"I'M 'M a florist in verse, and what would people say If I came to a banquet without my bouquet?" OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES. Avou 52982 Ас NOTE CKNOWLEDGMENT is hereby gratefully made to the publishers for permission to use poems by the following authors: To Messrs. Houghton, Mifflin and Company for poems by Thomas Bailey Aldrich, Oliver Wendell Holmes, James Russell Lowell, John Greenleaf Whittier, Bret Harte, John G. Saxe, Norah Perry, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, James T. Field, Edith Thomas, Edmund Clarence Stedman and Charles Henry Webb. To Messrs. Dodd, Mead and Company for poems by Austin Dobson. To the Macmillan Company for poems by Lewis Carroll. To Messrs. D. Appleton and Company for "Song," by William Cullen Bryant. To The Century Company for poems by Robert Underwood Johnson and Mary Mapes Dodge. To Messrs. Little, Brown and Company for "A Valentine," by Mrs. Laura E. Richards, and "Shadows" and "Les Papillottes," by Gertrude Hall. To Messrs. G. P. Putnam's Sons for "The Debutante," by Guy Wetmore Carryl. To The Frederick A. Stokes Company for poems by Frank Dempster Sherman and Samuel Minturn Peck. To The Lothrop, Lee and Shepard Company for poems by Sam Walter Foss. To Messrs. E. H. Bacon and Company for poems by James Jeffrey Roche. |