Excerpt from Verses of Thirty Years Ago The title-page describes this volume very well; not poems, please, but verses. For poetry and poem have always been, to the author at least, words of a character almost sacred. He would grant the title poetry only to the very best passages of the great classics, ancient and modern, though there is much unworded poetry in the earth-life-experience of every human being. Nearly all of these verses of thirty years ago were published in newspapers and magazines of about that period under various nom-de-plumes. The author collects them now for the first time in a volume. He con siders them too good to throw away and hopes that many readers will find pleasure in them. 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.