Poetry Codex

American

Hannah Flagg Gould

1789–1865

Hannah Flagg Gould (1789–1865) was born in Lancaster, Vermont, and lived most of her life in Newburyport, Massachusetts. She was a popular American writer of light and children's verse, as well as of occasional, sacred and memorial poems, and her work appeared in periodicals and in several volumes of poetry for children and adults.

The poems here come from two of her books: The Mother's Dream, and Other Poems (Boston: Crosby, Nichols, 1853) and The Youth's Coronal (1851), a gift book of verse for young readers. Poems that appear in both books are given once, in their 1853 text.

Poems (138)

  1. Blowing Bubbles
  2. Infant Faith
  3. Patty Proud
  4. I Caught a Bird
  5. The Flower of Shells and Silver Wire
  6. The Little Blind Boy
  7. The Sale of the Water-Lily
  8. The Silver Birdsnest
  9. The Quaker Flower
  10. The Humming-Bird's Anger
  11. The Sabbath
  12. The Departing Spirit
  13. Sonnet
  14. Father, Hear!
  15. The Pilgrim's Way Song
  16. The Rising Monument
  17. A Name in the Sand
  18. The Child of a Year and a Day
  19. The Believer's Mountains
  20. The Night and the Morning
  21. I Shall Be Satisfied
  22. The Penitential Tear
  23. Teachings of God
  24. The Herald's Cry in the Desert
  25. Our Father's Well
  26. The Mother's Dream
  27. The War-Spirit on Bunker's Height
  28. The Inner Self
  29. Time
  30. My Head
  31. The Wheat Field
  32. The Little Traveller
  33. The Entangled Fly
  34. The Peach Blossoms
  35. The Broken Pipe
  36. Vivy Vain
  37. The Mocking Bird
  38. The Bird's Home
  39. The Bird Uncaged
  40. Dame Biddy
  41. The Envious Lobster
  42. Kit with the Rose
  43. The Storm in the Forest
  44. The Uprooted Elm
  45. Through the Clouds
  46. My Rose Tree
  47. The Infant Baptist
  48. Hymn to Solitude
  49. The Bible in the Fields
  50. The Hoary Head
  51. My Father
  52. A Sage Hath Departed
  53. The Burial of Schiller
  54. Funeral Hymn for President Harrison
  55. Dirge for Felicia Hemans
  56. She Died, as Dawned Her Natal Day
  57. Written in an Album, After the Lines of a Deceased Friend
  58. The Sovereign of Babylon
  59. The Deer Stricken by Torch-Light
  60. The Death of Sapphira
  61. William at Sea
  62. My Portrait
  63. The Widow's Only Son
  64. The Young Mother
  65. Evening at Andover Seminary-Hill
  66. Hymn of the Parting Class
  67. The Speckled One
  68. The Moon of a Wintry Night
  69. Tom Tar
  70. The Seaman's Hymn
  71. The Mariner's Song of Departure
  72. The Sea-Eagle's Fall
  73. The Caged Lion
  74. The Traveller at the Red Sea
  75. The Hebrew Captives
  76. Fragments from "Esther," a Poem
  77. Gone in Her Beauty
  78. The Nun
  79. Trees for the Pilgrim's Wreath
  80. The Mushroom's Soliloquy
  81. The Spirit and the Mountain
  82. The Fall of the Statue
  83. The Bird's Maternal Care
  84. Song
  85. The White Moth
  86. Edward and Charles
  87. Music of the Crickets
  88. Childhood's Dream
  89. The Fruit-Tree Blossom
  90. The Plymouth Apple Declined
  91. The Half Apple
  92. The Horticulturist's Table-Hymn
  93. The Whip-Poor-Will
  94. The Autumn Rose-Bud
  95. To L. A. E. on Her Wedding-Day
  96. To Mrs. H. F. L
  97. Music
  98. The Butterfly's Dream
  99. The Boy and the Cricket
  100. Fanny Spy
  101. Sudden Elevation
  102. The Stricken Bird
  103. The Young Sportsman
  104. The Pebble and the Acorn
  105. The Grasshopper and the Ant
  106. Frost, the Winter-Sprite
  107. The Lost Kite
  108. The Summer-Morning Ramble
  109. The Shoemaker
  110. The Snow-Storm
  111. The Whirlwind
  112. The Disobedient Skater Boys
  113. Winter and Spring
  114. The Crocus' Soliloquy
  115. The Bee, Clover, and Thistle
  116. Poor Old Paul
  117. The Two Thieves
  118. Jemmy String
  119. The Caterpillar
  120. The Silk-Worm's Will
  121. The Captive Butterfly
  122. The Dissatisfied Angler Boy
  123. The Stove and Grate-Setter
  124. Song of the Bees
  125. Summer Is Come
  126. The Morning-Glory
  127. The Old Cotter and His Cow
  128. The Blind Musician
  129. The Lame Horse
  130. The Lost Nestlings
  131. The Bat's Flight by Daylight
  132. Idle Jack
  133. David and Goliath
  134. Escape of the Doves
  135. The Mountain Minstrel
  136. The Veteran and the Child
  137. Captain Kidd
  138. The Dying Storm

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