Gould addressed these verses to the youth of her country, hoping to entertain and instruct at once. Small creatures and plants speak and act through them: a water-lily for sale, an angry hummingbird, a butterfly’s dream, a boy and a cricket, a stricken bird, and a mockingbird who borrows every song in the wood.
Graceful children’s poetry from a popular New England poet of the early nineteenth century. Download the free EPUB.