The Writings of Sarah A. King (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Writings of Sarah A. KingO the personal friends for whom this little volume is intended it may not be necessary to say that my mother made no pretensions to authorship. Indeed, so slight a value did she place upon her written thoughts that only by urgent request were any ever published, and the few scattered manuscripts I have been fortunate enough to collect are so imperfect that I almost hesitated to com them. Unhappily, my most careful search among accumulated papers has failed to discover some of the O brightest compositions (many that were recited before Sorosis and other societies to which she belonged), so that I fear they are really lost. This 15 a great grief to me, as I know it will be to the many kind friends who held my mother in high esteem, and who, in their desire to possess a copy of her writings, suggested having them arranged in book form.Many verses written long before her marriage are, I find, preserved, while later ones are lost, and the poems of her first married years have escaped destruction chie¿y because they were tributes to her children who had died, and not because she considered them worthy literary productions.My mother expressed herself very easily in rhyme - her thoughts were always weaving verses, and she frequently set them to music, indeed, I think all the songs with which she delighted my childhood were her own com position, as well as her stories of adventure and wonder related to make happy the evening hours at home. Possessing more than ordinary talent, had she been will ing to devote her life to literary pursuits, I am sure she would have reached a degree of excellence far above mediocrity, but being, withal, severely practical, she allowed her minute attention to home details to occupy the greater part of her time.I wish I could do adequate justice to my mother's memory - I wish I could repeat verbatim the sentiments of appreciation which have been expressed by her friends, but, feeling my incompetency, I shall only attempt to refer brie¿y to her qualities of heart and soul, in the fond hope of paying some slight tribute to. Her merit which may outlast my voice.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.