Excerpt from Poems Summer's Tale of Venice, ' it is scarcely necessaryto observe, was not written with a view to represen tation, and its slight plot was intended merely as a medium for a poetic dress. The poems on mytho logical subjects, were published several years ago, and received at the time of their appearance so many kindly expressions from the press, that they are now included in this unpretending 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.