I loved this book! Johnson is a much better poet than I expected after skimming Legends of Vancouver. She has a sure sense of poetic meter and rhythm. While the themes are sometimes dated (the noble savage poems at the beginning) and the diction occasionally archaic, the poems are always very readable. I especially liked the subtlety of her nature subjects.

The ending of the poem Shadow River:

O! pathless world of seeming !
O! pathless life of mine whose deep ideal
Is more my own than ever was the real.
For others Fame
And Love's red flame,
And yellow gold : I only claim
The shadows and the dreaming. ( )