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Hannah Flagg Gould
1789–1865
A popular 19th-century American poet, she wrote clear, graceful verse about nature, home, faith, and everyday feeling. Her work was widely read in her lifetime, especially by young readers, and poems such as "A Name in the Sand" helped keep her name alive.
2 Audiobooks
The Youth's Coronal
by Hannah Flagg Gould
The Mother's Dream, and Other Poems
by Hannah Flagg Gould
About the author
Born in Lancaster, Massachusetts, Hannah Flagg Gould later settled in Newburyport, where she spent most of her life. After her mother died when she was young, she cared for her father, a veteran of the Revolutionary War, and that close family life shaped the patriotic tone of some of her early writing.
She began publishing poetry in adulthood, and her first collection, Poems (1832), was reportedly brought out by friends without her knowledge. Gould went on to publish many volumes of verse and prose, becoming known for short, polished poems that often drew on nature, religion, domestic life, and moral reflection.
Though she is less widely read now than she was in the 1800s, she was once one of the best-known American women poets of her day. Readers still remember her for the gentle clarity of her style and for pieces like "A Name in the Sand."