Chapter I: Front Matter

POEMS

Every Child Should Know

EDITED BY
Mary E. Burt

THE WHAT-EVERY-CHILD-
SHOULD-KNOW-LIBRARY

Published by
DOUBLEDAY, DORAN & CO., INC., for
THE PARENTS’ INSTITUTE, INC.
Publishers of “The Parents’ Magazine”
9 EAST 40th STREET, NEW YORK

COPYRIGHT. 1904, BY DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES AT THE COUNTRY LIFE PRESS, GARDEN CITY, N.Y.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS TO PUBLISHERS AND AUTHORS

It sometimes happens that there are people who do not know that authors are protected by copyright laws. A publisher once cited to me an instance of a teacher who innocently put forth a little volume of poems that she loved and admired, without asking permission of any one. Her annoyance was boundless when she found that she had no right to the poems.

Special permission has been obtained for each copyrighted poem in this volume, and the right to publish has been purchased of the author or publisher, except in those cases where the author or the publisher has, for reasons of courtesy and friendship, given the permission.

In addition to the business arrangements which have been made, we wish to extend our thanks and acknowledgments to those firms which have so kindly allowed us to use their material.

To HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN & COMPANY, of Boston, we are indebted for
the use of the following poems: From the copyrighted works of
Longfellow--“The Arrow and the Song,” “A Fragment of Hiawatha’s
Childhood,” “The Skeleton in Armour,” “The Wreck of the
_Hesperus_,” “The Ship of State,” “The Psalm of Life,” “The
Village Blacksmith.” From Whittier--“Barbara Frietchie” and “The
_Three Bells_ of Glasgow.” From Emerson--“The Problem.” From
Burroughs--“My Own Shall Come to Me.” From Lowell--“The Finding of
the Lyre,” “The Shepherd of King Admetus,” and a fragment of “The
Vision of Sir Launfal,” From Holmes--“The Chambered Nautilus” and
“Old Ironsides.” From James T. Fields--“The Captain’s Daughter.”
From Bayard Taylor--“The Song in Camp,” From Celia Thaxter--“The
Sandpiper.” From J.T. Trowbridge--“Farm-Yard Song.” From Edith M.
Thomas--“The God of Music” and Hermes’ “Moly.”

To CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS we are indebted for the use of the
following poems: From the copyrighted works of Eugene
Field--“Wynken Blynken, and Nod,” “Krinken,” and “The Duel.” From
Robert Louis Stevenson--“My Shadow.” From James Whitcomb Riley’s
poems--“Little Orphant Annie.” From the poems of Sidney
Lanier--“Barnacles” and “The Tournament.” From “The Poems of
Patriotism”--“Sheridan’s Ride.”

We are further indebted to CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS, as well as
to MR. GEORGE W. CABLE, for “The New Arrival,” taken from
“The Cable Story Book,” and to MRS. KATHERINE MILLER and
_Scribner’s Magazine_ for “Stevenson’s Birthday.”

To J.B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY we are indebted for the use of
“Sheridan’s Ride,” from the complete works of T. Buchanan Read.

To HARPER & BROTHERS for the use of “Driving Home the Cows,”
by Kate Putnam Osgood.

To LITTLE, BROWN & COMPANY, of Boston, “How the Leaves Came
Down,” by Susan Coolidge.

To the WHITAKER & RAY COMPANY, of San Francisco, “Columbus,”
by Joaquin Miller, from his complete works published and
copyrighted by that company.

To D. APPLETON & COMPANY for “The Planting of the Apple-Tree”
and “Robert of Lincoln,” from the complete works of William Cullen
Bryant; also for “Marco Bozzaris,” from the works of Fitz-Greene
Halleck.

To the MACMILLAN COMPANY for “The Forsaken Merman,” by Matthew
Arnold, from the complete volume of his poems published by that
company.

To the HOWARD UNIVERSITY PRINT, Washington, D.C., for Jeremiah
Rankin’s little poem, “The Babie,” from “Ingleside Rhaims.”

To the heirs of MARY EMILY BRADLEY for “A Chrysalis.”

To HENRY HOLCOMB BENNETT for “The Flag Goes By.”