Excerpt from Old English Songs From Various Sources "We, that are very old" - to borrow a phrase from the immortal Isaac Bickerstaff - must remember how, over thirty years ago, followed to Robert Browning's "Men and Women" the same author's single volume of "Dramatis Personae." It was a brief collection, but it included the Master in all his moods. For those who looked for "something craggy to break their minds upon," there were "James Lee's Wife" and "Dis Aliter Visum"; for the mere lovers of poetry, there were "Rabbi Ben Ezra," "Abt Vogler," the curious speculations of Caliban upon Setebos, the magnificent narrative, "supposed of Pamphylax, the Antiochene," entitled "A Death in the Desert." Other pieces there were again in that slender list of twenty, which have since become household words in English Literature. But among the lighter efforts was one in particular which lingers in the mind of the present preface-writer. It was the fancy called "A Likeness." In the critical record its part is only a modest one. 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."