Excerpt from The Brown Alumni Monthly, Vol. 7: May, 1907 One aspect Of Prentice has not been mentioned, his poetry. His poem, The Closing Work, was per haps the favorite American poem during the second third Of the nineteenth century. He is pronounced by Piatt second only to Bryant among our poets as a master of blank verse. A good specimen Of his work in this manner is the poem on Brown University, quoted at the end of this article. One Of his noblest poems is in memory Of his son who died in battle. His lines At My Mother's Grave and To an Absent Wife won immediate popularity by their tender sentiment. A charming effort in a lighter vein is that entitled, To the Daughter of an Old Sweet heart. But poetry was his recreation rather than his calling. 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.