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Mother's Dream, and Other Poems

This is a volume of poetry by Hannah Flagg Gould. Ms Gould was an immensely popular author of children's poetry during her lifetime, and her poems will still be enjoyed by children as well as adults today. - Summary by Carolin (5 hr 6 min)

Chapters

Blowing Bubbles

Infant Faith

Patty Proud

I caught a Bird

The Flower of Shells and Silver Wire

The little Blind Boy

The Sale of the Water Lily

The Silver Birdsnest

The Quaker Flower

The Humming-Bird’s Anger

The Sabbath

The departing Spirit

Sonnet

Father, hear

The Pilgrim’s Way Song

The rising Monument

A Name in the Sand

A Child of a Year and a Day

The Believer’s Mountains

The Night and the Morning

I shall be satisfied

The Penitential Tear

The Teachings of God

The Herald’s Cry in the Desert

Our Father’s Well

The Mother’s Dream

The War Spirit on Bunker’s Height

The inner Self

Time

My Head

The Wheat Field

The little Traveller

The entangled Fly

The Peach Blossoms

The broken Pipe

Vivy Vain

The Mocking-Bird

The Bird’s Home

The Bird uncaged

Dame Biddy

The envious Lobster

Kit with the Rose

The Storm in the Forest

The uprooted Elm

Through the Clouds

My Rose Tree

The Infant Baptist

Hymn to Solitude

The Bible in the Fields

The hoary Head

My Father

A Sage hath departed

The Burial of Schiller

Funeral Hymn for President Harrison

Dirge for Felicia Hemans

She died, as dawned her Natal Day

Written in an Album, after the Lines of a deceased Friend

The Sovereign of Babylon

The Deer Stricken by Torch-light

The Death of Sapphira

William at Sea

My Portrait

The Widow’s only Son

The Young Mother

Evening at Andover Seminary Hill

Hymn of the parting Class

The speckled one

The Moon of a Wintry Night

Tom Tar

The Seaman’s Hymn

The Mariner’s Song of Departure

The Sea Eagle’s Fall

The caged Lion

The Traveller at the Red Sea

The Hebrew Captives

Fragments from 'Esther,' a Poem

Gone in her Beauty

The Nun

Trees for the Pilgrim’s Wreath

The Mushroom’s Soliloquy

The Spirit and the Mountain

The Fall of the Statue

The Bird’s Maternal Care

Song

The White Moth

Edward and Charles

Music of the Crickets

Childhood’s Dream

The Fruit Tree Blossom

The Plymouth Apple declined

The half Apple

The Horticulturist’s Table-Hymn

The Whip-poor-will

The Autumnal Rose-bud

To L. A. E. on her Wedding-day

To Mrs. H. F. L.

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