Gorges, Mary (F)

Surname: Gorges (née Kelly)
Forename(s): Mary (May)
d. 15 December 1911. Nationality: Irish. VIAF.
Poet. Also known as May. Father was William Daniel Kelly, from Castlepark, Co. Roscommon. Husband was Major Gorges, an East India Company officer. Died in Kingstown, near Dublin. Contributed poems to Irish Monthly. Author of A Twelfth Night King. [A Tale] (1897), Killarney (1912), On Life’s Journey: Poems and Ballads (1916). Chambers’s Journal ledger entry for Gorge’s poem “Waiting for May,” published on 22 March 1890, lists her as Miss M. Gorges, of 15 Royal Terrace, Kingstown, Ireland (NLS Dep 341/370). Biographical information: D. J. O’Donoghue, The Poets of Ireland, Hodges Figgis & Co., 1912, p. 165; Colman 129. (AC)

Poems associated with this person

Total poems: 22
Poem title Date Periodical Roles id #
Waiting for May 1890-03-22 Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Poet 13133
Salvage 1890-06 Atalanta Poet 2037
The Old Home 1890-09 Atalanta Poet 2045
The Mistakes of Life 1891-12 Atalanta Poet 2169
Sonnet to the New Year 1891-12-26 Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Poet 13225
Vanished Dreams 1892-01-30 Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Poet 13230
Sonnet on June 1892-05-28 Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Poet 13247
To One Far Off 1892-08 Atalanta Poet 2208
Sonnet on Christmas 1892-12-10 Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Poet 13275
Leaves 1893-04-22 Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Poet 13293
Dream-Land 1893-08-12 Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Poet 13309
Violets! Sweet Violets! 1894-04 Atalanta Poet 2300
Brave in Death 1894-07-07 Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Poet 13356
“No More Sea” 1895-02 Atalanta Poet 2327
As It Hath Been, So It Shall Be 1895-03-30 Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Poet 12609
Wind Voices 1895-09-07 Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Poet 12632
The Lark’s Flight 1896-07-04 Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Poet 12765
Wreck of the “Drummond Castle” 1896-09 Atalanta Poet 2381
Time 1896-12-26 Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Poet 12793
Christmas Memories: The Days of Long Ago 1898-11-12 Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Poet 12736
Fairy Gold 1899-11-11 Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Poet 12592
The Old Year and the New 1899-11-18 Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Poet 12593