Excerpt from Poems and SketchesThey were all written at night, after the turmoil of business was hushed for the day, and if the reader experiences one quarter the sense of relaxation and pleasure in perusing, that I did in penning them, I shall be perfectly satisfied, and count my labor not entirely lost.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.