Transcriber's Note:

Obvious typographical errors have been corrected in this text. For a complete list, please see the bottom of this document.

Doubleday, Page & Company and A. P. Watt & Son—

For "The Return" from The Five Nations and for "An Astrologer's Song" from Rewards and Fairies by Rudyard Kipling. Thanks also are due to Mr. Kipling himself for personal permission to reprint these poems.

Doubleday, Page & Company and Martin Secker—

For the poem from Collected Poems by James Elroy Flecker.

E. P. Dutton & Company—

For the poems from The Old Huntsman, Counter-Attack and Picture Show by Siegfried Sassoon.

Four Seas Company—

For poems from War and Love by Richard Aldington and The Mountainy Singer by Seosamh MacCathmhaoil (Joseph Campbell).

Henry Holt and Company—

For poems from Peacock Pie and The Listeners by Walter de la Mare and Poems by Edward Thomas.

Houghton Mifflin Company—

For two poems from Poems, 1908-1919, by John Drinkwater, both of which are used by permission of, and by special arrangement with, Houghton Mifflin Company, the authorized publishers.

B. W. Huebsch—

For the selections from Chamber Music by James Joyce, Songs to Save a Soul and Before Dawn by Irene Rutherford McLeod, Amores, Look! We Have Come Through!, and New Poems by D. H. Lawrence.

Alfred A. Knopf—

For poems from The Collected Poems of William H. Davies, Fairies and Fusiliers by Robert Graves, The Queen of China and Other Poems by Edward Shanks, and Poems: First Series by J. C. Squire.

John Lane Company—

For the selections from Poems by G. K. Chesterton, Ballads and Songs by John Davidson, The Collected Poems of Rupert Brooke, Admirals All by Henry Newbolt, Herod and Lyrics and Dramas by Stephen Phillips, The Hope of the World and Other Poems by William Watson, and In Cap and Bells by Owen Seaman.

The London Mercury—

For "Going and Staying" by Thomas Hardy and "The House That Was" by Laurence Binyon.

The Macmillan Company—

For the selections from Fires and Borderlands and Thoroughfares by Wilfrid Wilson Gibson, Poems by Ralph Hodgson, the sonnet from Good Friday and Other Poems by John Masefield, and the passage (entitled in this volume "Rounding the Horn") from "Dauber" in The Story of a Round-House by John Masefield.

G. P. Putnam's Sons—

For the title poem from In Flanders Fields by John McCrae.

The Poetry Bookshop (England)—

For two excerpts from Strange Meetings by Harold Monro and for the poems from the biennial anthologies, Georgian Poetry.

Charles Scribner's Sons—

For the quotations from Poems by William Ernest Henley.

Frederick A. Stokes Company—

For the poem from Ardours and Endurances by Robert Nichols.

Longmans, Green & Co., as the representatives of B. H. Blackwell, of Oxford—

For a poem by Edith Sitwell from The Mother.