THE
MOTHER’S DREAM,
AND
OTHER POEMS.

BY
HANNAH F. GOULD.

BOSTON:
CROSBY, NICHOLS, & CO.
1853.


[CONTENTS.]

Page
[Blowing Bubbles,]1
[Infant Faith,]4
[Patty Proud,]6
[I caught a Bird,]9
[The Flower of Shells and Silver Wire,]11
[The little Blind Boy,]12
[The Sale of the Water Lily,]13
[The Silver Birdsnest,]18
[The Quaker Flower,]20
[The Humming-Bird’s Anger,]22
[The Sabbath,]24
[The departing Spirit,]26
[Sonnet,]27
[Father, hear,]28
[The Pilgrim’s Way Song,]29
[The rising Monument,]31
[A Name in the Sand,]34
[A Child of a Year and a Day,]35
[The Believer’s Mountains,]38
[The Night and the Morning,]41
[I shall be satisfied,]44
[The Penitential Tear,]46
[The Teachings of God,]48
[The Herald’s Cry in the Desert,]50
[Our Father’s Well,]52
[The Mother’s Dream,]56
[The War Spirit on Bunker’s Height,]60
[The inner Self,]64
[Time,]67
[My Head,]71
[The Wheat Field,]74
[The little Traveller,]76
[The entangled Fly,]78
[The Peach Blossoms,]80
[The broken Pipe,]82
[Vivy Vain,]85
[The Mocking-Bird,]89
[The Bird’s Home,]92
[The Bird uncaged,]93
[Dame Biddy,]95
[The envious Lobster,]100
[Kit with the Rose,]102
[The Storm in the Forest,]104
[The uprooted Elm,]106
[Through the Clouds,]108
[My Rose Tree,]110
[The Infant Baptist,]113
[Hymn to Solitude,]115
[The Bible in the Fields,]117
[The hoary Head,]120
[My Father,]121
[A Sage hath departed,]124
[The Burial of Schiller,]126
[Funeral Hymn for President Harrison,]129
[Dirge for Felicia Hemans,]131
[She died, as dawned her Natal Day,]133
[Written in an Album, after the Lines of a deceased Friend,]134
[The Sovereign of Babylon,]135
[The Deer Stricken by Torch-light,]137
[The Death of Sapphira,]139
[William at Sea,]142
[My Portrait,]146
[The Widow’s only Son,]148
[The Young Mother,]150
[Evening at Andover Seminary Hill,]152
[Hymn of the parting Class,]155
[The speckled one]157
[The Moon of a Wintry Night,]161
[Tom Tar,]165
[The Seaman’s Hymn,]170
[The Mariner’s Song of Departure,]172
[The Sea Eagle’s Fall,]174
[The caged Lion,]177
[The Traveller at the Red Sea,]179
[The Hebrew Captives,]181
[Fragments from “Esther,” a Poem,]182
[Gone in her Beauty,]185
[The Nun,]187
[Trees for the Pilgrim’s Wreath,]193
[The Mushroom’s Soliloquy,]194
[The Spirit and the Mountain,]195
[The Fall of the Statue,]197
[The Bird’s Maternal Care,]201
[Song,]205
[The White Moth,]207
[Edward and Charles,]209
[Music of the Crickets,]213
[Childhood’s Dream,]216
[The Fruit Tree Blossom,]218
[The Plymouth Apple declined,]220
[The half Apple,]222
[The Horticulturist’s Table-Hymn,]224
[The Whip-poor-will,]227
[The Autumnal Rose-bud,]230
[To L. A. E. on her Wedding-day,]231
[To Mrs. H. F. L.]233
[Music,]235

[POEMS.]

[BLOWING BUBBLES.]