THE OLD CHEST AT WYTHER GRANGE
THE OSBORNES’ CHRISTMAS
THE ROMANCE OF AUNT BEATRICE
THE RUNNING AWAY OF CHESTER
THE STRIKE AT PUTNEY
THE UNHAPPINESS OF MISS FARQUHAR
WHY MR. CROPPER CHANGED HIS MIND
A FORTUNATE MISTAKE
AN UNPREMEDITATED CEREMONY
AT THE BAY SHORE FARM
ELIZABETH’S CHILD
FREDA’S ADOPTED GRAVE
HOW DON WAS SAVED
MISS MADELINE’S PROPOSAL
MISS SALLY’S COMPANY
MRS. MARCH’S REVENGE
NAN
NATTY OF BLUE POINT
PENELOPE’S PARTY WAIST
THE GIRL AND THE WILD RACE
THE PROMISE OF LUCY ELLEN
THE PURSUIT OF THE IDEAL
THE SOFTENING OF MISS CYNTHIA
THEM NOTORIOUS PIGS
WHY NOT ASK MISS PRICE?
A CORRESPONDENCE AND A CLIMAX
AN ADVENTURE ON ISLAND ROCK
AT FIVE O’CLOCK IN THE MORNING
AUNT SUSANNA’S BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION
BERTIE’S NEW YEAR
BETWEEN THE HILL AND THE VALLEY
CLORINDA’S GIFTS
CYRILLA’S INSPIRATION
DORINDA’S DESPERATE DEED
HER OWN PEOPLE
IDA’S NEW YEAR CAKE
IN THE OLD VALLEY
JANE LAVINIA
MACKERELING OUT IN THE GULF
MILLICENT’S DOUBLE
THE BLUE NORTH ROOM
THE CHRISTMAS SURPRISE AT ENDERLY ROAD
THE DISSIPATION OF MISS PONSONBY
THE FALSOMS’ CHRISTMAS DINNER
THE FRASER SCHOLARSHIP
THE GIRL AT THE GATE
THE LIGHT ON THE BIG DIPPER
THE PRODIGAL BROTHER
THE REDEMPTION OF JOHN CHURCHILL
THE SCHOOLMASTER’S LETTERS
THE STORY OF UNCLE DICK
THE UNDERSTANDING OF SISTER SARA
THE UNFORGOTTEN ONE
THE WOOING OF BESSY
THEIR GIRL JOSIE
WHEN JACK AND JILL TOOK A HAND
A MILLIONAIRE’S PROPOSAL
A SUBSTITUTE JOURNALIST
ANNA’S LOVE LETTERS
AUNT CAROLINE’S SILK DRESS
AUNT SUSANNA’S THANKSGIVING DINNER.
BY GRACE OF JULIUS CAESAR
BY THE RULE OF CONTRARY
FAIR EXCHANGE AND NO ROBBERY
FOUR WINDS
MARCELLA’S REWARD
MARGARET’S PATIENT
MATTHEW INSISTS ON PUFFED SLEEVES
MISSY’S ROOM
TED’S AFTERNOON OFF
THE DOCTOR’S SWEETHEART
THE END OF THE YOUNG FAMILY FEUD
THE GENESIS OF THE DOUGHNUT CLUB
THE GIRL WHO DROVE THE COWS
THE GROWING UP OF CORNELIA
THE OLD FELLOW’S LETTER
THE PARTING OF THE WAYS
THE PROMISSORY NOTE
THE REVOLT OF MARY ISABEL
THE TWINS AND A WEDDING
A GOLDEN WEDDING
A REDEEMING SACRIFICE
A SOUL THAT WAS NOT AT HOME
ABEL AND HIS GREAT ADVENTURE
AKIN TO LOVE
AUNT PHILIPPA AND THE MEN
BESSIE’S DOLL
CHARLOTTE’S LADIES
CHRISTMAS AT RED BUTTE
HOW WE WENT TO THE WEDDING
JESSAMINE
MISS SALLY’S LETTER
MY LADY JANE
ROBERT TURNER’S REVENGE
THE FILLMORE ELDERBERRIES
THE FINISHED STORY
THE GARDEN OF SPICES
THE GIRL AND THE PHOTOGRAPH
THE GOSSIP OF VALLEY VIEW
THE LETTERS
THE LIFE-BOOK OF UNCLE JESSE
THE LITTLE BLACK DOLL
THE MAN ON THE TRAIN
THE ROMANCE OF JEDEDIAH
THE TRYST OF THE WHITE LADY
UNCLE RICHARD’S NEW YEAR’S DINNER
WHITE MAGIC
SOME FOOLS AND A SAINT
