Duty And Other Poems

Excerpt from Duty and Other Poems: With a Biographical and Critical Sketch IT is seldom that theologians come prominently before the literary world as writers of poetry. While many of them are endowed with poetic gifts of a high order, and while they undoubtedly exer cise those gifts more or less during their leisure moments, it is only on certain occasions, or for spec ial reasons that their musings are ever allowed to pass beyond, or even become known outside of the family circle. Why this should be the rule instead of the exception, we are at a loss to determine or explain. We confess ourselves confident that many of them would ultimately attain a high rank among the poets of their country were they to place their productions within easy reach of such readers as delight in, and acknowledge themselves interested in this particular branch of literature. The Rev. Archibald Ross Of Brooklyn, N. Y., is a fair example of the kind of poet preacher that we have refer ence to. While he has been for many years a. 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.

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This work contains the most cherished poems by Irish poet, dramatist, writer, and one of the prominent figures of 20th-century literature, W.B Yeats. He beautifully presented his thoughts about the responsibilities of life and how people must handle them.

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