Waldo Emerson, James Thomas Fields, Richard Watson Gilder, Louise
Imogen Guiney, Bret Harte, John Hay, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Lucy
Larcom, Emma Lazarus, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, James Russell
Lowell, William Vaughn Moody, Alice Freeman Palmer, Thomas William
Parsons, Josephine Preston Peabody, Nora Perry, Lizette Woodworth
Reese, John Godfrey Saxe, Robert Haven Schauffler, Paul Shivell, Ed-
ward Rowland Sill, Harriet Prescott Spofford, Ernest Clarence Stedman,
William Wetmore Story, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Bayard Taylor, Celia
Thaxter, Edith M. Thomas, Maurice Thompson, Henry David Thoreau,
John Townsend Trowbridge, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward, John Green-
leaf Whittier.

The Howard University Print: "The Babie," by Jeremiah Eames
Rankin.

B. W. Huebsch: The poems by Irene Rutherford McLeod.

P. J. Kenedy: The poems by Abram J. Ryan.

Mitchell Kennerley: The poems by Arthur Davison Ficke, William Samuel Johnson, Harry Kemp, Vachel Lindsay, Richard Middleton and Marjorie L. C. Pickthall.

Alfred A. Knopf: The poems by William H. Davies.

John Lane Company: The poems by Laurence Binyon, Rupert Brooke, G. K. Chesterton, T. A. Daly, John Davidson, Ernest Dowson, A. E. Housman, Laurence Hope, Benjamin R. C. Low, Alice Meynell, Henry Newbolt, Marjorie L. C. Pickthall, and Francis Thompson.

J. B. Lippincott Company: The poems by George Henry Boker, Harrison S. Morris, Thomas Buchanan Read and Mary Ashley Townsend.

Little, Brown & Company: The poems by Richard Burton, Susan Coolidge, Emily Dickinson, Helen Hunt Jackson, Louise Chandler Moulton.

Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Company: The poems by Charles Follen
Adams, Mary Emily Bradley, Alfred Domett, Paul Hamilton Hayne,
William Morris, Emilie Poulsson, Horatio Nelson Powers, David Atwood
Wasson.

The Macmillan Company: The poems by Matthew Arnold, Alfred
Austin, Wilfrid Wilson Gibson, Thomas Hardy, Ella Higginson, Charles
Kingsley, Amy Lowell, John Masefield, Harriet Monroe, John G. Nei-
hardt, George William Russell, John Addington Symonds, Sara Teasdale,
William Watson, George E. Woodberry and William Butler Yeats.
The Manas Press: The poems by Adelaide Crapsey.

Thomas B. Mosher: The poems by Cecily Fox-Smith, Lucy Lyttleton
and Edith M. Thomas.

L. C. Page & Company: The poems by Bliss Carman and Charles G.
D. Roberts.

G. P. Putnam's Sons: The poems by William Henry Drummond and
Norman Gale; "The Rosary," by Robert Cameron Rogers.

Norman Remington Company: The poems by Patrick R. Chalmers,
from "Green Days and Blue Days."

Charles Scribner's Sons: The poems by Josephine Daskam Bacon,
H. C. Bunner, George W. Cable, Mary Mapes Dodge, Eugene Field,
John Galsworthy, Josiah Gilbert Holland, Sidney Lanier, George Mer-
edith, A. T. Quiller-Couch, Corinne Roosevelt Robinson, George Santa-
yana, Alan Seeger, Robert Louis Stevenson, Charles Warren Stoddard,
Benjamin F. Taylor and Henry Van Dyke.

Sherman, French & Company: "The Lonely Road," by Kenneth
Rand; "Sunday Evening in the Common," by John Hall Wheelock.
Small, Maynard & Company: The poems by Charlotte Perkins Stetson
Gilman, Richard Hovey, Clinton Scollard, John B. Tabb and Walt
Whitman.

Stewart & Kidd Co.: The poem by Wm. Haynes Lytle.

