I've had this book on the shelf for a while and I thought this was the perfect opportunity to get to it. Most of the poems felt a bit long and drawn out to me, but I like some of the imagery that was described. I particularly like this image:
The dawn! It swept that last of the stars
Like flecks of ash from the vaulted sky.
("Star of the Nativity" ll 78-79, pg 44)
The poems also seemed to follow a descending pattern as well. They start about life and nature. Poems of spring and sunlight. From there it progresses to love and passion. After that it comes to loss, and everything grows cold and dark. Lots of winter themes emerge and ghosts. Lastly, after everything else, the poems take on a religious tone. Not even a tone, they just start becoming religious, literally. The last half of the book takes on an almost fanatical devotion to God and Jesus as if the person who had been through all the previous stages had nothing left to fall back on after the loss of the love and passion phase.
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