SOURCE: A Review of A Quiet Road, in The Nation (New York), Vol. 63, No. 1641, December 10, 1896, p. 443.

In the review below, the critic praises Reese's voice as calm.

A Quiet Road, by Lizette Woodworth Reese, has that calm, lily-scented atmosphere which always belongs to this lady's poems; she knows how to make the most of what we have that is colonial and picturesque; and this is done without straining or affectation. She even takes pains to explain in a footnote that the “Dorset levels” in the poem which follows are not transatlantic, but are only on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, and that she has therefore a full right to dwell on them and theirs (p. 57):

                              “The Lavender Woman—A Market Song.” Crooked, like the bough the March wind bends wallward across the sleet. Stands she at her blackened stall in the loud market street; All about her in...