THE sincere thanks of the Editor are due, not only to those American authors who have graciously allowed the reproduction of their poems, but equally to the numerous British living poets whose graceful verses appear in the following pages. In but one instance on the part of a native author, and in but one instance on the part of a publisher, was permission to include poems refused. With these exceptions the Compiler has received the most cordial assistance from holders of copyrights. It becomes a personal pleasure, therefore, to thank the following in particular for their uniform courtesy, without which many a flowing measure contained in “Love’s Old Sweet Song” must necessarily have been omitted: Messrs. Houghton, Mifflin & Co., Roberts Bros., Charles Scribner’s Sons, Macmillan & Co., G. P. Putnam’s Sons, Stone & Kimball, J. G. Cupples, Belford, Clarke & Co., D. Lothrop & Co., Copeland & Day, Henry Holt & Co., R. Worthington & Co., Way & Williams, Longmans, Green & Co. To these and other publishers, to the sonorous choir of the poets quoted from, and, finally, to Mr. Gleeson White and Mr. Edmund Clarence Stedman, the Compiler tenders his most grateful acknowledgments.