SPIDER-WEBS IN VERSE
A COLLECTION OF
LYRICS FOR LEISURE MOMENTS
SPUN AT IDLE HOURS
BY
CHARLES WILLIAM WALLACE
Professor of Rhetoric and Literature Western Normal College
LINCOLN, NEB.:
STATE JOURNAL COMPANY, PRINTERS.
1892.
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The collection gathers short lyric poems that range from pastoral and domestic vignettes to reflective sonnets and trios, addressing nature, memory, love, faith, mortality, and humble everyday moments. Several pieces adopt playful dialect or songlike rhythms while others take on elegiac and philosophical tones; recurring tactics include dual meanings with a surface narrative and a subtler ideal or spiritual reading. Formally varied—sonnets, chorals, madrigals, and short narrative lyrics—the poems aim to elevate feeling, probe the human heart, and balance tenderness, humor, moral reflection, and reverent introspection.
A COLLECTION OF
LYRICS FOR LEISURE MOMENTS
SPUN AT IDLE HOURS
BY
CHARLES WILLIAM WALLACE
Professor of Rhetoric and Literature Western Normal College
LINCOLN, NEB.:
STATE JOURNAL COMPANY, PRINTERS.
1892.