Mary M. Adams

Mary M. Adams
Short Name: Mary M. Adams
Full Name: Adams, Mary M. (Mary Mathews), 1840-1902
Birth Year: 1840
Death Year: 1902

Mary Jane Matthews, married C. M. Smith; married A. S. Barnes, 1883; married Charles Kendall Adams, 1890.

She has written verses in the leisure of her happy life. First her hymns sang themselves from her heart and then her poems caroled their way from her soul. Few of her classmates in Packer Institute, where she was for the most part educated, knew that the popular Mary Mathews was not American born and a Brooklyn girl. Her birthplace was Ireland and her ancestry Irish. She is the author of thirty or more known hymns, many of them incorporated in song books of a score of more songs and ballads, several of which have been set to music, and are familiar favorites, and of many lyrics and sonnets.

Excerpts from The Magazine of Poetry and Literary Review, Volume 2


Texts by Mary M. Adams (8)AsAuthority LanguagesInstancessort descending
If shadows overcast my mornMrs. Mary Matthews-Smith (Author)English1
'Tis not alone to feel Thy loveMrs. Mary Matthews-Smith (Author)English1
Here the battle and the conflictMrs. Mary M. Barnes (Author)English2
List, the music pealing, Hear our song of mightMrs. Mary Mathews Barnes (Author)English3
There is a star illumes my nightMary M. Adams (Author)English3
Worthy, Thy gospel, LordMary Matthews-Barnes (Author)English3
O Thou to whom we prayMrs. Mary Matthews-Smith (Author)English5
Hearken to the music of our happy bandMary Matthews-Barnes (Author)English9

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