Poems and Essays

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Excerpt from Poems and Essays: Including Address to Ocean, the Great Question, &C, The only apology which can be given for presenting to the public a book possessing no higher degree of literary merit than this little volume can claim, may be briefly stated. The articles were prepared by the writer during a season of confinement to her room from physical infirmities, and as these difficulties still continue in a considerable degree, thereby rendering her incapable of much exertion, they, together with the loss of property and bereavement of friends, may commend her to the sympathy of others. The desire to do good by the dissemination of pious thoughts, even though they may not be expressed in an elegant style of language, is a strong reason in the mind of the writer for wishing the articles published. We know that a vast amount of good is done by the popular method of writing, namely: by well arranged stories conveying lessons of piety and propriety in all things. But how often it is, after beholding, as it were, our natural faces as in a glass, while reading these stories, that we go away and forget what manner of persons we are, or neglect to improve by the examples they furnish to our minds, both of the good and evil characters which they portray! Whether our plan of close reasoning and persuasive argument will have any more lasting effect, we cannot tell, but we sincerely hope that all who read this work will at least endeavor to be prepared to answer the Great Question without remorse or regret on their own part, "Whenever their hour of trial comes." Some errors which appear in the work, are owing to the circumstances of the authors not seeing any printed sheet till the whole number was completed. The article entitled "Two Scenes with Reflections, " is intended as a memorial to a deceased husband. His body lies where "no stone can mark the spot." This article is intended here in place of a monument to his memory. 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.