POETIC FRAGMENTS. BY BODLE! D. ROSS LIETCH, M. D. "I never list presume to Parnasse hill- Spenser's Shepherd's Calendar. Borough of Tynemouth: PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY J. PHILIPSON, TYNE STREET; AND SIMPKIN, MARSHALL AND CO. PATERNOSTER ROW, LONDON. 1838. 778. TO THE REV. WILLIAM LIETCH, BOROUGH OF TYNEMOUTH, THIS LITTLE VOLUME IS DEDICATED, A SIMPLE, BUT VERY SINCERE MARK OF FILIAL ESTEEM AND LOVE, BY HIS SON, THE AUTHOR. PREFACE. A PREFACE is usually an apology; and as I unaffectedly feel that one is needed for placing the following trifles before the Public, I shall not depart from the customary usage. I had intended only to print a few copies of some early Poems, for distribution among my friends; but my Printer (anxious, I imagine, to exhibit his neatness and skill to his townsmen) insisted so earnestly on a larger edition, that the present volume is the result. An excuse curious at least for its novelty. I make no pretensions to the character of a Poet, nor is it with any hope of fame that I send this little volume abroad; my day for having committed this error has long gone by, and my only expectation is, that some of my verses may perhaps amuse or gratify those whose good opinion I have already the happiness to possess. |