Transcriber's Notes:

This text uses a unique type of ellipsis to represent where material has been left out of poetry quotations and out of the story line of a poem. They are indicated here by five asterisks:

* * * * *

The number of periods in ellipses match the original.

Thought breaks in the text are indicated by the following:


The following words appear in the original with and without hyphens:

commonplace/common-place
disgrace/dis-grace
moonbeam/moon-beam
wellnigh/well-nigh

Pages 2, 162, 164, 196, 198, 244, 274, and 276 are blank. Those page numbers are not included.