by Joyce Kilmer. E. P. Dutton Company for the two poems from Lanterns in Gethsemane by Willard Wattles. Four Seas Company for the quotation from The Charnel Rose by Conrad A iken. H arper Brothers for the selections from The Laughing Muse by Arthur Guiterman, Dreams and Dust by Don Marquis. r; Henry Holt and Company for the selections from AB oy s Will, North of Boston, and Mountain Interval by Robert Frost; Outcasts in Beulah Land by Roy Helton, Chicago 7P oems and Cornhuskers by Carl Sandburg, These Times by Louis Untermeyer, and Factories by Margaret Widdemer.(Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book.)About the Publisher Forgotten Books is a publisher of historical writings, such as: Philosophy, Classics, Science, Religion, History, Folklore and Mythology.Forgotten Books' Classic Reprint Series utilizes the latest technology to regenerate facsimiles of historically important writings. Careful attention has been made to accurately preserve the o

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