Hannah Flagg Gould Quotes

“I am feeble, pale and weary,
And my wings are nearly furled;
I have caused a scene so dreary,
I am glad to quit the world!
With bitterness I'm thinking
On the evil I have done,
And to my caverns sinking
From the coming of the sun.”

Hannah Flagg Gould

"The Dying Storm" in Poems (published 1835), p. 59.

“The Frost looked forth one still, clear night,
And he said, "Now I shall be out of sight;
So through the valley and over the height
In silence I'll take my way."”

Hannah Flagg Gould

Cited by Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
The Frost

“Wisdom, Power and Goodness meet
In the bounteous field of wheat.”

Hannah Flagg Gould

"The Wheatfield"

“Come out — pretty Rose-Bud, — my lone, timid one!
Come forth from thy green leaves, and peep at the sun!
For little he does, in these dull autumn hours,
At height'ning of beauty, or laughing with flowers.”

Hannah Flagg Gould

"The Rose-Bud of Autumn" in The Youth's Coronal (published 1850).

“Alone I walked on the ocean strand,
A pearly shell was in my hand;
I stooped, and wrote upon the sand
My name, the year, the day.
As onward from the sport I passed,
One lingering look behind I cast,
A wave came rolling high and fast,
And washed my lines away.”

Hannah Flagg Gould

"A Name In the Sand"