Life Sketches and Poems (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Life Sketches and Poems I write this, dear reader, hoping there may be some good results attained, by simple means. At the age of sixty-eight years I was very sick, and for weeks I hovered between two worlds. It appeared that I was on a cloud; I had beautiful visions; I could see a lovely river, and across that river mound after mound of beautiful flowers, and as far as my eyes could look, foliage that nature could not compare with. When I came back to myself I was very much surprised. I always loved poetry, but could not compose it. Before I had strength to write it down it came rushing upon me in volumes. A large part passed without being noted; that I could not re member. But when there was a friend near to write it down, that we kept. You will find dreams that came to me in poetry. I am not an author or a poet. When those attacks pass away I cannot rhythm one verse. I cannot say I have any power over it. Some of my pieces would hang over me for days, in a broken form. Then, perhaps in the twilight, when nature was at rest, they would come in form, and I would have to write for hours. I am at a loss to tell what this is. It has influenced me to write a part of my life, and give it to the public. It is from the pen of an old lady upwards of three score and ten years. 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.