A Book of Remembrance: Being Lyrical Selections for Everyday in the Year (Classic Reprint)

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I am indebted also to the kindness of Mrs. Coventry Patmore for leave to put in A Farewell and The Year, by the late Mr. Coventry Patmore; to Mr. Lloyd Osborne for two by Mr. R. L. Stevenson; to Mr. Horatio F. Brown for Mr. J. A. Symonds's translations from Michael Angelo; to the executors Of Mr. Du Maurier for his rendering of La Vie est vaine; to Mr. W. M. Rossetti for a sonnet from The House of Life. And two other poems by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, in which Messrs. Ellis Elvey concurred; to Mrs. Eden for her consent, kindly Obtained by Messrs. George Bell Sons, for including three sonnets by Mrs. Elder which originally appeared in Aunt judy's Magazine, when conducted by the latter's Sister, Mrs. Gatty; to Mr. Conrad B. Fry for lines from Days Of First Love, by Chatterton Dix.

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