Excerpt from Annabel: And Other Poems Many of the poems in this volume have been printed in the newspapers of the West; and the kindness accorded them by editors and readers has encouraged me to collect and preserve them in more enduring form. They are the work of such. Hours of leisure as a busy life on a farm has afforded me. In the green heart of the country, among rural sights and sounds, they have been conceived and written. 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.