Carry On‪!‬

“Each one will be a comet to break the purple night.” In Virna Sheard’s wartime poems, even a bright shell in a woman’s hands can carry a terrible question.

Written amid the First World War, these poems move from the battlefields of France to the quiet places where those at home wait, mourn, and try to keep faith. Their speakers face the cost of making weapons, the ache of a loved one gone, and the long, haunted hours before dawn. Yet the book’s refrain is not surrender: it is a call to remember the fallen and hold fast to what makes life worth carrying on for. When grief and fear seem to fill the whole sky, what can still be kept alive?

With centuries of literature, it's inevitable that some will fall through the cracks. We hunt down public domain works and restore them so they're not lost to the world.

Who are we? We're Cairn Press. Our background is in design, publishing, typography, and technology. These skills fuel our mission to create the highest quality Public Domain eBooks available online, at an affordable price. We give them the treatment they deserve; our proprietary process restores books for a better overall user experience in design, readability, and e-reader compatibility.