_Songs and Rhymes_ (Elliot Stock, 1896). By permission of the author. LXXXIX _Poems Narrative and Lyrical_ (Pickering, 1853). By permission of the author. XC _Poems_ (Elkin Mathews, 1893). By permission of the author. XCI _The Bab Ballads, with which are included Songs of a Savoyard_ (George Routledge & Sons, 1897). By permission of the author. This is one of the songs in the comic opera _Utopia, Limited_. XCII-XCIII Both from _A Jubilee Greeting at Spithead_ (John Lane, 1897). By permission of the author. XCIV-XCVII The first three numbers are from _Poems and Ballads_, 3rd series (Chatto & Windus, 1889). The first is part viii. section ii. of _The Armada_. As to the second, Drumossie Muir (l. 16), in Inverness-shire, was the scene of the battle of Culloden (1746). l. 17. _ayont._ Beyond. 25. _mool._ Mould. _laps._ Wraps. 40. _wotsna._ Knows not. 45. _weird for dreeing._ To ‘dree a weird’ is to abide a fate. 47. _thole._ To endure. 65. _Wansbeck._ A Northumberland stream. 69. _thae._ Those. The fourth number is from the dedicatory lines in _Astrophel and Other Poems_ (Chatto & Windus, 1894). By permission of author and publishers. XCVIII _The Graphic_ (November 11, 1899). By permission of the author and the editor of _The Graphic_. XCIX-C 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. CV _A Song of the Sea and Other Poems_ (Methuen & Co., 1895). By permission of Miss Marie Corelli and the publishers. CVI _Literature_ (July 1, 1899). By permission of the author and the editor of _Literature_. CVII _The Violet Crown and Songs of England_ (Edward Arnold, 1891). By permission of author and publishers. This poem is dated ‘Athens, 1890.’ CVIII _Collected Poems_ (John Lane, 1895). By permission of the publisher. CIX-CX _Songs of Action_ (Smith, Elder & Co., 1898). By permission of author and publishers. _The Song of the Bow_ first appeared in _The White Company_ (Smith, Elder & Co., 1891). CXI _The Daily Chronicle_, October 28, 1899. By permission of the author and the editor of _The Daily Chronicle_. CXII-CXIV _Admirals All_ (Elkin Matthews, 1897). By permission of author and publisher. As to the first:--