Excerpt from The Old Hemlock and Other Symbols: A Book of VerseThe in verse has no system of noting pauses that do not chance to coincide with syntactical sentence-divisions, no legitimate method of indicating peculiar stress, but the capital letter. Therefore, in printing this little book the old classic use is had recourse to: that is to say, the capital is restricted to its prose function of working a fresh start in the flow of words, a vocative noun or pronoun, a personification, a burst of feeling. Again, the alineation in the first five pieces indicates always a slight pause, not a drop of the voice.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.