"Auld Robin Gray" of Lady Lindsay, the "Mariners of England" of Campbell, and the remarkable ballad, "Helen of Kirconnell," exceeding his limits. This is not, like most year-books, a collection of cheerful mottoes. Many of the poems relate to sorrow or death, though the melancholy is never morbid or of the sort which depresses the spirit. The compiler makes no claim regarding his work beyond the general one of having gathered within the limits of a single small volume about five hundred of what seemed to him to be among the most notable short poems in the English tongue. Thanks are due owners of copyright for the use of numerous selections. The following poems are included by permission of and by special arrangement with Houghton, Mifflin & Co., publishers of the works of the respective authors: "Fredericksburg," T. B. Aldrich; "Memory," T. B. Aldrich; "Concord Hymn," R. W. Emerson; "Days," R. W. Emerson; "The Rhodora," R. W. Emerson; "Old Ironsides," O. W. Holmes; "Divina Commedia," H. W. Longfellow; "Nature," H. W. Longfellow; "Snow Flakes," H. W. Longfellow; "The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls," H. W. Longfellow; "Auspex," J. R. Lowell; "She Came and Went," J. R. Lowell; "Paradisi Gloria," T. W. Parsons; "The Future," E. R. Sill; "Toujours Amour,” E. C. Stedman. Acknowledgments are also due the following owners of copyright: The Century Co.: "On the Life Mask of Abraham Lincoln," R. W. Gilder; "The Secret," G. E. Woodberry. Dana Estes & Co.: "Sesostris," L. Mifflin; "The Flight," L. Mifflin. John Lane: "Renouncement," Alice Meynell; "Byron," W. Watson; "The Glimpse," W. Watson; "Insight," W. Watson. Macmillan & Co.: "My Garden," T. E. Brown. G. P. Putnam's Sons: "The Rosary," R. C. Rogers. Small, Maynard & Co.: "Love in the Winds," R. Hovey; "Confided," J. B. Tabb; "In Absence," J. B. Tabb; From "The Song of Myself," W. Whitman; "O Captain! My Captain!" W. Whitman. Whitaker & Ray Co.: "The Port of Ships," J. Miller. Thanks are also extended to Mrs. S. P. McLean Greene, for the use of "De Sheepfol'," and, for personal permissions, to Mr. R. C. Rogers and Prof. G. E. Woodberry. The editor would also thank Mr. H. L. Traubel, literary executor of Walt Whitman, for seconding Messrs. Small & Maynard's kind permission to include the two selections from Whitman's "Leaves of Grass." Boston, June, 1901. F. L. K. |