Star Gleams: Poems (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

Eliza M. Hickok

9780332912981: Star Gleams: Poems (Classic Reprint)

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ISBN 10: 0332912981 ISBN 13: 9780332912981

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Excerpt from Star Gleams: Poems

Be devoted to the cultivation of the muse. Therefore, nearly all the poems are the productions of earlier years, some being written at a very early age, usually composed while I was engaged in some household occupation, and without special thought or effort. I give them as they are. Indeed, life has been too stern a discipline, too much of a conﬂict, to admit of my making poetry a specialty, or improving very much in that direction by practice. Without polish or revision, then, they are heart utterances, sometimes bespeaking a wavering faith, which - thank Godl - has never been wholly lost, and may often be seen rising above the sad complainings of human weakness. They are heart-promptings; and if, perchance, some gleam may bring a thought of peace, a rift of light, a glimpse of faith, to one storm-tossed, weary soul among the great moving tide of humanity, destined for another and a higher life than this brief span, the author will feel repaid for the work of gathering them into book form.

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