Gould, Hannah Flagg (F)

b. 3 September 1789. d. 5 September 1865. Nationality: American. VIAF.
Poet, essayist, children’s writer. Born in Lancaster, Massachusetts, and lived with her family in Newburyport from 1808. Daughter of Benjamin Gould. Often wrote about her father’s military career in her poetry and maintained a close relationship with her father throughout her life. Began writing for periodicals in her mid-thirties. Gould never married. Author of *Poems* (1832, 1836, 1841), *The Rising Monument* (1840), *The Mother’s Dream, and Other Poems* (1853), *Hymns and Other Poems for Children* (1854), *Poems for Little Ones* (1863). Biographical information: *ANB*. (SP, AC)

Poems associated with this person

Total poems: 17
Poem title Date Periodical Roles id #
Blowing Bubbles 1838 Forget-Me-Not Poet 15800
A Dream of Music 1838 Forget-Me-Not Poet 15790
Serenade 1839 Forget-Me-Not Poet 15346
The Little Blind Boy 1839 Forget-Me-Not Poet 15356
Song 1842 Forget-Me-Not Poet 15429
American Wild Flowers, for Queen Victoria 1842 Forget-Me-Not Poet 15416
Monody 1843 Forget-Me-Not Poet 15396
The Sleeping Albatross 1843 Forget-Me-Not Poet 15407
The Old Birdsnest 1844 Forget-Me-Not Poet 15457
My Father 1844 Forget-Me-Not Poet 15459
To the Stars 1844 Forget-Me-Not Poet 15465
The Departed 1845 Forget-Me-Not Poet 15823
The Flowers 1845 Forget-Me-Not Poet 15817
The Lily of the Vale 1845 Forget-Me-Not Poet 15845
The Rainbow 1846 Forget-Me-Not Poet 15483
Harp of Zion 1847 Forget-Me-Not Poet 15516
The Ignis Fatuus 1847 Forget-Me-Not Poet 15507