This book has been compiled in order that boys and girls, already perhaps familiar with the great classics of the English speech, may also know something of the newer poetry of their own day.
_The Five Nations_ (No. 34).
Sir A. T. Quiller-Couch, _Poems and Ballads_ (No. 8), and
_The Vigil of Venus_ (No. 44).
Herbert Trench, _New Poems_ (Nos. 14, 92).
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Rupert Brooke, _1914 and Other Poems_ (Nos. 20, 21, 47).
John Drinkwater, _Swords and Ploughshares_ (Nos. 19, 40, 41). Laurence Housman, _Selected Poems_ (No. 83).
Rose Macaulay, _The Two Blind Countries_ (No. 46).
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Robert Bridges, _Poetical Works_ (Nos. 54, 56, 63, 76, 104, 125, 126, 128, 132, 139, 141).
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Ernest Radford, _Poems_ (No. 42).
W. B. Yeats, _Poems_ (Nos. 49, 88, 138, 143, 144).
_The Poetry Book Shop_ (through Mr. Harold Monro).
Ralph Hodgson, _Eve_ (No. 5).
The Editor of _The Times_ courteously confirmed the permissions given by Mr. George Russell ("A. E.") in respect of No. 23, and by Mr.
