Who with me bore the burden of the morn.
If yet the scarlet please not, on the corn,
Love’s blue is stedfast, and thy name in gold
Is writ by love’s wing-feather underneath.
OF the poems in this book, the whole of those included in Part I. are now printed for the first time.
Of the rest, “The Sirens Three,” “Thoughts in a Hammock,” “A Herald of Spring,” and the Rondeau—“Across the Fields,” all appeared with designs of mine, as decorative pages, in “The English Illustrated Magazine,” “The Sirens Three” being afterwards issued, with the illustrations, in book-form, by Messrs. Macmillan and Co., whom I have to thank for permission to reprint it with the others here.
“Flora’s Feast,” with coloured designs of the flowers to each couplet, has been published as a Christmas book by Messrs. Cassell and Co., at whose consent it re-appears.