On [:] Necessity | Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1850
Eugène Delacroix, Orphan girl at the cemetery,1823-1824
“The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter, 1850
Also:
The Ocean | A poem by Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1825
Letter to Sophia Hawthorne | Nathaniel Hawthorne (1839)
