The title of this book was chosen for this reason. Had the volume been
called ---- _and Other Poems_ it might have given a false impression
that its contents were entirely new. Had it been called _Collected
Poems_ the equally false impression might have been given that there
was something of finality about it. The title selected seemed best to
convey both the fact that it was a collection and that, under
Providence, other (and, let us hope, superior) collections will follow
it.
The book contains all that I do not wish to destroy of the contents of
four volumes of verse. A number of small corrections have been made.
There are added, also, a few recent poems not previously published.
The earliest of the poems now reprinted is dated 1905, in which year I
was twenty-one. Some of the subsequent years, such as 1914 and 1915,
contributed nothing to this book: the greater number of the poems were
written in 1911-1912 and 1916-1917.
Some of the poems were not written as I should now write them; and many
of them reflect transient, though mostly recurrent, moods which I do
not necessarily think worthy of esteem.