Excerpt from The Star Fields, and Other Poems HE many readers who will find delight in these poems will care very little for my preface; but the publisher has asked me for a few words of introduction. By the side of poems alive with spontaneity and imaginative beauty I must exhibit a patch of prose which can only betray the trouble that its writing gives me for, since my praise would surely be impertinent to the poet, and my judgment to the reader, there is nothing for me to say but what is printed on the title-page, that these poems are the poems of Mr. Willoughby Weaving. In the first and last numbers of the volume the author has offered some revelation of himself: and I fear lest I may be plunging into indiscretions if I venture to add this personal item, that he sent me some poems a few years ago, while yet an under graduate at Oxford, and ever since that day has had my sympathy and encouragement. I took one of the lyrics from his first book into my Anthology. 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.