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Excerpt from Society Verse The editor would acknowledge the courtesy of the fol lowing publishers in allowing the use of valuable copy rightsz - To Messrs Charles Scribner's Sons, selections from Airs from Arcady, by H. C. Bunner Cassell Company, selections from Oberon and Puck, by Helen Gray Cone, and Pipes from Prairie Land, by Minnie Gilmore; D. Lothrop Co., selections from With Reed Lyre, by Clinton Scollard, and Post Laureate' Idyls, by Oscar Fay Adams Ticknor &co., for selections from Vagrant Verse, by Charles Henry Webb, and Songs and Satires, by J. J. Roche Roberts and Brothers, for Provencal Lovers, by E. C. Stedman, from The Masque of the Poets; Henry Holt Co., selections from A Midsummer Lark, by W. A. Crofut; Keppler Schwarzmann, for verses by C. C. Starkweather, Madeline Bridges. R. K. Munkittrick, Gertrude Hall, and A. E. Vva trous; Houghton, Mifllin Co., for selections from the works of John G. Saxe, Oliver Wendell Holmes. Bret Harte, and Edmund Clarence Stedman; Har per and Brothers, for De Convenance, by Mrs. M. P. Handy, A Kiss, by Joel Benton and One of the Pack, by George Parsons Lathrop, in the Monthly Magazine The Judge Publishing Company, for verses by Dewitt Sterry; Porter and Coates, for se lections from Mask and Domino, by David L. Proudfit; Cupples, Hurd Co., for selections from Songs at the Start, Louise Guiney The Cosmopoli tan Magazine Company, for verses by Duffield Osborne and Edith Tupper and The Century Company for the following poems from The Century Magazine Marjorie's Kisses, Time's Revenge. And On the fly leaf of a Book of Old Plays, by Walter Learned To Mrs Carlyle, and The Message of the Rose, by Bessie Chandler Her Bonnet, by Mary Wilkins The Fair C-opyholder, by Charles Crandall; Le Grenier, by Robertson Trowbridge In Winter, by Louise Chandler Moulton The Morning After, by Harold Van Santvoord Last July, by Sophy Law rence; In Arcadia, by R. T. W Duke; Two Triolets, by Harrison Robertson; Rondeaux of Cities, by Robert Grant; On a Hymn Book, by. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.