Seven of the poems included in this collection were written for Drawings
by Miss Pamela Bianco, and were first published by Mr. Heinemann in a
volume entitled _Flora_. The author's thanks are due to Mr. Sydney
Pawling for permission to reprint these poems; to Mr. Cyril Beaumont for
the use of 'Tidings' from a Play for Children, entitled _Crossings_;
and, for permission to include several other poems, to the Editors of
the _London Mercury_, the _New Republic_, the _Spectator_, the _Nation_,
the _Century Magazine_, the _Cambridge Magazine_, the _Literary Review_,
the _Sphere_, the _New Statesman_, the _Bookman's Journal_, the _Broom_,
the _Outlook_, the _Athenæum_, and the _Westminster Gazette_.