Magnolia Leaves · Characters
Character guide
Key figures in Magnolia Leaves by Mary Weston Fordham.
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Unknown Narrator
major
Also known as mine, me
The grieving first-person voice who walks Magnolia's marble paths, counts her dead by name, and turns loss into hymn after hymn.
Marco
supporting
A name woven through the elegies, invoked among the beloved dead whose memory the narrator refuses to let marble or time erase.
Erin
supporting
Also known as thy, thee
The addressed beloved whose bosom nourished forget-me-nots and whose absence drives a mourner to cry out for reunion beyond death.
Uranne
supporting
Also known as your
The buried beloved called back in anguish—'Come, O! come!'—whose grave becomes the mourner's own resting place beside the flowers.
Jesus
supporting
The risen Christ whose invitation echoes over the graves, promising the faithful a reunion in the air with those they've lost.
the Reaper Death
minor
Also known as the grim Reaper
Personified Death appearing as a symbolic figure in several poems.
Mary Furman Weston Byrd
minor
Also known as Mrs. Mary Furman Weston Byrd, Mary
A named individual honored in a memorial poem, likely a real person.
Eve
minor
Biblical Eve referenced in creation-themed poems.
the Babe
minor
The infant Jesus or a symbolic child figure in nativity poems.
Capt. F. W. Dawson
minor
Also known as Carolina
A historical figure honored in a tribute poem, likely a real person.
