Excerpt from The Garden of Seven Trees To mention only four of the short poems in the present volume, one who can achieve pieces as unlike and as successful as Remembering (is it the scent of the cedar The Candle, Gypsy Glen and Boughs of May deserves the name of poet. The first named has rare delicacy of thought, and it combines with this a felicity of meter and a loveliness of half-concealed rhymes which are in perfect harmony with it. The Candle is vivid in its picture-forming power. It is the kind of conception in which emotion is made frozen and static through its own intensity. Gypsy Glen is a poem of deep and true emotion. It is undoubtedly the voice of the heart, though the other two poems may be the product of the poetic and dramatic imagination. As to Boughs of May, there is to me something alluring in its irregular but smooth movement and in its psychol ogy of the mind, unhinged by grief, which speaks of black-eyed song, which thinks of the stars as blood-buds, and which tries to forget the tomb beneath the moon in a despairing belief that the loved one is not dead. 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.