INTRODUCTORY NOTE



  THE verses composing this volume have been selected
by the author almost entirely from the five-volume
edition of his poems published by the Bobbs-AMerrill
Company in 1907. A number have been included from
the three or four volumes which have been published
since the appearance of the Collected Poems; namely,
three poems from the volume entitled "Nature Notes
and Impressions," E. P. Dutton  Co., New York; one
poem from "The Giant and the Star," Small, Maynard
 Co., Boston; Section VII and part of Section VIII
of "An Ode" written in commemoration of the found-
ing of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, and published
by John P. Morton  Co., Louisville, Ky.; some five
or six poems from "New Poems," published in London
by Mr. Grant Richards in i909; and three or four selec-
tions from the volume of selections entitled "Kentucky
Poems," compiled by Mr. Edmund Gosse and published
in London by Mr. Grant Richards in 1902. Acknowl-
edgment and thanks for permission to reprint the
various poems included in this volume are herewith
made to the different publishers.
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