The Howitt, Mary (Mary Botham) 1799-1888 creator text utu 2025 monographic en 1 online resource : multiple file formats "The Poems of Mary Howitt" by Mary Howitt is a collection of poetry written in the early to mid-19th century. This volume gathers a variety of Howitt’s verses, blending religious, moral, and domestic themes with narratives and sketches of natural and rural life. The topics explored revolve around charity, faith, family, the beauty of nature, and the nurturing power of Christian virtue, often directed toward young and sensitive readers interested in reflective and uplifting literature. The opening of this collection includes a brief memoir of Mary Howitt, offering insight into her Quaker background, education, and literary partnership with her husband, as well as her emphasis on virtue, kindness, and the genteel qualities of her character and writing. The initial poems and verse tales, such as "The Poor Scholar" and "The Sorrow of Teresa," focus on themes of self-sacrifice, suffering, motherly love, and the embrace of faith amidst hardship. These narrative poems are followed by the beginning of "Marien’s Pilgrimage," an allegorical tale where a young girl, Marien, traverses the world bringing hope, comfort, and Christian charity to the suffering, downtrodden, and oppressed, embodying innocence and the redemptive power of love and goodness in her encounters. This opening sets a tone of warmth, spiritual reflection, compassion, and exemplary living, which permeates the collection. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Release date is 2025-05-06 The Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) Originally published: Philadelphia: John Locken, 1844 English poetry -- 19th century PR Philadelphia: John Locken, 1844 33016761 https://archive.org/details/poemsofmaryhowit00howi/page/n13/mode/2up https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76027 https://archive.org/details/poemsofmaryhowit00howi/page/n13/mode/2up https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76027 UtSlPG 260607 20260610134747.0 76027