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.

Messrs. D. APPLETON & CO., New York.--_W.G. Bryant_: "The Future
Life."

The ROBERT CLARKE COMPANY, Cincinnati.--_W.D. Gallagher_: "The
Laborer."

Messrs. T.Y. CROWELL & CO., New York.--_S.K. Bolton_: "Her Creed."

Messrs. E.P. DUTTON & CO., New York.--_Ph. Brooks_: "O Little Town of
Bethlehem;" _E. Sears_: "The Angel's Song."

Messrs. HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN & CO., Boston.--_Alice Cary_: "My Creed;"
_Phoebe Cary_: "Nearer Home;" _J.F. Clarke_: "The Caliph and Satan,"
"Cana;" _R.W. Emerson_: "Brahma," "Good-bye," "The Problem;" _Louise
I. Guiney_: "Tryste Noël;" _J. Hay_: "Religion and Doctrine;" _C.W.
Holmes_: "The Living Temple;" _H.W. Longfellow_: "King Robert of
Sicily," "Ladder of St. Augustine," "Psalm of Life," "Santa Filomena,"