Commentary
Introduction
This is the first of the five poems comprising the
second set of WMR's “
Fancies at Leisure”.
WMR published this group of five
in
The Germ
no. 3. Four others had appeared
in the second issue. He said that he wrote these poems as bouts
rimés in 1849 with John Everett Millais.
Textual History: Composition
Textual History: Revision
Printing History
First printed in
The
Germ
no. 3, page 129.
Bibliographic
Fredeman
145-148
Fredeman,
The P.R.B. Journal
, 46