Excerpt from Poems Chiefly Philosophical, Vol. 1: In Continuation of My Book and a Half Year's Poems Wealth has small splendor in mine eyes, I am contented with my fate; I live and breathe and see the sun, And feel the fresh air round me blow, For me the earth is spread with owers, For me' the gurgling waters ow. 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."

Vols. for 1871-76, 1913-14 include an extra number, The Christmas bookseller, separately paged and not included in the consecutive numbering of the regular series.