The little book contained eleven poems of a much higher standard than those in Cottage Poems. This was partly because they had been written over a two-year period, whenever inspiration had struck, rather than specifically for the publication. The poems are again didactic homilies but the moral is not thrust down the reader’s throat, as in his former work, but more attractively clad in descriptive verse which sugars the pill without detracting from its purpose. Even the message itself is more subtly expressed.
