Copyright Acknowledgments

The editor expresses his keen appreciation to the many poets and their publishers, who have so generously coöperated in the preparation of this volume by granting permission to include copyright material.

All rights to the poems are reserved by the legal holders of the copyrights.

To D. Appleton & Company for “Spring on the Off-Trail,” from Songs of the Stalwart, by Grantland Rice.

To The Atlantic Monthly, for “Hill Hunger,” and “A Blackbird Suddenly,” by Joseph Auslander.

To Richard A. Badger for “Traveller’s Joy,” “The Sea Wind,” “Countersign,” by Arthur Ketchum.

To Barse & Hopkins for “The Call of the Wild,” by Robert Service.

To Alfred Bartlett, for “September,” “The Gipsy Wedding,” “Gipsy Song,” “Upon Us Vagabonds,” “Song of the Open,” “The Sojourner,” “A la Belle Étoile,” “A Conversation,” “Lavender for Old Loves,” by Sara Hamilton Birchall.

To Ernest Benn, Limited, (London), for “The Blackbird,” “The Lilac,” by Humbert Wolfe.

To Brentano’s, Inc., for “Behind the Closed Eye,” “Farewell,” “The Winds of Life,” “Blind,” “Tell All the World,” “The Going of His Feet,” by Harry Kemp.

To Jonathan Cape, Limited, (London) for “Happy Wind,” “Dreams of the Sea,” by W. H. Davies.

To The Century Company, for “The Immortal,” “As the Tide Comes in,” “The Runaway,” by Cale Young Rice.

To Christian Endeavor World for “Changeless,” by Martha Haskell Clark.

To The Churchman, for “Traveller’s Joy,” and “Sea Wind,” by Arthur Ketchum.

To Cincinnati Times-Star, for “April Morning,” by George Elliston.

To Contemporary Verse, for “Wasted Hours,” by Medora Addison; “Walking at Night,” by Amory Hare; “Rain,” by Kenneth Slade Alling; “Sea Longing,” by Harold Vinal; “Two Old Men,” by Louise Driscoll.

To the Cornhill Publishing Company, for “The House of the Trees,” by Ethelwyn Wetherald.

To Country Life (London) for “Dawn,” by Isabel Butchart.

To Dodd, Mead & Company, for “The Sea,” by Nora Hopper; “I Meant to Do My Work Today,” by Richard Le Gallienne; “Walking at Night,” by Amory Hare.

To George H. Doran Company, for “Traveller’s Rest,” from Sailor Town by C. Fox-Smith, copyright 1919, by George Doran Company, publishers; “Carouse,” “The Best Road of All,” “Renewal,” from World of Windows by Charles Hanson Towne.

To Dorrance & Company for “Deep-Water Men,” “Deep Down,” from Songs of Men, by James Stuart Montgomery.

To E. P. Dutton & Company for “The Dandelions,” by Helen Gray Cone; “The Naturalist on a June Sunday,” “ABC’s in Green,” by Leonora Speyer.

To Federal National Bank, Boston, for “The Cry of the Dreamer,” by John Boyle O’Reilly.

To Forbes & Company for “Far From the Madding Crowd,” by Nixon Waterman.

To Good Housekeeping for “The Sea Road,” and “Sea Song,” by Martha Haskell Clark.

To Harcourt, Brace & Company, Inc. for “Sea Call” from Cross Currents by Margaret Widdemer, copyright 1921, by Harcourt, Brace & Company, Inc.

To Harper Bros. for “Afternoon on a Hill,” “God’s World,” “Journey,” by Edna St. Vincent Millay.

To Hodder & Stoughton, Limited, (London), for “Credo,” by Vera Wheatley.

To Henry Holt & Company for “Wind Litany,” by Margaret Widdemer; “God Is At His Anvil,” by Lew Sarett; “The Whole Duty of Berkshire Brooks,” “After Sunset,” by Grace Hazard Conkling.

To Houghton Mifflin Company for “A Strip of Blue” and “Is It Raining, Little Flower,” by Lucy Larcom; “The Singer’s Quest” by Odell Shepard; “Rhodora,” “Flower Chairs,” “Let Me Go Where’er I Will,” by Ralph Waldo Emerson.