THE CLOSED DOOR
THE DEACON’S PAINKILLER
FROM OUT THE SILENCE
THE HOUSE PARTY AT SMOKY ISLAND
FOR A DREAM’S SAKE
THE PRICE
THE MAN WHO FORGOT
CHARLOTTE’S QUEST
LIST OF SHORT STORIES IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER
A-D E-H I-L M-O P-S T-V W-Z
A CASE OF TRESPASS
A CHRISTMAS INSPIRATION
A CHRISTMAS MISTAKE
A COMMONPLACE WOMAN
A CORRESPONDENCE AND A CLIMAX
A DREAM COME TRUE
A FORTUNATE MISTAKE
A GOLDEN WEDDING
A MILLIONAIRE’S PROPOSAL
A PATENT MEDICINE TESTIMONIAL
A REDEEMING SACRIFICE
A SANDSHORE WOOING
A SOUL THAT WAS NOT AT HOME
A STRAYED ALLEGIANCE
A SUBSTITUTE JOURNALIST
ABEL AND HIS GREAT ADVENTURE
AFTER MANY DAYS
AKIN TO LOVE
AN ADVENTURE ON ISLAND ROCK
AN AFTERNOON WITH MR. JENKINS
AN INVITATION GIVEN ON IMPULSE
AN UNCONVENTIONAL CONFIDENCE
AN UNPREMEDITATED CEREMONY
ANNA’S LOVE LETTERS
AT FIVE O’CLOCK IN THE MORNING
AT THE BAY SHORE FARM
AUNT CAROLINE’S SILK DRESS
AUNT CYNTHIA’S PERSIAN CAT
AUNT CYRILLA’S CHRISTMAS BASKET
AUNT OLIVIA’S BEAU
AUNT PHILIPPA AND THE MEN
AUNT SUSANNA’S BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION
AUNT SUSANNA’S THANKSGIVING DINNER.
BERTIE’S NEW YEAR
BESSIE’S DOLL
BETWEEN THE HILL AND THE VALLEY
BROTHER BEWARE
BY GRACE OF JULIUS CAESAR
BY THE RULE OF CONTRARY
CHARLOTTE’S LADIES
CHARLOTTE’S QUEST
CHRISTMAS AT RED BUTTE
CLORINDA’S GIFTS
CYRILLA’S INSPIRATION
DAVENPORT’S STORY
DETECTED BY THE CAMERA
DORINDA’S DESPERATE DEED
EACH IN HIS OWN TONGUE
ELIZABETH’S CHILD
EMILY’S HUSBAND
FAIR EXCHANGE AND NO ROBBERY
FANCY’S FOOL
FOOL’S ERRAND
FOR A DREAM’S SAKE
FOUR WINDS
FREDA’S ADOPTED GRAVE
FROM OUT THE SILENCE
HER FATHER’S DAUGHTER
HER OWN PEOPLE
HERE COMES THE BRIDE
HOW DON WAS SAVED
HOW WE WENT TO THE WEDDING
IDA’S NEW YEAR CAKE
IN HER SELFLESS MOOD
IN SPITE OF MYSELF
IN THE OLD VALLEY
JANE LAVINIA
JANE’S BABY
JESSAMINE
KISMET
LILIAN’S BUSINESS VENTURE
LITTLE JOSCELYN
MACKERELING OUT IN THE GULF
MARCELLA’S REWARD
MARGARET’S PATIENT
MATTHEW INSISTS ON PUFFED SLEEVES
MILLICENT’S DOUBLE
MIN
MIRIAM’S LOVER
MISS CALISTA’S PEPPERMINT BOTTLE
MISS CORDELIA’S ACCOMMODATION
MISS MADELINE’S PROPOSAL
MISS SALLY’S COMPANY
MISS SALLY’S LETTER
MISSY’S ROOM
MRS. MARCH’S REVENGE
MY LADY JANE
NAN
NATTY OF BLUE POINT
NED’S STROKE OF BUSINESS
OLD LADY LLOYD
OLD MAN SHAW’S GIRL
ONLY A COMMON FELLOW
OUR RUNAWAY KITE
PA SLOANE�
��S PURCHASE
PENELOPE STRUTS HER THEORIES
PENELOPE’S PARTY WAIST
RETRIBUTION
ROBERT TURNER’S REVENGE
SARA’S WAY
SOME FOOLS AND A SAINT
TANNIS OF THE FLATS
TED’S AFTERNOON OFF
THE BLUE NORTH ROOM
THE BRIDE ROSES
THE BROTHER WHO FAILED
THE CHEATED CHILD
THE CHRISTMAS SURPRISE AT ENDERLY ROAD
