The poem in Shove's collection referred to most often was "The New Ghost", a mystical description of a departing soul met by the Divine in a springtime setting. It has an almost conversational rhythm. It was among four chosen for "Georgian Poetry 1918–19", and in 1925 it was set to music by Ralph Vaughan Williams as one of his "Four Poems by Fredegond Shove". In trying to typify the poetic trends of the time, the introduction to "An Anthology of Modern Verse" (1921) called it a sign "that something like a return to religion is in process." For Robert Strachan in his Edinburgh lectures on contemporary writing it was "a very remarkable short poem... unique in modern poetry", Herbert Palmer too identified Fredegond as a religious poet on the strength of "The New Ghost" – "one of the best half dozen poems in the book". It was also anthologised in "The Golden Book of English Poetry 1870-1920", the Anglo-American "Home Book of Modern Verse" (New York 1925), the "Oxford Book of Christian Verse" (1940) and "Twentieth Century Verse" (Toronto 1945). As late as 1958 it appeared in another Anglo-American anthology: "Modern Verse in English 1900–1950".