'Rosemary and Rue' is a collection of poems and prose written in first-person perspective. The book begins with the author's lamentations of her inevitable fate: "When I die bury me by the sea. Let my first hundred years in the spirit be spent on a sunny sand-bank watching the sapphire tides break over a bluff of lifted rocks. What is any earthly trouble but a dissolving dream, when one may bury the face in golden moss and sniff the salt spume of the sea!"
