A small selection of 32 poems was later published by Cambridge University Press in 1956. Included in this were some from her two earlier books, a few that had appeared in various places since, and more that were unpublished. In the prefatory note, Ermengarde summarised her sister's account of the interior vision impelling her to write. "She told of her earliest sense of 'the Almighty's sheltering roof tree', of the fear that came to her as she viewed this 'secondary world'. 'I was shocked and sickened at the ways of one world, whilst I clung, ever more secretly, to the faint legacy which the other had left me.' She told also of that day at the age of fourteen 'in the charity of the brown autumn sunlight, I felt myself to be one of those who must try to relate their experiences, and to whom experiences are scenes, colours and sounds always, rather than events or actions.'" It is as faithful a characterisation of her work as any.