Morning Buds: An Anthology Of Young Writers

<p>I feel a kind of reverence for the first book of young authors. There is so much aspiration in them so much audacious hope and trembling fear so much of the heart's history that all errors and shortcomings are for a while lost sight of in the amiable self assertion of youth. <br/> -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 807-1882)</p><p><br/>Twice five years<br/>Or less I might have seen when first my mind <br/>With conscious pleasure opened to the charm<br/>Of words in tuneful order found them sweet<br/>For their own sakes a passion and a power;<br/>And phrases pleased me chosen for delight<br/>For pomp orlove <br/> -William Wordsworth (1770-1850)</p>