Excerpt from Landmarks, and Other Poems The longest poem in the volume is an idyl of Western life, called 'the Pio neet's Chimney, ' and it is greatly to the credit of Mr. Piatt that his blank verse in no sense suggests the idyllic blank verse of Tennyson, but reminds us, if of any one, of the earlier masters of this measure, Wordsworth and Coleridge. Its length pre vents us from quoting it entire, and no extract will do it justice. - R. H. Stoddard. They are unmistakably inspired by genuine love, by sympathy with the human associations that cluster around the objects which he celebrates, and in many instances are softened and almost glorified by an expression of sweet and tender pathos. - New York Tribune. 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.