DREAMS AND IMAGES AN ANTHOLOGY OF CATHOLIC POETS DREAMS AND IMAGES AN ANTHOLOGY _of_ CATHOLIC POETS _Edited by_ JOYCE KILMER TORONTO THE MUSSON BOOK COMPANY LIMITED Copyright, 1917, Boni & Liveright, Inc. Printed in the U. S. of America ACKNOWLEDGMENT For advice and assistance in collecting and arranging these poems, I am grateful to many friends, especially to Mr. T. R. Smith, Miss Caroline Giltinan and Mr. John Bunker. The publishers, editors and authors who have kindly consented to let me use copyright material are numerous and I assure them of my deep sense of obligation. In particular I desire to thank the following publishers for their generous permission to use all that I required from their lists: Charles Scribner’s Sons, John Lane Company, Small, Maynard & Company, P. J. Kennedy Sons, Frederick A. Stokes Company, _The Catholic World_, Houghton Mifflin Company, The Encyclopaedia Press, Henry Holt & Company, The Devin-Adair Company, Little, Brown & Company, The Macmillan Company, Elkin Mathews, _The Ave Maria_, Laurence Gomme, and Wilfrid Meynell. J. K. To REV. JAMES J. DALY, S.J. INTRODUCTION This is not a collection of devotional poems. It is not an attempt to rival Orby Shipley’s admirable “Carmina Mariana” or any other similar anthology. What I have tried to do is to bring together the poems in English that I like best that were written by Catholics since the middle of the Nineteenth Century. There are in this book poems religious in theme; there are also love-songs and war songs. But I think that it may be called a book of Catholic poems. For a Catholic is not a Catholic only when he prays; he is a Catholic in all the thoughts and actions of his life. And when a Catholic attempts to reflect in words some of the Beauty of which as a poet he is conscious, he cannot be far from prayer and adoration.