Excerpt from The Collected Poems of Samuel Waddington Several of the poems included in this volume, as, for instance, that entitled 'lux Naturae' and the lines at page r94, have not been previously published. A few of the sonnets have appeared in the 'westminster Gazette, ' and the stanzas on A Pipe of Carved olive-wood, ' and the sonnet 'to Truth, the Saviour, ' were printed in Literature.' 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.