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.