F. A. Stokes Company: The poems by Gelett Burgess, Alfred Noyes, and Samuel Minturn Peck.

Whitaker & Ray-Wiggin Company: The poems by Joaquin Miller, from his copyrighted and complete poetical works.

Copyright Notice

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Express personal permission has been received by the editor from the following authors for the use of such of their poems as appear in this collection, all rights to which are reserved by them:

Henry Abbey, Zoë Akins, John Albee, Elizabeth Akers Allen, Henry Mills Alden, Margaret Steele Anderson, Everard Jack Appleton.

Josephine Daskam Bacon, Karle Wilson Baker, John Kendrick Bangs, Kendall Banning, Elsa Barker, H. H. Bashford, Herbert Bashford, Arlo Bates, Katherine Lee Bates, Hilaire Belloc (by Joyce Kilmer), William Rose Benét, Henry Holcomb Bennett, John Bennett, Charles G.Blanden, Augustus Wight Bomberger, Robert Adger Bowen, William Stanley Braithwaite, Anna Hempstead Branch, Mary Bolles Branch, Albert Fletcher Bridges, Abbie Farwell Brown, Alice Brown, William Laird Brown, Alice Learned Bunner (for H. C. Bunner), Gelett Burgess, Dana Burnett, Amelia Josephine Burr, Richard Burton, Samuel H. M. Byers, Witter Bynner (by Mrs. A. L. Wellington).

Bliss Carman, W. H. Carruth, Charles E. Carryl, Willa Sibert Cather, Madison Cawein, Robert W. Chambers, Arthur Chapman, John Vance Cheney, G. K. Chesterton, Joseph I. C. Clarke, Virginia Woodward Cloud, Florence Earle Coates, Zitella Cocke, Robert Collyer, Helen Gray Cone, Grace Hazard Conkling, Ellen Mackay Hutchinson Cortissoz.

T. A. Daly, Mary Carolyn Davies, William H. Davies, Margaret Deland, Charles M. Dickinson, Austin Dobson, Digby Mackworth Dolben (by Gerald Dolben Paul), Julia C. R. Dorr, Walter G. Doty, Arthur Conan Doyle.

Elaine Goodale Eastman, Florence Wilkinson Evans.

Arthur Davison Ficke (by C. A. Ficke), Sara Teasdale Filsinger, A. Hugh Fisher, Mahlon Leonard Fisher, Sam Walter Foss.

Hamlin Garland, Theodosia Garrison, Ellen M. Huntington Gates, Helena de Kay Gilder (for Richard Watson Gilder), Joseph B. Gilder, Strickland W. Gillilan, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, J. Scott Glasgow, Charles Buxton Going, Dora Read Goodale, Homer Greene, Sarah P. McLean Greene, William Griffith.

Hermann Hagedorn, Ruth Guthrie Harding, Virginia Bioren Harrison, Jerome A. Hart, Hildegarde Hawthorne, Frederick Henry Hedge, Theresa Helburn, Barbara Henderson, Oliver Herford, Ella Higginson, Katherine Tynan Hinkson, William Dean Howells, Helen Huntington. Wallace Irwin.

Margaret Janvier, Orrick Johns, Robert Underwood Johnson, William Samuel Johnson, Amanda T. Jones, Thomas S. Jones, Jr.

Reginald Wright Kauffman, James B. Kenyon, Joyce Kilmer, Harriet McEwen Kimball, Georgiana Goddard King, Rudyard Kipling (for "L'Envoi"), D. C. Knowles (for Frederic Lawrence Knowles), George M. W. Kobbé (for Gustave Kobbé).

Andrew Lang, Walter Learned, Louis V. Le Doux, Richard Le Gallienne, Nicholas Vachel Lindsay, Grace Denio Litchfield, Robert Loveman, Benjamin R. C. Low, Amy Lowell.

John S. McGroarty, Isabel E. Mackay, Frederick Manning, Edwin Markham, Josephine Peabody Marks, Don Marquis, Edward Sandford Martin, Caroline Atwater Mason, Alice Meynell, Lloyd Mifflin, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Emily Huntington Miller, Harriet Monroe, David Morton, Ada Foster Murray, Kenton Foster Murray.

