The Flowery Pagoda

By Maud Hubbard Brown

Poems of an American in China in the early 20th century; looking at the mystery of the east from the perspective of the westerner, immersed in its mysterious paradox.

And then the poems of love and affection engendered from early marriage, as much a reflection of its ardor and continuing influences on her life. Evocative and yet sensible, too

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: Sep 1, 2011
• ISBN: 9781463442262

Maud Hubbard Brown

Maud Alice Hubbard Brown was born in Kansas City, Mo in 1888, and died in Temple City, CA in 1970, "The Flowery Pagoda" is a collection of her poetry, originally printed in Shanghai, China in 1930. She graduated from Park College, Parkville, Mo in the class of 1913. magna cum laude. Literature and writing was her "thing", and these poems summarize her China experiences, and evokes her early love for her husband, John Warner Brown, who also graduated from Park College in 1913. This is a reprint of the 1930 book, which was privately printed, to celebrate the 100th anniversary of their college graduation in 1913. The new edition includes a biography added for this printing

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First published by AuthorHouse 08/27/2011

ISBN: 978-1-4634-4228-6 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-4634-4227-9 (hc)

ISBN: 978-1-4634-4226-2 (ebk)

Library of Congress Control Number: 2011913339

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Contents

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

TO MY SISTER,

THE FLOWERY PAGODA

CHINA

CANTON MEDLEY

TO A CHINESE WORSHIPER

MIST LIGHTS

WILLOWS

THE IVORY CARVER

THE WIND OF GOD

SHANGHAI TOWN

THE WHEEL BARROW COOLIE

BEFORE THE TYPHOON

WEDDING PROCESSION

JUNE OF THE EAST

BOUND FEET

BURDEN BEARERS

LOTUS LEAVES

JUNK SAILS

NOSTALGIA

RECOMPENSE

EARTH’S LOVER

PREMONITION

SERENADE

DURANCE

GEE GAWS

MOTHERS

THE VISITANT

OCTOBER LULLABY

PROSCENIUM

FOUR

SONNETS

I

II

REALITY

MEMORY

NIGHT

QUATRAINS

I

II

III

BIRD ON THE BOUGH

SPRING DREAM

SEA SONG

BALCONY

SAILING

SONG

MOTHER LORE

THE CONQUEROR

HAPPINESS

WHEELS

ABSENCE

COSMOS

THE HIDDEN GARDEN

APOLOGIA

I

II

III

IV

V

VI

VII

VIII

IX

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

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Maud Alice Hubbard-Park College—1913

Maud Alice Hubbard Brown was born in Kansas City, Missouri in 1888, and died in Temple City, California in 1970 after a life that was singularly unusual. Her family broke up when she was about ten or eleven, her father, Lucius Francis Hubbard, was 65 years old when she was born, and her mother, Alice Bates, was just 25.

The family story goes that her maternal grandfather, William Bates, who was a carriage maker in Independence, Missouri, had