Songs for Music (Routledge, 1856), a reprint of a series of songs from The Illustrated London News (1852–1855).
[LXXIII]–[LXXIV]
The first is from Songs in Absence (1852), and was probably composed during the author’s voyage across the Atlantic. The second appears in Poems with Memoir by F. T. Palgrave (Macmillan & Co., 1862). By permission of Messrs. Macmillan & Co.
[LXXV]
Andromeda and Other Poems (1858). Written in 1854.
[LXXVI]
Edinburgh Courant, 1852.
l. 3. The Vengeur’s crew. The Vengeur was sunk in Lord Howe’s action against the French fleet on ‘the glorious first of June’ (1794), off the coast of Brittany. For the final account of her sinking see Carlyle (Miscellanies—‘Sinking of the Vengeur’).
[LXXVII]
Ionica (George Allen, 1891). By permission of Mrs. Cory. The poem was written in 1861, and was privately printed in 1877. The ‘School Fencibles’ are the members of the Volunteer Corps of Eton College, whose grey uniform, with light-blue facings, is the ‘meek attire of blue and grey’ referred to in l. 10.