POEMS THAT EVERY A SELECTION OF THE BEST POEMS EDITED BY MARY E. BURT ILLUSTRATED AND DECORATED NEW YORK B2 1907 Copyright, 1904, by Doubleday, Page & Company All rights reserved, including that of translation into foreign languages, ACKNOWLEDGMENTS TO PUBLISHERS AND AUTHORS Ir sometimes happens that there are people who do not know that authors are protected by copyright laws. A publisher once cited to me 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 |