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Nancy Rebecca Campbell Glass
b. 1842
A Virginia poet whose work turns often to faith, nature, and feeling, she left behind a small but memorable body of verse. Her poems carry the quiet tone of reflection, with moments of both spiritual devotion and deep attachment to place.
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The Mountain Spring, and Other Poems
by Nancy Rebecca Campbell Glass
About the author
Born in 1842, Nancy Rebecca Campbell Glass was an American poet from Virginia. Available records and library listings also identify her as Nannie Rebecca Glass, and a memorial record gives her dates as November 26, 1842 to December 20, 1930.
She is best known today for The Mountain Spring, and Other Poems, a collection preserved by Project Gutenberg and library archives. The poems in that volume are strongly shaped by religion and the natural world, and they often favor a gentle, meditative voice over dramatic effect.
Some online literary references also connect her with the pen name Narcissa Pense and with an earlier Civil War-era volume, but those details are less consistently documented in the sources I could confirm. What is clear is that her poetry has remained accessible through public-domain collections, where readers can still discover her blend of devotion, sentiment, and attention to the landscape around her.