Published in 1835 as part of the tale called "The Visionary,"
afterward "The Assignation"; in 1839 in a magazine under the title "To
Ianthe in Heaven"; and several times afterward in magazines and in
collections. It fits admirably into the story "The Assignation," where
it contains this additional stanza, readily understood in its setting:
Alas! for that accursed time
They bore thee o'er the billow,
From Love to titled age and crime
And an unholy pillow--
From me, and from our misty clime
Where weeps the silver willow.