THE CLOSED DOOR
THE CONSCIENCE CASE OF DAVID BELL
THE COURTING OF PRISSY STRONG
THE DEACON’S PAINKILLER
THE DISSIPATION OF MISS PONSONBY
THE DOCTOR’S SWEETHEART
THE DREAM-CHILD
THE EDUCATION OF BETTY
THE END OF A QUARREL
THE END OF THE YOUNG FAMILY FEUD
THE FALSOMS’ CHRISTMAS DINNER
THE FILLMORE ELDERBERRIES
THE FINISHED STORY
THE FRASER SCHOLARSHIP
THE GARDEN OF SPICES
THE GENESIS OF THE DOUGHNUT CLUB
THE GIRL AND THE PHOTOGRAPH
THE GIRL AND THE WILD RACE
THE GIRL AT THE GATE
THE GIRL WHO DROVE THE COWS
THE GOSSIP OF VALLEY VIEW
THE GROWING UP OF CORNELIA
THE HOUSE PARTY AT SMOKY ISLAND
THE HURRYING OF LUDOVIC
THE JEST THAT FAILED
THE JOSEPHS’ CHRISTMAS
THE LETTERS
THE LIFE-BOOK OF UNCLE JESSE
THE LIGHT ON THE BIG DIPPER
THE LITTLE BLACK DOLL
THE LITTLE BROWN BOOK OF MISS EMILY
THE MAGICAL BOND OF THE SEA
THE MAN ON THE TRAIN
THE MAN WHO FORGOT
THE MARTYRDOM OF ESTELLA
THE MATERIALIZING OF CECIL
THE MIRACLE AT CARMODY
THE OLD CHEST AT WYTHER GRANGE
THE OLD FELLOW’S LETTER
THE OSBORNES’ CHRISTMAS
THE PARTING OF THE WAYS
THE PENNINGTONS’ GIRL
THE POT AND THE KETTLE
THE PRICE
THE PRODIGAL BROTHER
THE PROMISE OF LUCY ELLEN
THE PROMISSORY NOTE
THE PURSUIT OF THE IDEAL
THE QUARANTINE AT ALEXANDER ABRAHAM’S
THE RECONCILIATION
THE RED ROOM
THE REDEMPTION OF JOHN CHURCHILL
THE RETURN OF HESTER
THE REVOLT OF MARY ISABEL
THE ROAD TO YESTERDAY
THE ROMANCE OF AUNT BEATRICE
THE ROMANCE OF JEDEDIAH
THE RUNNING AWAY OF CHESTER
THE SCHOOLMASTER’S LETTERS
THE SETNESS OF THEODOSIA
THE SOFTENING OF MISS CYNTHIA
THE SON OF HIS MOTHER
THE STORY OF AN INVITATION
THE STORY OF UNCLE DICK
THE STRIKE AT PUTNEY
THE TOUCH OF FATE
THE TRYST OF THE WHITE LADY
THE TWINS AND A WEDDING
THE TWINS PRETEND
THE UNDERSTANDING OF SISTER SARA
THE UNFORGOTTEN ONE
THE UNHAPPINESS OF MISS FARQUHAR
THE WAKING OF HELEN
THE WAY OF THE WINNING OF ANNE
THE WINNING OF LUCINDA
THE WOOING OF BESSY
THEIR GIRL JOSIE
THEM NOTORIOUS PIGS
UNCLE RICHARD’S NEW YEAR’S DINNER
WHEN JACK AND JILL TOOK A HAND
WHITE MAGIC
WHY MR. CROPPER CHANGED HIS MIND
WHY NOT ASK MISS PRICE?
YOUNG SI
The Poetry
THE WATCHMAN AND OTHER POEMS
Best known for her novels and short stories, from her youth, Lucy Maud Montgomery also wrote poems, publishing them in a great number of magazines. Frequently she also slipped them into her novels and stories, occasionally as poems composed by one of her characters. Only one collection appeared in her lifetime, The Watchman and Other Poems, published by McClelland, Goodchild & Stewart, in 1916, her first book with a Canadian publisher. The firm became her long-time publishers and literary agents.
