Spray of Lilac, and Other Poems and Songs

by Marie Hedderwick Browne

71 chapters1h 37mEnglish1892

About this book

Marie Hedderwick-Browne was born in Ireland, but spent her formative years in Glasgow, Scotland, where her father, John Hedderwick, was a prominent member of the literary world. This volume of poetry reflects her Scottish heritage, and poems of nature and sentiment, including "In An Old Churchyard" and "Wee Elsie" written in Scottish dialect. - Summary by Larry Wilson

Chapters (71)

1Oh, Lilac Bloom! & Prefatory Note

2A Spray of Lilac

3Old Garden

4A Mother’s Grief

179

5A Summer Memory

138

6Unsatisfied

7My Song

8In An Old Churchyard

123

9Secrets

10Revealed—Not Spoken

112

11Buried Treasures

12Affinity

13“My House Is Left unto Me Desolate”

14An Old Man’s Dream

113

15A Summer Wooing

16Wee Elsie

17Bide Wi’ Mither

124

18Child Angels

19My Love of Long Ago

20In Summer Time

21Twin-Sisters

22At Last

23Trysting-Time

24Beside the Dead

136

25Her First Season

129

26Anticipated

27When Thou Art Near

28A Portrait

29Dorothy

30Daffodils

31The Blackbird

32“Whom the Gods Love Die Young”

33Grannie’s Bairn

115

34Love’s Power

35A June Memory

103

36A Message

37Her Window

38Shattered Hopes

39Hand in Hand

40“And for the Weary, Rest”

41In an Old Orchard

104

42By the Sea

43Regret

44Wae’s Me

45The Reason Why

46Down by the Sea

47A Venture

48Water Lilies

49The Sentinel

50A Love Song

51Autumn

52A Quaker Maid

53The Time, the Place, the Beloved

54Day Dreams

55Song of the Seasons

56One Summer Day

57The Inscrutable

58Delilah

59A Baby’s Grave

60A Child’s Favourite

61Rich or Poor?

62Dolly’s Garden

63In a Dream-Ship

115

64The Flower-Queen’s Fall

113

65A Veteran

66To a Butterfly

67When and Where

68When Love Is Young

69A Character Sketch

70Friends

71Bed-Time

Spray of Lilac, and Other Poems and Songs

About this book

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