Two pieces from this volume, 'Goodbye', under the title 'God be With You', and 'The Song of Yesterday' were set to music and published by Allen & Co.
Some poems included in this volume were previously published in The Westminster Gazette, Bookman, Queen and British Australasian (London) and The Bulletin, Lone Hand, Bookman, Booklover, Australasian, Clarion, Gadfly, Everylady's Journal, Steele Rudd's magazine and Adelaide Register (Australia) (Author's note).
