Clara Jessup Moore

Clara Jessup Moore (February 16, 1824 – January 5, 1899) was an American poet, born in Westfield, Massachusetts.

Clara Jessup Moore

Quotes

• If he bring me a rose, a briar rose,
  To place in my braided hair,
  I shall know there are thorns in life for me
  And many a wearying care.
  If he bring me a lily pure and pale
  And lay it upon my breast,
  I shall know that my life will be of peace,
  As a bird in its mother's nest.
  • The Maiden's Flower Omens

• Within a temple's towering walls I stand
  A temple vast; the heaven is its dome:
  No corniced crag was hewn by human hand,
  Nor by it wrought this tracery of foam;
  • Niagara Below the Cataract

• O wondrous sphinx! within thy marble breast
  What undreamed secrets lie concealed!
  Hast thou no pity for my wild unrest
  My maddening longing for the unrevealed?
  • Death