The Story of a Dream by Ethel Maude Colson

 

 

The Story of a Dream 

 

by Ethel Maude Colson

 

Just over the border which lies between
The life which we feel and know
And that which no earth-blind eyes have seen,  
Is a place where all souls must go;
 
Where strange things happen and visions come,
And life like a fancy seems.
As far and faint as a wild bee’s hum, —
’Tis the wonderful Land of Dreams.
 
There joys too pure for this baser earth
Lie waiting for eager hearts,
And loves which died in their very birth
Grow near as the world departs;
There vanished faces look forth and smile,
And many a lost hope gleams,
And buried thoughts live a sweet, short while, —
In the wonderful Land of Dreams.
 
There sorrows shirked must be borne anew,
And many a heart mustache;
But how sweet is the land where all dreams are true,
The world which each soul must make!
Glad Life and Death in its bounds are one.
 
Each fed by its varying streams,
And all return, when their days have gone, —
To the wonderful Land of Dreams
 

 Bibliographic Information

Title:    The Story of a Dream, American Fiction, 1774-1920
Author:    Ethel Maude Colson
Publisher:    C.H. Kerr, 1896
Original From:    Michigan State University
Digitized:    Oct 15, 2013
Length:    304 pages

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 About the Author 

Edith Matilda Thomas (August 12, 1854 – September 13, 1925) was an American poet who "was one of the first poets to capture successfully the excitement of the modern city." Wikipedia

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The Muses by Ethel Maude Colson (Poem)

 

THE MUSES 

 

by Ethel Maude Colson

Of old the Muses sat on high,
And heard and judged the songs of men;
On one they smiled, who loitered by;
Of toiling ten, they slighted ten.  

They lightly serve who serve us best,
Nor know they how the task was done ;
We Muses love a soul at rest,
But violence and toil we shun.

If men say true, the Muses now
Have changed their ancient habitude,
And would be served with knitted brow,
And stress and toil each day renewed.

So each one with the other vies,
Of those who weave romance or song:
On us, O Muse, bestow thy prize,
For we have striven well and long! 

And yet methinks I hear the hest
Come murmuring down from Helicon:
They lightly serve who serve us best,
Nor know they how the task was done!

— Edith M. Thomas

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 About the Author 

Edith Matilda Thomas (August 12, 1854 – September 13, 1925) was an American poet who "was one of the first poets to capture successfully the excitement of the modern city." Wikipedia

How to Read Poetry by Ethel Maude Colson

 How to Read Poetry 

by Ethel Maude Colson

 This book offers up a classic view of the poetry and how to read poetry to fully appreciate it's depths. You will get an insight into the poetic philosophies behind the poetry of writers like Sara Teasdale, Rupert Brooke and William Ernest Henley (and more).

It may be plainly stated, in beginning, that this little book is in no sense a didactic or technical treatise, that it sheers humbly far away from the academic or educational religion. Textbooks, conveying formal poetic information, offering best and most incontrovertible of studious reasons for the why and how of poetry reading, are thicker than flowers in May or sad hearts in war time, but here is no hint of addition to their number.

The best argument that can be advanced in favor of marriage is that marriage has been found happy. The best of all reasons for reading poetry is because one loves it. And the best way to read poetry is with the love that, for love's sake, finds its own pathway, works its own miracles of sympathy and understanding.
 

The simple intent, therefore, of -How to Read Poetry- is to assist the lay poetry lover-far more numerous and universal than might be imagined - to comprehend and, if necessary, defend his affection; to remove the curse too widely laid by scholastic injunctions and -required reading;- to persuade the non-poetic reader who, for whatever reason, believes that he does not like poetry that at heart he really does....

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About the Author 

Edith Matilda Thomas (August 12, 1854 – September 13, 1925) was an American poet who "was one of the first poets to capture successfully the excitement of the modern city." Wikipedia

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How to Write Poetry by Ethel Maude Colson

How to Write Poetry 

by Ethel Maude Colson

It is assumed that those sufficiently interested in the writing of poetry to read books about it already are acquainted with the little that may be known of the laws of English prosody or at least know how and where to find them. And those who desire to follow far the keen study of poetic production are commended to such admirable works as Max Eastman's sympathetic treatise on The Enjoyment of Poetry, C. E. Andrews enlightening and comprehensive volume, T he Reading and Writing of Verse, Marguerite Wilkinson's The New Voices, An Introduction to Can temporary Poetry; and The New Era in American Poetry, by Louis Untermeyer. Each of these books, especially, perhaps, that of Professor Andrews, will help the serious, poetic student to much that he ought to know.

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About the Author 

Edith Matilda Thomas (August 12, 1854 – September 13, 1925) was an American poet who "was one of the first poets to capture successfully the excitement of the modern city." Wikipedia

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How to Read Poetry by Ethel Maude Colson

  

How to Read Poetry

by
Ethel Maude Colson

From the FOREWORD. It may be plainly stated, in beginning, that this little book is in no sense a didactic or technical treatise, that it sheers humbly far away from the academic or educational religion. Textbooks, conveying formal poetic information, offering best and most incontrovertible of studious reasons for the why and how of poetry reading, are thicker than flowers in May or sad hearts in war time, but here is no hint of addition to their number.

The best argument that can be advanced in favor of marriage is that marriage has been found happy. The best of all reasons for reading poetry is because one loves it. And the best way to read poetry is with the love that, for love's sake, finds its own pathway, works its own miracles of sympathy and understanding. 

 

The simple intent, therefore, of -How to Read Poetry- is to assist the lay poetry lover-far more numerous and universal than might be imagined - to comprehend and, if necessary, defend his affection; to remove the curse too widely laid by scholastic injunctions and -required reading;- to persuade the non-poetic reader who, for whatever reason, believes that he does not like poetry that at heart he really does....

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