ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

The thanks of the author are due to the following publishers and editors for their kind permission to reprint the following selections for which they hold copyright:

To The Macmillan Company for "Penetralia" and "The Winds," from "Poems," by Madison Cawein; for "Spring Sows Her Seeds," from "The Drums in Our Street," by Mary Carolyn Davies; for "Breakfast," "The Father," "The Messages," and "The Old Bed," from "Battle and other Poems," by Wilfrid Wilson Gibson; for "Up A Hill and A Hill" and "Moon Folly," from "Myself and I," by Fannie Stearns Davis Gifford; for "Broadway," from "Poems and Ballads," by Hermann Hagedorn; for "Transformations" and "The Wind Blew Words," from "Moments of Vision," by Thomas Hardy; for "The Bull," from "Poems," by Ralph Hodgson; for "The Santa Fé Trail," "Aladdin and the Jinn" and "The Leaden-Eyed," from "The Congo and other Poems," by Vachel Lindsay; for "The Broncho That Would not be Broken," from "The Chinese Nightingale and Other Poems," by Vachel Lindsay; for "Patterns" and "The Bombardment," from "Men, Women and Ghosts," by Amy Lowell; for "Old Age," from "Collected Poems," by Percy Mackaye; for "Ships," from "The Story of the Round House," by John Masefield; for "Cargoes" and "A Consecration," from "Salt Water Ballads and Poems," by John Masefield; for one sonnet from "Lollingdon Downs," by John Masefield; for "Isaiah Beethoven," "Lucinda Matlock" and "Anne Rutledge," from "The Spoon River Anthology," by Edgar Lee Masters; for "Draw the Sword, O Republic" and "My Light with Yours," from "Toward the Gulf," by Edgar Lee Masters; for "Mystery" and "Interlude," from "The New Day," by Scudder Middleton; for "Love Song" and "Mountain Song," from "You and I,” by Harriet Monroe; for "The Child's Heritage," from "The Quest," by John G. Neihardt; for "Flammonde," from "The Man against the Sky," by Edwin Arlington Robinson; for "Deirdre," from "Songs from the Clay," by James Stephens; for "In the Poppy Field," from "The Hill of Vision," by James Stephens; for "On the Day when the

Lotus Bloomed," from "Gitanjali," by Rabindranath Tagore; for two narratives from "Fruit-Gathering," by Rabindranath Tagore; for "Leaves" and "The Answer," from "Rivers to the Sea," by Sara Teasdale; for "Peace," "I Would Live in Your Love" and "The Lamp," from "Love Songs," by Sara Teasdale; for "The Flight," from "The Flight and other Poems," by George Edward Woodberry; for "The Song of Wandering Aengus," from "Poems," by William Butler Yeats; for the lyric beginning "The Wind Blows out of the Gates of Day," from "The Land of Heart's Desire," by William Butler Yeats:

To Messrs. Houghton Mifflin Company for "After Two Years," by Richard Aldington, from "Some Imagist Poets, 1916"; for "Dawn," by Richard Aldington from "Some Imagist Poets, 1917"; for "Her Words," from "The Shoes that Danced and other Poems,” by Anna Hempstead Branch; for "An Unbeliever," from "The Heart of the Road," by Anna Hempstead Branch; for two poems, each called "Song," from "Poems," by Florence Earle Coates; for "Sea Gods," by H. D., from "Some Imagist Poets, 1916"; for "Windmills," by John Gould Fletcher, from "Arizona Poems," in "Some Imagist Poets, 1916"; for one strophe from "Lincoln," by John Gould Fletcher in "Some Imagist Poets, 1917" and for one strophe from "Irradiations," by John Gould Fletcher; for "Pandora's Song," from "The Firebringer," by William Vaughn Moody; for "Love Is a Terrible Thing," from "The Sister of the Wind," by Grace Fallow Norton; for "The House and the Road" and "The Cedars," from "The Singing Leaves," by Josephine Preston Peabody; for "Frost in Spring" and "Patrins," from "The Door of Dreams," by Jessie B. Rittenhouse; for "Scum O' The Earth," from the volume of the same name by Robert Haven Schauffler; for "Vistas" and "Certain American Poets," from "A Lonely Flute," by Odell Shepard:

