Excerpt from Poems, 1908-1914 This volume contains a selection from the poems in four books published between 1908 and 1914 Lyrical and Other Poems, Poems of Men and Hours, Poems of Love and Earth, and Adven tures. The last named was published in the same volume as Cromwell, of which poem nothing is here included save the detached epilogue. Apart from the Cromwell poem itself, the pre sent selection contains all that I am anxious to preserve from those volumes, and there is nothing before 1908 which I should wish to be reprinted now or at any time. Friendly readers may honour me by regretting this or that omission, and I should be glad to know that some of my rejected poems were held in good opinion. But I am content that my non dramatic poetry between 1908 and 1914, with the exception above named, should be judged by this selection, any addition to which would, I think, rather weaken it than otherwise. June Dance has been largely rewritten since its first publication otherwise I have, with trifling exceptions refrained from any revision of the poems. It IS the poet's privilege to thinkthat he writes better as he grows older, but it IS at best an indiscretion for a present manner to attempt the handling of a mood that is gone. I have allowed myself nothing but the occa sional correction of obvious inexperience in craftsmanship, and for the rest I am glad, in reading these poems again, to find how near they are to the spirit that of all I should have chosen to be the spring of my later work. 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.