Poems That Every Child Should Know/Acknowledgments

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS TO PUBLISHERS AND AUTHORS

It sometimes happens that there are people who do not know that authors are protected by copyright laws. A publisher once cited to me an instance of a teacher who innocently put forth a little volume of poems that she loved and admired, without asking permission of any one. Her annoyance was boundless when she found that she had no right to the poems.

Special permission has been obtained for each copyrighted poem in this volume, and the right to publish has been purchased of the author or publisher, except in those cases where the author or the publisher has, for reasons of courtesy and friendship, given the permission.

In addition to the business arrangements which have been made, we wish to extend our thanks and acknowledgments to those firms which have so kindly allowed us to use their material.

To Houghton Mifflin & Company, of Boston, we are indebted for the use of the following poems: From the copyrighted works of Longfellow—"The Arrow and the Song," "A Fragment of Hiawatha's Childhood," "The Skeleton in Armour," "The Wreck of the Hesperus," "The Ship of State," "The Psalm of Life," "The Village Blacksmith." From Whittier—"Barbara Frietchie" and "The Three Bells of Glasgow." From Emerson—"The Problem." From Burroughs—"My Own Shall Come to Me." From Lowell—"The Finding of the Lyre," "The Shepherd of King Admetus," and a fragment of "The Vision of Sir Launfal." From Holmes—"The Chambered Nautilus" and "Old Ironsides." From James T. Fields—"The Captain's Daughter." From Bayard Taylor—"The Song in Camp." From Celia Thaxter—"The Sandpiper." From J. T. Trowbridge—"Farm-Yard Song." From Edith M. Thomas—"The God of Music" and Hermes' "Moly."

To Charles Scribner's Sons we are indebted for the use of the following poems: From the copyrighted works of Eugene Field—"Wynken, Blynken, and Nod," "Krinken," and "The Duel." From Robert Louis Stevenson—"My Shadow." From James Whitcomb Riley's poems—"Little Orphant Annie." From the poems of Sidney Lanier—"Barnacles" and "The Tournament." From "The Poems of Patriotism"—"Sheridan's Ride."

We are further indebted to Charles Scribner's Sons, as well as to Mr. George W. Cable, for "The New Arrival," taken from "The Cable Story Book," and to Mrs. Katherine Miller and Scribner's Magazine for "Stevenson's Birthday."

To J. B. Lippincott Company we are indebted for the use of "Sheridan's Ride," from the complete works of T. Buchanan Read.

To Harper & Brothers for the use of "Driving Home the Cows," by Kate Putnam Osgood.

To Little, Brown & Company, of Boston, "How the Leaves Came Down," by Susan Coolidge.

To the Whitaker & Ray Company, of San Francisco, "Columbus," by Joaquin Miller, from his complete works published and copyrighted by that company.

To D. Appleton & Company for "The Planting of the Apple-Tree" and "Robert of Lincoln," from the complete works of William Cullen Bryant; also for "Marco Bozzaris," from the works of Fitz-Greene Halleck.

To the Macmillan Company for "The Forsaken Merman," by Matthew Arnold, from the complete volume of his poems published by that company.

To the Howard University Print, Washington, D. C., for Jeremiah Rankin's little poem, "The Babie," from "Ingleside Rhaims."

To the heirs of Mary Emily Bradley for "A Chrysalis."

To Henry Holcomb Bennett for "The Flag Goes By."