To B. W. Huebsch, Inc., for “On the Hill,” by Irene Rutherford McLeod.

To Mitchell Kennerly for “The Wanderer,” by Zoe Atkins.

To Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. for “Little Things,” by Orrick Johns; “The Early Gods,” by Witter Bynner.

To J. L. Lippincott Company, for “April Rain,” by Robert Loveman.

To Little, Brown & Company, for “Autumn,” “The Robin,” “April,” “Indian Summer,” by Emily Dickinson.

To Longmans, Green & Co. (London) for “A Word With a Skylark,” by Sarah Piatt.

To Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co. for “May-Lure,” “Dumb in June,” “Comfort of the Stars,” and “Song of the Sea,” by Richard Burton.

To The Lyric West for “The Coming of Dawn,” by Grace C. Dennen.

To The Macmillan Company for “Grace for Gardens,” by Louise Driscoll; “Sea-Fever,” “A Wanderer’s Song,” by John Masefield; “Up a Hill and a Hill,” “Gipsy Feet,” by Fannie Stearns Davis; “The Sweet, Low Speech of the Rain,” by Ella Higginson.

To Macmillan & Co. Ltd. (London) for “My Garden,” by T. E. Brown.

To McClelland & Stewart, Toronto, Limited, for “Wanderlust,” by Isabel Mackay.

To Thomas B. Mosher for “Birds of the Air They Sing it,” and “The Charm is Working Now,” by John Vance Cheney, “The Undersong,” by Fiona Macleod, “The Lark” and “April Weather,” by Lizette Woodworth Reese.

To L. C. Page & Company for “Gray Rocks and Grayer Sea,” “Afoot,” by Charles G. D. Roberts.

To Poetry for “Early Morn at Barges,” by Hermann Hagedorn; “Ellis Park,” by Helen Hoyt.

To G. P. Putnam’s Sons, for “The Country Faith,” “Spring,” “All the Lanes are Lyric,” from The Country Muse by Norman Gale; “April,” “The Gipsying,” “The Green Inn,” “A Song of Autumn,” “A City Voice,” “The Poplars,” “The Hills,” “A Morning,” by Theodosia Garrison.

To Reilly & Lee Co., for “The Call,” “God Made This Day For Me,” “Fishing,” “City Weary,” “The Vagabond,” by Edgar A. Guest.

To The Roycroft Magazine for “The Road that Leads to Home,” by Ethel E. Mannin.

To Charles Scribner’s Sons for “The Road That Leads to Nowhere,” by Corrinne Roosevelt Robinson; “Homesick,” by Julia C. R. Dorr; “The Wind,” by John Galsworthy; “The Trees and the Master” and “Marshes of Glynn” (Extract), by Sidney Lanier; “Trees,” “Of All the Skies,” by Henry van Dyke.

To Sidgwick & Jackson, Ltd. (London), for “Farewell,” “The Turn of the Year,” and “The Epitaph,” by Katherine Tynan; “Wanderthirst,” by Gerald Gould.

To Small, Maynard & Co., for “The Whisper of Earth,” by Edward J. O’Brien; “Clover,” by John B. Tabb; “Camping Song,” “Trees,” “April Weather,” “An Autumn Garden,” “The Cry of the Hillborn,” “Daisies,” “The Joys of the Road,” “A Vagabond’s Song,” “Spring Song,” “Marigolds,” “A More Ancient Mariner,” “The Mendicants,” “A Song of the Sea,” “St. Bartholomew’s on the Hill,” “The Deserted Pasture,” by Bliss Carman; “Comrades” (Extracts), “Spring” (Extracts), “The Faun,” “Short Beach,” “Hunting Song,” “Seaward” (Extracts), by Richard Hovey.

To the Boston Evening Transcript for “Prayer Before Poems,” by Anne Blackwell Payne.

To The Christian Century for “Spring’s Answer,” by Edwin Osgood Grover.

To Country Life in America for “Down East and Up Along,” by Edwin Osgood Grover.

To The Chicago Tribune for “Sea Magic.”

To Yale University Press, for “Overtones,” from In April Once, by William Alexander Percy; and “Good Company,” from Blue Smoke by Karle Wilson Baker.

