He goes on to write, "It is unusually difficult to say which are the best poems in "Lord Weary's Castle": several are realized past changing, successes that vary only in scope and intensity--others are poems that almost any living poet would be pleased to have written. . . one or two of these poems will be read as long as men remember English." Jarrell highlights "Colloquy in Black Rock," "Between the Porch and the Altar," "The Death of the Sheriff," and "Where the Rainbow Ends" as some of the best poems in the book.