Excerpt from Poems, First Series The title of this book was chosen for this reason. Had the volume been called and Other Poems it might have given a false impression that its contents were entirely new. Had it been called Collected Poems the equally false im pression might have been given that there was something of finality about it. The title selected seemed best to convey both the fact that it was a collection and that, under Provi dence other (and, let us hope superior) collections will follow it. The book contains all that I do not wish to destroy of the contents of four volumes of verse. A number of small cor rections have been made. There are added, also, a few recent poems not previously published. The earliest of the poems now printed is dated 1905, in which year I was twenty-one. Some of the subsequent years, such as 1914 and 1915, con tributed nothing to this book: the greater number of the poems were written in 1911 - 1912 and 1916 - 1917. Some of the poems were not written as I should now write them; and many of them reflect transient, though mostly recurrent, moods which I do not necessarily think worthy of esteem. 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.