(Excerpt from Poems of Life and Nature
Signs! They are on...)
Excerpt from Poems of Life and Nature
Signs! They are only Signs Of the living joy long dead, Wraiths for the eyes bespread.
Yet, touching them, they glow, Again the young, warm thrill, The tones all sweet and low, The hushed heart waiting still.
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"The wittiest woman in America is dead. There are others who say many brilliant things; but I doubt if there is another so spontaneously and pointedly witty, in the sense that Sidney Smith was witty." So wrote famed writer, Mary Clemmer Ames, about her friend, Phoebe Cary. Brilliant, witty, iconoclastic, Alice and Phoebe Cary were much beloved writers and poets of the Victorian period. Praised by influential critics including Edgar Allan Poe, Rufus Wilmot Griswold, and Horace Greeley, their work today seems very modern. Their famous salon in New York hosted many of the intellectual and literary luminaries of their day. Here they are brought to life in a lively and beautiful rendering that will put you into their parlor and make you wish you'd been part of their salon. Alice was the poet, Phoebe the lyricist (and poet), both of them advocates for women's rights. Who better to bring forth this memory of the wonderful Cary sisters than Mary Ames. Writing with great sensitivity, wit, and a thorough appreciation for her subjects, Ames' writing will also read as very much "today" to the modern reader.
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Tears, which in such a mo...)
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Tears, which in such a moment betrayed no weakness, bedewed the faces of his Wife and' children. Then followed silence, dread as that in which we watch a air of beloved eyes close in death. At last he murmure It is past! The bitterest drop is tasted; adieu! My idols pensez d moi, adieu He lifted his plumed hat and was gone.
As the door closed, my mother made no sound. The time for tears had passed. Drawing both of her children to her heart, she hastened to a window, and there, amid deepening darkness, looked down upon that most dire of all sights, a people revelling in blood. The great clocks of the city struck the last hour of night still she stood in the same spot, her forehead pressed against the cold window-pane, with her children strained to her heart. The day dawned, and she had not stirred, although we, but half conscious of the woe Which hung over us, in our childish weariness had fallen asleep.
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Mary Clemmer Ames’ book tells of the “inner life,” wonders, marvels, mysteries, secret doings etc. of the nation’s capital, “as a woman sees. them.” The chapters are overflowing with spicy revelations, humor, pathos and good things for all.
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A Memorial of Alice and Phoebe Cary: With Some of Their Later Poems
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Mary Clemmer was an American journalist, author, and poet. During her literary career, she was associated with various periodicals including the Springfield, Massachusetts Republican, the New York Press, and the Brooklyn Daily Union.
Background
Mary Clemmer Ames was born on May 06, 1839 in Utica, New York, United States. She was the daughter of Abraham Clemmer, a descendant of Alsatian Huguenots settled in Pennsylvania about 1685, and of Margaret (Kneale) Clemmer, born on the Isle of Man. During her childhood, her father removed to Westfield, Massachusetts.
Education
Mary received her education at the Westfield Academy.
Career
Abraham Clemmer, with the temperament of a poet, had been obliged to enter business, in which he never attained success. Family poverty and rapidly-arriving younger brothers and sisters brought early responsibilities and shortened Mary Clemmer’s childhood. These causes also had something to do with her marriage when she was only sixteen to a man much older than herself, the Reverend Daniel Ames, a Presbyterian minister. She lived successively in Massachusetts, Minnesota, New York City, Harper’s Ferry where she witnessed the entrance of the Confederate army in 1862 and was herself for a brief time a prisoner, and in Washington, where she worked in army hospitals.
Mary Clemmer’s literary work began early, with a poem sent by her Westfield teacher to the Springfield Republican and there published. When barely twenty, she began contributions to newspapers, in her effort, successful from the start, to provide support for herself and her parents. While living in New York she became the friend of Alice Cary between whose character and her own there were many resemblances. From this friendship resulted the Memorial of Alice and Phoebe Cary (1873), a sympathetic and well-written work.
Mary Clemmer always desired to write novels and felt that she was capable of writing better ones than she ever achieved. Her first novel, Victoire (1864), though crude and emotional, shows some ability in interpretation of character; her second, Eirene; or a Woman’s Right (1871), introduces war scenes about Harper’s Ferry; her third, His Two Wives (1874), diffuse and unconvincing, was often credited with being partly autobiographical, but without justification. When health began to fail, she was writing another novel, which was never finished. What was probably her best work took the form of letters to newspapers on topics of public interest.
In 1866 she began contributions to the New York Independent, called “A Woman’s Letters from Washington. ” These continued until within a few months of her death and furnished some of the material for her two books, Outlines of Men, Women, and Things O873), and Ten Years in Washington (1874). In 1869 she entered into a three-year contract to write a daily column for the Brooklyn Daily Union, and at the end of the time was proud that she had not once failed to send her column. During the last year she received a $5, 000 salary, at that time large for a woman.
In 1882 her collected poems were published under the title Poems of Life and Nature. Her poetry is characterized by deep religious feeling and love of nature but not by originality of imagination or technique. In 1876 Mary Clemmer brought her parents to Washington and established a home on Capitol Hill, where on Mondays her drawing-room was always filled with callers. In 1878 she was injured in a runaway accident, and henceforth suffered continuously from severe headache and carried on her literary work with difficulty. In 1883 she went for a European trip. On her return her health seemed better, but improvement was brief and she soon died, after a cerebral hemorrhage.
Mary Clemmer was deeply religious and was baptized late in life in Episcopalian Church in Washington.
Personality
Mary Clemmer was slender, graceful, dignified. She liked to trace her blue eyes, light-brown hair and high coloring to her Manx ancestry. Her extreme sensitiveness was perhaps an inheritance from her idealistic father. A conscientious, thorough worker, she was also fearless and vehement in expressing her opinions on political and social questions and because of this often aroused antagonism. She was intensely patriotic, intensely Northern. She felt keenly the various forms of injustice from which women suffered and wrote much on the subject, but was not greatly interested in the suffrage and took no part in organized movements. Her style was sometimes ornate and sentimental.
Connections
On May 7, 1851 Mary married The Reverend Daniel Ames from whom she was divorced in 1874. In 1883 she was married in St. John’s Church, Washington, to Edmund Hudson, editor of the Army and Navy Register.