Chapter 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."

The J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY, Philadelphia.--_G. H. Boker_:
"Countess Laura."

Mr. DAVID MACKAY, Philadelphia.--_C. G. Leland_: "Hans
Breitmann's Party," "Ritter Hugo."

Messrs. CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS, New York.--_R. Bridges
(Droch)_: "For a Novel of Hall Caine's."

Messrs. SMALL, MAYNARD & CO., Boston.--_Charlotte Perkins
Gilman_: "A Conservative."