Excerpt from Little Poems in a Mother's Life

T is through the earnest solicitation of friends that these poems are given to the public. They were written in odd moods and moments, amid the duties and cares of the household: sometimes sitting by the baby's cradle, oftener amid the children's prattle in the nursery, and some of them in the still hours after the day's duties were over and the little ones asleep. Then the consciousness of duties imperfectly performed, and other responsibilities of a mother's life, pressed heavily, and the song that was sung was the over¿owing of the tired soul. Some of the songs strayed into print, and have been widely circulated, and letters have come to us from mothers whom we have never seen, expressing the comfort and sympathy they have derived from them. Trusting that these poems may be a bond of unity between the hearts of many mothers who have had the same experience, the author submits them with tenderest.

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