Agnes Lee

Agnes Lee was the pen name of Martha Agnes Rand (1868-1939), an American poet and translator.

Life

Lee was born in Chicago, the 2nd daughter of William H. Rand, founder of Rand McNally publishers. She was educated in Switzerland. In 1900, she married Francis Watts Lee, and settled with him in Boston. She returned to Chicago in 1911, when she married Otto Freer, a Chicago surgeon.

She died at home in Chicago of pneumonia. She is buried in Chicago's Graceland Cemetery.

Recognition

Lee won Poetry magazine's Guarantor's Prize in 1926.

Publications

Poetry

• The Legend of a Thought, and other verses (as Martha Agnes Rand). Chicago: Rand McNally, 1889.
• The Border of the Lake. Boston: Sherman, French, 1910.
• The Sharing. Boston: Sherman, French, 1914.
• Faces and Open Doors. Chicago: Ralph Fletcher Seymour, 1922.
• New Lyrics, and a few old ones. Chicago: Ralph Fletcher Seymour, 1931.

Juvenile

• The Round Rabbit. Boston: Copeland & Day, 1898.

Translated

• Théophile Gautier, Enamels and Cameos, and other poems. Cmbridge, MA; Jenson Society, 1903.

A Statue in a Garden Agnes Lee Audiobook Short Poetry

Except where noted, bibliographical information courtesy WorldCat.

See also

• List of U.S. poets

External links

Poems

• "A Roman Doll"
• Agnes Lee in The New Poetry: An anthology: "Motherhood," "A Statue in a Garden," "On the Jail Steps," "Her Going"
• Agnes Lee 1868-1939 at the Poetry Foundation
• Lee in Poetry: A magazine of verse, 1912-1922: "The Silent House," "The Sharing," "On the Jail Steps," "A Statue in a Garden," "Three Guests," "At Dawn," "Long Distance Line," "Eastland Waters," "Shakespeare," "The Answer," "Evening," "The Doll," "Claude Debussy," "Peace," "An Old Woman with Flowers," "The Slacker," "The Broken Tie," "Bark-bound," "In the Morgue," "The Sweeper," "Old Lizette on Sleep," "The Ancient Singer," "Mrs. Malooly," "The Ilex Tree," "The Jilt," "The Blunted Age"

Audio / video

• Agnes Lee at YouTube