Excerpt from Poetical Buds: Songs and Other Poems IT is necessary that a preface should be prefixed to this work, and such will be expected by a great many of my readers, from which, with other particular reasons, I will write; and, at the same time, endeavour to avoid the dull introductory remarks, which very frequently are only an incumbr'ance to a book. First of all, I would humbly solicit the charity of the critic, and I hope the imperfections with which my Poems mav abound will be forgiven as soon as they shall have been discovered, for this reason - I am a self-taught author (if I may assume the title}, nor was it till since the year 18243 that an idea of learning dawned upon my mind. 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.