メソジストの牧師の娘であるラスバリーは、マサチューセッツ州ウスターで美術を学び、バーモント州のニューベリー・アカデミー(Newbury Academy)とニューヨークで美術とフランス語を教えた。また、聖ニコラス教会ハーパー青年会(St. Nicholas, Harper’s Young People)と、ワイド・アウェイク(Wide Awake)のために作品を書いた。彼女はニューヨーク州シャトークア近郊のシャトークワ運動(Chautauqua Movement)に関わり、「シャトークアの桂冠詩人(poet laureate of Chautauqua)」として知られるようになった。美術と詩作の賜物について、彼女はこう語っている。 ある日、声を聞いた。私はそれが神の声だったと信じている。その声はこう語った。「おぼえておきなさい、わたしの子よ、あなたは想像を詩に織り込む賜物と、心に浮かぶ映像を書き留める賜物を持っている。それらの賜物を、あなたの内なる霊とともに、完全にわたしに献げなさい。」
作品を含む出版物： Woman and Temperance; or, the Work and Workers of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union, with Frances Elizabeth Willard, 1883 Ring-a-Round-a-Rosy: Pictures and Verse (R. Worthington, 1885) Poems of Mary Artemisia Lathbury, Chautauqua Laureate (The Nunc Licet Press, 1915)
作詞作品： Alleluia, It Is Done, Christ Is Risen Angels, the Angels, The Arise, All Souls, Arise Awake, and Sing Behold, One Standeth at the Door and Calleth Billows of Deep Distress Break Thou the Bread of Life Chautauqua, Priestess of the Old Child at the Door, The Come, O Happy Children Come Day Is Dawning in the East Day Is Dying in the West Dove and the Raven, The Easter Carol Easter Song Every Lily in the Meadow Floating, Floating, Gaily Singing as We Row Flush of Morn, the Setting sun, The Hail, Happy Day, All Hail the Welcome Morn Heart of Jesus, Rent in Twain Heavens Declare Thy Glory, The I Hear the Tread of Men and Nations Incense from Dews of the Morning Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Descending from the Skies Join, O Friends, in a Memory Song Life in the Loom Lift Up, Lift Up Thy Voice Lift Up O Little Children Lift Up Your Voices Like the Surge of Hidden Waters Lord, from Thine Altars on Every Mountain The Lord Is in His Holy Temple Lord of All Life, the Near, the Far Lord of the Morning, Dews Are Ascending Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep, in Thy Shadows O River of the Life of God O Shepherd of the Nameless Fold O Sing the Passing Years O Trust Ye in the Lord Forever O Wondrous World Within a World Open the Gates Open the Windows of the World Pilgrim, Rest, a Well of Life Ring, O Bells Beside the Shore Shrine of the Singer, The Sing P’ans Over the Past Snowdrops, Lift Your Timid Heads Soft Through the Fading Light Song of Praise, A Song of Seven Years, A Sound Is Thrilling Through the Trees, A Spring Up, O Well, Spring Up Sunset of the Year, The There Lies a Little City in the Hills Trees Are Crowned with Glory, The Wake, O Winds, Among the Hills When the Day Is High and Clear Winds Are Wandering Through the Trees, The Winds Are Whispering to the Trees, The Young Soldiers of the Legion
