A Dream of a Star: And Other Poems (Classic Reprint) - Taschenbuch

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It is not without considerable diffidence, that the Author sends forth to the world this little volume of verse. His avocations have prevented him from bestowing on the work anything worthy to be called revision, and the Poems therefore appear almost as originally written. The principal Poem, nearly all the Sonnets, and many of the other pieces, were written between October 1851 and May 1853, during the greater portion of which period the Author was residing in the Jungles. Without a European with whom to hold converse, with no one near him with whom he could indulge in an interchange of sentiments, he found a solace in his lonely hours in endeavouring to express his thoughts in verse, with what success it is for the reader to decide; but the Author feels assured, that they will judge kindly of this his first essay.

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