Point Lace and Diamonds

A lively assortment of comic and lyrical poems that satirize fashionable society, courtship, and domestic ritual while mixing sentimental and whimsical observation. Short verses mock youthful affectation and social pretension, narrative lyrics stage romantic evenings and public ceremonies, and a linked trilogy on marriage traces engagement, the wedding, and married life with ironic distance. Imagery moves from park waltzes and lantern-lit nights to parlor scenes and moral musings, and the tone shifts between playful wit, gentle nostalgia, and pointed irony. The sequence alternates brisk epigrams and longer narrative stanzas, presenting varied rhythms and a conversational, urbane voice.