The poems are arranged in the order of the events of the Blessed Virgin's life, beginning with that earliest mystery made known to us by the Gospels, the Annunciation; hilt a chronological list of the poets is prefixed to the series, Our Lady, the Queen of whom the poets sing, is herself a poet; but her canticle of canticles hns properly no place among these poems in her praise, for when she is exalted she but magnifies the Lord. Fifty poets, in as many and about hair as many more or their sweetest utterances, give her here occasion to do so.