Fugitive Poems (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Fugitive Poems His regal port and glance of fire Might well have owned a royal sire, But neither kith nor kin had he In old Germanic ancestry: So said the vulgar, and to view One fain would deem the story true, - His coal-black hair and sallow cheek, Of Eastern lineage seemed to speak, But e'en, if true, he was not then Companion meet for other men: - There was a something all his own Which marked him out as one Alone - Alone in the self-conscious trust, That will not mate with meaner dust. In those dark eyes a mystery lay, A world of feeling past away, A buried hope, a new-made grave Of all the promise Life once gave, Perchance a grief, perchance a sin, Nestled their hidden depths within! But whatsoe'er of human dwelt In his deep gaze, 'twas guarded well, The idle throng might dream he felt, The why, or wherefore, none could tell. It were no easy task to trace The history of that calm face, And if it might be, few would dare Inquire what Time had sculptured there - So proudly cold, and coldly proud, Alike misdoubted and allowed. His age - but who can speak of age - That is not told by months and years, 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.