PREFACE.
In this volume will be found all the poetical writings of the late Fitz-Greene Halleck, included in previous editions, together with a score of poems which the editor has succeeded in recovering from various sources, and which are marked by the characteristic grace and melody of his most admired compositions; also several translations from the French, German, and Italian, that now appear in print for the first time. Among the pieces never before published, are a number of juvenile productions, which may be recognized by the dates appended to them. Between the earliest poem contained in this collection and the latest, a period of three score and three years intervened. “The Tempest” was written by the handsome and happy schoolboy of fourteen, in the
