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Hannah F. Gould |
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Gould, Hannah Flagg, 1789-1865 |
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1789 |
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1865 |
Gould, Hannah Flagg, was born at Lancaster, Vermont, in 1789. In her youth her father removed to Newbury-port, Massachusetts. She died in 1865. Her Poems were published in 1832, 1835, and 1841. From these Poems the following pieces are taken:—
1. Alone I walked the ocean strand.
2. Day of God, thou blessed day. (1841.) Sunday.
3. O Thou Who hast spread out the skies. (1832.) For Use at Sea.
4. O Father, to the fields that are ripe. Harvest.
5. Who, when darkness gathered o'er us. American National Hymn.
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)
Hannah Flagg Gould (September 3, 1789 – September 5, 1865) was a 19th-century American poet. Her father had been a soldier in the American Revolutionary War, and after her mother's death, she became his constant companion, which accounts for the patriotism 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 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".
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