Mary Howitt

  • God might have bade the earth bring forth
      Enough for great and small,
    The oak-tree and the cedar-tree,
      Without a flower at all.
    We might have had enough, enough
      For every want of ours,
    For luxury, medicine, and toil,
      And yet have...

  • A Midsummer Legend
    “AND where have you been, my Mary,
      And where have you been from me?”
    “I ’ve been to the top of the Caldon Low,
      The midsummer-night to see.”

    “And what did you see, my Mary,
      All up on the Caldon Low?”
    “I saw the glad...

  • “will you walk into my parlor?” said the spider to the fly;
    “’T is the prettiest little parlor that ever you did spy.
    The way into my parlor is up a winding stair,
    And I have many curious things to show when you are there.”
    “Oh no, no,” said the little fly; “to...