Excerpt from Stories in Blank Verse: To Which Is Added an Epic Fragment The poems which appear in the following pages were all written in India between 1897 and 1901, the first one dating back to my fourteenth year. As in the case of my other work named Poems, Pictures and Songs, I have arranged the pieces here in their chronological order, and have retouched them all more or less from time'to time. The Story of Mahasveta and The Story of Pundarik are what I care for most, and have suggested the name Stories in Blank Verse given to this volume, which seems aptly to close with An Epic Fragment. 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.