COPYRIGHT, 1904, BY

JOHN D. MORRIS & COMPANY

WIMMEZOI

NOTICE OF COPYRIGHTS.

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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.

1904.

PUBLISHERS OF THE WORLD'S BEST POETRY.

Messrs. D. APPLETON & Co., New York.-W. C. Bryant
"The Crowded Street."

Messrs. C. C. BIRCHARD & Co., Boston.-J. V. Cheney :
Man with the Hoe (A Reply)."

"The

The CENTURY Co., New York.-W. H. Hayne: "Moonlight
Song of the Mocking Bird."

COSMOPOLITAN MAGAZINE, New York.-W. H. Hayne: An
Autumn Breeze."

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THE CRITIC, New York.-W. H. Hayne: "Night Mists."
Messrs. HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN & Co., Boston.-T B. Aldrich:
"Broken Music,' ""On an Intaglio Head of Minerva," "Out-
ward Bound;" Arlo Bates: "There is Such Power;" Helen
G. Cone: Yellow Pansy;" Louise I. Guiney: "The
Wild Ride; " O. W. Holmes: "Contentment;"H. W. Long-
fellow: Excelsior, Retribution;" J. R. Lowell: "An
Autograph," Rhocus,"
," "Yussouf;" Harriet W. Preston:
"The King's Highway; E. R. Sill: "The Fool's Prayer;
E. C. Stedman: "Pan in Wall Street" W. W.,,Story:
"Perseverance; Edith M. Thomas: Augury;" J. T.
Trowbridge: "The Vagabonds."

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The J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY, Philadelphia.-Charlotte F.
Bates (Mme Rogé): "Delay;" Mary A. Townsend :
Woman's Wish.'

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Messrs. LITTLE, BROWN & Co., Boston.-J. H. Chadwick: "The Making of Man;" Gertrude Hall: "The Spell; Louise C. Moulton: "At Midsummer,' ""A Painted Fan.'

The LOTHROP PUBLISHING COMPANY, Boston.-P. H. Hayne: ""Ode to Sleep; "Pre-Existence," C. Scollard: The Book-Stall."

The OUTLOOK COMPANY, New York.-H. van Dyke: "Work."

Messrs. G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS, New York.-M. J. Cawein: "Proem."

Messrs. CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS, New York.-Mary M. Dodge: "Once Before; Julia C. R. Dorr: "Thy Songs and Mine."

Messrs. SMALL, MAYNARD & Co., Boston.-B. Carman: "Hack and Hew;" R. Hovey: "Beethoven's Third Symphony."

The WHITAKER & RAY COMPANY, San Francisco.-C. H. (Joaquin) Miller: "Above the Clouds,' "A California Christmas," ""Proem (Isles of the Amazons)."

II.

American poems in this volume by the authors whose names are given below are the copyrighted property of the authors, or of their representatives named in parenthesis, and may not be reprinted without their permission, which for the present work has been courteously granted.

1904.

PUBLISHERS OF THE WORLD'S BEST POETRY.

H. A. Beers; C. T. Brooks (Mrs. Harriet Lyman Brooks); R. J. Burdette; Mary A. De Vere; A. W. H. Eaton; R. W. Gilder; O. Huckel; R. M. Johnson; E. Markham; F. Sewall; J. M. Thompson (Mrs. J. M. Thompson); W. Whitman (H. Traubel, Literary Executor); Ella W. Wilcox.

THE PLACE OF POETRY IN LIFE.

BY CHARLES FRANCIS RICHARDSON.

BEAUTY, Sooner or later, comes to its own; but no man perceives it all at once. Even the undying poetry of the world around us must be brought to the notice of growing minds. It is no wonder, then, that a taste for poetry in literature is often undeveloped.

Some people read a great deal of poetry, with constant zest and unfailing advantage; others, though they may be "great readers" of other classes of literature, find little pleasure or profit in poetry. Is it a duty to read poetry? Should those who seem to have no natural taste for it endeavor to cultivate a taste; or should they rest content with the conclusion that certain minds appreciate, and profit by, poetical compositions, while other minds have no capacity for their enjoyment?

It may not be a downright duty to like poetry, or to try to like it; but certainly it is a misfortune that so large and lovely a division of the world's literature should be lost to any reader. The absence of a poetic taste is a sad indication of a lack of the imaginative faculty; and without imagination what is life?

If a reader finds that the ideal has little or no place in his intellectual existence or in his daily