Excerpt from Persephone, and Other Poems Persephone Heavy and grey are the skies in the slowly gathering darkness, Ceaseless falls the pattering rain on the grass and the pebbles, Damp, and dripping, and sighing, the trees wave over the pathway; Glimmering lights in the streets and twinkling lights in the windows Struggle and slowly gain on the dying lustreless daylight, Clouded and lustreless day that shuddering dies into darkness. Dreary and desolate world, ah! what of the hopes of the Summer? What of the promise of Spring, and the wistful hopes of the Summer? Where are the golden skies and the bloom of meadow and garden? 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.