To Jonathan Cape, Ltd. for “Happy Wind” and “Dreams of the Sea,” by W. H. Davies.

The following individuals have also given their permission for the use of copyright material, and the editor’s thanks are due them personally.

To Joseph Auslander for “Hill-Hunger,” “A Blackbird Suddenly.”

To Kendall Banning for “Wander-Lure.”

To Katherine Lee Bates for “Gipsy-Heart.”

To C. G. Blanden for “A Song the Grass Sings.”

To William Stanley Braithwaite for “Sic Vita” from The House Of Falling Leaves.

To Dana Burnet for “The Road to Vagabondia.”

To Richard Burton for “May-Lure,” “Dumb in June,” (Extracts) “Comfort of the Stars,” “Song of the Sea.”

To Witter Bynner for “The Early Gods” and “A Phœbe Bird.”

To Stephen Chalmers for “The Tree-Top Road.”

To Eugene F. Clark for “The Sea Road,” “Changeless,” “Black Ashes,” “Sea Song,” by Martha Haskell Clark.

To Mary Carolyn Davies for “Comrades of the Trail.”

To Babette Deutsch for “The Hound.”

To Louise Driscoll, for “The Spring Market” and “Two Old Men.”

To Ella Elizabeth Egbert for “Days Like These.”

To George Elliston for “April Morning.”

To Jeanne Robert Foster for “Song of Ballyshannon.”

To Hamlin Garland for “The Toil of the Trail,” “Do You Fear the Wind?”

To Charlotte Perkins Gilman for “Tree-Feelings.”

To Eva Gore-Booth, “The Perilous Light,” from manuscript; “The Waves of Breffny.”

To Gerald Gould for “Wanderthirst.”

To Arthur Guiterman for “The Hills” from The Mirthful Lyre.

To Hermann Hagedorn, for “Early Morning at Bargis.”

To Ella Higginson for “The Sweet Low Speech of the Rain.”

To Julian Hovey for “Seaward,” (Extracts) by Richard Hovey.

To Arthur Ketchum for “The Sea-Wind,” “Traveller’s Joy.”

To Leslie Nelson Jennings for “Highways.”

To Orrick Johns, for “Little Things.”

To Ruth Kauffman for “Vagabond.”

To Theda Kenyon for “In the Garden.”

To Georgiana Goddard King for “Song.”

To Louis Loveman for “April Rain” by Robert Loveman.

To Ethel E. Mannin for “Ship-Love,” “The Road that Leads to Home,” “The Secret Voices,” “Out-of-Doors.”

To Edwin Markham for “A Prayer.”

To John Steven McGroarty for “The Port o’ Heart’s Desire” and “The King’s Highway.”

To Edward J. O’Brien for “The Whisper of Earth.”

To Lancaster Pollard for “Denial,” “Morning Song,” “April’s Coming,” “Clouds and Sky.”

To Lizette Woodworth Reese for “The Lark.”

To Cole Young Rice for “As the Tide Comes In,” “The Mystic,” “The Runaway,” “The Immortal.”

To Jessie B. Rittenhouse for “The Green Tree in the Fall.”

To Clinton Scollard for “Streams,” “Sunflowers,” “April Music,” “Song in March,” “The Trumpet of the Dawn.”

To May Riley Smith for “Sorrow in a Garden,” “The Tree-Top Road.”

To Leonora Speyer for “A B C’s in Green,” and “The Naturalist on a June Sunday.”

To W. G. Tinckom-Fernandez for “Road Song,” “The Beloved Vagabond.”

To Charles Hanson Towne for “Carouse,” “The Best Road of All,” “Renewal.”

To Katherine Tynan for “Farewell,” “The Turn of the Year” and “The Epitaph.”

To Vera Wheatley for “Credo.”

To Humbert Wolfe for “The Lilac,” “The Blackbird.”

To William Watson for “April, April.”

The Lure of the Road

I, too, have heard the insistent call of bird and wind and sun; I, too, have heard the little brooks low calling as they run; I, too, have heard the summons far, of sea gulls in the rain⁠— And lo, my heart is home once more, here on the coast of Maine.

E. O. G.