Margaret J. Preston
Who is Margaret J. Preston
Margaret Junkin Preston (May 19, 1820 – March 28, 1897) was an American poet and author.BiographyShe was born in Milton, Pennsylvania, in 1820. Her father was George Junkin, a Presbyterian minister and college president. She learned Latin and Ancient Greek at the age of twelve. She married Major John Thomas Lewis Preston in 1857, a professor of Latin at Virginia Military Institute. Her sister, Elinor (Ellie), had in 1853 married Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson, a colleague of Preston's at VMI. Major Preston served on the staff of Stonewall Jackson during the Civil War.She wrote many volumes of prose and poetry, and published some of her writing in the Southern Literary Messenger and Graham's Magazine. She also published a few articles in Harper's Magazine. Preston's 1856 novel Silverwood is a...
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- Jackson. A Sonnet
Thank God for such a Hero! - Fearless hold
His diamond character beneath the sun,
And brighter scintillations, one by one,
Come flashing from it. Never knight of old
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- A Rhyme Of The War
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There is sorrow in Beechenbrook Cottage; the day
Has been bright with the earliest glory of May;
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- Virginia Capta
APRIL 9TH, 1865.
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- When The War Is Over. A Christmas Lay
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Ah! the happy Christmas times!
Times we all remember; -
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- Dirge For Ashby
Heard ye that thrilling word -
Accent of dread -
Flash like a thunderbolt,
Bowing each head -
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