Who is Mary Gardiner Horsford
...Read Full Biography of Mary Gardiner Horsford
Mary Gardiner Horsford Poems
- The Daughter Of Jephthah Among The Mountains
Night bent o'er the mountains
With aspect serene;
The deep waters slept
'Neath the moon's pallid sheen, ... - Spring Lilies
'Neath their green and cool cathedrals,
In the garden lilies bloom,
Casting to the fresh Spring Zephyrs
Peal on peal of sweet perfume. ... - The Judgment Of The Dead
Diodorus has recorded an impressive Egyptian ceremonial, the judgment of the dead by the living. When the corpse, duly embalmed, had been placed by the margin of the Acherusian Lake, and before consigning it to the bark that was to bear it across the waters to its final resting-place, it was permitted to the appointed judges to hear all accusations against the past life of the deceased, and if proved, to deprive the corpse of the rites of sepulture. From this singular law not even kings were exempt.
With sable plume and nodding crest, ... - The Laughing Water. - Indian Legends
The Indian name for the Falls of St. Anthony signifies "Laughing Water," and here tradition says that a young woman of the Dahcotah tribe, the father of her children having taken another wife, unmoored her canoe above the fall, and placing herself and children in it, sang her death-song as she went over the foaming declivity.
The sun went down the west ... - The Highland Girl's Lament
The ancient Highlanders believed the spirits of their departed friends continually present, and that their imagined appearances and voices communicated warnings of approaching death.
Oh! set the bridal feast aside, ...
Top 10 most used topics by Mary Gardiner Horsford
High 21 Spirit 20 Soul 18 Bright 16 Blue 15 Earth 14 Thought 11 Wild 11 Divine 11 Wide 10Mary Gardiner Horsford Quotes
Comments about Mary Gardiner Horsford
Read All CommentsWrite your comment about Mary Gardiner Horsford
Michael Maloney: The list above are Gardiner’s poems in her Book “Indian Legends and Other Poems” published in 1855. It is missing “The Dying Year.” I have located 21 additional poems in periodicals and manuscripts and am publishing a critical edition that will include all of her known works. She was a highly gifted 19th-century American Romantic Poet, who, like most women poets at the time, was overlooked due to patriarchal discrimination.
