An Anthology FOR YOUNGER READERS BY JOHN DRINKWATER BOSTON AND NEW YORK HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY 1 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Compiler and publishers acknowledge their indebtedness to the following authors and publishers for the use of copyright poems: Mr. Laurence Binyon for "A Song." Mr. Gordon Bottomley for "Netted Strawberries." Brentano's for "Had I a Golden Pound," by Francis Ledwidge. Mr. Robert Bridges for "The Windmill," from Shorter Poems. Mr. Jonathan Cape, London, for "Raptures," "Leisure," and "The Moon," by W. H. Davies. Messrs. Dodd, Mead & Co. for "The Soldier," from Collected Poems, by Rupert Brooke. Messrs. Doubleday, Page & Co. for "O Captain! my Captain!" by Walt Whitman. Messrs. E. P. Dutton & Co. for "The Donkey," from The Wild Knight, and Other Poems, by G. K. Chesterton; and "Romance," from The Dark Wind, by W. J. Turner. Mr. R. L. Gales for "The Temptation of St. Anthony." Mr. Robert Graves for "Star Talk." Messrs. Harcourt, Brace & Co. for "Beautiful Meals," from The Little School, by T. Sturge Moore. Messrs. Henry Holt & Co. for "Nicholas Nye," from Peacock Pie, and "Arabia," from The Listeners, by Walter de la Mare. Messrs. Longmans, Green & Co. for "Inscription for an Old Bed," by William Morris. The Macmillan Company for "The Dancing Seal" and "The Ice Cart," from Collected Poems, by Wilfrid Wilson Gibson; "The Oxen," from Moments of Vision, by Thomas Hardy; "Stupidity Street," "The Bells of Heaven," and "Time, you Old Gipsy Man," from Poems, by Ralph Hodg |