Excerpt from Poetical Works I fear, however, I have overstepped the proper bounds of a Preface, and almost wandered into an essay but, as I felt the strong necessity of saying something to induce a considerate forbearance as to the poetic half of my songs, I could not say less, having once touched upon the subject. The motive that urged me has at least. 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.