<P> The nursery rhyme was first published by the Boston publishing firm Marsh , Capen & Lyon , as a poem by Sarah Josepha Hale on May 24 , 1830 , and was possibly inspired by an actual incident . </P>
<P> The nursery rhyme was first published by the Boston publishing firm Marsh , Capen & Lyon , as a poem by Sarah Josepha Hale on May 24 , 1830 , and was possibly inspired by an actual incident . </P>
who wrote the poem mary had a little lamb
who wrote the poem mary had a little lamb
Sarah Josepha Hale
Sarah Josepha Hale