Yesterdays - Ella Wheeler Wilcox - Books - Createspace Independent Publishing Platf - 9781546909668 - June 5, 2017
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Yesterdays

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Yesterdays

This little volume might be called 'Echoes from the land of youthful imaginings'; or 'Ghosts of old dreams.' It has been compiled at the request of Messrs. Gay and Hancock (my only authorised publishers in Great Britain), and contains verses written in my early youth, and which never before (with the exception, perhaps, of three or four) have been placed in book form. Given the poetical temperament, and a lonely environment, with few distractions, youthful imagination is sure to express itself in mournful wails and despairing moans. Such wails and moans will be found to excess in this little book, and will serve to show better than any amount of common-sense reasoning, how fleeting are the sorrows of youth, and how slight the foundation on which the young build towers of despair. In the days when these verses were written, each little song represented a few dollars (to my emaciated purse), and so the slightest experience of my own, or of any friend, with every passing mood, every trivial happening, was utilised by my imaginative and thrifty muse.

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released June 5, 2017
ISBN13 9781546909668
Publishers Createspace Independent Publishing Platf
Pages 130
Dimensions 152 × 229 × 7 mm   ·   181 g
Language English  

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