Excerpt from A Life in Song<br><br>With words like these, The dying poet turu'd him on his couch, Sank back, and fell to rest.<br><br>And when, at morn, Friends came to bear to him his early meal, They found him still and pale, and by him there His poems lay, half held in opening hands. Alone with these embodied thoughts of his, Prized so because the forms to which so oft The spirit breathed by him had given its life, That spirit now had all been breathed away.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>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.