Excerpt from The Collected Poems of Edmund Gosse Most of these verses appeared in certain volumes, which, after being several times re-issued, have now long been out of print. They are almost unknown to readers of the present day, and their titles, which had their moment of notoriety, are, I believe, forgotten. These were their names, with their dates of publication: On Viol and Flute, 1873. New Poems, 1879. Fireguard in Exile, 1885. In Russet and Silver, 1894. There are other collections, which I need not specify, but, whatever the year of publication, the verses belong in essence to a period which has ceased to exist, to an age which is as dead as the dodo. If I permit them to be reprinted, it is with a hope that they may, here and there, and for a little while, awaken an echo in ears that now for the first time become aware of them. I should like, if possible, to reach a new generation, since the old one has nearly passed away. There must always be something pathetic to an elderly man in reviving the recollections of his youth, and nowhere can those recollections be so poignant as in the verses with which, however artlessly, he expressed the passions, the reveries, the tender hopes and fears of adolescence. 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.