Excerpt from Fancies and Thoughts in Verse Little of his writing Was, however, offered for publication until, contrary to general pre cedent, his most ambitious work appeared in 1900 in the form of an epic entitled The Heart of David, the Psalmist King. This has since met with such high commendation and his friends have so often desired many of his shorter poems in book form, that he here commits to type a number of compositions as wide in range of subject and mood as in poetic worth. Covering as they do, however, impressions of nature, promptings of imagination, early ro mantic emotions, sympathetic and religious feel ing, art reveries, patriotic sentiment and humor ous impulses, it is hoped that even the chance reader may find some pages of interest. 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.