NOTICE OF COPYRIGHTS.
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I.
American poems in this volume within the legal protection of copyright are used by the courteous permission of the owners,—either the publishers named in the following list or the authors or their representatives in the subsequent one,—who reserve all their rights. So far as practicable, permission has been secured, also for poems out of copyright.
Publishers of THE WORLD'S BEST POETRY.
1904.
The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Indianapolis.—F. L. Stanton: "Plantation Ditty."
The Century Co., New York.—I. Russell: "De Fust Banjo," "Nebuchadnezzar."
Messrs. Harper & Brothers, New York.—W. A. Butler: "Nothing to Wear;" Will Carleton: "The New Church Organ."
Messrs. Houghton, Mifflin & Co., Boston.—W. H. Brownell: "Lawyer's Invocation to Spring;" J. T. Fields: "The Nantucket Skipper;" Bret Harte: "Dow's Flat," "Jim," "Plain Language from Truthful James," "To the Pliocene Skull," "Ramon," "The Society upon the Stanislaus;" J. Hay: "Banty Tim," "Jim Bludso," "Little Breeches;" O. W. Holmes: "Ode for a Social Meeting," "One-Horse Shay," "Rudolph the Headsman;" H. W. Longfellow: "The Wreck of the Hesperus;" J. R. Lowell: "America," "The Grave-Yard," "What Mr. Robinson Thinks;" J. J. Roche: "The V-A-S-E;" C. Scollard: "Khamsin."