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Poems by Date

This page lists, by date, a selection of L.M. Montgomery’s poems first published between 1894 and 1942. It is limited for now to poems reprinted in The L.M. Montgomery Reader, Volume 1: A Life in Print (2013), A Name for Herself: Selected Writings, 1891–1917 (2018), and A World of Songs: Selected Poems, 1894–1921 (2019). Forty-one additional poems appear in The Blythes Are Quoted (2009), and a volume of Montgomery’s collected poems is in progress.

1894

The Last Prayer

1896

“Which Has the Most Patience under the Ordinary Cares and Trials of Life—Man or Woman?”

1897

The Gable Window
If Love Should Come

1898

Irrevocable

1899

When the Fishing Boats Come In
When the Fishing Boats Go Out
Rain in the Woods

1900

Assurance
I Would Be Well
Night Watches

1901

Too Late
Three Days
I Have Buried My Dead

1903

Omega
If I Had Known
The Gray Silk Gown
In Lovers’ Lane

1904

On the Bridge
The Fir Lane

1906

The Book
The Singer
My Pictures
The Wind in the Poplars
An Old Man’s Grave

1907

Gratitude
Longing
The Treasures
In an Old Garden

1908

The Three Songs
One of the Shepherds

1909

The Sea-Shell
The Poet’s Thought
The Old Home Calls
Before Storm

1910

Companioned
A Shore Picture

1911

Do You Remember?

1912

Memory Pictures
What I Would Ask of Life

1913

The Exile

1914

The Summons
We Who Wait
With Tears They Buried You To-day

1916

Forever
To One Hated
The Poet
The Sea to the Shore
The Mother

1918

Our Women

1921

The Lover’s Catechism

1942

The Piper



Published on 25 November 2023; last updated on 25 November 2023. Please contact the site owner with additions, corrections, questions, and suggestions.