Excerpt from Poems and Love Ditties Ema matter of apology for the shortcomings sftfifs volume, the author humbly begs the gen wens indulgence of its occasional reader and a Kind consideration for the facts of his humble birth, hard life, meager education and the absence of that eul ture which sustains and nourishes the he]: poetic feelings against all of Which he has been forced to struggle alone, With all the discour aguf'lg embarrassments commonly apparent. Also fire fact of his youth, having only attained his twentieth year, which he hopes may bear at leastl myseplietic import of something greater. 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.