Excerpt from Poems: My Country; Wild Eden; The Players' Elegy; The North Shore Watch; Odes and Sonnets The author has here collected all of his published verse, except a fragment, The Roamer, which he reserves in the hope Of completing that poem; and a considerable number Of pieces, hitherto either uncol lected or unpublished, are also included. The volume represents the passing Of many years, and begins from days almost of boyhood. If the result is less than it should have been, there are here some gleanings of time from a life never so fortunate as to permit more than momentary and incidental cultivation Of that art which is the chief grace Of the intellectual life. The author can claim only that he has written no line except for itself alone. 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.