BOSTON AND NEW YORK

Houghton, Mifflin and Company
The Riverside Press, Cambridge

M DCCC XCVI

MRS

THE NEW YO*X

PUBLIC LIBRARY

28387B

ASTOR, LENOX AND
TILDEN FOUNDATIONS

1939

Copyright, 1887,

By HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN & CO.

All rights reserved.

The Riverside Press, Cambridge, Mass., U. S. A.
Electrotyped and Printed by H. O. Houghton & Company.

WOR 19 FEB 50

NOTE.

IN presenting this volume of poems to the public it is proper to state briefly the circumstances under which it has been gathered. A year or two ago the publishers, who had noted with interest the poems which Mr. Sill had been contributing to the Atlantic and other periodicals, both under his own name and under pseudonyms, invited him to make a collection of his recent poems for publication in a volume. He was in no haste to do this. He was doubtless conscious that his power was a growing one, as indeed the quick succession of poems indicated. At any rate he had that fine sense of poetic art which forbade him to be complacent over his own productions,