Marguerite Janvrin Adams

Marguerite Lawall Janvrin Adams (September 20, 1889 – May 14, 1957) was an American poet active from the 1920s into the 1950s.

Biography Adams was born in New York City, the daughter of Joseph Edward Janvrin and Laura Lawall Janvrin. Her father was a physician and a Union Army veteran of the American Civil War. She graduated from the Spence School.

Adams was a poet who published frequently in national periodicals including Opportunity, and American Poetry Magazine. She was on the board of the Poetry Society of America. She was a member of the Authors League and the Pen and Brush Club. Her husband died in 1933, and she died in 1957, at the age of 67. "Song of Lost Days" and "Indian Summer" (1927) "Metropolitan Tower--New York", "The Wharves", "In Passing", and "Monticello" (1928) "Query" (1929) "Armour" (1930) "Inspiration of Spires--New York" (1931) I Give You Words (1934, poetry collection) "Brief Hour" (1936) "Conversation--In Youth" and "Conversation--In Age" (1937) "Mediation" and "If I Must Live in Cities" (1941) "Tears" and "October" (1943) "Island of the Dead", "Dark Reaping", "Appointment in September", and "Certain Hour" (1944) "The Fight is Longer" (1945) "Two Portraits" (1946) "They Who Possess the Sea", "Nungesser and Coli", and "Fellowship" (1946) "Golden City" (1948) "American History" (1951) "So Said the Sleeper" (1957)