To Messrs Henry Holt & Company for "The Cuckoo" and "The Virgin's Slumber Song," from "My Ireland," by Francis Carlin; for "Comrade Jesus," from "Portraits and Protests," by Sarah N. Cleghorn; for "An Old Woman of the Roads" and "The Furrow and the Hearth," from "Wild Earth and other Poems," by Padraic Colum; for "Miss Loo" and "The Listeners," from "The Listeners," by Walter de la Mare; for "Jim Jay" and "Silver," from "Peacock Pie," by Walter de la Mare; for "The Sound of the Trees," "The Gum Gatherer," "An Old Man's Winter Night," "The Cow in Apple

Time" and "Brown's Descent," from "Mountain Interval," by Robert Frost; for "Fog," "Monotone" and "Child," from "Chicago Poems," by Carl Sandburg; for "Loam," "Cool Tombs" and "Monosyllabic," from "Cornhuskers," by Carl Sandburg; for "A Cyprian Woman: Greek Folk Song" and "Remembrance: Greek Folk Song," from "The Factories and other Poems," by Margaret Widdemer; for "The Dark Cavalier," from "The Old Road to Paradise and other Poems," by Margaret Widdemer:

To The Century Company for "Merchants from Cathay," from the volume of the same name by William Rose Benét; for "After Sunset,' from The Century Magazine, by Grace Hazard Conkling; for "Seal Lullaby" and Road-Song of the Bandar-Log," from "The Jungle Book," by Rudyard Kipling; for "Cherry Way," from "The Night Court and other Verse," by Ruth Comfort Mitchell; for "Said the Sun," from "War and Laughter," by James Oppenheim; for "The Runner in the Skies," from "Songs for the New Age," by James Oppenheim; for "Daybreak," from The Century Magazine, by Louis Untermeyer; for "How Much of Godhood" and "Caliban in the Coal Mines," from "Challenge," by Louis Untermeyer:

To Messrs Charles Scribner's Sons for "Path Flower," from the volume of the same name by Olive Tilford Dargan; for "At Night" and "Maternity," from "Poems," by Alice Meynell; for "I Have a Rendezvous with Death," from "Poems," by Alan Seeger; for "Richard Cory," from "The Children of the Night," by Edwin Arlington Robinson; for "Miniver Cheevy," from "The Town Down the River," by Edwin Arlington Robinson; for several sentences from "The Enjoyment of Poetry," by Max Eastman:

To The John Lane Company for two sonnets called "The Dead" from "The Collected Poems" of Rupert Brooke; for "Lepanto" from "Poems," by G. K. Chesterton; for "Da Leetla Boy" from "Carmina," by Thomas Augustine Daly; for "The Iron Music" and "The Old Houses of Flanders," from "On Heaven and Poems Written on Active Service," by Ford Madox Hueffer; for "I Sat among the Green Leaves," from "The Lamp of Poor Souls," by Majorie L. C. Pickthall:

To Mr. Alfred Knopf for "Coming to Port" and "Invocation," from "Colors of Life," by Max Eastman; for "The Fox" and "Said a Blade of Grass," from "The Madman," by Kahlil Gibran; for "As

sault Heroic," from "Fairies and Fusiliers," by Robert Graves; for 'Homage," by Helen Hoyt, from "Others: An Anthology of the New Verse"; for "Little Things," from "Asphalt and Other Poems," by Orrick Johns; for "Idealists" and "Old Manuscript," from "Mushrooms," by Alfred Kreymborg; for lyrics by William H. Davies:

