_CAMBRIDGE ENGLISH CLASSICS_ Poems by George Crabbe In Three Volumes GEORGE CRABBE Born, 1754 Died, 1832 _GEORGE CRABBE_ POEMS EDITED BY ADOLPHUS WILLIAM WARD, Litt.D., Hon. LL.D., F.B.A. Master of Peterhouse [Illustration] Volume I Cambridge: at the University Press 1905 CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS WAREHOUSE C. F. CLAY, Manager. *London:* FETTER LANE, E.C. *Glasgow:* 50, WELLINGTON STREET. [Illustration] *Leipzig:* F. A. BROCKHAUS. *New York:* THE MACMILLAN COMPANY. *Bombay and Calcutta:* MACMILLAN AND CO., Ltd. [_All Rights reserved_] PREFATORY NOTE. In the present edition of Crabbe's Poems the general arrangement adopted is that of the chronological order of publication. The poem entitled _Midnight_ has been inserted at a conjectural date as belonging to the period of the Juvenile Poems (1772-1780); but all other poems contained in this edition which have hitherto remained unpublished will be printed after the published poems, in the sequence of their production so far as this is ascertainable. With the poems hitherto unpublished I have also been fortunate enough to obtain permission to include in a later volume, among other posthumously printed pieces, the _Two Poetical Epistles_ by Crabbe, first published, from a manuscript in the collection of Mr Buxton Forman, in Vol. II of _Literary Anecdotes of the Nineteenth Century_ edited by W. Robertson Nicoll and Thomas J. Wise (London, 1896). From the second of these _Epistles_ were taken, but not in their original order, the ten lines reproduced in the present volume from George Crabbe the younger's 1834 edition of his father's Poems.