Excerpt from Collected Sonnets: Old and NewMidnight, June 30, 1879.Midnight - in no midsummer tuneThe breakers lash the shores:The cuckoo of a joyless JuneIs calling out of doors:And thou hast vanish'd from thine ownTo that which looks like rest, True brother, only to be knownBy those who love thee best.II.Midnight - and joyless June gone by, And from the deluged parkThe cuckoo of a worse JulyIs calling thro' the dark:But thou art silent underground, And o'er thee streams the rain, True poet, surely to be foundWhen Truth is found again.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.