917 P COPYRIGHT, 1925 BY ROBERT HAVEN SCHAUFFLER Published, October, 1925 617321 PRINTED IN U. S. A. THE VAIL-BALLOU PRESS To the noble army of CREATIVE LIBRARIANS PRACTITIONERS ALL— CONSCIOUSLY OR UNCONSCIOUSLY OF THE POETRY CURE THIS BOOK IS RESPECTFULLY AND CORDIALLY DEDICATED ACKNOWLEDGMENTS For their courteous permission to reprint copyrighted poems included in this volume, thanks are due to the following publishers (alphabetically listed): D. APPLETON & Co.: "Spring Ode" from NOAH ANʼ JONAH AN' CAP'N JOHN SMITH, by Don Marquis. BONI & LIVERIGHT: "The Madman" and "Rufus Prays" from Dublin Days, by L. A. G. Strong. BOWES & BOWES : "A Sonnet" from LAPSUS CALAMI AND OTHER VERSES, by James Kenneth Stephen. PETER G. BOYLE: "A California Vignette," "Not Our Good Luck," "Salmon Fishing," "Suicide's Stone," "From Tamar" and "To the Stone Cutters" from TAMAR, by Robinson Jeffers. JONATHAN CAPE LTD.: "Ale," "Leisure," "Sadness and Joy," and "Songs of Joy" from COLLECTED POEMS, by William H. Davies. W. B. CONKEY COMPANY: "The World's Need" from PICKED POEMS, by Ella Wheeler Wilcox. THOMAS Y. CROWELL & Co.: "Communion,” "Sleep" and "The Soldier" from COLLECTED POEMS, by Sophie Jewett. GEORGE H. DORAN Co.: "From Sleep" and "Verification" from PARSON'S PLEASURE, by Christopher Morley. "A Prayer for the Old Courage" from A WORLD OF WINDOWS, by Charles Hanson Towne, copyrighted by George H. Doran Company, 1919. DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY: "The Rich Man" and "Villanelle With Stevenson's Assistance" from TOBOGGANING ON PARNASSUS, by Franklin P. Adams. "Flood Tide" and "Ladders Through the Blue" from LADDERS THROUGH THE BLUE, by Hermann Hagedorn, copyrighted 1925. "The Man With the Hoe" from THE MAN WITH THE HOE, "Outwitted" and "Victory in Defeat" from THE SHOES OF HAPPINESS, by Edwin Markham. "Unrest" by Don Marquis. DUFFIELD & Co.: "Dedication" from Collected POEMS, by John Erskine. "At the End of the Day" from ALONG THE TRAIL, by Richard Hovey. E. P. DUTTON & Co.: "The Spark" from THE COAT WITHOUT A SEAM, by Helen Gray Cone. "Measure Me, Sky!" from A CANOPIC JAR, by Leonora Speyer. "Creeds" from LANTERNS IN GETHSEMANE, by Willard Wattles. FUNK & WAGNALLS Co.: "From Town Pictures" from BROAD-CAST, by Ernest Crosby. PAUL ELDER & Co.: "Sonnet" from SONNETS OF SPINSTERHOOD, by Snow Longley. HARCOURT, BRACE & Co., Inc.: "Spratt vs. Spratt" from "AND OTHER POEMS," "Prayer" and "Voices" from CHALLENGE, by Louis Untermeyer, by permission of Harcourt, Brace and Company, Inc., holders of the copyright. "The Recompense" from THE CONTEMPLATIVE QUARRY, by Anna Wickham, copyrighted 1921 by Harcourt, Brace and Company, Inc. "Bells in the Rain" from NETS TO CATCH THE WIND, by Elinor Wylie, copyrighted 1921 by Harcourt, Brace and Company, Inc. HARPER & BROTHERS: "Strictly Germ-Proof" from THE LAUGHING MUSE, by Arthur Guitermann. "First Fig" from A FEW FIGS FROM THISTLES, by Edna St. Vincent Millay, copyrighted 1922 by Edna St. Vincent Millay. HARR WAGNER PUBLISHING Co.: "Byron" from SONGS OF THE SIERRAS, VOL. II, "Columbus" and "For Those Who Fail" from INTRODUCTION AND AUTOBIOGRAPHY, VOL. I, by Joaquin Miller. |