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Sarah S. Mower
A 19th-century American poet whose only widely documented book, The Snow-Drop: A Holiday Gift (1851), grew out of a life shaped by illness, solitude, and deep religious feeling. Her poems turn everyday nature, family affection, and faith into quiet, heartfelt verse.
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The Snow-Drop A Holiday Gift
by Sarah S. Mower
About the author
Little is firmly documented about Sarah S. Mower, but the surviving record shows her as an American poet from northern New England. Her best-known work is The Snow-Drop: A Holiday Gift, first published in 1851 and now preserved by Project Gutenberg and cataloged by LibriVox.
The book's original preface says she had been ill since early childhood, a hardship that kept her from ordinary schooling and from much of the social world. That background helps explain the intimate tone of her poems, which often dwell on home life, memory, flowers, grief, moral reflection, and Christian devotion.
Although she does not seem to have left a large published body of work, The Snow-Drop gives a clear sense of her voice: earnest, gentle, and closely attentive to the natural world. For listeners interested in overlooked 19th-century writers, her work offers a small but revealing window into the emotional and spiritual life of early American verse.