Excerpt from A Book of English Love Poems: Chosen Out of Poets From Wyatt to Arnold Beginning with tt (1503 who has not yet received his due as t e first modern English Poet, we find the Lyric, in which our Poetry is so incom parably rich, already of a perfect beauty, with an early freshness as of the dawn upon it, and with a certain indistinctness that belongs to the hour before the sunrise. 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.