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100 1 _aChapman, Elizabeth Rachel,
_d1850-1902
245 1 2 _aA little child's wreath
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2026
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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490 1 _aFlowers of Parnassus, XXI
500 _aRelease date is 2026-01-16
508 _aRichard Tonsing and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
520 _aA little child's wreath by Elizabeth Rachel Chapman is a collection of elegiac sonnets written in the late 19th century (Victorian era). The book mourns a beloved child and seeks consolation in Christian faith, tender memory, and the quiet consolations of nature. The speaker moves from raw, daily ache—city streets and spring paths emptied by the child’s absence—through memories of his gentleness, trust, and love of flowers, toward visions that place him safely among angels and Dante’s mystic rose. Art and music cannot soothe as a child’s hymn can, yet prayer steadies grief; dreams briefly return the boy, or picture him sailing calmly heavenward. Portrait-like sonnets recall his innocent beauty and compassion, while meditations weigh what life he will not live—manly vigor, creative power, changing seasons, and the world’s moral awakenings. Turning to Christ’s blessing of children and the mercy of saints such as Francis of Assisi, the poems rebuke violence and cherish pity for all creatures. The sequence gradually yields from yearning to trust, ending in quiet acceptance: the child rests, and the mourner lays grief at God’s feet in a spirit of thankful peace. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cLondon: J. Lane, 1904
653 _aEnglish poetry -- 19th century
700 1 _aMeynell, Alice,
_d1847-1922
700 1 _aRobertson, W. Graham
_q(Walford Graham),
_d1866-1948
830 0 _aFlowers of Parnassus, XXI
856 4 _uhttps://archive.org/details/littlechildswrea00chapiala
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77707
999 _c118427
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