A Few More Verses

In this intimate collection of late Victorian verse, Susan Coolidge offers quiet poems about love, loss, faith, and the small beauties of daily life. Written with delicate sensibility and earnest religious feeling, these poems move from personal tenderness to philosophical reflection. A poem like "What the Sea Gives" shows her at her best: humble, searching, asking what small offerings a single voice can bring to something vast. The collection opens with "New Every Morning," a meditation on renewal, and closes with pieces that linger in introspection. These are poems for quiet hours, for readers who find meaning in restraint and reverie. Coolidge may be best known for her children's fiction, but this volume reveals her adult voice: thoughtful, occasionally melancholy, always sincere.