Quote of the day
The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and stepped down over the edge of the fields at evening, it left behind it a spent and exhausted world.
Mary Howitt
Born: March 12, 1799
Died: January 30, 1888 (aged 88)
Bio: Mary Howitt was an English poet, and author of the famous poem The Spider and the Fly.
Known for:
- The Spider and the Fly (1829)
- Wood Leighton (1835)
- Our cousins in Ohio (1849)
- Mary Howitt
- Ballads and other poems