Excerpt from Ione: And Other PoemsIT is the realisation of one of my highest hopes, to comply with a demand for a second edition of this my first volume of poems so recently published.With such a testimony in its favour, together with others through the public and the press, I have every reason to be gratified, though the poem which gives its title to the volume has scarcely perhaps received the attention that I had been given to anticipate.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.