Sarah Fuller Flower Adams

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Sarah Fuller Flower Adams (February 22, 1805 – August 14, 1848) was an English poet.

She was born at Harlow, Essex, and married William Bridges Adams in 1834. Her longest work is Vivia Perpetua, A Dramatic Poem (1841), having as its subject the early life of the Christians.

Mrs. Adams was the author of several hymns, among which are "Nearer, my God, to Thee" and "He sendeth sun, He sendeth shower." She was a Unitarian.

Sarah Adams was married to William Bridges Adams, polemicist and railway engineer. She lived at Loughton Essex, where there is a blue plaque to the couple. She died from tuberculosis at the age of 43.

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