ODE

We are the music-makers,

And we are the dreamers of dreams,
Wandering by lone sea-breakers,
And sitting by desolate streams;
World-losers and world-forsakers,
On whom the pale moon gleams:
Yet we are the movers and shakers
Of the world for ever, it seems.

With wonderful deathless ditties
We build up the world's great cities,
And out of a fabulous story
We fashion an empire's glory:
One man with a dream, at pleasure,
Shall go
forth and conquer a crown;
And three with a new song's measure
Can trample an empire down.

We, in the ages lying

In the buried past of the earth, Built Nineveh with our sighing,

And Babel itself with our mirth; And o'erthrew them with prophesying To the old of the new world's worth; For each age is a dream that is dying, Or one that is coming to birth.

-Arthur O'Shaughnessy

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

The thanks of the author are due to the following publishers for their courteous permission to reprint material published under their imprint:

To The Macmillan Company for selections from "The Candle of Vision" and "Collected Poems," by A. E. (George Russell); for selections from "Letters" of Matthew Arnold; for a sonnet from "Cloister," by Charles L. O'Donnell, C.S.C.; for lyrics from "Bluestone," by Marguerite Wilkinson; for brief passages of prose by Sara Teasdale, William Rose Benét, Padraic Colum, Robert Frost, Harriet Monroe, and Edwin Markham, reprinted from "New Voices," by Marguerite Wilkinson; for "Petit, The Poet," from "The Spoon River Anthology," by Edgar Lee Masters; for selections from Mark Pattison's "Life of Milton," and Hiram Corson's "Introduction to the Works of Milton"; for passages from "Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning" (ed. by Kenyon); for several pages from "Memoirs of Tennyson," by Hallam Tennyson, his son; for selections from the "Prose Essays," of William Butler Yeats.

(The poetry of standard poets used in this book is taken, as a rule, from the Globe Series of poets, in which series may be found Arnold, Browning, Chaucer, Spenser, Shakespeare, Keats, Shelley, Coleridge, Wordsworth, Cowper, Tennyson, Dryden and others.) To Messrs.Charles Scribners Sons for excerpts from "Letters of George Meredith"; for a passage from "Interpretations of Poetry and Religion," by George Santayana, and for another passage from the preface to his "Poems"; for sixteen lines from "The Crystal," by Sidney Lanier; for "The Dear Mystery" from "The Black Panther," by John Hall Wheelock; for one paragraph from "Essays and Studies" of Algernon Charles Swinburne; for a quotation from "Family Letters of Christina Rossetti," and for a number of letters from "The Letters of William Blake," and for one paragraph from Francis Thompson's "Essay on Shelley."

To Messrs. Harcourt, Brace & Co. for a page from "Poetic Madness" and two paragraphs from "Inspiration" from "The Torch

and Other Lectures," by George E. Woodberry, copyright, 1920, by Harcourt, Brace and Company, Inc.; for a long passage from "Rupert Brooke and the Intellectual Imagination," by Walter de la Mare; and for selections from the letters of Shelley.

To Messrs. Houghton-Mifflin & Co. for several paragraphs from the essay called "The Poet," and for two poems, "The Poet" and "The Test," and for one sentence from "Inspiration," and for eleven lines from "Saadi," by Ralph Waldo Emerson; and for seven passages from "The Letters of Samuel Taylor Coleridge."

To Messrs. Dodd, Mead & Co. for part of the "Ballad In Blank Verse" from "Ballads and Songs," by John Davidson; for "A Poet's Prayer," by Stephen Phillips; for certain passages from the "Letters of Algernon Charles Swinburne."

To Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., for two paragraphs from “On English Poetry," by Robert Graves; for several paragraphs from "Colors of Life," by Max Eastman; for the brief introductory lyric from "Ship's Log," by Grace Hazard Conkling, and for two paragraphs from "Scepticism," by Conrad Aiken.

To Mr. George Haven Putnam, Publisher, for "The Myth of Arthur" from "The Ballad of Saint Barbara," by G. K. Chesterton; for two paragraphs from "Studies in Poetry," by Stopford Brooke; and for two lines from one of David Morton's sonnets.

To Messrs. E. P. Dutton & Co. for "The Poet and His Muse" from "The Complete Poetical Works" of James Thomson ("B.V."). To Messrs. Henry Holt & Co. for "Hapless," from the "Collected Poems" of Walter de la Mare.

To Mr. Robert McBride for one page from "Psychology and Morals," by J. A. Hadfield.

To The George H. Doran Co. for "The Harp" from "Vigils," by Aline Kilmer.

To Messrs. Little, Brown & Co. for "A Book," by Emily Dickin

son.

To Messrs. Doubleday, Page & Co. for selections from "Leaves of Grass," by Walt Whitman.

To Messrs. Longmans Green & Co. for one paragraph from "News From Nowhere," by William Morris.

To Messrs. Boni & Liveright for one page from "Troubadour," by Alfred Kreymborg.

To The Columbia University Press for several paragraphs from "Sir Walter Scott as a Critic of Literature," by Margaret Ball. To The Oxford University Press for three paragraps from "The Necessity of Poetry," by Robert Bridges, and for several