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Our Women

Our Women is a poem that L.M. Montgomery published in the anthology Canadian Poems of the Great War (1918), edited by John W. Garvin. It was subsequently reprinted in Songs of the Maritimes: An Anthology of the Poetry of the Maritime Provinces (1931), edited by Eliza Ritchie; We Stand on Guard: Poems and Songs of Canadians in Battle (1985), compiled by John Robert Colombo and Michael Richardson; and a restored and annotated edition of Rilla of Ingleside (2010) edited by Benjamin Lefebvre and Andrea McKenzie. It also appears in A World of Songs: Selected Poems, 1894–1921.

First Line

Bride of a day, your eye is bright

Bibliography

Montgomery, L.M. “Our Women.” In Canadian Poems of the Great War, edited by John W. Garvin, 158. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1918.

Also as “Our Women (Written in War-Time)” in Songs of the Maritimes: An Anthology of the Poetry of the Maritime Provinces of Canada, edited by Eliza Ritchie, 113. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1931.

Also in We Stand on Guard: Poems and Songs of Canadians in Battle, compiled by John Robert Colombo and Michael Richardson, 118. N.p.: n.p., 1985.

Also in Rilla of Ingleside, by L.M. Montgomery, edited by Benjamin Lefebvre and Andrea McKenzie, 352. Toronto: Viking Canada, 2010.

Also in A World of Songs: Selected Poems, 1894–1921, 52.



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