--- title: Improvement Era description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930. authors: - Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations collections: - periodicals tags: - magazine - improvement-era periodical: Improvement Era volume: 26 number: 10 published: 1923-08 publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations publisher_place: Salt Lake City language: en type: magazine reference: 'Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, "The Lost Sonnet", *Improvement Era* 26, no. 10 (August 1923): 861.' source: url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera26010unse transcription: Transcribed from the Internet Archive scan of each issue (the item for each issue is named in the issue's own source); unnumbered advertising leaves are omitted, printed page numbers are kept as page markers. identifier: improvementera26010unse start_page: 861 end_page: 861 rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1923-08) source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera26010unse publication_year: 1923 note: The Internet Archive item metadata carries a blanket "© Copyright by Intellectual Reserve, Inc." notice. The library owner judged it inapplicable because this issue was published in 1923, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright. --- # The Lost Sonnet <&he LOST SONNET This day I found a Sonnet that I lost, In years ago and covered o'er with dust; A sonnet written at a thankless cost When love to me was but a useless trust. This paper yet bears mark of foolish tears, Tears shed because a woman was not true, And I looked forward unto hated years, For balm of time not yet my anguish knew. Why count the years since anger made me write, Think on the hours that crept on feet of lead? Why care for tears that once made dim my sight, Since anger and blind passion both are dead? Ah, pain of love and desolation then, Now soul-possession and heart-peace again! — Alfred Lambourne.