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_What the Knapsack Holds_
_The Lure of the Road_
A Wanderer’s Song _John Masefield_ 3
The Singer’s Quest _Odell Shepherd_ 3
The Toil of the Trail _Hamlin Garland_ 4
Two Old Men _Louise Driscoll_ 5
The Best Road of All _Charles Hanson Towne_ 6
The Cry of the Dreamer _John Boyle O’Reilly_ 7
Highways _Leslie Nelson Jennings_ 8
Afoot and Light-Hearted _Walt Whitman_ 9
The Path that Leads to
Nowhere _Corinne Roosevelt Robinson_ 9
City-Weary _Edgar A. Guest_ 10
The Faun _Richard Hovey_ 12
The Call of the Wild _Robert W. Service_ 13
A City Voice _Theodosia Garrison_ 15
Fishing _Edgar A. Guest_ 16
Camping Song _Bliss Carman_ 17
The Green Inn _Theodosia Garrison_ 18
Wanderlust _Isabel Ecclestine Mackay_ 19
Song _Georgiana Goddard King_ 19
In City Streets _Ada Smith_ 20
Up! Up! My Friend, and Quit
Your Books _William Wordsworth_ 21
Road Song _James Stewart Montgomery_ 22
Walking at Night _Amory Hare_ 23
Road Song _W. G. Tinckom-Fernandez_ 24
A Song of the Open Road _Louis J. McQuilland_ 25
A Maine Trail _Gertrude H. McGiffert_ 27
The Spell of the Pool _L. Burton Crane, Jr._ 28
The Lake _Eleanour Norton_ 29
The Great Outdoors _Maud Russell_ 29
Come, Spur Away! _Thomas Randolph_ 30
Hunting Song _Richard Hovey_ 31
The Call _Cora D. Fenton_ 31
The King’s Highway _John Steven McGroarty_ 32
God Made This Day For Me _Edgar A. Guest_ 34
The Country Faith _Norman Gale_ 35
_Green Things Growing_
Afoot _Charles G. D. Roberts_ 39
Grace for Gardens _Louise Driscoll_ 40
My Garden _Thomas E. Brown_ 41
April _John Vance Cheney_ 41
A Song the Grass Sings _Charles G. Blanden_ 42
The Young Dandelion _Dinah Mulock Craik_ 42
Sunflowers _Clinton Scollard_ 43
Wishing _William Allingham_ 44
Rain _Lucy Larcom_ 44
To the Dandelion _James Russell Lowell_ 45
The Grass _Walt Whitman_ 47
Buttercups _Wilfrid C. Thorley_ 47
The Lilac _Humbert Wolfe_ 48
The Hollyhocks _Ray Laurance_ 48
The Ragged Regiment _Alice Williams Brotherton_ 49
Marigolds _Bliss Carman_ 49
In a Garden _Theda Kenyon_ 50
The Dandelions _Helen Gray Cone_ 51
Rhodora _Ralph Waldo Emerson_ 52
Daisies _Bliss Carman_ 53
Out in the Fields with God _Elizabeth Browning_ 53
The Blackbird _Humbert Wolfe_ 54
The Robin _Emily Dickinson_ 54
Clover _John B. Tabb_ 55
A Conversation _Sara Hamilton Birchall_ 55
A Yellow Pansy _Helen Gray Cone_ 56
The Answer _Sara Hamilton Birchall_ 57
A Prayer _Edwin Markham_ 57
_The Kinship of the Trees_
Tree Feelings _Charlotte Perkins Gilman_ 61
A B C’s in Green _Leonora Speyer_ 62
O Dreamy, Gloomy, Friendly
Trees! _Herbert Trench_ 62
God, When You Thought of a
Pine Tree _Unknown_ 63
The House of the Trees _Ethelwyn Wetherald_ 64
Trees _Bliss Carman_ 65
The Trees and the Master _Sidney Lanier_ 66
The Trees _Samuel Valentine Cole_ 67
Three Trees _Christopher Morley_ 68
What Do We Plant? _Henry Abbey_ 69
Trees _Henry van Dyke_ 70
The Trees _Lucy Larcom_ 71
Good Company _Karl Wilson Baker_ 71
The Green Tree in the Fall _Jessie B. Rittenhouse_ 72
_The Call of the Sea_
Sea-Fever _John Masefield_ 75
A Son of the Sea _Bliss Carman_ 75
Dreams of the Sea _William H. Davies_ 76
Going Down in Ships _Harry Kemp_ 77
The Waves of Breffny _Eva Gore-Booth_ 78
Short Beach _Richard Hovey_ 79
Sea Call _Margaret Widdemer_ 79
Ship-Love _Ethel E. Mannin_ 80
The Sea _Nora Hopper_ 81
Coquette _Keith Stuart_ 82
The Deep-Water Man _James Stuart Montgomery_ 82
Sea Longing _Harold Vinal_ 84
Had I the Choice _Walt Whitman_ 84
