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
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
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
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
1911
1912
Memory Pictures
What I Would Ask of Life
1913
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
1921
1942
The Piper
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