Stray Pebbles from the Shores of Thought

by Elizabeth Porter Gould

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STRAY PEBBLES
FROM THE
Shores of Thought

BY
ELIZABETH PORTER GOULD

BOSTON
Press of T. O. Metcalf & Co.
1892

COPYRIGHT 1892
BY
ELIZABETH PORTER GOULD

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[CONTENTS.]

Poems of Nature:
	PAGE
To Walt Whitman	[11]
To Summer Hours	[12]
A True Vacation	[13]
A Question	[14]
To a Butterfly	[16]
In a Hammock	[18]
O rare, sweet summer day	[20]
An Old Man's Reverie	[22]
On Jefferson Hill	[26]
On Sugar Hill	[28]
At "Fairfield's," Wenham	[29]
Blossom-time	[31]
The Primrose	[33]
Joy, all Joy	[35]
Among the Pines	[37]
Conscious or Unconscious	[39]
Poems of Love:
Love's How and Why	[43]
Love's Guerdon	[44]
A Birthday Greeting	[45]
Three Kisses	[48]
If I were only sure	[50]
Absence	[52]
A Love Song	[53]
In Her Garden	[55]
Love's Wish	[56]
Is there anything purer	[58]
Longing	[60]
Young Love's Message	[61]
A Diary's Secret	[63]
A Monologue	[65]
A Priceless Gift	[66]
The Ocean's Moan	[67]
Love's Flower	[70]
Renunciation	[71]
Love Discrowned	[74]
A Widow's Heart Cry	[76]
Together	[78]
Shadowed Circles	[80]
Miscellaneous Poems:
A Song of Success	[85]
The Under World	[87]
She Knows	[88]
At Pittsford, Vermont	[90]
Childhood's Days	[92]
An Answer	[94]
Where, What, Whence	[96]
Heroes	[98]
A Magdalen's Easter Cry	[100]
For the Anniversary of Mrs. Browning's Death	[103]
Robert Browning	[105]
To Neptune, in behalf of S. C. G.	[107]
To the Pansies growing on the grave of A. S. D.	[109]
A Broken Heart	[111]
My Release	[113]
The god of music	[115]
To Wilhelm Gericke	[118]
For E. T. F.
1.—After the birth of her son	[119]
2.—Upon the death of her son	[121]
To C. H. F.	[123]
An Anniversary Poem	[126]
A Comfort	[128]
An Anniversary	[129]
To Miss Elizabeth P. Peabody	[131]
At Life's Setting	[133]
Grandma Waiting	[136]
Does it Pay	[144]
Auxilium ab Alto	[145]
Limitations	[147]
The Muse of History	[148]
An Impromptu to G. H. T.	[151]
To Mrs. Partington	[153]
Lines for the Seventieth Birthday Anniversary of Walt Whitman	[156]
Sonnets:
The Known God	[161]
To Phillips Brooks	[163]
At the "Porter Manse"	[165]
Our Lady of the Manse	[167]
To B. P. Shillaber	[169]
To Our Mary	[171]
A Birthday Remembrance	[173]
Josef Hofmann	[175]
After the Denial	[177]
Gethsemane	[179]
On Lake Memphremagog	[181]
Luke 23: 24	[183]
To Members of my Home Club	[185]
For my little Nephews and Nieces:
Mamma's Lullaby	[189]
Warren's Song	[190]
Baby Mildred	[192]
Rosamond and Mildred	[194]
'Chilla	[196]
Childish Fancies	[197]
What little Bertram did	[199]
"Dear little Mac"	[202]
Willard and Florence on Mt. Wachusett	[207]
A little Brazilian	[210]
The little doubter	[213]
Our Kitty's Trick	[217]
A Message	[220]