Download or read book Quiet Waters (Classic Reprint) written by Blanche Shoemaker Wagstaff and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-19 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Quiet Waters Blanche Shoemaker Wagstaff does not aspire to the epic theme and the grand manner. She es says the heart warm human themes, themes that appeal, perhaps, to a wider audience. I notice that some of the poems are in the traditional form. Others are in the free form that the precisionists would take to be only the preliminary sketches of poems. But I am willing to let a poet bring her beauty in the loose structure of the meadow larks nest as well as in the orderly pack of the orioles pocket. All I ask is that the poet shall have a singing bird in any nest she brings. Blanche Wagstaff does not ride against life with leveled lance, crying a bitter challenge to the scheme of things: she comes with a wistful questioning of existence, or with quiet acceptance of the decrees of Fate. So we frequently find her at home in her lyric garden, recording the moods of the hour, telling of sight and sound and fragrance and flight of wing. She feels - "A kinship with the force of earth, the thrill That comes with Nature's sweetest intimacy, Some premonition of Eternity." 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.