ACKNOWLEDGMENTS The compilers are indebted to the following publishers for permission to use the poems mentioned: MESSRS. D. APPLETON & Co.-By William Cullen Bryant: America, Seventy-six, Song of Marion's Men, Abraham Lincoln, To a Waterfowl, Robert of Lincoln, The Twenty-second of February, The Death of the Flowers, A Song for New Year's Eve, The Planting of the Apple Tree, March, Extracts from Thanatopsis, The Death of Slavery, and Washington. By Arthur Cleveland Coxe: Hallowe'en. By George W. Doane: Robin Redbreast. By Frank L. Stanton: The Old Flag Forever. THE CENTURY Co.-By John Bennett: The Sky-lark's Song. By Mary Mapes Dodge: The Frost King. By Richard Watson Gilder: At the President's Grave, The Comfort of the Trees, Inauguration Day, On the Life Mask of Lincoln, A Song of Early Autumn, Sheridan, Sherman, Easter, The Dead Comrade. From the Century Magazine: By H. C. Bunner, The Heart of the Tree. By Lulu W. Mitchell, Toiler, Canst Thou Dream? By James S. Park, Christmas Carol. By Alice Reid, Ragged Robin and Bouncing Bet. From the St. Nicholas Magazine: By Mary Austin, The Shepherds in Judea. THE CHAUTAUQUAN.-By George N. Lovejoy, Easter Carol. By E. L. Sabin, Easter. THE COLVER PUBLISHING COMPANY.-By Caroline A. Lord: A Song of Street Labor. MESSRS. DODD, MEAD & Co.-By Austin Dobson: Ballade of Heroes, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, A Song of the Four Seasons. By Paul Laurence Dunbar: Harriet Beecher Stowe, Spring Song. J. B. LIPPINCOTT Co.-By George H. Boker: Dirge for a Soldier. By H. S. Morris: Walt Whitman. By Thomas Buchanan Read: Sheridan's Ride. From Lippincott's Magazine: By Anna Neil Gilmore, February. By Elizabeth Harman, The Soldier's Dirge. By Jennie B. Hartswick, To St. Valentine. By E. L. Sabin, The Apple Barrel. MESSRS. LITTLE, BROWN & Co.-By Amos Bronson Alcott: Hawthorne, Wendell Phillips, Garrison. By Jean Ingelow: The Singing Lesson. By Louise Chandler Moulton: Louisa May Alcott. By Laura E. Richards: A Valentine. By Christina G. Rossetti: Easter Even, New Year Ditty. THE LOTHROP, LEE & SHEPARD Co.-By Paul Hamilton Hayne: Bryant Dead, To O. W. Holmes. MESSRS. MCCLURE, PHILLIPS & Co.-By Edwin Markham: The Man with the Hoe, A Harvest Song. MUNSEY'S MAGAZINE.-By Minna Irving: Betsy's Battle-flag. By E. L. Sabin: Work. By R. H. Titherington: Faithful unto Death. THE NEW ENGLAND PUBLISHING Co.-By Hezekiah Butterworth: The Thanksgiving in Boston Harbor, Crown Our Washington. MESSRS. G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS.-By "Ironquill": Blaine of Maine. MESSRS. SMALL, MAYNARD & Co.-By John B. Tabb: Indian Summer. By Walt Whitman: O Captain! My Captain! THE F. A. STOKES Co.-By Craven L. Betts: Longfellow, Emerson. By W. H. Hayne: Oliver Wendell Holmes. THE WHITAKER & RAY Co.-By Joaquin Miller: Columbus. THE YOUTH'S COMPANION.-Anonymous: An Arbor Day Tree. By H. H. Bennett: The Flag Goes By. By Hezekiah Butterworth: Five Kernels of Corn. By Sydney Dayre: Remorse. The selections from the following authors are used by permission of, and by special arrangement with, Houghton, Mifflin & Co., the authorized publishers of their works: Thomas Bailey Aldrich, George Arnold, Phoebe Cary, John Vance Cheney, Lydia Maria Child, Helen Gray Cone, Ellen M. Hutchinson Cortissoz, Margaret Deland, Louise Imogen Guiney, Bret Harte, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Lucy Larcom, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, James Russell Lowell, Nora Perry, Margaret J. Preston, Edna Dean Proctor, Margaret E. Sangster, John G. Saxe, Harriet Prescott Spofford, Ernest Clarence Stedman, Celia Thaxter, Edith M. Thomas, John T. Trowbridge, Charles Henry Webb, John Greenleaf Whittier. They have also kindly permitted the use of the following poems from the Atlantic Monthly: By John Vance Cheney, Weeds and Flowers. By Arthur Colton, Victory. By Lizette W. Reese, Taps. By Henry Van Dyke, St. Gaudens' Statue of General Sherman. By Robert Burns Wilson, Such is the Death the Soldier Dies. By McLandburgh Wilson, Memorial Day. Special permission has also been generously granted by the following authors for the use of such poems of theirs as appear in this collection: Mary Austin, Katherine Lee Bates, Henry Holcomb Bennett, Craven Langstroth Betts, Robert Bridges, Alice Williams Brotherton, Francis F. Browne, John Vance Cheney, J. I. C. Clarke, Arthur Colton, Francis Miles Finch, William Hamilton Hayne, Minna Irving, Tudor Jenks, Julie M. Lippmann, Caroline A. Lord, Edward S. Martin, Marie Mason, Louise Chandler Moulton, Albert Bigelow Paine, William Ordway Partridge, Katherine Pyle, Mary B. Rankin (for James Eames Rankin), Lizette Woodworth Reese, Wallace Rice, Laura E. Richards, Lloyd Roberts, John Jerome Rooney, Margaret E. Sangster, Clinton Scollard, Henry Van Dyke, William Hayes Ward, Cy Wayman, Carolyn Wells, Francis Howard Williams, McLandburgh Wilson, Robert Burns Wilson. Other acknowledgments are made in the body of the book. Copyright is in every case reserved. The Twenty-second of February, William Cullen Bryant Ode for Washington's Birthday, Oliver Wendell Holmes Memorial Day, McLandburgh Wilson How Sleep the Brave, William Collins The New Memorial Day, Albert Bigelow Paine . A Monument for the Soldiers, James Whitcomb Riley INDEPENDENCE DAY The Fourth of July, Charles Sprague The Nation's Birthday, Mary E. Vandyne The Republic, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Young America, Carolyn Wells After the Fourth of July, M. Phelps Dawson LABOR DAY The First Thanksgiving Day, Alice Williams Brotherton The Thanksgiving in Boston Harbor, Hezekiah Butterworth Thanksgiving Day, Lydia Maria Child Christmas Carol, Phillips Brooks A Christmas Carol, Josiah Gilbert Holland 49 49 52 53 54 56 56 57 59 61 63 65 66 67 68 69 69 CHRISTMAS 71 72 |