Poetry Codex

American

Margaret Junkin Preston

1820–1897

Margaret Junkin Preston (1820–1897) was a Virginia poet and the sister-in-law of Stonewall Jackson, whose death she lamented in Under the Shade of the Trees.

The poems here are taken from American War Ballads and Lyrics, edited by George Cary Eggleston (New York and London: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1889), where it is printed under his or her name: Under the Shade of the Trees.

Poems (12)

  1. Under the Shade of the Trees
  2. The Song of the Snow
  3. The Mystery of Cro-a-Tàn
  4. The Last Meeting of Pocahontas and the Great Captain
  5. The First Proclamation of Miles Standish
  6. The First Thanksgiving Day
  7. Dirge for Ashby
  8. Virginia Capta
  9. Acceptation
  10. The Vision of the Snow
  11. The Hero of the Commune
  12. A Grave in Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond

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