because her love poems are weighted with the under-story of her battles with depression and, at the end of her short life, a fatal cancer. Melancholy is the dominant mood in Jane Kenyon's poems--and while one common fret in many love poems is the fleeting character of love itself, in Kenyon's love poems it is the fleetingness of life that gives her feelings of love such great urgency. That's the tension in a poem like "Coming Home at Twilight in Late Summer."
from David Biespiel: The Oregonian: Poetry: 'Coming Home at Twilight in Late Summer' by Jane Kenyon
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