"Whom the Gods Love", "Recognition", "Largesse", and "Awakening" were just a few of her sonnets. The American Civil War, in which fought her distinguished half-brothers, General W. Y. W. Ripley and General E. H. Ripley, moved her to patriotic verse. Her ode, "Vermont", was written for the centennial celebration at Bennington, Vermont in 1877; "The Voice of the Tower", for the dedication of the Ethan Allen Monument at Burlington.
Her sonnets were a collection of poems that included "Whom the Gods Love," "Recognition," "Largesse," and "Awakening." The American Civil War inspired her to write patriotic verse, with odes like "Vermont" dedicated to the centennial celebration in Bennington, Vermont in 1877, and "The Voice of the Tower" for the Ethan Allen Monument dedication in Burlington.