Excerpt from Poems The present volume is an attempt to offer lovers of our older literature most, at least, of the better, and all the best poems of charles cotton, the friend of Izaak Walton of Compleat Angler fame, as well as the author of the second part of that popular classic. Why Charles Cotton's best verse should have been left out so long in the cold it is not easy to understand. I make bold to assert that the poems contained herein were more worthy of republication than was even the second part of The Compleat Angler, whatever the average critic may think. Not that Cotton's part in that work is of small worth - far from it; but because his poems, by virtue of their many excellent qualities, ought to have insured for this poet a better reception as a poet, than he has hitherto had. I should despair of being able to do justice to so versatile a genius - for that he is a genius in poetry, I must contend - had I ten times the space of this note to devote to him, but I will do my best to say what I consider most essential in regard to Charles Cotton. 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.