Louise Morgan Sill

Louise Morgan Smith Sill (December 18, 1867 – March 31, 1961) was an American poet, writer, translator, and editor.

Early life and education Smith was born in Honolulu, and raised in Washington, D.C., the daughter of Morgan Lewis Smith and Louise Genella Smith. Her father was a brigadier general in the Union Army during the American Civil War. At the time of her birth, her father was the United States ambassador to Hawai'i, then an independent kingdom.

Career Sill wrote poems that appeared in several major magazines, including Scribner's and The Atlantic. She was an editor on the staff of Harper's Magazine from 1905 to 1910. and wrote monthly reports on the Paris art scene for The American Magazine of Art.

Publications "The 'Flying Dutchman'" (1899, poem, The Century) "The Canyon of the Colorado" (1901, poem, Harper's Weekly) "Out of the Shadow" (1903, poem, North American Review) In Sun or Shade (1906, poems) "The Clue" (1906, poem, Harper's) "The Hoof-Beats of the Years" (1907, poem, North American Review) "Sunnyfield" (1909, story for young readers) "The Gossip of an Ambassador" (1911, article) "Music" (1912, poem, North American Review) "The Cascade" (1913, poem, North American Review) "The Old Waman" (1915, poem, Scribner's) Paul Claudel, The Tidings Brought to Mary (1916, translated from French by Sill) Henry Bordeaux, Guynemer, Knight of the Air (1918, translated from French by Sill) Charles Marc des Granges, An illustrated history of French literature (1921, translated from French by Sill) The Life of Lives; the story of Our Lord Jesus Christ for young people (1922) "A Garden...There" (1922, poem, North American Review) "Time is Not" (1925, poem, The Commonweal) "The Rearranged Luxembourg" (1926, article) Ernest Dimnet, The Brontë Sisters (1927, translated from French by Sill) "Paris: Mother of Students" (1928, article) "Paris Notes" (1932, article) Personal life Smith married George Imbrie Sill and lived with him in Central America.