Pounds was in poor health as a child, and re­ceived her ear­ly edu­ca­tion at home. At age 15, she be­gan sub­mit­ting ar­ti­cles to Cleve­land news­pa­pers and var­i­ous re­li­gious pub­li­ca­tions. In 1896, she mar­ried Rev­er­end John Pounds, pas­tor of the Cen­tral Christ­ian Church in In­di­an­a­po­lis, In­di­a­na. In her ear­ly years, an ed­i­tor com­ment­ed that some of her po­e­try would make good hymn texts. So be­gan her song writ­ing ca­reer. Over her life­time, she wrote 50 li­bret­tos for can­ta­tas and op­er­et­tas, 9 books, and more than 400 Gos­pel songs. She col­lab­o­rat­ed with James Fil­lmore for three de­cades.

• Hustad, p. 303
• Parker

1. Anywhere with Je­sus
2. Are You Com­ing to Je­sus To­night?
3. Beautiful Isle of Some­where
4. Calling Me Over the Tide
5. Going On
6. He Set the Task for Me
7. I Know That My Re­deem­er Liv­eth
8. I Want to Live Clos­er to Je­sus
9. In the Sha­dow of the Rock
10. Joy Among the An­gels
11. Lord’s Good Time Is Com­ing, The
12. O Life in Whom Is Life In­deed
13. O Mighty Lord, Stay By!
14. Place in the Ranks for Me, A
15. Tell It To­day
16. Tell the Prom­is­es over to Me
17. There’s Light for a Step
18. Touch of His Hand on Mine, The
19. Way of the Cross Leads Home, The
20. We Are Go­ing Down the Val­ley