A Thought for Washing Day

by Julia Ward Howe

  


This poem was written between 1879-1882, published in her daughters' biography, Julia Ward Howe (1819-1910), which earned Laura E. Richards and Maud Howe Elliott the Pulitzer Prize in 1917.
A Thought for Washing DayHelen Allingham, Drying Clothes

  The clothes-line is a Rosary Of household help and care; Each little saint the Mother loves Is represented there. And when across her garden plot She walks, with thoughtful heed, I should not wonder if she told Each garment for a bead. A stranger passing, I salute The Household in its wear, And smile to think how near of kin Are love and toil and prayer.


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