Ruth Pitter's First Poems opens a haunted, radiant world where nature, myth, and spiritual longing are inseparable. Fairies, swans, oaks, seasons, fields, and evening skies are rendered with lyrical precision, turning the everyday landscape into a place of hidden meaning, beauty, and moral depth. Across these poems, humble labor stands beside kings, singers, and solitary souls, and true greatness is measured not by rank but by compassion, endurance, and inward grace. The collection moves between wonder and elegy, from enchanted woodlands and medieval romance to graveside tenderness, sacred stillness, and visions of paradise. Pitter's language is richly musical and devotional, weaving folk-song cadences, mystical imagery, and a quiet reverence for ordinary things. Beneath the grace of the verse lies a steady awareness of mortality, exile, and loss, yet the poems continually turn toward consolation, healing, and a more enduring order. Enchanted, humane, and deeply meditative, this is a collection where beauty and sorrow are always intertwined. This edition has been fully restored with modern typesetting, custom cover design.