Sweet Hours

Sweet Hours presents a remarkable collection of poems written in English by the first Queen of Romania, popularly known by her literary name Carmen Sylva. This book contains some of her famous poems: To the Memory of Queen Victoria; In The Rushing Wind; "Vengeance Is Mine," Saith The Lord; When Joy Is Dead; In The Dark, and many more. She writes with such depth and understanding that her incredible words evoke every emotion in the reader.

As "Carmen Sylva," she wrote proficiently in German, Romanian, French, and English. Her unique and sublime style of writing always stood out and made Sylva one of the best-known literary personalities of her period. Besides poetry, the Queen also wrote drama, novels, short stories, essays, collections of aphorisms, etc.