Who is Susanna Moodie

Susanna Moodie (born Strickland; 6 December 1803 – 8 April 1885) was an English-born Canadian author who wrote about her experiences as a settler in Canada, which was a British colony at the time.

Biography

Susanna Moodie was born in Bungay, on the River Waveney in Suffolk. She was the youngest sister in a family of writers, including Agnes Strickland, Jane Margaret Strickland and Catharine Parr Traill. She wrote her first children's book in 1822 and published other children's stories in London, including books about Spartacus and Jugurtha. In London she was also involved in the Anti-Slavery Society, transcribing the narrative of the former Caribbean slave Mary Prince. On 4 April 1831, she married John Moodie, a retired officer who had served in the Napoleonic Wa...
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Susanna Moodie Poems

  • To The Memory Of Mrs. Ewing
    Written After Perusing The Interesting Memoir Composed By Her Husband, The Rev. Greville Ewing.


    Daughter of Scotland! may a stranger twine ...
  • The Old Ash Tree
    Thou beautiful Ash! thou art lowly laid,
    And my eyes shall hail no more
    From afar thy cool and refreshing shade,
    When the toilsome journey's o'er. ...
  • Uncertainty
    Oh dread uncertainty!
    Life-wasting agony!
    How dost thou pain the heart,
    Causing such tears to start, ...
  • The Avenger Of Blood
    There were two sons of Ashur at work in the field,
    And one to the other his passion revealed--
    As the white barley bowed to the stroke of his scythe,
    He burst out in accents exultingly blithe-- ...
  • To The Memory Of R. R. Jun
    LATE OF IPSWICH, AND ONE OF THE SOCIETY OF FRIENDS.


    From thy sad sire and weeping kindred torn, ...
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Earth 35 Bright 27 Spirit 24 Beneath 23 Voice 22 Soul 22 Young 20 Dust 20 Crown 18 Deep 17


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Did you ever stand in a Cavern's Mouth
 by Emily Dickinson

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Did you ever stand in a Cavern's Mouth-
Widths out of the Sun-
And look-and shudder, and block your breath-
And deem to be alone

In such a place, what horror,
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