A first edition copy of ‘The Watchman and Other Poems’
CONTENTS
THE WATCHMAN
SONGS OF THE SEA
RAIN ALONG SHORE
SEA SUNSET
WHEN THE DARK COMES DOWN
HARBOR MOONRISE
BEFORE STORM
ON THE BAY
SHORE TWILIGHT
SONG OF THE SEA-WIND
MORNING ALONG SHORE
OFF TO THE FISHING GROUND
IN PORT
THE GULLS
SUNRISE ALONG SHORE
THE SEA SPIRIT
HARBOR DAWN
MY LONGSHORE LASS
WHEN THE FISHING BOATS GO OUT
THE BRIDAL
THE SEA TO THE SHORE
THE VOYAGERS
SONGS OF THE HILLS AND WOODS
TWILIGHT AND I WENT HAND IN HAND
COME, REST AWHILE
AN APRIL NIGHT
RAIN ON THE HILL
FOR LITTLE THINGS
SPRING SONG
A DAY OFF
THE WIND
THE WOOD POOL
DOWN STREAM
ECHO DELL
THE ROVERS
AMONG THE PINES
A DAY IN THE OPEN
MIDNIGHT IN CAMP
THE HILL MAPLES
A SUMMER DAY
SEPTEMBER
IN LOVERS’ LANE
ON THE HILLS
AN AUTUMN EVENING
NOVEMBER EVENING
OUT O’ DOORS
IN THE DAYS OF THE GOLDEN ROD
A WINTER DAY
TWILIGHT
THE CALL OF THE WINDS
A WINTER DAWN
THE FOREST PATH
AT NIGHTFALL
THE TRUCE O’ NIGHT
MISCELLANEOUS POEMS
TO MY ENEMY
AS THE HEART HOPES
TWO LOVES
THE CHRISTMAS NIGHT
IN AN OLD FARMHOUSE
A REQUEST
MEMORY PICTURES
DOWN HOME
THE CHOICE
TWILIGHT IN THE GARDEN
MY LEGACY
GRATITUDE
FANCIES
ONE OF THE SHEPHERDS
IF MARY HAD KNOWN
AT THE LONG SAULT
THE EXILE
THE THREE SONGS
IN AN OLD TOWN GARDEN
THE SEEKER
THE POET’S THOUGHT
THE CALL
THE OLD HOME CALLS
GENIUS
LOVE’S PRAYER
THE PRISONER
COMPANIONED
YOU
UNRECORDED
WITH TEARS THEY BURIED YOU TO-DAY
IN MEMORY OF “MAGGIE”
REALIZATION
THE GARDEN IN WINTER
THE DIFFERENCE
THE POET
THE MOTHER
TO ONE HATED
WHILE THE FATES SLEEP
THE FAREWELL
THE OLD MAN’S GRAVE
FOREVER
BY AN AUTUMN FIRE
DEDICATION
“TO THE MEMORY OF THE GALLANT
CANADIAN SOLDIERS WHO HAVE LAID
DOWN THEIR LIVES FOR THEIR COUNTRY
AND THEIR EMPIRE.”
THE WATCHMAN
“And for fear of Him the keepers did shake and become as dead
men.” — Matthew 23 and 4.
My Claudia, it is long since we have met,
So kissed, so held each other heart to heart!
I thought to greet thee as a conqueror comes,
Bearing the trophies of his prowess home,
But Jove hath willed it should be ot
herwise —
Jove, say I? Nay, some mightier stranger-god
Who thus hath laid his heavy hand on me,
No victor, Claudia, but a broken man
Who seeks to hide his weakness in thy love.
How beautiful thou art! The years have brought
An added splendor to thy loveliness,
With passion of dark eye and lip rose-red
Struggling between its dimple and its pride.
And yet there is somewhat that glooms between
Thy love and mine; come, girdle me about
With thy true arms, and pillow on thy breast
This aching and bewildered head of mine;
Here, where the fountain glitters in the sun
Among the saffron lilies, I will tell —
If so that words will answer my desire —
The shameful fate that hath befallen me.
Down in Jerusalem they slew a man,
Or god — it may be that he was a god —
Those mad, wild Jews whom Pontius Pilate rules.
Thou knowest Pilate, Claudia — a vain man,
Too weak to govern such a howling horde
As those same Jews. This man they crucified.
I knew nought of him — had not heard his name
Until the day they dragged him to his death;
Then all tongues wagged about him and his deeds;
Some said that he had claimed to be their King,
Some that he had blasphemed their deity;
’Twas certain he was poor and meanly born,
No warrior he, nor hero; and he taught
Doctrines that surely would upset the world;
And so they killed him to be rid of him —
Wise, very wise, if he were only man,
Not quite so wise if he were half a god!
I know that strange things happened when he died —
There was a darkness and an agony,
And some were vastly frightened — not so I!
What cared I if that mob of reeking Jews
Had brought a nameless curse upon their heads?
I had no part in that blood-guiltiness.
At least he died; and some few friends of his —
I think he had not very many friends —
Took him and laid him in a garden tomb.
A watch was set about the sepulchre,
Lest these, his friends, should hide him and proclaim
That he had risen as he had fore-told.
Laugh not, my Claudia. I laughed when I heard
The prophecy. I would I had not laughed!
I, Maximus, was chosen for the guard
With all my trusty fellows. Pilate knew
I was a man who had no foolish heart
Of softness all unworthy of a man!
My eyes had looked upon a tortured slave
As on a beetle crushed beneath my tread;
I gloried in the splendid strife of war,
Lusting for conquest; I had won the praise
Of our stern general on a scarlet field;
Red in my veins the warrior passion ran,
For I had sprung from heroes, Roman born!
That second night we watched before the tomb;
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