Excerpt from Poems, Written at LanchesterAT a time, when the claim to poetical talent seems no longer to be attributed to innate power, or to any peculiar complexion of the human mind; when the press eve1y day teems with polite and well-finished verse, it may demand an apology to offer to the public a work, triing and unimportant, as the present volume.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.