THE WORLD'S

GREAT RELIGIOUS POETRY

THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
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GREAT RELIGIOUS POETRY

EDITED BY

CAROLINE MILES HILL, PH.D.

UNIVERSITY
OF VIRGINIA

New York

THE MACMILLAN COMPANY

1923

All rights reserved

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Thanks are due to the following publishers for permission to include selections from the volumes enumerated below:

Horace Holley

Vachel Lindsay

Percy Mackaye
John Masefield

Frederick Wm. H. Myers

John G. Neihardt

Edwin Arlington Robinson

George Wm. Russell (A. E.)
James Stephens
Rabindranath Tagore
Sara Teasdale
Edith M. Thomas
Alfred Tennyson
William Watson

William B. Yeats

Kabir (E. Indian, trans, by Tagore) Israel Zangwill

D. Appleton and Company for

William Cullen Bryant-From Thanatopsis.

William Cullen Bryant-To a Waterfowl.

William Cullen Bryant-The Poet.

Wm. E. H. Lecky-Of an Old Song.

Richard Henry Dana-Immortality.

Allen and Unwin for

Edward Carpenter-Five selections from "Towards Democracy." Basil Blackwell for

Gerald Gould-The Happy Tree (from "Collected Poems").

Bobbs-Merrill Company for

James W. Riley-Away! (from "Collected Poems").

Boni and Liveright for

Two selections from "The Modern Book of French Verse."
One selection from "The Path of the Rainbow" (Cronyn).

Brentano's for

Harry Kemp He Did Not Know (from "Chanteys and Ballads").

Harry Kemp God the Architect and Prayer (from "The Cry of Youth").

A. C. Fifield for

Wm. H. Davies-Christ the Man (from "Songs of Joy").

Century Company for

Wm. C. Gannett-The Highway.

Wm. C. Gannett-The Stream of Faith.

Wm. C. Gannett-Consider the Lilies (from "Collected Poems").