Gen. Albert Pike´s Poems
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Excerpt from Gen. Albert Pike´s Poems: With Introductory Biographical Sketch I need offer no apology for presenting to the public this volume of Gen. Albert Pike´s Poems; the poems are too good to be lost, and I wonder that a collection of the author´s writings has not been published for general circulation long since. Being a great admirer of those of the poems which I had read, I sought and obtained the sanction of the celebrated author´s daughter, Miss Lilian Pike, since become Mrs. Roome, to publish same, and induced her to write the accompanying splendid biographical sketch of her honored father. I was encouraged to carry out a previous resolution to publish the book by reading the following tribute to the author, contributed to The Gazette in May, 1899, by Mrs. Eldridge Greening, of Camden, Ark., who regretted, "that with his unquestioned poetic genius, he did not give to the world a book of poems, such as he only could produce, and write his name on Fame´s glorious temple, beside those of the greatest poets of the past and present age: - " 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.
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