The first appeared in The St. James’s Magazine (now defunct), October, 1877, and was included in the second edition of Proverbs in Porcelain (1878), and in At the Sign of the Lyre (Kegan Paul, 1889). By permission of author and publisher.
Gloriana (l. 25)=Queen Elizabeth.
The second appeared in The Sphere (February 3, 1900). By permission of the author and the editor of The Sphere.
[CI]
Poetical Works (vol. ii., Smith, Elder & Co., 1899). By permission of author and publishers.
[CII]–[CIII]
Songs of the Maid (A. Constable & Co., 1896). By permission of author and publishers.
[CIV]
London Voluntaries and Other Poems (David Nutt, 1894), and Poems (David Nutt, 1898). By permission of author and publisher.