," "Psalm of Life," "Santa Filomena,"
"Sifting of Peter," "Song of the Silent Land," "To-morrow;" _S.
Longfellow_: "Vesper Hymn;" _J.R. Lowell_: "Vision of Sir Launfal;"
_Frances P.L. Mace_: "Only Waiting;" _Caroline A.B. Mason_: "The
Voyage;" _T. Parker_: "The Higher Good," "The Way, the Truth, and
the Life;" _Eliza Scudder_: "The Love of God," "Vesper Hymn;" _E.C.
Stedman_: "The Undiscovered Country;" _Harriet B. Stowe_: "Knocking,
Ever Knocking," "The Other World;" _J. Very_: "Life," "The Spirit
Land;" _J.G. Whittier_: "The Eternal Goodness," "The Meeting," "The
Two Angels," "The Two Rabbis;" _Sarah C. Woolsey_: "When."

The J.B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY, Philadelphia.--_Margaret J. Preston_:
"Myrrh-Bearers."

Messrs. LITTLE, BROWN & CO., Boston.--_J.W. Chadwick_: "The Rise of
Man;" _Emily Dickinson_: "Found Wanting," "Heaven."

The LOTHROP PUBLISHING COMPANY, Boston.--_P.H. Hayne_: "Patience."

Messrs. L.C. PAGE & CO., Boston.--_C.G.D. Roberts_: "The Aim,"
"Ascription."

Messrs. SCOTT, FORESMAN & CO., Chicago.--_C.P. Taylor_: "The Old
Village Choir."

Messrs. HERBERT S. STONE & CO., Chicago.--_G. Santayana_: "Faith."

The YOUNG CHURCHMAN COMPANY, Milwaukee.--_A.C. Coxe_: "The Chimes of
England."

II.

American poems in this volume by the authors whose names are given
below are the copyrighted property of the authors, or of their
representatives named in parenthesis, and may not be reprinted without
their permission, which for the present work has been courteously
granted.

PUBLISHERS OF THE WORLD'S BEST POETRY. 1904.

_A. Coles_ (A. Coles, Jr., M.D.); _J.A. Dix_ (Rev. Morgan Dix, D.D.);
_P.L. Dunbar; W.C. Gannett; W. Gladden; S.P. McL. Pratt; O. Huckel;
Ray Palmer_ (Dr. Charles R. Palmer); _A.D.F. Randolph_ (Arthur D.F.
Randolph).

RELIGION AND POETRY

BY WASHINGTON GLADDEN.

The time is not long past when the copulative in that title might have
suggested to some minds an antithesis,--as acid and alkali, or heat
and cold. That religion could have affiliation with anything
so worldly as poetry would have seemed to some pious people a
questionable proposition. There were the Psalms, in the Old Testament,
to be sure; and the minister had been heard to allude to them as
poetry: might not that indicate some heretical taint in him, caught,
perchance, from the "German neologists" whose influence we were
beginning to dread? It did not seem quite orthodox to describe the
Psalms as poems; and wh