Excerpt from The Home Affections Pourtrayed by the Poets: Selected and Edited To the living Authors, English and American, and to the various Publishers, proprietors of the copyrights of Authors but recently removed from amongst us, I have to return my best acknowledgments for the permission so liberally given to lay their works under contribution for this volume. In every case, where it was practicable, permission has been asked and if there be a few poems inserted without the authority of their authors, it is either in cases where the poem is anonymous, or where it has been impossible to discover the address of the writer or the proprietor of the copyright. 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.