Poet

Mary Howitt

1799–1888

Open in the reader

English

• A bow-shot from the city-gate
• A Conversation Between Harry and Kitty
• A New Version of an Old Story
• A Story of the Olden Time, Part I
• A Story of the Olden Time, Part II
• A Swinging Song
• An Old Man’s Narrative
• An Old Seaman’s Story, Part I
• An Old Seaman’s Story, Part II
• An Old Seaman’s Story, Part III
• At length, after long travel past
• Birds in Summer
• But let us hence,” said Marien
• Buttercups and Daisies
• Buttercups and Daisies
• Captain
• Captain
• Childhood
• Choir of Spiritual Voices
• Corn-Fields
• Ellen More
• First Voice
• Harry.--Oh! I’m tired with this running about, and this…
• Harvest-Field Flowers
• Hun. And this is their abode! A mighty change
• In the Days of Wickliffe
• Kitty.--Nay, you may as well stay now; I’ve just done, and…
• Life’s Matins
• Little Children
• L’envoi
• L’envoi
• Morning Thoughts
• Mother of God, who borest
• Mourning on Earth
• Now from the miser kinsman’s house
• Now Marien in the woman’s house
• Oh leave us not sweet Marien
• Olaf. For years of tyranny I do beseech
• Old Christmas
• Parrot
• Parrot
• Parrot
• Peter.--Grunting and tumbling one over the other, I cared…
• Peter.--I’ll be sure there are no more thorns here, before…
• Peter.--I’ve had nothing but ill-luck to-day; I did this…
• Peter.--Nay, I shall not. I shall sit down under this tree
• Peter.--There now, Zedekiah, is it not an unfortunate day
• Poll
• Poll
• Poll’s Mistress
• Poor Scholar. Most precious words! Now go your way
• Rejoicing in Heaven
• Second Voice
• So perished for their faith in Christ
• Summer
• Summer Woods
• Sunshine
• Tell me about my son, dear friend, for I can bear to know
• Ten long days’ travel Marien went
• Ter. Thou, that didst bear a pain that had no healing
• The Angel
• The Blind Boy and His Sister
• The Child and the Flowers
• The Child’s Lament
• The Coot
• The Cuckoo
• The Eagle
• The Eleven
• The finely spun, the many-hued, the new, are not for him
• The Fisher Boy
• The Flax Flower
• The following morning--the interior of the house in the
• The Garden
• The Little Mariner
• The Lord Jesus
• The Monkey
• The Oak-Tree
• The Old Friend and the New
• The Old Man and the Carrion Crow
• The Poor Child’s Hymn
• The Poor Man’s Garden
• The Sale of the Pet Lamb of the Cottage
• The Soldier’s Story
• The Stormy Peterel
• The Twelfth Hour
• The Two Estates
• The Two Marys
• The Voice of Spring
• The Wanderer’s Return
• The Young Mourner
• Then forth they brought her; gave her wine
• There was joy for me in the nightly watch, on the burning…
• Therefore most sorrowful it was those children small to see
• They read of rapine, war, and woe
• Through the wide world went Marien
• Through the wild wood went Marien
• Woe’s me, what secret tears are shed