World of Songs

Benjamin Lefebvre, editor of The L.M. Montgomery Library, is director of L.M. Montgomery Online. His publications include an edition of Montgomery’s rediscovered final book, The Blythes Are Quoted, and the three-volume critical anthology The L.M. Montgomery Reader, which won the 2016 PROSE Award for Literature from the Association of American Publishers. He lives in Kitchener, Ontario.

• AcknowledgmentsA Note on the AuthorAbbreviationsPrefaceOvertureThe Gable WindowPreludeThe Poet’s ThoughtSongs of PlaceIn Lovers’ LaneThe Fir LaneIn an Old GardenThe Old Home CallsThe ExileThe SummonsSongs of MemoryThree DaysCompanionedDo You Remember?Memory PicturesInterludeThe SingerSongs of LamentationIrrevocableI Would Be WellNight WatchesIf I Had KnownThe BookLongingThe MotherSongs of WarThe Last PrayerThe Three SongsWe Who WaitOur WomenInterludeOne of the ShepherdsSongs of Land and SeaWhen the Fishing Boats Go OutWhen the Fishing Boats Come InRain in the WoodsMy PicturesThe Wind in the PoplarsThe Sea-ShellBefore StormA Shore PictureThe Sea to the ShoreSongs of DeathToo LateI Have Buried My DeadOmegaAn Old Man’s GraveThe TreasuresSongs of LoveIf Love Should ComeAssuranceThe Gray Silk GownOn the BridgeGratitudeWith Tears They Buried You To-dayForeverTo One HatedThe Lover’s CatechismPostludeThe PoetCodaWhat I Would Ask of LifeAfterwordNotesBibliographyIndex by TitleIndex by DateIndex by First Line

"The collection of fifty poems published over a twenty-five-year period, beginning in 1894 with the first, is not only the second volume in The L.M. Montgomery Library but a step in a major reconsideration of her poetry."- Anne Burke (Prairie Journal)