Excerpt from Lyrics, Idyls and FragmentsStood the case so, in my opinion, with the work of my friend, I should have recommended the de struction of all that he had written, for his own sake rather than for the world's. But I believe that no body can read The Serenade, Life and I were Ill at Ease Florida, or the rondel On a Wo man's Eyes, without being attracted, nay, more or less fascinated. The light step, the ¿ing and care less pathetic grace bring to mind the songsters of cavalier days.Then An Answer to a Proposal is a piece pos sessing indubitable excellence in its way - that, in company with its less reckless but more mutinously sweet sister, Chant de Nuit, bids fair, unless my mind is utterly misled by friendship, to rival, with poetic readers, some of the very best poems of the kind now extant.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.