Magnolia Leaves

Mary Weston Fordham · 1897

Year established 2026-08-20 from the copyright page of magnolialeavespo00ford, which reads COPYRIGHT, December 10th, 1897. The title page of that copy reads MAGNOLIA LEAVES. / POEMS / BY / Mary Weston Fordham, / WITH INTRODUCTORY / BY / Booker T. Washington. The printer's line is Walker, Evans & Cogswell Co., Charleston, S.C. Standard Ebooks names no Archive.org item; this scan was fetched as a parent witness. The printed contents lists 66 titles, the same count as the extract. Contents names that differ from the headings (Twilight Musings / Twilight Musing; By the Rivers of Babylon / By the Waters of Babylon; The Mock-Bird / To the Mock-Bird; Mrs. Jennette Boimeau / Death of a Grandparent; Alphonse C. Fordham and Susan Eugenia Bennett as In Memoriam) are the printer's labels, not extra poems. Extract declined the Washington introductory and the author's preface as verse.

Numbers are the poem's position in the book.

  1. 1Creation 1897
  2. 2Shipwreck 1897
  3. 3The Washerwoman 1897
  4. 4The Snowdrop 1897
  5. 5The Saxon Legend of Language 1897
  6. 6The Christ Child 1897
  7. 7Bells of St. Michael 1897
  8. 8The Exile’s Reverie 1897
  9. 9The Snowstorm 1897
  10. 10Maiden and River 1897
  11. 11Chicago Exposition Ode 1897
  12. 12Atlanta Exposition Ode 1897
  13. 13Stars and Stripes 1897
  14. 14To the Eagle 1897
  15. 15The Crucifixion 1897
  16. 16Uranne 1897
  17. 17Magnolia 1897
  18. 18To My Mother 1897
  19. 19Nestle-Down Cottage 1897
  20. 20Mother’s Recall 1897
  21. 21Dedicated to the Right Rev’d D. A. Payne 1897
  22. 22October 1897
  23. 23The Dying Girl 1897
  24. 24Alaska 1897
  25. 25On Parting with a Friend 1897
  26. 26Twilight Musing 1897
  27. 27Song to Erin 1897
  28. 28The Valentine 1897
  29. 29Lines to Florence 1897
  30. 30“By the Waters of Babylon” 1897
  31. 31The Pen 1897
  32. 32Passing of the Old Year 1897
  33. 33Sonnet to My Firstborn 1897
  34. 34Lines to ⸻ 1897
  35. 35Highland Mary 1897
  36. 36The Cherokee 1897
  37. 37Rally Song 1897
  38. 38Serenade 1897
  39. 39The Coming Woman 1897
  40. 40Ode to Peace 1897
  41. 41A Reverie 1897
  42. 42Sunset 1897
  43. 43The Past 1897
  44. 44Marriage 1897
  45. 45For Who? 1897
  46. 46June 1897
  47. 47Tribute to a Lost Steamer 1897
  48. 48A Requiem 1897
  49. 49The Grafted Bud 1897
  50. 50To a Loved One 1897
  51. 51The Nativity 1897
  52. 52To the Mock-Bird 1897
  53. 53Rev. Samuel Weston In Memoriam 1897
  54. 54To Rev. Thaddeus Saltus In Memoriam 1897
  55. 55Tribute to Capt. F. W. Dawson In Memoriam 1897
  56. 56Mrs. Louise B. Weston In Memoriam 1897
  57. 57Lines to Mrs. Isabel Peace In Memoriam 1897
  58. 58In Memoriam In Memoriam 1897
  59. 59Mr. Edward Fordham In Memoriam 1897
  60. 60Death of a Grandparent In Memoriam 1897
  61. 61Queenie In Memoriam 1897
  62. 62To an Infant In Memoriam 1897
  63. 63In Memoriam In Memoriam 1897
  64. 64Mrs. Rebecca Weston In Memoriam 1897
  65. 65Mrs. E. Cohrs Brown In Memoriam 1897
  66. 66Mrs. Mary Furman Weston Byrd In Memoriam 1897