759:
242:, as a few specimens which found their way into the journals amply indicated. It was however in such pieces as "Jack Frost", "The Pebble and the Acorn", and other effusions devoted to graceful details of nature, or suggestive incidents in life, that the public recognised the graceful play of her muse. No outdoor forms of life were too simple or too tiny forher to notice. She made things of nature think and speak as if they were real persons. Often by a dainty touch, or lively prelude, gentle raillery revealed itself, and in this respect, Gould manifested a decided individuality. Gould seemed as fond as Aesop or La Fontaine of investing every thing in nature with a human intelligence. It was surprising to see how frequently and how happily birds, insects, trees, flowers, and pebbles were made her colloquists.
201:(1912):— "Her independence of thought sometimes led to her being classified as 'strong-minded', a term that in those days was not infrequently applied to women of originality; but, as she was a literary woman, Newburyport easily forgave the fact of her ability to think for herself. Eccentric she undeniably was, but she was kind-hearted as well, and her talents were appreciated." Gould led a quiet life in the homestead where she resided for half a century — a life that would have been as secluded as it was unostentatious but for her genial hospitality and the many visitors and distinguished authors who sought her acquaintance. Her nephew was the noted astronomer
155:, and in the face of all the privations and discouragements of that long and often hopeless war remained, in the army until it was disbanded. In "The Scar of Lexington", "The Revolutionary Soldier's Request", "The Veteran and the Child", and several other pieces, she may have referred to him. Gould's history was in a peculiar degree and in an honorable manner identified with her father's. In her youth, he re-moved to Newburyport, near Boston, and for many years before his death, she was his housekeeper, his constant companion, and the chief source of his happiness.
130:
251:
778:
164:
665:
644:
623:
600:
575:
550:
527:
144:, September 3, 1789. Her parents were Benjamin Gould (1751-1841) and Grizzell Apthorp "Griselda" (Flagg) Gould. She was named after her grandmother Hannah (Pitbull) Flagg. Hannah had ten siblings. In addition to her, three other siblings received Flagg for a middle name, John, Grizzel, and Gershom. The other seven were Esther, Benjamin, Apthorp, Rebecca, Sarah, Mary, and Elizabeth.
217:
remarked that it was "impossible to find fault. It is so sweet and unpretending, so pure in purpose and so gentle in expression that criticism is disarmed of all severity and engaged to say nothing of it but good. It is poetry for a sober, quiet, kindly-affectioned
Christian heart. It is poetry for a
233:
According to
Griswold (1852), her most distinguishing characteristic was sprightliness. Her poetical vein seldom rose above the fanciful, but in her vivacity there was both wit and cheerfulness. She needed apparently but the provocation of a wider social inspiration to become very clever and apt in
193:
She was widely known in her day as the author of numberless poems and prose sketches, and hundreds of school children were reciting her lines. She was one of two women of her time who published poems on geology, hers being "The
Mastodon" (1847), while Felicia Dorothea Heman's work, "Epitaph for a
120:
of her earlier verses. Gould's poems were short, but they were frequently nearly perfect in their kind. Nearly all of them appeared originally in annuals, magazines, and other miscellanies, and their popularity was shown by the subsequent sale of several collective editions. Her work exercised a
101:
194:
Mineralogist" was published in 1836. The poem "Jack Frost" put his merry pranks to the front and prepared the way for science to give him a true analysis. "A Name in the Sand" was a poem to correct our ready overestimate of our own importance. "The Snow Flake" was considered of rare merit.
587:
The
History of Augusta, from the Earliest Settlement to the Present Time: With Notices of the Plymouth Company, and Settlements on the Kennebec; Together with Biographical Sketches and Genealogical Register
182:
Early in her career, she wrote for several periodicals, and in 1832, her poetical pieces were collected in a volume. In 1835 and in 1841, second and third volumes appeared, each titled simply
218:
united family circle in their hours of peace and leisure. For such companionship it was made, and into such it will find, and has found, its way". One of her more popular verses,
31:
260:
365:
121:
helpful influence in its day, but lacked staying qualities. The high-water mark of her verse was reached in the poem entitled "A Name in the Sand".
822:
817:
635:
Notes and
Queries and Historic Magazine: A Monthly History, Folk-lore, Mathematics, Literature, Science, Art, Arcane Societies, Etc
707:
812:
171:
832:
734:
178:, at its quarter-centennial anniversary, September 12, 1873, in the Boston Music Hall. Words by Hannah Flagg Gould.
359:
198:
112:(September 3, 1789 – September 5, 1865) was a 19th-century American poet. Her father had been a soldier in the
827:
163:
175:
783:
152:
148:
134:
113:
354:
141:
681:
566:
562:
Poems that Every Child Should Know: A Selection of the Best Poems of All Times for Young People
202:
697:
633:
610:
591:
537:
726:
654:
807:
802:
116:, and after her mother's death, she became his constant companion, which accounts for the
8:
358:
129:
675:
560:
259:
by Hannah F. Gould from a child's reading book "Williams's Choice
Literature Book 4" by
787:
350:
227:
754:
730:
719:
703:
585:
763:
223:
151:. The father was one of the small company who fought in the first battle of the
750:
399:
397:
395:
796:
669:
648:
627:
604:
579:
554:
531:
497:
J. C. L. Clark, "Lines
Written on the Sands", in Bertram Waldrom Matz, ed.,
392:
250:
615:
The
Classic and the Beautiful from the Literature of Three Thousand Years
190:. A new edition, embracing many new poems, was in preparation in 1848.
