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Rose Hawthorne Lathrop

I lived from 1851-1926. I was from the United States, and am in the Americas category.

The daughter of author Nathaniel Hawthorne and was the wife of the poet George Lathrop; after his death in 1898 she became a nun and worked with the cause of Cancer. She was known as Mother Alphonsa. She wrote two books:
"Memories of Hawthorne" (1897)
"Along the Shore" (1888)

http://www.hawthorne-dominicans.org/saint.htm
will give details of the proposed Sainthood for Mother Mary Alphonsa,

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  • The Dreaming Wheel
    Down slant the moonbeams to the floor
    Through the garret's scented air,
    96 lines
  • Morning Song
    Turn thy face to me, my love,
    I come from out the morning;
    8 lines
  • The Suicide
    A shadowed form before the light,
    A gleaming face against the night,
    10 lines, 1 comment
  • Pride: Fate
    Lullaby on the wing
    Of my song, O my own!
    16 lines
  • A Youth's Suicide
    He handed his life a poisoned draught,
    With a scornful smile and a cold, cold glance,
    20 lines
  • A Waltz
    Delicate gayety,
    Strains of a violin;
    20 lines, 1 comment
  • A Song Before Grief
    Sorrow, my friend,
    When shall you come again?
    25 lines
  • Life's Priestess
    All to herself a woman never sings
    A happy song. Oh no! but it is so
    5 lines
  • Life's Burying-Ground
    My graveyard holds no once-loved human forms,
    Grown hideous and forgotten, left alone,
    8 lines
  • One and One
    The thanking heart can only silence keep;
    The breaking heart can only die alone:
    8 lines, 1 comment
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