Stray Pebbles From the Shores of Thought

This is an absolutely wonderful book of poetry in the tradition of Walt Whitman, by Elizabeth Porter Gould.

CONTENTS.
Poems of Nature:
PAGE
To Walt Whitman 11
To Summer Hours 12
A True Vacation 13
A Question 14
To a Butterfly 16
In a Hammock 18
O rare, sweet summer day 20
An Old Man's Reverie 22
On Jefferson Hill 26
On Sugar Hill 28
At "Fairfield's," Wenham 29
Blossom-time 31
The Primrose 33
Joy, all Joy 35
Among the Pines 37
Conscious or Unconscious 39iv
Poems of Love:
Love's How and Why 43
Love's Guerdon 44
A Birthday Greeting 45
Three Kisses 48
If I were only sure 50
Absence 52
A Love Song 53
In Her Garden 55
Love's Wish 56
Is there anything purer 58
Longing 60
Young Love's Message 61
A Diary's Secret 63
A Monologue 65
A Priceless Gift 66
The Ocean's Moan 67
Love's Flower 70
Renunciation 71
Love Discrowned 74
A Widow's Heart Cry 76
Together 78
Shadowed Circles 80v
Miscellaneous Poems:
A Song of Success 85
The Under World 87
She Knows 88
At Pittsford, Vermont 90
Childhood's Days 92
An Answer 94
Where, What, Whence 96
Heroes 98
A Magdalen's Easter Cry 100
For the Anniversary of Mrs. Browning's Death 103
Robert Browning 105
To Neptune, in behalf of S. C. G. 107
To the Pansies growing on the grave of A. S. D. 109
A Broken Heart 111
My Release 113
The god of music 115
To Wilhelm Gericke 118
For E. T. F.
1.—After the birth of her son 119
2.—Upon the death of her son 121
To C. H. F. 123vi
An Anniversary Poem 126
A Comfort 128
An Anniversary 129
To Miss Elizabeth P. Peabody 131
At Life's Setting 133
Grandma Waiting 136
Does it Pay 144
Auxilium ab Alto 145
Limitations 147
The Muse of History 148
An Impromptu to G. H. T. 151
To Mrs. Partington 153
Lines for the Seventieth Birthday Anniversary of Walt Whitman 156
Sonnets:
The Known God 161
To Phillips Brooks 163
At the "Porter Manse" 165
Our Lady of the Manse 167
To B. P. Shillaber 169
To Our Mary 171
A Birthday Remembrance 173vii
Josef Hofmann 175
After the Denial 177
Gethsemane 179
On Lake Memphremagog 181
Luke 23: 24 183
To Members of my Home Club 185
For my little Nephews and Nieces:
Mamma's Lullaby 189
Warren's Song 190
Baby Mildred 192
Rosamond and Mildred 194
'Chilla 196
Childish Fancies 197
What little Bertram did 199
"Dear little Mac" 202
Willard and Florence on Mt. Wachusett 207
A little Brazilian 210
The little doubter 213
Our Kitty's Trick 217
A Message 220