Project Gutenberg 2025-06-12 Public domain in the USA. 202 Aldrich, Julia Carter 1834 1924 Peters, Petresia Hazel bloom $aBuffalo, NY :$bCharles Wells Moulton, $c1899. Jamie Brydone-Jack and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) Hazel Bloom by Julia Carter Aldrich is a collection of lyric and devotional poems written in the late 19th century. The volume dwells on motherhood, home, nature’s cycles, Christian faith, and the moral texture of everyday joys and griefs, voiced by a contemplative, sympathetic speaker. Readers can expect meditations that move from flowers and landscapes to friendship, love, betrayal, death, and hope, seeking solace and purpose rather than spectacle. It will appeal to those who enjoy earnest, nature-rich, spiritually inflected verse. The opening of the collection frames its aim with a dedication to mothers and a “Weaver” who chooses humble threads to comfort real lives. It then shifts between meditations on mystery and calamity’s humanizing power, the restorative language of flowers and evening quiet, and love lyrics that weigh constancy, estrangement, and regret alongside lessons of hope (witch‑hazel), labor, and rest. Domestic and spiritual pieces recall a mother’s touch, prize home over wealth, honor unseen bonds of friendship, confront betrayal, challenge fatalism with will, and face death through Christian consolation; the poet also praises a freer muse over rigid forms and celebrates childhood Junes, field blossoms, and Yosemite’s grandeur. Hymnal affirmations of Resurrection, compassionate portraits of Christ, and calls to “feed my lambs” lead into personal supplication and gentle pastoral reveries, culminating in affectionate memories of a country home and its riverside landscape. (This is an automatically generated summary.) https://archive.org/details/hazelbloom00aldr/mode/2up?view=theater 20240302010104aldrich 1899 US Reading ease score: 67.2 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read. en American poetry -- 19th century PS Text Category: Poetry Category: American Literature Category: Religion/Spirituality 357186 2025-07-30T07:26:11.685437 text/html 328012 2025-06-12T17:16:54 text/html 611003 2025-07-30T07:26:23.524858 application/epub+zip 609923 2025-07-30T07:26:13.735400 application/epub+zip 260539 2025-07-30T07:26:12.573394 application/epub+zip 925111 2025-07-30T07:26:29.289822 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 852741 2025-07-30T07:26:22.624860 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 176169 2025-07-30T07:26:09.817435 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 156320 2025-06-12T17:16:54 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 13813 2025-07-30T07:26:29.467818 application/rdf+xml 11483 2025-07-30T07:26:12.975372 image/jpeg 1734 2025-07-30T07:26:12.737401 image/jpeg 602587 2025-07-30T07:26:11.765384 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia