Out of Sweet Solitude (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Out of Sweet Solitude The audacity of a comparatively unknown author who perpetrates the folly of a first book must needs find extenuation in a preface. Apologies for obscure muses are so many and so tedious, that the writer of this book would despair of securing a patient perusal of either her preface or her poems did she not remember that a number of the latter have already drifted into print, and successively enjoyed a certain degree of popularity in religious journals and periodicals. Encouraging as such favorable notice must indubitably be to an aspiring author, one who is not quite blinded with self-conceit cannot but see the risk of bearing the whole weight of authorship upon such slender supports. The lavish praise of personal friends is no greater guarantee of success with the critical public at large than is a mere local popularity sure to soften the "iron verdict of the world." More than once, in thoughtful visits to public and private libraries, the writer has reverentially drawn from dim corner-recesses, or emancipated from the secret slavery of upper shelves, many a neglected book, both good and precious. Even if their dusty covers told no tale, the uncut pages were sufficient evidence of the oblivion to which they had been consigned. Busy teeming brains had once, with fear and gladness, furnished forth this feast. 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.