Excerpt from Life and Heart Records: Poems and Sonnets Some of the earlier poems, which will be found at the end of the volume would have been omitted but for the force of associations which the author felt unwilling to for-ego. The book contains nearly all the shorter poems he ever wrote, and also brief ex tracts from some of greater length, the insertion of which as a whole would have made the volume larger than would have suited his purpose. Quite a number of those which are inserted were published, at the time they were written, in the local press, either here or on the other side of the Atlantic. 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.