My debt to you, Belovèd, Is one I cannot pay In any coin of any realm On any reckoning day.

- Jessie Belle Rittenhouse

I bargained with Life for a penny, And Life would pay no more, However I begged at evening When I counted my scanty store.

- Jessie Belle Rittenhouse

I bargained with Life for a penny, and Life would pay no more. However I begged at the evening when I counted my scanty store. For Life is a just emp…

- Jessie Belle Rittenhouse

I worked for a menial's hire, Only to learn, dismayed, That any wage I had asked of Life, Life would have paid.

- Jessie Belle Rittenhouse

... fain would I turn back the clock and devote to French or some other language the hours I spent upon algebra, geometry, and trigonometry, of which…

- Jessie Belle Rittenhouse