Mary Elizabeth Coleridge (1861 – 1907) was a British novelist and poet, who also wrote journalism and essays, and taught. She wrote poetry under the pseudonym Anodos, taken from George MacDonald; other influences on her were Richard Watson Dixon and Christina Rossetti. She spent her life in London, living with her family.
She was distantly related to the literary Coleridges, being descended from a brother of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. She died of appendicitis...
Christmas Eve I saw a stable, low and very bare, A little child in a manger. The oxen knew Him, had Him in their care, To men He was a stranger, The safety of the world was lying there, And the world's danger.
