First linesMary Weston Fordham

  1. Ah! the year is slowly dying, Passing of the Old Year
  2. All hail! thou gorgeous sunset, Sunset
  3. As I sit by the ruddy oak fire, Nestle-Down Cottage
  4. Bird of the woodland, sing me a song, To the Mock-Bird
  5. Bright and beautiful art thou, October
  6. By the Rivers of Babylon we mournfully bent, “By the Waters of Babylon”
  7. Can I forget thee? No, while mem’ry lasts, On Parting with a Friend
  8. Carolina mourns to-day. For he, the gifted Tribute to Capt. F. W. Dawson
  9. “Cast down your bucket where you are,” Atlanta Exposition Ode
  10. Columbia, all hail! Chicago Exposition Ode
  11. Come and listen to the chiming Bells of St. Michael
  12. Come back to me, O ye, my children: Mother’s Recall
  13. Come Peace, on snowy pinions, Ode to Peace
  14. Come, let us join this festal lay⁠— Rally Song
  15. Fain would I rival thee To the Eagle
  16. For one brief day, did Queenie stay Queenie
  17. Gentle as a maiden’s dream, The Snowstorm
  18. Hail Flag of the Union! Hail Flag of the free! Stars and Stripes
  19. How comest thou, O flower so fair, The Snowdrop
  20. I am sitting sad and lonely Lines to Florence
  21. I am the month when roses June
  22. I took up the burden of life anew To My Mother
  23. I’ll think of thee, mine own, dear one To a Loved One
  24. I’m sitting by the hearthstone now, Twilight Musing
  25. In a far off hamlet near the sea Uranne
  26. Just as the twilight’s holy hour To an Infant
  27. Just look, ’tis a quarter past six, love⁠— The Coming Woman
  28. Lady with thine eyes of beauty The Valentine
  29. Life’s stormy surge had scarcely touched The Grafted Bud
  30. Magnolia! “Pale city of the dead,” Magnolia
  31. Mightier than the sword thou art, The Pen
  32. My Mother! With the angels now, Mrs. Louise B. Weston
  33. Night and a starless sky, Shipwreck
  34. O come to me in my dreams love! Lines to ⸻
  35. O Earth, adore creative power, Creation
  36. O, insatiable monster! Could’st thou not A Requiem
  37. O! sing ye a dirge for the loved and the lost, Tribute to a Lost Steamer
  38. Oh! Erin my country, my ancestor’s home! Song to Erin
  39. Oh! surely ’tis a theme sublime Dedicated to the Right Rev’d D. A. Payne
  40. Oh! surely for thee were the gates ajar, Rev. Samuel Weston
  41. Oh! waves in the sunlight gleaming, Sonnet to My Firstborn
  42. On a starry, wintry night, The Christ Child
  43. Rest thee aged pilgrim, now thy toils are o’er; Death of a Grandparent
  44. River, why in ceaseless flow Maiden and River
  45. She is not dead, but sleepeth;⁠— Mrs. Rebecca Weston
  46. Sister darling, ope the window, let the balmy air once more The Dying Girl
  47. Sleep, Christian warrior, sleep, To Rev. Thaddeus Saltus
  48. Sleep, love sleep, Serenade
  49. The die is cast, come weal, come woe, Marriage
  50. The earth was young, the world was fair, The Saxon Legend of Language
  51. The gloom of night had overspread the land, The Nativity
  52. The Past, it is fraught with many a feeling The Past
  53. Though no blossoms cluster Mrs. Mary Furman Weston Byrd
  54. ’Tis said but a name is friendship, Lines to Mrs. Isabel Peace
  55. Tread not the earth where lies her youthful form, Mrs. E. Cohrs Brown
  56. ’Twas a cloudless morn and the sun shone bright, The Cherokee
  57. ’Twas sunset’s hour, the glorious day The Exile’s Reverie
  58. When the Autumn’s breezes Mr. Edward Fordham
  59. When the heavens with stars are gleaming For Who?
  60. When the Sabbath was declining, just at twilight’s mystic hour, In Memoriam
  61. Why did the sun his beams conceal The Crucifixion
  62. Will you leave the hills of Scotland? Highland Mary
  63. With hands all reddened and sore, The Washerwoman
  64. With thy rugged, ice-girt shore, Alaska
  65. Yes, my darling, when life’s shadows In Memoriam
  66. Yon may speak of a grave in a distant land, A Reverie

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