Excerpt from Sonnets of the Strife, With Songs I can gladly stand sponsor for the poetic talent of Robert Loveman. He is a true poet of a rare order, and, though of Hungarian parentage, is a true American. These poems suggested by the war strike the note we like to hear on this side of the world the humanitarian, democratic note, and they strike it with vigor attuned to music. The kings are going, let them go Let every crowned head in Europe roll in the dust, and let the people elect their rulers, and there will be no more war. Our author's previous work, especially the thin volume called The Gates of Silence, in which occurs that exquisite lyric, April Rain, and which any poet in the world might be proud to have written, stamp him as a poet of unusual merit. No other singer of our time has essayed deep-sea soundings into the problems of human destiny and done it with a plumet of four-line stanzas, with great ease and gayety of heart, as has Loveman in his Gates of Silence. Much of it as good as the best in Omar Khayyam. 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.