The Three Kings And Other Poems

Excerpt from The Three Kings: And Other Verses for Children And while their camels drink and rest, They spend the time in prayer, And grave communion, each with each, About the wondrous star; For all had traced its splendid gleam Across the desert far. Said Melchior, Such a star before Has ne'er been seen on earth It's rays must surely herald now Some mighty monarch's birth; And so, a worthy offering, I hither with me bring, An offering of yellow gold For earth's most mighty King. But Balthasar spoke up. And said. The star sends beams abroad So radiantly, I feel 'tis sent To greet some earth-born God: This box of fragrant frankincense. My tribute then shall be. Sweet sacrifice to offer to Incarnate Deity. Quoth Kaspar. Long and world has groaned sickness. Sin. And death; I cried when first I saw its light. 'a Healer draws His breath!' I searched my kingdom o er to find Some gift that would be meet; This healing myrrh I'll lay before The great Physician's feet. How. Now, we cannot all be right, Cried Melchior, once again; For if this babe be mighty King. 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.

Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.

Before Willa Cather went on to write the novels that would make her famous, she was known as a poet, the most popular of her poems reprinted many times in national magazines and anthologies. Her first book of poetry, April Twilights, was published in 1903, but Cather significantly revised and expanded it in a 1923 edition entitled April Twilights and Other Poems. This Everyman’s Library edition reproduces for the first time all the poems from both versions of April Twilights, along with a number of uncollected and previously unpublished poems by Cather, as well as an illuminating selection of her newly released letters. In such lyrical poems as “The Hawthorn Tree,” “Winter at Delphi,” “Prairie Spring,” “Poor Marty,” and “Going Home,” Cather exhibits both a finely tuned sensitivity to the beauties of the physical world and a richly symbolic use of the landscapes of myth. The themes that were to animate her later masterpieces found their first expression in these haunting, elegiac ballads and sonnets.