Once in royal David's city Stood a lowly cattle-shed, Where a mother laid her baby In a manger for his bed. Mary was that mother mild, Jesus Christ her little child.

-Alexander, Cecil Frances
  'Once in Royal David's City'.

And when they were come into the house, they saw the young child with Mary his mother, and fell down, and worshipped him: and when they had opened their treasures, they presented unto him gifts; gold, and frankincense, and myrrh.

-Bible (NewTestament)
St Matthew 2:11.

And Mary said, Behold the handmaid of the Lord; be it unto me according to thy word. And the angel departed from her.

-Bible (NewTestament)
St Luke1:38.

And Mary said, My soul doth magnify the Lord, And my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Saviour. For he hath regarded the low estate of his handmaiden: for, behold, from henceforth all generations shall call me blessed. For he that is mighty hath done to me great things; and holy is his name. And his mercy is on them that fear him from generation to generation. He hath shewed strength with his arm; he hath scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts. He hath put down the mighty from their seats, and exalted them of low degree. He hath filled the hungry with good things; and the rich he hath sent emptyaway.

-Bible (NewTestament)
St Luke1:46^53.

But Martha was cumbered about much serving, and came to him, and said, Lord, dost thou not care that my sister hath left me to serve alone? bid her therefore that she help me. And Jesus answered and said unto her, Martha, Martha, thou art careful and troubled about many things: But one thing is needful: and Mary hath chosen that good part, which shall not be taken away from her.

-Bible (NewTestament)
St Luke10:40^2.

The first day of the weekcometh Mary Magdalene early, when it was yet dark, unto the sepulchre, and seeth the stone taken away from the sepulchre.

-Bible (NewTestament)
St  John 20:1.

Jesus saith unto her,Woman, why weepest thou? whom seekest thou? She, supposing him to be the gardener, saith unto him, Sir, if thou have borne him hence, tell me where thou hast laid him, and I will take him away.Jesus saith unto her, Mary. She turned herself, and saith unto him, Rabboni; which is to say, Master.Jesus saith unto her,Touch me not; for I am not yet ascended to my Father: but go to my brethren, and say unto them, I ascend unto my Father, and your Father; and to my God, and your God.

-Bible (NewTestament)
St  John 20:15^17. The Latin Vulgate translation of the Bible, ascribed to St  Jerome, famously renders the phrase'Do not touch me'as 'Noli me tangere'.

I believe in God the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth: And in Jesus Christ his only Son our Lord, Who was conceived by the Holy Ghost, Born of the Virgin Mary, Suffered under Pontius Pilate, Was crucified, dead, and buried: He descended into hell;The third day he rose again from the dead; He ascended into heaven, And sitteth on the right hand of God the Father Almighty; From thence he shall come to judge the quick and the dead. I believe in the Holy Ghost;The holy Catholick Church;The Communion of Saints;The Forgiveness of sins;The Resurrection of the body, And the life everlasting. Amen.

-Book of Common Prayer
Morning Prayer,  Apostle's Creed.

   The golden Hours, on angel wings, Flew o'er me and my Dearie; For dear to me as light and life Was my sweet Highland Mary.

-Burns, Robert
  'Highland Mary', stanza 2.

Hail Mary, quite contrary!

-Greene, (Henry) Graham
  Our Man in Havana, pt.1, ch.2.

Mary had a little lamb, Its fleece was white as snow, And everywhere that Mary went The lamb was sure to go.

-Hale, SarahJosepha ne¤  e Buell
  Poems for Our Children,'Mary's Little Lamb'.

'Oh Mary, go and call the cattle home, And call the cattle home, And call the cattle home, Across the sands of Dee.' The western wind was wild and dank with foam, And all alone went she.

-Kingsley, Charles
  Alton Locke, ch.26,'The Sands of Dee'.

And when the angels said: 'Mary,God has chosen thee, and purified thee; He has chosen theeabove all women. Mary be obedient to thy Lord, prostrating and bowing before Him.'

-The Koran
Sura 3, l.42^3

Good work, Mary.We all knew you had it in you.

-Parker, Dorothy ne¤  e Rothschild
On the arrival of a baby. Quoted in AlexanderWoollcott While Rome Burns (1934),'Our Mrs Parker'.

'We two,'she said,'will seek the groves Where the lady Mary is, With her five handmaidens, whose names Are five sweet symphonies, Cecily,Gertrude, Magdalen, Margaret and Rosalys.'

-Rossetti, Dante Gabriel
  Poems,'The Blessed Damozel', stanza18.