Nearly the whole of this volume is a reprint of the serious portion of _Phantasmagoria and other Poems_, which was first published in 1869 and has long been out of print. "The Path of Roses" was written soon after the Crimean War, when the name of Florence Nightingale had already become a household-word. "Only a Woman's Hair" was suggested by a circumstance mentioned in _The Life of Dean Swift_, viz., that, after his death, a small packet was found among his papers, containing a single lock of hair and inscribed with those words. "After Three Days" was written after seeing Holman Hunt's picture, _The Finding of Christ in the Temple_. The two poems, "Far Away" and "A Song of Love", are repri…
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