Excerpt from The Awakening, and Other Sonnets Gathers from quivering leaf, and river clear, Sounds sweetened by the touch of passing Night; While on a leafy platform, shut from sight, But to the heart, by hearing, doubly near, A songbird, throbbing with the opening year, Outsoars in joy his wings supremest flight. 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.