Excerpt from Trifles in Verse: A Collection of Fugitive Poems To the high and honoured title of Poet, in the legitimate sense of the term, the writer of the following pages makes no pretensions. Engaged, from his earliest youth, upwards, in a daily round of active mercantile pursuits, the "Trifles" which he thus offers to the public - the offspring of moments stolen from the desk of the banking-house and the counting-room - can, at the best, only entitle him to the more humble name of Versifyer. 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.