She died aged nineteen of tuberculosis leaving about 100 poems the most known of which is "Lullaby to a Wave".

She created a magazine called Lahja which was only shown to her family, but it ran for 22 issues.

In 1871 Asp began to write poetry in Finnish after attending a teacher training college in Jyväskylä.

[1] Asp died in Jyväskylä in 1872 of tuberculosis leaving approximately 100 lyrical poems the most known of which is "Lullaby to a Wave".

Asp wrote what was interpreted as emotionally and eroticly charged poems for her best friend Lydia Lagus at the seminar in Jyväskylä.