ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

MRS. RICHARDS extends her sincere thanks and appreciation, not only to the poets, who have been most gracious in their personal coöperation, but also to all the publishers who have very kindly permitted her to reprint in this volume poems for which they hold the copyrights:

To Messrs. D. Appleton & Company for "The Travel Bureau," from Narratives in Verse, by Ruth Comfort Mitchell; and "The Traveller," from By Bog and Sea in Donegal, by Elizabeth Shane.

To Messrs. Edward Arnold & Company, London, for "The Keynote," from The Violet Crown, by Sir Rennell Rodd.

To Mr. Richard G. Badger and to Mr. Ketchum personally for "The Road to Granada," from Profiles, by Arthur Ketchum.

To Messrs. George Bell & Sons, Ltd., London, for "Beata Beatrix," from Sonnets of Samuel Waddington.

To Mr. Basil Blackwell, Oxford, and to Mrs. Fiske Warren personally for “Cleopatra and Antony," from The Sword, by Gretchen O. Warren (also to Brentano's, New York).

To Messrs. Boni and Liveright for "Song of the Little Villages,” by James B. Dollard, from Dreams and Images, a Catholic Anthology, compiled by Joyce Kilmer.

To Brentano's for "Crocknaharna" and "The Homecoming of the Sheep," from The Complete Poems of Francis Ledwidge.

To Messrs. B. J. Brimmer Company for "Charlemagne,” from The Waggon and the Star, by Mary Sinton Leitch; and "FlowerMarket, Copenhagen," from The Hills give Promise, by Robert Hillyer.

To Messrs. Burns Oates & Washbourne, Ltd., and to Messrs. Charles Scribner's Sons and Mr. Wilfred Meynell personally for "November Blue" and "The Watershed," from Poems, Collected Edition, by Alice Meynell.

To Mr. Jonathan Cape, London, and to the Daily News, London, for "How far is it to Bethlehem?" by Frances Chesterton, from The Best Poems of 1922, compiled by Thomas Moult.

To The Century Company for "Near Amsterdam," from Collected Poems, by S. Weir Mitchell; and "From a Felucca," from Collected Poems and Plays, by Cale Young Rice.

To Messrs. Chatto & Windus and to Mr. Nichols personally for "The Tower," from Ardours and Endurances, by Robert Nichols.

To Mr. R. Cobden-Sanderson, London, and to Mr. Holmes personally for "Sonnet," from Sonnets and Lyrics, by Edmond Holmes.

To Messrs. William Collins, Sons & Company, Ltd., London and Glasgow, for "Antrin Thochts,” from 'Mang Lowland Hills, by Gilbert Rae.

To Messrs. Constable & Company, Ltd., for "Pictures of the Rhine," from Poetical Works, by George Meredith (also to Messrs. Charles Scribner's Sons); and "Ode: The Mediterranean," from Poems of George Santayana (also to Messrs. Charles Scribner's Sons and Mr. Santayana personally).

To Messrs. Dodd, Mead & Company for "The Old Vicarage, Grantchester," from Collected Poems, by Rupert Brooke; "Lepanto," from Poems, and "The Rolling English Road," from The Flying Inn, by Gilbert K. Chesterton (also to Mr. Chesterton personally); "The Old Houses of Flanders," from On Heaven, and Poems written on Active Service, by Ford Madox Hueffer; "London Beautiful," from New Poems, by Richard Le Gallienne; "Queenstown Harbour" and "In Remembrance of Cork," from Songs of the Celtic Past, by Norreys Jephson O'Conor (also to Mr. O'Conor personally); "Bells of Varenna," from Wild Fruit, by Eden Phillpotts; "Cornish Wind," from The Fool of the World, and Other Poems, by Arthur Symons; "The Bells of Roncevaux" and "In a Garden of Granada," from Gardens Overseas, and Other Poems, by Thomas Walsh (also to Mr. Walsh personally).

To Messrs. George H. Doran Company for "Gorgio Lad" and "Night at Sea," from Little Houses, by Amelia Josephine Burr; "Yesterday in Oxford Street,” from Fairies and Chimneys, by

Rose Fyleman; "The Island," from The Rocking Horse, by Christopher Morley; “Merchantmen,” from Small Craft, and “Traveller's Rest," from Sailor Town, by C. Fox Smith; "The Unvisited," from Poems of America, and Others, by J. C. Squires (also to Mr. Squires personally); "A Ballad of Love in London," from Today and Tomorrow, by Charles Hanson Towne; "Castilian," from Black Armour, by Elinor Wylie.

To Messrs. Doubleday, Page & Company for "The Deep-Sea Cables," "The Coastwise Lights," and "Sestina of the TrampRoyal," from Rudyard Kipling's Verse, Inclusive Edition (also to Mr. Kipling personally); "Saint Patrick," from The Shoes of Happiness, and Other Poems, by Edwin Markham (also to Mr. Markham personally); "After the Sea-Ship," from Leaves of Grass, by Walt Whitman.

To Messrs. Duckworth & Company, London, for "The South Country” and “Tarantella,” from Collected Verse, by Hilaire Belloc (also to Messrs. Robert M. McBride & Company, New York, for the same poems from Sonnets and Verse).

To Messrs. Duffield & Company for "Twilight at Florence,” from Gabrielle, and Other Poems, by Martha Gilbert Dickinson Bianchi (also to Mme. Bianchi personally); and "Mo-Lennav-aChree," from Poems and Dramas, by Fiona Macleod (William Sharp), and "The White Peacock," from Poems, by William Sharp.

