Poems of Action

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Excerpt from Poems of Action: A Collection of Verse for Youth I am very glad to follow the suggestion of a more ambitious compiler and acknowledge how much I owe for an appreciation of poetry to the undergraduates of Trinity College, Oxford, My friendship with them has taught me what a great lack we are to have in our American life unless a larger number of boys before their school days are over cultivate a love for poetry and poetry reading. So my first purpose in making this collection has been to bring together in a convenient volume from all poets using the English language the verse which mature boys enjoy reading. My hope is that the use of such a book will help to cultivate that love for poetic things in life which is inherent in the hearts of all boys. As far as poetry goes, however, this love too often either remains unawakened or is stifled by the obligatory use of school readers. In many other ways this natural love for poetic things is checked by the materialistic tendency of North American life. 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.