Acknowledgments
Thanks are due the following publishers for permission to include the poems enumerated below:
To Messrs. Constable & Co., for “Berries,” “Jim Jay,” and “Off the Ground,” by Walter de la Mare.
To Messrs. Doubleday, Page & Co., for “A Prayer,” by Edwin Markham, and “O Captain! My Captain,” by Walt Whitman.
To Messrs. Harper & Brothers for “When the Hounds of Spring,” by Algernon Charles Swinburne.
To Messrs. Henry Holt & Co., for “Good Hours,” by Robert Frost; and “Berries,” “Jim Jay” and “Off the Ground” from “Peacock Pie,” by Walter de la Mare.
To Messrs. Houghton Mifflin Co., by whose permission and by special arrangement with whom the following poems are included: “Fable,” by Ralph Waldo Emerson; “The Fountain,” by James Russell Lowell; “My Lost Youth,” and “The Skeleton in Armor,” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow; and “A Song for My Mother,” by Anna Hempstead Branch.
To Mr. Alfred Knopf for “Nature’s Friend,” by William H. Davies.
To Messrs. Little, Brown & Co., for “The Snow,” by Emily Dickinson.
To The Macmillan Co., for “The Fairies,” and “The Lepracaun,” by William Allingham; “The Forsaken Merman,” by Matthew Arnold; “The Pied Piper of Hamelin,” and “Song: The Year’s at the Spring,” by Robert Browning; “The Terrible Robber Men,” by Padraic Colum; “Moon Folly,” by Fannie Stearns Gifford; “Time, You Old Gipsy Man,” by Ralph Hodgson; “Sea Fever,” by John Masefield; “A Christmas Carol,” by Christina Rossetti; “The Song of Wandering Aengus,” by William Butler Yeats; and “The Ghosts of the Buffaloes,” by Vachel Lindsay.
To Messrs. Macmillan & Co., for “The Fairies,” and “The Lepracaun,” by William Allingham; “The Forsaken Merman,” by Matthew Arnold; and “A Christmas Carol,” by Christina Rossetti.
To The Poetry Bookshop for “Star-Talk,” by Robert Graves.
To Messrs. Charles Scribner’s Sons for “Song of the Chattahoochee,” by Sidney Lanier from “Poems of Sidney Lanier”; copyright 1884, 1891, 1918 by Mary D. Lanier, by permission of the publishers; and “Escape at Bedtime,” and “Romance,” by Robert Louis Stevenson.
To Messrs. Frederick A. Stokes Co., for “Tree-Toad,” by Hilda Conkling; and “A Song of Sherwood,” by Alfred Noyes, from his Collected Poems, Volume I.
To the living poets who have generously allowed their poems to appear in this book, the compiler expresses grateful thanks.