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[Illustration: Yours Sincerely,

Elizabeth Porter Gould.]




    STRAY PEBBLES
    FROM THE
    SHORES OF THOUGHT

    BY
    ELIZABETH PORTER GOULD


    BOSTON
    PRESS OF T. O. METCALF & CO.
    1892




    COPYRIGHT 1892
    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                                  39


  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                                         