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Title:

From the Hidden Way
 

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Genres:

Poetry
Historical

Series:

Saga of Poictesme
17

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# Date Publisher Binding Cover
1 1916-00-00 Robert M. McBride & Co  

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This book could have been titled, "The Last Troubadour." In this collection of poems, the poet turns his back on his own time and draws upon themes of the medieval and renaissance eras: the certainty of death, the pain of unrequited love, the retelling of ancient history and legends, commentaries upon abstractions, nostalgia for departed youth and fairer seasons, and faith tempered with a sense of defeat. These quotations from the collection provide a sense of the whole: "My master, how wide is the gulf between, That which we are and what might have been." "But Yesterday! for Yesterday! I cry a reward for a Yesterday, Now lost or stolen or gone astray, With all the laughter of Yesterday!" "I am contented by remembrances,-- Dreams of dead passions, wraiths of vanished times, Fragments of vows, and by-ends of old rhymes,--Flotsam and jetsam tumbling in the seas Whereon, long since, put forth our argosies Which, launched for traffic in the Isles of Love, Lie foundered somewhere in some firth thereof, Encradled by eternal silence."
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