TO THOSE into whose intellohesions has penetrated the reality of the omnichronal parabola this book is dedicated. FOREWORD The editors wish to express their appreciation of the interest which their friends have shown in the preparation of this book. Acknowledgment of permission to print certain poems is due: to The Bobbs-Merrill Co. for " A Life Lesson;" to Henry Holt & Co. for the poems by Gosse; to Dodd, Mead & Co. for "Good-night, Babette" and "For a Copy of Theocritus" from the "Collected Poems of Austin Dobson;" to Little, Brown & Co. for " In Memoriam" by Marston; to The Macmillan Co. for" Remember" by Christina Rossetti ; to L. C. Page & Co. for “Marsyas " by Roberts; to Small, Maynard & Co. for the poems from Hovey and Whitman; to Charles Scribner's Sons for the poems from Henley's "Poems" " and Lang's "Ballades and Lyrics of Old France;" to Houghton, Mifflin & Co. for the poems from Aldrich, Bates, Emerson, Holmes, Howells, and Sill; to the John Lane Co. for the poems by Arthur Symons. THE EDITORS Boston. P. and L. H.-Q. December, 1906. COLOSSI THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH ENAMORED ARCHITECT OF AIRY RHYME ENAMORED architect of airy rhyme, Build as thou wilt, heed not what each man says: Good souls, but innocent of dreamers' ways, Will come, and marvel why thou wastest time; Others, beholding how thy turrets climb 'Twixt theirs and heaven, will hate thee all their days; But most beware of those who come to praise. O Wondersmith, O worker in sublime And heaven-sent dreams, let art be all in all; |