To Messrs. A. B. Duncan & Company, Dundee, Scotland, and to Mr. Inglis personally for "The Laird," from The Laird and Ither Kent Fouk and Gear, by Jeffrey Inglis.

To Messrs. E. P. Dutton & Company for "Graves at Christiania," from The Retinue, and Other Poems, by Katharine Lee Bates (also to Miss Bates personally); "The Ladies of Saint James's" and "Molly Trefusis," by Austin Dobson, from An Anthology of Prose and Verse, compiled by Austin Dobson (also to Mr. A. T. A. Dobson); “The Searchlight,” from Life's Minstrel, by Daniel Henderson; "The Spires of Oxford" and "The Winds at Bethlehem," from The Spires of Oxford, and Other Poems, by W. M. Letts; "Drake's Drum" and "A Song of Exmoor," from

Poems New and Old, by Sir Henry Newbolt; "Evening (Spain)," from The Dark Wind, by W. J. Turner.

To The Four Seas Company for "To a Greek Marble," from Images Old and New, by Richard Aldington.

To Messrs. Harcourt, Brace & Company for "Neapolitan," from Less Lonely, by Alfred Kreymborg.

To Messrs. Harper & Brothers for “In Florence,” from Lyrics, by Cora Fabbri; "The London Bobby," "Edinburgh," and "Barcarole," from The Light Guitar, by Arthur Guiterman; "To the Not Impossible Him," from A Few Figs from Thistles, by Edna St. Vincent Millay.

To the Harvard University Press for "A Gull," from Sonnets and Other Lyrics, by Robert Hillyer.

To Mr. William Heinemann, London, for "The Land of France," from Collected Poems, by Edmund Gosse; and "Flamborough Head," from Down Here the Hawthorn, by Thomas Moult (also to Messrs. George H. Doran Company and to Mr. Moult personally).

To Messrs. Hodder & Stoughton and to Mr. Martin personally for "Scottish Earth," from Scottish Earth, by John Smellie Martin.

To Messrs. Henry Holt & Company for "The Return of Jeanne d'Arc," from Wilderness Songs, by Grace Hazard Conkling; "England," from Collected Poems, and "Sunk Lyonesse," from The Veil, by Walter de la Mare; "If I should ever by chance,” from Poems, by Edward Thomas; "A Song of Fleet Street," by Alice Werner, from The Home Book of Verse, compiled by Burton E. Stevenson; "A Ballad of the Wise Men," from The Old Road to Paradise, by Margaret Widdemer.

To Messrs. Houghton Mifflin Company for "In Westminster Abbey," "Guilielmus Rex," "An Old Castle," "The Lorelei," "An Alpine Picture,” “With Three Flowers," and "The Legend of Ara-Cœli," from The Complete Poems of Thomas Bailey Aldrich; "Names," "A September Birthday in Brittany," and "East Wind," from Heart of New England, by Abbie Farwell Brown; "Not far from Paris, in fair Fontainebleau," from Poems, by Florence Earle Coates; "The Chimes of Termonde," from Afternoons

in April, by Grace Hazard Conkling; "Acon," from Sea Garden, by H. D.; "Cotswold Love" and "Sunrise on Rydal Water," from Poems, 1908–1919, by John Drinkwater; “Granada,” from The Ride Home, by Florence Wilkinson Evans; "Night of Stars," from Irradiations: Sand and Spray, by John Gould Fletcher; "Street of Good Fortune - Pompeii," from Clouds and Cobblestones, by Hortense Flexner; "The Parthenon by Moonlight," from The Poems of Richard Watson Gilder; "Irish Peasant Song," from Happy Ending, by Louise Imogen Guiney; "Travels by the Fireside," "The Warden of the Cinque Ports," "Sonnet: Oft have I seen at some cathedral door,” “The Belfry of Bruges," "The Discoverer of the North Cape," "To the River Rhone," "Castles in Spain," "Cadenabbia,” and “The Old Bridge at Florence,” from The Complete Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow; "Rome," "Naples," and "Venice," from Can Grande's Castle, by Amy Lowell; "Aladdin," from The Complete Poems of James Russell Lowell; "Years Ago," from The Happy Marriage, and Other Poems, by Archibald MacLeish; "The Home of Helen," from The Sea is Kind, by T. Sturge Moore; "On a Bust of Dante," from Poems, by Thomas William Parsons; "Noon at Pæstum," from The Singing Man, and "The Cedars," from The Singing Leaves, by Josephine Preston Peabody; "White Peacocks," from The Door of Dreams, by Jessie B. Rittenhouse; "From the Spire of Milan Cathedral," from The White Comrade, and Other Poems, by Robert Haven Schauffler; "Aix-la-Chapelle," "The Fountain of Trevi," and "Bedouin Love Song," from The Complete Poems of Bayard Taylor," Across the world I speak to thee," from A New Year's Masque, by Edith M. Thomas (also to Miss Thomas personally).

To Messrs. Hughes & Son, Wrexham, Wales, for "The Variety of Wales," by William Thomas (Gwaith Islwyn).

To Mr. Arthur L. Humphreys, London, and to Mrs. Dudley personally for "Westminster Bells," from Vision Valley, by Anita Dudley.

To Messrs. Jarrolds, Publishers, Ltd., London, for "The Snow on Evia," from Welsh Poems and Ballads, translated by George Borrow.