The Golden Treasury of American Songs and Lyrics. Various

Future.

       Prescience.

       In August.

       That Day You Came.

       Negro Lullaby.

       A Woman's Thought.

       The Flight.

       Childhood.

       Little Boy Blue. [10]

       Strong as Death. [11]

       The White Jessamine.

       The House of Death.

       A Tropical Morning at Sea.

       Memory.

       A Mood.

       The Way to Arcady. [12]

       Eve's Daughter.

       On An Intaglio Head Of Minerva.

       Hunting-song.

       Parting.

       When the Sultan Goes to Ispahan.

       Night.

       He Made the Stars Also.

       The Sour Winds.

       The Return.

       Bereaved.

       The Chariot.

       Indian Summer.

       Confided.

       In Absence.

       Song of the Chattahoochee. [13]

       The Sea's Voice.

       I.

       II.

       At Gibraltar.

       I.

       II.

       Jerry an' Me.

       The Gravedigger.

       The Absence of Little Wesley.

       HOOSIER DIALECT.

       Be Thou a Bird, My Soul.

       Opportunity.

       Dutch Lullaby. [14]

       The Maryland Yellow-throat. [15]

       The Silence of Love.

       The Secret.

       The Whip-poor-will. [16]

       Fertility.

       The Veery. [17]

       The Eavesdropper.

       Sesostris.

       NOTES.

       INDEX TO FIRST LINES.

       INDEX TO AUTHORS.

PREFACE.

       Table of Contents

      The numerous collections of American verse share, I think, one fault in common: they include too much. Whether this has been a bid for popularity, a concession to Philistia, I cannot say; but the fact remains that all anthologies of American poetry are, so far as I know, more or less uncritical. The aim of the present book is different. In no case has a poem been included because it is widely known. The purpose of this compilation is solely that of preserving, in attractive and permanent form, about one hundred and fifty of the best lyrics of America.

      I am quite aware of the danger attending such exacting honor-rolls. At best, an editor's judgment is only personal, and the