
The Fleur de Lis Poets. - A WOMAN'S LOVE LETTERS. - BY SOPHIE M. ALMON-HENSLEY
NEW YORK. J. SELWIN TAIT AND SONS, NUMBER SIXTY-FIVE FIFTH AVENUE.
A Dream.
Dream-Song.
Doubt.
Song.
Anticipation.
Song.
Misunderstanding.
Shadow Song.
A lyrical tapestry unfolds as a solitary woman drifts through a dream‑laden forest, drawing the listener into a world where nature’s murmurs echo the pulse of an unspoken love. The prose swells with poems that blend longing, doubt, and the delicate ache of yearning, while vivid images of violets, pine breezes, and golden‑haired visionaries shape an intimate interior landscape. Through the cadence of her reverie, she reaches for an elusive companion, a phantom whose presence is hinted at in the rustle of leaves and the soft call of unseen birds.
The opening pieces together a series of “songs” that capture fleeting emotions—anticipation, weariness, gratitude—each one a fragment of a larger, tender correspondence. Listeners are invited to feel the tension between desire and restraint, the paradox of joy and pain that the poet‑narrator weaves into every line. The result is a gently haunting meditation on love’s first whispers, set against a timeless, almost mystical backdrop.
Language
en
Duration
~43 minutes (41K characters)
Publisher of text edition
Project Gutenberg
Credits
Produced by Thierry Alberto, Christine D. and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by the Canadian Institute for Historical Microreproductions (www.canadiana.org))
Release date
2006-05-08
Rights
Public domain in the USA.

1866–1913
A Canadian poet whose work turns private feeling into vivid, musical verse, she is best remembered for poems that explore love, longing, and the emotions around them. Writing in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, she left behind a small but memorable body of lyrical work.
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