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Excerpt from A Cycle of Sonnets Beside Lake Seneca I. The cadence of thy waves like human pain, Some deep, unconquered pang that stabs the heart, Rises and falls. When somnolent thou art, Bird-music soaring over thy refrain, Summer's effulgence, or the windless rain, Woo to forgetfulness; as poignant smart Of recollection sinks to music's part, And steals like old, sweet songs, across the brain. When boisterous winds upon the fretted shore Beat the deep fugue of thy tempestuous wave, Above all thought, all action, sounds the roar; So haunting memory, however brave The heart, from calm returneth evermore To sob its measure, sadder than the grave. 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.