Excerpt from The Poems of Edmund Waller, Vol. 1 IF any justification be needed for the publi cation of a new edition of Waller's Poems, it will surely be found in the fact that they had for some time ceased to be accessible, except in the shape of second-hand copies. 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.