For the use of the copyrighted material included in this volumepermission has been secured either from the author or his authorizedpublishers. All rights in these poems are reserved by the holders of thecopyright, or the authorized publishers, as named below:
To George H. Doran Co. for the poems of Joyce Kilmer and May Byron.
To Doubleday, Page & Co. and Rudyard Kipling for Mr. Kipling's "TheLooking-Glass."
To E. P. Dutton & Co. for Helen Gray Cone's "Blockhouse on the Hill,"from her A Chant of Love for England.
To Harper & Bros. for the poems of Arthur Guiterman, Don Marquis, andDon C. Seitz.
To Henry Holt and Co. for the poems of Francis Carlin, Walter De LaMare, Louis Untermeyer, and Margaret Widdemer.
To Houghton Mifflin Co. for Anna Hempstead Branch's "Such Are the Soulsin Purgatory" from Heart of the Road, the poems of Henry W.Longfellow, Nathan Haskell Dole's "Russian Fantasy," Amy Lowell's"Haunted" from Pictures of the Floating World, May Kendall's "ALegend."
To Mitchell Kennerley for the poems of Theodosia Garrison, Dora SigersonShorter, and Edna St. Vincent Millay.
To John Lane Co. for the poems of Rosamund Marriott Watson, WinifredLetts, A. E. Housman's "True Lover," Nora Hopper's "Far Away Country,"Marjorie Pickthall's "Mary Shepherdess."
To the Macmillan Co. for W. B. Yeats' "Folk o' the Air," and JohnMasefield's "Cape Horn Gospel."
To Thomas Bird Mosher for Edith M. Thomas's "The Passer-By" from Flowerfrom the Ashes.
To Frederick A. Stokes Co. for "The Highwayman," by Alfred Noyes.
To Charles Scribner's Sons for Josephine Daskam Bacon's "Little DeadChild."
To Rose de Vaux Royer for Madison Cawein's "Ghosts."
To the Saturday Evening Post for Grantland Rice's "Ghosts of theArgonne."
I have to thank the following authors for express personal permission:Josephine Daskam Bacon, Anna Hempstead Branch, Francis Carlin, HelenGray Cone, Nathan Haskell Dole, Theodosia Garrison, Arthur Guiterman,Minna Irving, Aline Kilmer, Katherine Tynan Hinkson, Winifred Letts, AmyLowell, Don Marquis, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Ruth Comfort Mitchell,Marjorie L. C. Pickthall, Lizette Woodworth Reese, Grantland Rice, EdwinArlington Robinson, Robert Haven Schauffler, Don C. Seitz, ClementShorter (for Dora Sigerson Shorter), Edith M. Thomas, Louis Untermeyer,and William Butler Yeats.
This does not attempt to be an inclusive anthology. The ghostly poetryof the late war alone would have made a book as large as this; and aninclusive scheme would have ended as a six-volume Encyclopedia ofGhostly Verse. I hope that this may be called for some day. The presentbook has been held to the conventional limits of the type of smallanthology which may be read without weariness (I hope) by the exclusionnot only of many long and dreary ghost-poems, but many others which itwas very hard to leave out.
I have not considered as ghost-poems anything but poems which related tothe return of spirits to earth. Thus "The Blessed Damozel," a poem ofspirits in heaven, "La Belle Dame Sans Merci," whose heroine may be afairy or witch, and whose ghosts are presented in dream only, do notbelong in this classification; nor do such poems as Mathilde Blind'slovely sonnet, "The Dead Are Ever with Us," class as ghost-poems; for inthese the dead are living in