117:
186:. In 1846, she collected a volume of her prose compositions, titled
30:
772:
768:
100:
668:
This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the
647:
This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the
626:
This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the
603:
This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the
578:
This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the
553:
This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the
530:
This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the
479:
455:
239:
426:
424:
717:
Kass-Simon, Gabriele; Farnes, Patricia; Nash, Deborah (1993).
680:(Public domain ed.). Charles E. Merrill Company. p.
535:
403:
696:
Appleby, Joyce; Chang, Eileen; Goodwin, Neva (17 July 2015).
421:
222:, was often mis-attributed to better-known authors, such as
544:(Public domain ed.). American Unitarian Association.
382:
380:
378:
376:
445:
443:
441:
439:
784:
467:
504:
373:
716:
461:
436:
695:
590:(Public domain ed.). Clapp and North. p.
565:(Public domain ed.). Doubleday, Page. p.
485:
409:
270:(Boston: Hilliard, Gray, Little, and Wilkins, 1832)
718:
282:(3 vols., Boston: Hilliard, Gray & Co., 1836)
794:
638:(Public domain ed.). S.C. & L.M. Gould.
170:, sung at the grand social banquet given by the
617:(Public domain ed.). Carson & Simpson.
583:
430:
205:. She died at Newburyport, September 5, 1865.
786:, Houghton Library, Harvard College Library,
611:"Hannah Flagg Gould, by Charles D. Cleveland"
324:(Boston: William J. Reynolds & Co., 1854)
300:(Boston: William J. Reynolds & Co., 1850)
306:(Boston: Phillips, Sampson, & Co., 1851)
366:Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography
349:
345:
343:
318:(Boston: Crosby, Nichols, & Co., 1853)
29:
699:Encyclopedia of Women in American History
652:
538:"Hannah Flagg Gould, by Oscar Fay Adams"
386:
340:
292:Gathered Leaves and Miscellaneous Papers
249:
162:
128:
823:Writers from Newburyport, Massachusetts
536:American Unitarian Association (1912).
312:(New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1851)
795:
673:
608:
510:
449:
330:(Boston: Taggard & Thompson, 1863)
721:Women of Science: Righting the Record
659:(Public domain ed.). H.C. Baird.
631:
415:
286:The Golden Vase, a Gift for the Young
760:Works by or about Hannah Flagg Gould
725:. Indiana University Press. p.
558:
473:
818:19th-century American women writers
404:American Unitarian Association 1912
316:The Mother's Dream, and other Poems
294:(Boston: William J. Reynolds, 1846)
208:
172:Massachusetts Horticultural Society
147:While a child, her father moved to
13:
462:Kass-Simon, Farnes & Nash 1993
322:Hymns and Other Poems for Children
288:(Boston: Benjamin J. Mussey, 1843)
14:
844:
744:
677:A City Reader for the Fourth Year
486:Appleby, Chang & Goodwin 2015
245:
776:
663:
642:
621:
598:
573:
548:
525:
99:
689:
653:Griswold, Rufus Wilmot (1852).
632:Gould, Sylvester Clark (1892).
491:
213:Of her poetry, a writer in the
140:Hannah Flagg Gould was born in
519:
274:Esther: A Scriptural Narrative
199:American Unitarian Association
124:
1:
559:Burt, Mary Elizabeth (1904).
334:
276:(New York: D. Appleton, 1835)
674:Leland, Abby Porter (1916).
176:American Pomological Society
7:
813:19th-century American poets
775:(public domain audiobooks)
769:Works by Hannah Flagg Gould
751:Works by Hannah Flagg Gould
656:The Female Poets of America
133:Hannah Flagg Gould home in
10:
849:
153:American Revolutionary War
149:Newburyport, Massachusetts
135:Newburyport, Massachusetts
114:American Revolutionary War
70:Newburyport, Massachusetts
254:Illustration for the poem
158:
98:
93:
83:
75:
56:
37:
28:
21:
833:Poets from Massachusetts
584:Clapp and North (1870).
369:. New York: D. Appleton.
142:Lancaster, Massachusetts
51:Lancaster, Massachusetts
360:"Gould, Benjamin"
304:The Diosma: a Perennial
609:Coppée, Henry (1898).
542:The Unitarian Register
263:
257:The Silver Bird's Nest
203:Benjamin Apthorp Gould
179:
137:
328:Poems for Little Ones
253:
166:
132:
828:American women poets
431:Clapp and North 1870
89:"A Name in the Sand"
310:The Youth's Coronal
788:Harvard University
476:, p. 39, 256.
