Born: No­vem­ber 2, 1834, Ports­mouth, New Hamp­shire.

Kimball, a Ro­man Ca­tho­lic, wrote both sac­red and se­cu­lar verse. She was the chief found­er of the Cot­tage Hos­pi­tal in Ports­mouth, where she was liv­ing as of 1915. Her works in­clude:

• Hymns (Bos­ton, Mass­a­chu­setts: 1866)
• Swallow Flights of Song, 1874
• The Blessed Com­pa­ny of all Faith­ful Peo­ple (New York, 1879)
• Po­ems (com­plete edi­tion), 1889

Sources

Hymns

1. At Times on Tabor’s Height
2. Day is Ended, The
3. Dear Lord, to Thee Alone
4. It Is an Easy Thing to Say
5. Jesus the Ladder of My Faith
   • Sweeter to Jesus When on Earth
   • We Have No Tears Thou Wilt Not Dry
6. Pour Thy Blessings, Lord, Like Show­ers