SOURCE: “Some Flowers Down a Lane,” in The New Republic: A Journal of Opinion, Vol. 48, No. 612, August 25, 1926, pp. 23-4.

In the following review of Selected Poems, Morris comments on Reese's tone and sense of nostalgia.

Miss Reese has been singing quietly for many years. Now, with a sense that the day is waning, she has just as quietly issued her Selected Poems. We can read over in these few pages what she hopes we will keep of her gentle song, spun in an old-time garden by a firm heart heavy with nostalgia. Some of these poems are already familiar. The new ones have the same simplicity of speech and the same motifs: separation, loneliness, remembrance of lost love and the beauty of familiar things. Amid the box hedges and colonial chimneys of the old East Shore of Maryland these poems have taken refuge from the “brawling days” of...