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American writer and philanthropist

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

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Pen Names: Clara Moreton • Harriet Oxnard Ward • H. O. Ward

Alternative Names: Clara Moore • Clara Sophia Jessup Bloomfield-Moore

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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?

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;

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.