Gray _Oscar Williams_ 85
A Pagan Hymn _John Runcie_ 85
As the Tide Comes In _Cale Young Rice_ 86
A Wet Sheet and a
Flowing Sea _Allan Cunningham_ 87
The Undersong _Fiona Macleod_ 88
Gray Rocks and Grayer Sea _Charles G. D. Roberts_ 89
The Sea _Bryan Waller Procter_ 89
The Sea Road _Martha Haskell Clark_ 91
The Sea _Richard Hovey_ 92
The World is Too Much
With Us _William Wordsworth_ 94
Sunrise _Robert Browning_ 94
Song of the Sea _Richard Burton_ 95
Farewell _Katherine Tynan_ 96
The Return _Algernon Charles Swinburne_ 97
The Port o’ Heart’s Desire _John Steven McGroarty_ 99
Sea-Urge _Unknown_ 100
The Ocean _Lord Byron_ 100
A Song of Desire _Frederic Lawrence Knowles_ 102
A Sea Change _Dorothy Peace_ 103
Twilight At Sea _Amelia C. Welby_ 103
Sea-Song _Martha Haskell Clark_ 104
Deep Down _James Stuart Montgomery_ 104
_The Winds of Heaven_
Do You Fear the Wind? _Hamlin Garland_ 109
Hark to the Shouting Wind _Henry Timod_ 109
Who Has Seen the Wind? _Christina Rossetti_ 110
Wind _John Galsworthy_ 110
The Sea-Wind _Arthur Ketchum_ 111
I Meant to Do My Work
Today _Richard Le Gallienne_ 111
That Wind is Best _Caroline Atherton Mason_ 112
Happy Wind _William H. Davies_ 112
Wind-Litany _Margaret Widdemer_ 113
A Morning _Theodosia Garrison_ 114
The Wind’s Life _Harry Kemp_ 115
The Mystic _Cale Young Rice_ 115
_The Hill-born_
The Cry of the Hillborn _Bliss Carman_ 119
Up a Hill and a Hill _Fannie Stearns Davis_ 120
Hills _Arthur Guiterman_ 121
Again Among the Hills _Richard Hovey_ 122
Hill Hunger _Joseph Auslander_ 124
Afternoon on a Hill _Edna St. Vincent Millay_ 125
The Hills _Theodosia Garrison_ 125
On a Hill _Irene Rutherford McLeod_ 126
_Traveller’s Joy_
Traveller’s Joy _Arthur Ketchum_ 131
Ellis Park _Helen Hoyt_ 132
Afoot _C. Fox-Smith_ 133
The Going of His Feet _Harry Kemp_ 134
Down East and Up Along _Edwin Osgood Grover_ 135
The Joys of the Road _Bliss Carman_ 136
Song of the Open _Sara Hamilton Birchall_ 139
Rebellion _Stephen Chalmers_ 140
The Tree-Top Road _May Riley Smith_ 142
Early Morning at Bargis _Hermann Hagedorn_ 143
Denial _Lancaster Pollard_ 144
“A la Belle Étoile” _Sara Hamilton Birchall_ 144
Journey _Edna St. Vincent Millay_ 145
The Sojourner _Sara Hamilton Birchall_ 146
Traveller’s Rest _C. Fox-Smith_ 147
Far From the Madding Crowd _Nixon Waterman_ 148
Streams _Clinton Scollard_ 149
The Call _Edgar A. Guest_ 150
The Road that Leads to
Home _Ethel E. Mannin_ 150
_Echoes from Vagabondia_
Wanderthirst _Gerald Gould_ 155
The Vagabond _Edgar A. Guest_ 155
Gipsy Song _Sara Hamilton Birchall_ 156
The Road to Vagabondia _Dana Burnet_ 157
Gipsy Feet _Fannie Stearns Davis_ 158
A Strip of Blue _Lucy Larcom_ 160
Black Ashes _Martha Haskell Clark_ 161
The Wander Lure _Kendall Banning_ 162
Comrades of the Trail _Mary Carolyn Davies_ 163
The Vagrant _Pauline Slender_ 164
The Gipsy Wedding _Sara Hamilton Birchall_ 165
The Vagabond at Home _Ruth Wright Kauffman_ 165
The Gipsy Trail _Rudyard Kipling_ 166
St. Bartholomew’s on
the Hill _Bliss Carman_ 168
Fishing _Edgar A. Guest_ 169
A Vagabond Song _Bliss Carman_ 171
Have You? _Harry M. Dean_ 171
Gypsy-Heart _Katherine Lee Bates_ 172
A More Ancient Mariner _Bliss Carman_ 173
Vagabonds _Sara Hamilton Birchall_ 175
The Gypsying _Theodosia Garrison_ 175
The Mendicants _Bliss Carman_ 176
The Beloved Vagabond _W. G. Tinckom-Fernandez_ 177
The Secret Voices _Ethel E. Mannin_ 178
_The Changing Year_
Turn O’ The Year _Katherine Tynan_ 183
April Music _Clinton Scollard_ 183
