Excerpt from Through the Year With the Poets The original contributions to August constitute an important feature of the volume. The chord of the month is firmly struck by three of these, - Miss Helen Gray Cone's August, which appears upon the title page; Now August Comes, by Mr. Clin'on Scollard; and The Year hath Reached its Afternoon, by Mr. Samuel Minturn Peck, a poet of whom Alabama is justly proud. Mid-august Midnight will readily be classed among Mrs. Harriet Prescott Spofford's finest efforts, and the August of Miss Edith Thomas is among that writer's best poems. Love-ia-idleness, by Mrs. Jane Goodwin Austin, and Dreaming in Living, by Mr. William Morton Fullerton, are like wise full of the August feeling; and In August, by Mr Robert Burns Wilson, the artist-poet of Kentucky, unites the observation of the artist with the inspiration of the poet. To the various publishers who have so kindly given permission for the use of copyright poems, Messrs. D. Lothrop and Company express their sincerest thanks. 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.