The cover image was created by the transcriber, and is in the public domain.
Uncertain or antiquated spellings or ancient words were not corrected.
Typographical errors have been silently corrected but other variations in spelling and punctuation remain unaltered.
Some poems in the original had a full page identifying the poem as well as a heading at the beginning of the poem. The full page poem headings have been removed from this edition as being redundant.