"Earth held no symbol, had no living sign     To image forth the mother's deathless love;     And so the tender care the righteous prove, Beneath the ever-watching Eye divine, Was given as type to show how pure a shrine     The mother's heart was hallow'd from above; And how her mortal hopes must intertwine     With hopes immortal; -- and she may not move From this high station which her Saviour seal'd When in maternal arms he lay reveal'd. Mrs. Hale's Poems from Dictionary of Poetical Quotations.

| Mother-Love |

• The Mother's Love, by Mrs. Ellis
  "... 'strong as death'..."

• "To My Mother," by George W. Bethune.
  "My mother ! ..."

• "The Gipsy Mother," by Mary Anne Browne.
  "A woman and a mother, and nought else, ..."

• Letter V from Letters to Mothers, by Mrs. L.H. Sigourney, 1838.
  "To love children is the dictate of our nature. ..."

• Engravings from Godey's Lady's Book, 1852.
  Depictions of mothers from the year of UTC's publication.