This page lists a selection of shorter works (poems, short stories, and miscellaneous pieces) that L.M. Montgomery published in 1903. All items are signed “L.M. Montgomery,” unless stated otherwise.
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Overview
Short Stories (2)
A Pioneer Wooing | The Old Chest at Wyther Grange
Poems (5)
Omega | If I Had Known | The Gray Silk Gown | In Lovers’ Lane | The Old Path round the Shore
Miscellaneous Pieces (1)
Omega (poem)
Waverley Magazine (Boston), 31 January 1903, 68. Scrapbook 6.
First line: “I am to die to-night! A solemn calm.”
Collected
A World of Songs: Selected Poems, 1894–1921, 79–80.
If I Had Known (poem)
Zion’s Herald (Boston), 18 February 1903, 206. Scrapbook 6.
First line: “If I had known how much of lasting good.”
Collected
A World of Songs: Selected Poems, 1894–1921, 40.
Netted Doily (pattern)
The Modern Priscilla (Boston), April 1903, 21.
Collected
A Name for Herself: Selected Writings, 1891–1917, 218–19.
The Gray Silk Gown (poem)
By Joyce Cavendish. The New York Family Story Paper, 23 May 1903, 8. Scrapbook 6.
First line: “Folded away in the cedar chest.”
Collected
A World of Songs: Selected Poems, 1894–1921, 87–88.
In Lovers’ Lane (poem)
The Delineator (New York), July 1903, 16. Scrapbook 6.
First line: “I know a place for lagging feet.”
Reprinted
The Maritime Advocate and Busy East (Sackville, NB), May–June 1940, n.pag.
Collected
The Watchman and Other Poems, 71–72.
The Poetry of Lucy Maud Montgomery, selected by John Ferns and Kevin McCabe (Markham, ON: Fitzhenry and Whiteside, 1987), 94.
A World of Songs: Selected Poems, 1894–1921, 13–14.
A Pioneer Wooing (short story)
The Farm and Fireside (Springfield, OH), 15 September 1903, 14–15. Scrapbook 3.
Revised
The Canadian Courier (Toronto), 20 May 1911, 8, 26–28.
Collected
Twice upon a Time: Selected Stories, 1898–1939, 107–18 (1911 version).
The Old Chest at Wyther Grange (short story)
Waverley Magazine (Boston), 19 September 1903, 185–86. Scrapbook 9.
Collected
Among the Shadows: Tales from the Darker Side, by L.M. Montgomery, edited by Rea Wilmshurst (Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1990), 167–80.
Twice upon a Time: Selected Stories, 1898–1939, 35–44.
The Old Path round the Shore (poem)
The Household Ledger (New York), October 1903, 10.
First line: It winds beneath the shadow where the Druid fir trees lean
Reprinted
The London Magazine, March 1904, 200.
Grey River Argus (New Zealand), 18 June 1904, 3.
Canadian Home Journal (Toronto), July 1921, 8. Scrapbook 5.
Macleod (AB) Times, 18 August 1921, 5.
Collected
Cite This Page
“Shorter Works: 1903.” L.M. Montgomery Online, https://lmmonline.org/shorter-works/shorter-works-1903/.