 “Christmas Day” from his collection "Speak to the Earth" (1939) also proved popular with composers and was set by Mervyn Roberts (1947), Robin Milford (1949), Neil Butterworth (1954), and Elizabeth Poston (1967).The work of his later years included the two long religious poems of "Out of the World and Back" (1958), highly regarded at the time, and several prose works dealing with botany and the landscape.His literary reputation was being fostered in these years by Leonard Clark, who made selections and collections of his poetry between 1959-1974.