Hannah Flagg Gould

Hannah Flagg Gould (September 3, 1789 – September 5 1865) was a poet, born in Lancaster, Massachusetts. Flagg began writing poetry in her Thirties.

Quotes

 * 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.
 * "A Name In the Sand"


 * Wisdom, Power and Goodness meet In the bounteous field of wheat.
 * "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.
 * "The Rose-Bud of Autumn" in The Youth's Coronal (published 1850).


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

The Frost

 * 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."
 * Cited by Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable