The titles of the poems are as follows: 'The water lily', 'The Lady of Provence', 'Woman on the field of battle', 'To the memory of Lord Charles Murray', 'The burial in the desert', 'Song of emigration', 'The freed bird', 'Marguerite of France', "Scenes and hymns of life, No. 8, prisoner's evening service", and 'Keene, or Funeral lament of an Irish mother over her son'.