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Montgomery, James (M) b. 4 November 1771. d. 30 April 1854. Nationality: Scottish. VIAF. Poet, editor, and writer of hymns and sacred poems. Pseudonym: “Gabriel Silvertongue,”
“J. M.” Born in Irvine, Scotland. Son of a Moravian pastor and missionary. Lived in
Sheffield from 1872. Charged with sedition and imprisoned in 1795 and 1796. Abolitionist.
Biographical information: *ODNB*. (SP, AC)
Poems associated with this person
Poem title
Date
Periodical
Roles
id #
Night
1824
Forget-Me-Not
Poet
15905
A Mother’s Lament for an Infant Daughter
1825
Forget-Me-Not
Poet
15071
A Riddle, (Written in an Album,) Which every Reader may solve to himself, but none
to another
1826
Forget-Me-Not
Poet
13934
Questions and Answers
1826-01
Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine
Poet
10410
Time Employed, Time Enjoyed. Addressed to a Young Lady from Whom the Author Had Received
an Elegantly Wrought Watch-Pocket
1828
Forget-Me-Not
Poet
13977
Epitaph on a Gnat, Found Crushed on the Leaf of a Lady’s Album, and Written (With
a Different Reading in the Last Line) in Lead Pencil Beneath It
1829
Forget-Me-Not
Poet
15532
Bridal Greetings
1829
Forget-Me-Not
Poet
15566
The Retreat
1829
Forget-Me-Not
Poet
15521
“Palms of glory, raiment bright”
1829-12
Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine
Poet
10400
The Worm and the Flower
1830
Forget-Me-Not
Poet
14457
Garden Thoughts, Written on Occasion of a Ladies’ Bazaar, in Aid of the Church Missionary
Society, Being Held in the Garden-Grounds of a Benevolent Family Resident on the Banks
of the Yorkshire Ouse
1830
Forget-Me-Not
Poet
14486
The Gentianella
1830
Forget-Me-Not
Poet
15044
Prayer
1832-07-14
Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal
Poet
3001
The Cholera Mount. Lines on the Burying-Place for Patients who have Died of Cholera;
a pleasant eminence in Sheffield Park
1832-11
Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine
Poet
11236
An Every-Day Tale
1833
Forget-Me-Not
Poet
15235
The Skylark. Addressed to a Lady: On Hearing That Bird’s Song Early in the Morning
of February 27, 1832, When the Ground Was Covered with Hoar-Frost, and the Small Pools
Were Plated with Ice
1833
Forget-Me-Not
Poet
15253
On the Death of a Friend
1833-02-02
The Penny Magazine
Poet
2966
The Death of the Righteous. In Memory of E. B.
1836
Forget-Me-Not
Poet
15313
A Wedding Wish. To a Young Couple
1836
Forget-Me-Not
Poet
15330
Patriotic Effusion to Britain
1836-05-14
The Penny Magazine
Poet
3151
The Blackbird
1837
Forget-Me-Not
Poet
15756
The Resurrection
1837
Forget-Me-Not
Poet
15773
In Bereavement
1838
Forget-Me-Not
Poet
15811
Parting Words
1838
Forget-Me-Not
Poet
15805
Coronation Ode for Queen Victoria I. June 28, 1838
1838-07
Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine
Poet
11599
To Her Majesty Queen Victoria, on Her Coronation in Westminster Abbey, June 28, 1838
1840
Forget-Me-Not
Poet
15164
The Wild Pink of Malmesbury Abbey
1840
Forget-Me-Not
Poet
15184
Similitudes
1842
Forget-Me-Not
Poet
15417
“A Mother’s Gift”
1842
Forget-Me-Not
Poet
15435
The Press
1843
Forget-Me-Not
Poet
15405
The Deaf Man’s Soliloquy
1843
Forget-Me-Not
Poet
15399
Home
1876-02-05
Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal
Poet
7202
Alison Chapman (ed.) and the DVPP team, Montgomery, James (M), Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry Project , Edition 0.97beta, University of Victoria, 10th April 2022, https://dvpp.uvic.ca/prs_1108.html.
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