Excerpt from English Poems, Vol. 2: Selected, Arranged and Annotated for the Use of Schools Clarendon Press. \vithout the advantage of reference to these the labour of making the following Selections would have been incalculably increased. My thanks are also due and are here gratefully tendered to Mr. George Meredith, who allows me to include The Young Usurper and to Sir Rennell Rodd, k.c.m G., for permission to use The Skylarks (66) also to Messrs. Macmillan Co., who have kindly permitted me to include much copyright matter which they control. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.