Cornelia Laws St. John

Cornelia Laws St. John (, Williams; after first marriage, Laws; after second marriage, St. John; died February 24, 1902) was an American poet and biographer. She was the author of "Over the Shoulder is Clovernook, Being a Backward Glance at Alice and Phoebe Cary in Their Early Home". Her best known poem was Six Little Feet on the Fender.

Early life and education Cornelia Ellicott Williams was born in College Hill, Ohio, near Cincinnati. Her father was M. C. Williams of College Hill. She had at least one sibling, a brother, Wilber W. Williams, who became the pay inspector of the U.S. Navy.

"Six Little Feet on the Fender" In my heart there liveth a picture, Of a kitchen rude and old, Where the firelight tripped o'er the rafters, And reddened the roof's brown mould; Gilding the steam from the kettle That hummed on the foot-worn hearth, Throughout all the livelong evening Its measure of drowsy mirth.

Selected works Poems "The Empty Chair", 1856 "Six Little Feet on the Fender", 1857 (by Cornelia W. Laws) "Behind the Post", 1857

Articles "Over the Shoulder to Clovernook, Being a Backward Glance at Alice and Phoebe Cary in Their Early Home", 1892 (by Cornelia Laws-St. John)