ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
THE compiler wishes to acknowledge his indebted-
ness to the following for permission to reprint the
copyright poems included in this volume: Mr.
Stephen Vincent Benet and Messrs* Doubleday, Doran
& Co. for " Portrait of a Boy " from Toung Adventure;
Mr. Edmund Blunden and Messrs. Sidgwict &
Jackson, Ltd., for " The Pike " from The Waggoner;
the Literary Executor and Messrs. Sidgwick & Jack-
son, Ltd,, for "The Dead," by Rupert Brooke;
Messrs. Chatto & Windus for " The Vagabond " and
" Romance," by Robert Louis Stevenson; Mr.
G* K. Chesterton and Messrs. J. M. Dent & Sons,
Ltd., for " The Donkey " ; the Clarendon Press for
" A Passer-by" from The Poetical Works of Robert
Bridges; Mr. Walter de la Mare for " Tit for Tat"
and " I met at Eve " ; the authors Executors and
Messrs. Martin Seeker, Ltd., for " The Old Ships"
from Collected Poems, by James Elrpy Flecker ; Mr.
W. W. Gibson for " Prometheus " from Collected Poem
1905-1925; Captain Harry Graham and Messrs.
Edward Arnold & Co., Ltd., for "Waste55 from
Ruthless Rhymes; Messrs. William Heinemann, Ltd,,
for " Itylus," by Algernon Charles Swinburne ;. Mr.
Ralph Hodgson for " Stupidity Street" from his
Poems; the Owners of the Copyright for " Pied
Beauty," by Gerard Manley Hopkins; Messrs. John
Lane, The Bodley Head, Ltd., for "The Hawk," by
A. C. Benson ; Mr. John Masefield for " Cargoes"