ADAMS, SARAH FLOWER (1805-1848), English poet, was born at Great Harlow, Essex, Feb. 22, 1805. She was the daughter of Benjamin Flower and in 1834 married William Bridges Adams, inventor and pamphleteer. She was a Unitarian and her writings are chiefly religious. Her longest work, Vivia Perpetua (1841), a dramatic poem having for its subject the life of the early Christians, contains impressive passages. Besides various other poems, she wrote several beautiful hymns, the best known of which is "Nearer, My God, to Thee" (1840). She died in Aug. 1848.