Birth date
1844
Death date
July 1916
Birth town
Lichefield
Country
Ohio
Poems by this Poet
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| Title | Post date | Rating | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| If I Should Die To-Night | 0 | ||
| If I Should Die Tonight | 0 |
Arabella Eugenia Smith was born in 1844 in Lichfield, Ohio, and resided from 1850 to 1874 in Percival, Iowa. She graduated from Tabor College in Tabor, Iowa.
After graduation, she became an instructor there. She published If I Should Die To-night in The Christian Union on June 18, 1873, and in only a few years it swept America as one of the county's favorite poems and hymns. Her authorship of the poem was quickly obscured though; It was presented under anonymous in Slason Thompson's, The Humbler Poets: A Collection of Newspaper and Periodical Verse 1870 to 1885.
Very little is known about Smith, She died in July, 1916, in Santa Barbara, California.
Arabella Eugenia Smith's Works:
If I should Die To-night (1873)
After graduation, she became an instructor there. She published If I Should Die To-night in The Christian Union on June 18, 1873, and in only a few years it swept America as one of the county's favorite poems and hymns. Her authorship of the poem was quickly obscured though; It was presented under anonymous in Slason Thompson's, The Humbler Poets: A Collection of Newspaper and Periodical Verse 1870 to 1885.
Very little is known about Smith, She died in July, 1916, in Santa Barbara, California.
Arabella Eugenia Smith's Works:
If I should Die To-night (1873)