CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS C. F. CLAY, MANAGER London: FETTER LANE, E.C. Bombay, Calcutta and Madras: MACMILLAN AND CO., LTD. Tokyo: THE MARUZEN-KABUSHIKI-KAISHA Copyrighted in the United States of America by 2, 4 AND 6, West 45th Street, New York City All rights reserved Author of The Golden Age, Dream Days, The Wind PART I Cambridge: at the University Press. STANFORD FIRDAY NOTE The Editor is indebted to the following authors and publishers for leave to reprint copyright poems: Mr W. Graham Robertson and Mr Norman Gale; Messrs Longmans Green & Co. for a poem by Walter Ramal and for a poem from Stevenson's Child's Garden of Verse, Messrs Chatto & Windus for an extract from Swinburne's Songs Before Sunrise and for a poem from Walter Thornbury's Ballads and Songs, Messrs G. Routledge & Sons for a poem by Joaquin Miller, Mr Elliot Stock for an extract from a play by H. N. Maugham; and Mr John Lane for the Rands, Eugene Field, and Graham Robertson poems, and for two extracts from John Davidson's Fleet Street Eclogues. 265039 First Edition 1916 18 PREFACE N compiling a selection of Poetry for IN Children, a conscientious Editor is bound to find himself confronted with limitations so numerous as to be almost disheartening. For he has to remember that his task is, not to provide simple examples of the whole range of English poetry, but to set up a wicketgate giving attractive admission to that wide domain, with its woodland glades, its pasture and arable, its walled and scented gardens here and there, and so to its sunlit, and sometimes misty, mountain-tops-all to be more fully explored later by those who are tempted on by the first glimpse. And always he must be proclaiming to the small tourists that there is joy, light and fresh air in that delectable country. Briefly, I think that blank verse generally, and the drama as a whole, may very well be |