Excerpt from The Battle of Franklin, the Little Girl at Spanish Fort, and Other PoemsI am, nevertheless, free to confess my supreme and concentrated contempt for the Opinion of that other-more numerous class of persons whose judg ments have been so perverted by silly bigotry, or whose avarice has given such metallic heaviness to passions, otherwise glowing and elastic, as to render them utterly incapable of being moved by any expression of thought, however heroic, pa thetic, generous, or noble. This world, with its multitudinous beauties ever showering like star beams, snow-¿akes, and ¿owers, as well as human happiness, as developed and perfected in the lofty association of intellectuality, sentiment, and feel ing, is in vain for them. Like the senseless sea weed that holds its useless existence in the ever troubling ebb and ¿ow, so they, to no purpose, toil and live in the tide of men but to perish from the earth alike unknowing and unknown. With these I profess to hold nothing in common, and, so far as subsidiary to any idea of respect, not even the slightest anxiety to please. With the humblest estimate of my small abilities, I have written only for those who love the poetic princi ple, and who are ever ready to encourage it.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.