The Year’s Awakening _Thomas Hardy_ 184
Spring’s Answer _Edwin Osgood Grover_ 185
Morning Song _Lancaster Pollard_ 186
April Weather _Bliss Carman_ 186
The Runaway _Cale Young Rice_ 188
Spring Market _Louise Driscoll_ 189
Song in March _Clinton Scollard_ 190
Flower Chorus _Ralph Waldo Emerson_ 191
April’s Coming _Lancaster Pollard_ 192
The Secret _John Richard Moreland_ 193
Spring _Norman Gale_ 193
April Weather _Lizette Woodworth Reese_ 194
Renewal _Charles Hanson Towne_ 195
April _Theodosia Garrison_ 195
The Immortal _Cale Young Rice_ 196
Spring _Richard Hovey_ 196
Blind _Harry Kemp_ 199
Spring Song _Bliss Carman_ 200
The Sweet, Low Speech of
the Rain _Ella Higginson_ 203
Early Spring _Alfred Tennyson_ 205
Spring _Henry Timrod_ 206
April, April _William Watson_ 208
April Rain _Robert Loveman_ 209
April _Emily Dickinson_ 210
April Morning _George Elliston_ 210
May-Lure _Richard Burton_ 211
Sunrise _Robert Browning_ 212
The Throstle _Alfred Tennyson_ 212
Tell All the World _Harry Kemp_ 213
Sorrow in a Garden _May Riley Smith_ 213
The Naturalist on a
June Sunday _Leonora Speyer_ 215
Summer _Richard Burton_ 216
Autumn _Emily Dickinson_ 218
Overtones _William Alexander Percy_ 218
Carouse _Charles Hanson Towne_ 219
A Song in Autumn _Theodosia Garrison_ 219
An Autumn Garden _Bliss Carman_ 220
September _Sara Hamilton Birchall_ 223
Days Like These _Ella Elizabeth Egbert_ 224
Indian Summer _Emily Dickinson_ 225
The Deserted Pasture _Bliss Carman_ 226
The Coming of Dawn _Grace Atherton Dennen_ 227
Alms in Autumn _Rose Fyleman_ 228
November in England _Thomas Hood_ 228
The Hound _Babette Deutsch_ 229
_Sky-Born Music_
Let Me Go Where’er I Will _Ralph Waldo Emerson_ 233
Pippa’s Song _Robert Browning_ 233
The Whisper of Earth _Edward J. O’Brien_ 234
Sunrise _Edgar A. Guest_ 234
Prayer Before Poems _Ann Blackwell Payne_ 235
How Miracles Abound _Clinton Scollard_ 236
Little Things _Orrick Johns_ 236
Clouds and Sky _Lancaster Pollard_ 237
My Heart Leaps Up When
I Behold _William Wordsworth_ 238
The Marshes _Sidney Lanier_ 238
Song _John Vance Cheney_ 239
Out-of-Doors _Ethel E. Mannin_ 239
The Whole Duty of Berkshire
Brooks _Grace Hazard Conkling_ 240
A Word with A Skylark _Sarah Piatt_ 241
The Perilous Light _Eva Gore-Booth_ 241
Folly _Vivian Yeiser Laramore_ 243
One Blackbird _Harold Monro_ 243
A Rune of Riches _Florence Converse_ 244
The Picture _Frederick O. Sylvester_ 245
“Sic Vita” _William Stanley Braithwaite_ 245
A Blackbird Suddenly _Joseph Auslander_ 246
Credo _Vera Wheatley_ 247
Gospel of the Fields _Arthur Upson_ 247
The Welcome _Arthur Powell_ 248
Angels of the Spring _Robert Stephen Hawkes_ 249
God’s World _Edna St. Vincent Millay_ 249
Rain _Kenneth Slade Alling_ 250
The Lark _Lizette Woodworth Reese_ 250
Farewell _Harry Kemp_ 251
The Comfort of the Stars _Richard Burton_ 251
The Last Hour _Ethel Clifford_ 252
Wasted Hours _Medora Addison_ 253
God is at the Anvil _Lew Sarett_ 253
_The End of The Trail_
Hesperides _Harry Kemp_ 257
Changeless _Martha Haskell Clark_ 257
Homesick _Julia C. R. Dorr_ 258
If All the Skies _Henry van Dyke_ 259
“Gratias Ago” _Geoffrey Howard_ 260
Song of Ballyshannon _Jeanne Robert Foster_ 261
A Song of the Road _Fred G. Bowles_ 263
After Sunset _Grace Hazard Conkling_ 263
The Wanderer _Zoe Akins_ 264
The Trumpet of the Dawn _Clinton Scollard_ 265
Shared _Lucy Larcom_ 265
Up-Hill _Christina Rossetti_ 266
The Epitaph _Katherine Tynan_ 267
_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._