Francis Howard Williams

The Flute-Player and Other Poems (Classic Reprint) Francis Howard Williams

Publisher Marketing: Excerpt from The Flute-Player and Other Poems The Flute-player. Thrice a score of candles, flaring, Fashion shadows on the wall, While the loftier lights are glaringOver all the festival; With a visage melancholyMeditates the dark Bassoon, Glows the 'Cello's face as jollyAs a yellow harvest-moon. Lean the Oboe and eager, With a sharp, uplifted chin; Bald and red, and seeming meagreIn his brains, the first Violin; But the Flute with shoulders bendedAnd his scantly silvered head, -Ah! what present joys are blendedWith the sorrows that are fled. Why, tho' haply he remembersVanished gleams of Paradise, 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."