To Messrs Harper & Brothers for "Paper Roses" and "Roses in the Subway," from "Poems," by Dana Burnet; for "The Ballad of The Cross," by Theodosia Garrison; for "The Path of the Stars," by Thomas E. Jones, Jr., from Harper's Magazine; for "The Birth" from "Dreams and Dust," by Don Marquis; for “Sacrifice,” from “Flower O' the Grass," by Ada Foster Murray:

To Mr. Mitchell Kennerley for a selection from "The New World," by Witter Bynner; for two sonnets from "Sonnets of a Portrait Painter," by Arthur Davison Ficke; for "The Jew to Jesus," from the volume of the same name by Florence Kiper Frank; for "Renascence," from the volume of the same name by Edna St. Vincent Millay; for "Psalm," by Jessie E. Sampter, from "The Lyric Year":

To Messrs. Doubleday Page & Company for "The Dying Patriot," from "The Collected Poems of James Elroy Flecker; for "The Man with the Hoe," from "The Man with the Hoe and Other Poems," copyright, 1899 by Edwin Markham; for "Lincoln," from "Lincoln and Other Poems," copyright, 1901, by Edwin Markham; for "The Fugitives," from "The Far Country," by Florence Wilkinson; for "The Flower Factory," from "The Ride Home," by Florence Wilkinson:

To Messrs. George H. Doran Company for "A Lynmouth Widow," from "In Deep Places," by Amelia Josephine Burr; for "My Mirror," from "Candles that Burn," by Aline Kilmer; for "Trees," "Martin," and "Rouge Bouquet," from the memorial edition of "Joyce Kilmer: Poems, Essays and Letters," edited by Robert Cortes Halliday:

To Messrs. E. P. Dutton & Company for "Around the Sun," from "The Retinue and Other Poems," by Katharine Lee Bates, copyright, 1918; for "The Common Street," from "A Chant of Love for England and Other Poems," by Helen Gray Cone; for "The Kiss" and "Absolution," from "The Old Huntsman and Other Poems," by Siegfried Sassoon:

To Messrs. Frederick A. Stokes Company for Grieve not for

Beauty," from "Grenstone Poems," by Witter Bynner; for "Nearer" and "Out of Trenches: The Barn, Twilight," copyright, 1918, by Robert Nichols; for "Forty Singing Seamen," from the volume of the same name by Alfred Noyes:

To The Four Seas Company for "Dawn" and "After Two Years,” from "Images," by Richard Aldington; for "The Morning Song of Senlin" and two lyrics from "Variations," all from "The Charnel Rose and Other Poems," by Conrad Aiken:

To Mr. Thomas B. Mosher for "Love Came Back at Fall O' Dew" and "A Christmas Folk Song," from "A Wayside Lute," by Lizette Woodworth Reese; and for "Frost To-night," from "The Flower from the Ashes," by Edith M. Thomas:

To Mr. Ralph Fletcher Seymour for "What Dim Arcadian Pastures" and "Two Voices," from "The Spinning Woman of the Sky," by Alice Corbin, and for "The Most Sacred Mountain" from "Profiles from China," by Eunice Tietjens:

To Mr. B. W. Huebsch for "So Beautiful You are Indeed," from "Songs to Save a Soul," by Irene Rutherford McLeod; for "Clay Hills," from "Growing Pains," by Jean Starr Untermeyer:

To Stewart & Kidd Company for "The Strong Woman," from "The Man Sings," by Roscoe Gilmore Stott, published by Stewart & Kidd Company:

To Mr. A. M. Robertson for "The Black Vulture," from "The House of Orchids," by George Sterling; for "The Last Days," from "Beyond the Breakers," by George Sterling:

To Mr. David McKay for "Perennial May," from "Songs of Wedlock," by Thomas Augustine Daly; for "Da Leetla Boy," from "Canzoni," by Thomas Augustine Daly:

To The Yale University Press for "The Falconer of God," from the volume of the same name by William Rose Benét:

To The Manas Press for "Cinquains," from "Verse," by Adelaide Crapsey:

To Mr. James Terry White for "Canticle," from "City Pastorals," by William Griffith: