Mary Howitt
Mary Howitt
Mary Howittwas an English poet, and author of the famous poem The Spider and the Fly. She was born Mary Botham at Coleford, in Gloucestershire, the temporary residence of her parents, while her father, Samuel Botham, a prosperous Quaker of Uttoxeter, Staffordshire, was looking after some mining property. Samuel had married his wife Ann in South Wales in 1796 when he was 38 and she was 32. They had four children Anna, Mary, Emma and Charles. Their Queen Anne house...
parlor prettiest spider spy walk
Will you walk into my parlor?" said the Spider to the Fly; "'Tis the prettiest little parlor that ever you did spy
deception spy spiders
Will you walk into my parlour? Said the spider to a fly: '"Tis the prettiest little parlour That ever you did spy.
vain stairs ask-me
To ask me is in vain; For who goes up your winding stair Can ne'er come down again.
autumn white joy
When on the breath of Autumn's breeze, From pastures dry and brown, Goes floating, like an idle thought, The fair, white thistle-down; O, then what joy to walk at will, Upon the golden harvest-hill!