Excerpt from The Home Book of Verse, American and English, 1580-1912, Vol. 8: With an Appendix Containing a Few Well-Known Poems in Other Languages; Poems of Sorrow, Death and Immortality Over the River Nancy Woodbury Priest 3287 Resignation Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 3288 Afterward Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward 3290 Sometime May Riley Smith 3291. 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.