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This book collects a sample of fifty poems by L.M. Montgomery originally published in periodicals across a quarter of a century. It discusses this work in the context of early Canadian poetry and North American periodical culture of the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries.
List of contents
Acknowledgments
A Note on the Author
Abbreviations
Preface Overture
The Gable Window
Prelude
The Poet’s Thought
Songs of Place
In Lovers’ Lane
The Fir Lane
In an Old Garden
The Old Home Calls
The Exile
The Summons
Songs of Memory
Three Days
Companioned
Do You Remember?
Memory Pictures
Interlude
The Singer
Songs of Lamentation
Irrevocable
I Would Be Well
Night Watches
If I Had Known
The Book
Longing
The Mother
Songs of War
The Last Prayer
The Three Songs
We Who Wait
Our Women
Interlude
One of the Shepherds
Songs of Land and Sea
When the Fishing Boats Go Out
When the Fishing Boats Come In
Rain in the Woods
My Pictures
The Wind in the Poplars
The Sea-Shell
Before Storm
A Shore Picture
The Sea to the Shore
Songs of Death
Too Late
I Have Buried My Dead
Omega
An Old Man’s Grave
The Treasures
Songs of Love
If Love Should Come
Assurance
The Gray Silk Gown
On the Bridge
Gratitude
With Tears They Buried You To-day
Forever
To One Hated
The Lover’s Catechism
Postlude
The Poet
Coda
What I Would Ask of Life
Afterword
Notes
Bibliography
Index by Title
Index by Date
Index by First Line
About the author
By L.M. Montgomery
Edited by Benjamin Lefebvre
Summary
This book collects a sample of fifty poems by L.M. Montgomery originally published in periodicals across a quarter of a century. It discusses this work in the context of early Canadian poetry and North American periodical culture of the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries.