John G. Neihardt, Henry Newbolt, Grace Fallow Norton, Alfred Noyes.

Oliver Opdyke, James Oppenheim, Shaemas O Sheel.

Albert Bigelow Paine, Alice Freeman Palmer (by G. H. Palmer), Randall Parrish, Harry Thurston Peck, Samuel Minturn Peck, William Alexander Percy, Frederick Peterson, Sarah M. B. Piatt, Emilie Poulsson, Harriet Waters Preston, Edna Dean Proctor.

Kenneth Rand, Lizette Woodworth Reese, Cale Young Rice, Wallace Rice, Laura E. Richards, James Whitcomb Riley (by E. H. Eitel), Harrison Robertson, Corinne Roosevelt Robinson, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Robert Cameron Rogers, John Jerome Rooney, George William Russell.

Margaret E. Sangster, Joseph Sargent (for the poems by Guy Wetmore Carryl), Robert Haven Schauffler, Edmund H. Sears, Paul Shivell, David Banks Sickels, Harriet Prescott Spofford, Victor Starbuck, William Force Stead, Laura Stedman (for Edmund Clarence Stedman), George Sterling, Mildred McNeal Sweeney.

Joseph Russell Taylor, William Roscoe Thayer, Edith M. Thomas, Rose Hartwick Thorpe, L. Frank Tooker, Ridgely Torrence, Charles Hanson Towne, Amélie Rives Troubetzkoy, John Townsend Trowbridge. Louis Untermeyer.

Henry Van Dyke, William Henry Venable.

Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward, Lydia Avery Coonley Ward, William Hayes Ward, Nixon Waterman, Carolyn Wells, Robert Gilbert Welsh, Carl Werner, Edward J. Wheeler, John Hall Wheelock, Margaret Widdemer, Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Francis Howard Williams, William Winter, George Edward Woodberry, William Hervey Woods, Willard Huntington Wright.

Ruth Comfort Mitchell Young.

The compiler is indebted to the editors of the following magazines for permission to use the poems mentioned:

The Atlantic: "Aller Seelen," Mabel Earle; "Birthright," John Drinkwater; "Emilia," Ellen Angus French (Sarah N. Cleghorn); "The Valley of Vain Verses," Henry Van Dyke; "To Daisies," Francis Thomp

son.

The Bellman: "Immortalis," David Morton.

The Catholic Standard and Times: The poems by T. A. Daly. The Century: "The Year's End," Timothy Cole; "Kinchinjunga,” Cale Young Rice; "Nested," Habberton Lulham; "To Her-Unspoken," Amelia Josephine Burr; "A Lover's Envy," Henry Van Dyke; "Her Pathway," Cornelia Kane Rathbone; "Love is a Terrible Thing," Grace Fallow Norton; "Chavez," Mildred McNeal Sweeney.

Contemporary Verse: "Tropical Town," Solomon de la Selva; “A Little Page's Song," William Alexander Percy.

Harper's Magazine: "I Shall not Cry Return," Ellen M. H. Gates; "Wise," Lizette Woodworth Reese; "Wild Wishes," Ethel M. Hewitt. House and Garden: "Gates and Doors," Joyce Kilmer.

Life: "Finnigin to Flannigan," S. W. Gillilan.

The Outlook: "A Poet Enlists," Amelia Josephine Burr.

Poetry: "Sunrise on Rydal Water," John Drinkwater; "Night for Adventures," Victor Starbuck; "An Immorality," Ezra Pound; "A Very Old Song," William Laird Brown.

Reedy's Mirror: "Nora," Zoë Akins.

Scribner's Magazine: "Comrades," George Edward Woodberry; "Constancy," Minor Watson; "Turn of the Road," Alice Rollett Coe; "Where Love Is," Amelia Josephine Burr; "Azrael," Robert Gilbert Welsh.

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HENRY HOLT

WITH SINCERE REGARD