264:
228:George D. Prentice
220:A Name in the Sand
215:Christian Examiner
180:
138:
110:Hannah Flagg Gould
23:Hannah Flagg Gould
755:Project Gutenberg
709:978-1-317-47162-2
197:According to the
107:
106:
67:September 5, 1865
48:September 3, 1789
840:
780:
779:
764:Internet Archive
740:
724:
713:
685:
667:
666:
660:
646:
645:
639:
625:
624:
618:
602:
601:
595:
577:
576:
570:
552:
551:
545:
529:
528:
514:
508:
502:
495:
489:
483:
477:
471:
465:
459:
453:
447:
434:
428:
419:
413:
407:
401:
390:
384:
371:
370:
362:
347:
261:Sherman Williams
209:Style and themes
103:
86:
66:
64:
47:
45:
33:
19:
18:
848:
847:
843:
842:
841:
839:
838:
837:
793:
792:
777:
747:
737:
710:
692:
664:
643:
622:
599:
574:
549:
526:
522:
517:
509:
505:
501:(1908), p. 303.
496:
492:
484:
480:
472:
468:
460:
456:
448:
437:
429:
422:
414:
410:
402:
393:
385:
374:
357:, eds. (1900).
348:
341:
337:
255:
248:
224:Charles Dickens
211:
188:Gathered Leaves
161:
127:
84:
71:
68:
62:
60:
52:
49:
43:
41:
24:
17:
12:
11:
5:
846:
836:
835:
830:
825:
820:
815:
810:
805:
791:
790:
781:
766:
757:
746:
745:External links
743:
742:
741:
735:
714:
708:
691:
688:
687:
686:
661:
640:
619:
596:
571:
546:
521:
518:
516:
515:
513:, p. 140.
503:
499:The Dickensian
490:
488:, p. 112.
478:
466:
454:
452:, p. 256.
435:
433:, p. 861.
420:
418:, p. 182.
408:
406:, p. 947.
391:
372:
338:
336:
333:
332:
331:
325:
319:
313:
307:
301:
295:
289:
283:
277:
271:
247:
246:Selected works
244:
210:
207:
160:
157:
126:
123:
105:
104:
96:
95:
91:
90:
87:
81:
80:
77:
73:
72:
69:
58:
54:
53:
50:
39:
35:
34:
26:
25:
22:
15:
9:
6:
4:
3:
2:
845:
834:
831:
829:
826:
824:
821:
819:
816:
814:
811:
809:
806:
804:
801:
800:
798:
789:
785:
782:
774:
770:
767:
765:
761:
758:
756:
752:
749:
748:
738:
736:0-253-20813-0
732:
728:
723:
722:
715:
711:
705:
702:. Routledge.
701:
700:
694:
693:
683:
679:
678:
671:
670:public domain
662:
658:
657:
650:
649:public domain
641:
637:
636:
629:
628:public domain
620:
616:
612:
606:
605:public domain
597:
593:
589:
588:
581:
580:public domain
572:
568:
564:
563:
556:
555:public domain
547:
543:
539:
533:
532:public domain
524:
523:
512:
507:
500:
494:
487:
482:
475:
470:
464:, p. 50.
463:
458:
451:
446:
444:
442:
440:
432:
427:
425:
417:
412:
405:
400:
398:
396:
389:, p. 45.
388:
387:Griswold 1852
383:
381:
379:
377:
368:
367:
361:
356:
352:
351:Wilson, J. G.
346:
344:
339:
329:
326:
323:
320:
317:
314:
311:
308:
305:
302:
299:
296:
293:
290:
287:
284:
281:
278:
275:
272:
269:
266:
265:
262:
258:
252:
243:
241:
237:
236:jeux d'esprit
231:
229:
225:
221:
216:
206:
204:
200:
195:
191:
189:
185:
177:
173:
169:
165:
156:
154:
150:
145:
143:
136:
131:
122:
119:
115:
111:
102:
97:
92:
88:
82:
78:
74:
59:
55:
40:
36:
32:
27:
20:
16:American poet
720:
698:
690:Bibliography
676:
655:
634:
614:
586:
561:
541:
506:
498:
493:
481:
469:
457:
411:
364:
327:
321:
315:
309:
303:
297:
291:
285:
279:
273:
267:
256:
235:
232:
219:
214:
212:
196:
192:
187:
183:
181:
167:
146:
139:
109:
108:
85:Notable work
808:1865 deaths
803:1789 births
520:Attribution
511:Leland 1916
450:Coppée 1898
125:Early years
797:Categories
416:Gould 1892
335:References
118:patriotism
76:Occupation
63:1865-09-05
44:1789-09-03
474:Burt 1904
355:Fiske, J.
298:New Poems
94:Signature
773:LibriVox
240:epigrams
762:at the
672::
651::
630::
607::
582::
557::
534::
174:to the
733:
706:
159:Career
280:Poems
268:Poems
184:Poems
731:ISBN
704:ISBN
238:and
226:and
79:Poet
57:Died
38:Born
771:at
753:at
682:140
592:861
168:Ode
799::
729:.
727:50
613:.
567:39
540:.
438:^
423:^
394:^
375:^
363:.
353:;
342:^
230:.
739:.
712:.
684:.
594:.
569:.
65:)
61:(
46:)
42:(
Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. Additional terms may apply.
