Original (English)

p. vPREFACE In collecting the following poems I have to thank the editors and proprietors of the periodicals in which certain of them have appeared for permission to reclaim them. Now that the miscellany is brought together, some lack of concord in pieces written at widely severed dates, and in contrasting moods and circumstances, will be obvious enough.  This I cannot help, but the sense of disconnection, particularly in respect of those lyrics penned in the first person, will be imm