Faithful and Virtuous Night

The strength of her first poems is outstanding. Many favorites: “Parable”, “An adventure”, “The past”, “Faithful and virtuous night”, “Visitors from abroad”, “Utopia”, “Cornwall”, “The open window”, “A foreshortened journey”.

And then, there are “The Melancholy Assistant” and “The White Series” who could have been so much better, if only she would have stopped earlier, when the poem reached its natural conclusion... Instead, she added a few more verses, ending with a question, and the poem lost its unity.

I wanted to give it five stars but many poems on the last third lacked the splendor of the firsts.