NOTE
Seven of the poems included in this collection were written for Drawings by Miss Pamela Bianco, and were first published by Mr. Heinemann in a volume entitledFlora. The author's thanks are due to Mr. Sydney Pawling for permission to reprint these poems; to Mr. Cyril Beaumont for the use of 'Tidings' from a Play for Children, entitledCrossings; and, for permission to include several other poems, to the Editors of theLondon Mercury, theNew Republic, theSpectator, theNation, theCentury Magazine, theCambridge Magazine, theLiterary Review, theSphere, theNew Statesman, theBookman's Journal, theBroom, theOutlook, theAthenæum, and theWestminster Gazette.