Hannah Flagg Gould

Thou tiny leaf,
Thou art so small, so very small,
I must be brief,
If I would sully thee at all,…

And these would sometimes come, and cheer
The widow with a song,
To let her feel a neighbor near,
And wing an hour along.A pond, supplied by hidden springs,…

A tulip, just opened, had offered to hold
A butterfly gaudy and gay;
And rocked in his cradle of crimson and gold,
The careless young slumberer lay.For the butterfly slept;--as such thoughtless ones will,…

At length I have thee! my brisk new-comer,
Sounding thy lay to departing summer;
And I'll take thee up from thy bed of grass,
And carry thee home to a house of glass;…

Lucy, Lucy, come away!
Never climb for things so high.
Don't you know, the other day,
What fell out with Fanny Spy?Fanny spied, a loaf of cake,…