+ Booklist 17:123 D ’20
“I have been charmed with the poems in this collection.” W. S. B.
+ Boston Transcript p6 Je 23 ’20 580w
“An extremely charming book of poems for children.”
+ Dial 69:548 N ’20 70w
“Sturge Moore forfeits our interest, if not our respect, by a sort of timid refusal to come out and stare life in the face; his negative shrinking pleasantness betrays him. He has none of that deadly facility which is a symptom that besets even some great poets. One feels that he thinks deeply on language and on form, and that his music comes from a keen, individual understanding of both.” J. G. Fletcher
− + Freeman 1:476 Jl 28 ’20 250w
“He deliberately fumbles his rhythms in order to secure quiet, brown, ingenuous truth. His halting syntax, unauthorized and quaint, often makes for stupidity, but it makes occasionally for solemnity and honesty of prattle which beyond doubt is effective.” Mark Van Doren
+ − Nation 111:sup415 O 13 ’20 120w