Poems by a Little Girl
Conkling, Hilda
HILDA
POEMS
BY A LITTLE GIRL
BY
HILDA CONKLING
WITH A PREFACE BY
AMY LOWELL
NEW YORK
FREDERICK A. STOKES COMPANY
PUBLISHERS
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Copyright, 1920, by
FREDERICK A. STOKES COMPANY
All rights reserved, including that of translation
into foreign languages, including
the Scandinavian.
First Printing, March 29, 1920
Second Printing, July 19, 1920
Third Printing, May 12, 1921
Fourth Printing, November 16, 1921
Fifth Printing, February 23, 1923
Sixth Printing, July 22, 1924
Seventh Printing, March 1, 1927
Eighth Printing, August 5, 1929
Ninth Printing, July 30, 1931
Printed in the United States of America
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FOR YOU, MOTHER
I have a dream for you, Mother,
Like a soft thick fringe to hide your eyes.
I have a surprise for you, Mother,
Shaped like a strange butterfly.
I have found a way of thinking
To make you happy;
I have made a song and a poem
All twisted into one.
If I sing, you listen;
If I think, you know.
I have a secret from everybody in the world full of people
But I cannot always remember how it goes;
It is a song
For you, Mother,
With a curl of cloud and a feather of blue
And a mist
Blowing along the sky.
If I sing it some day, under my voice,
Will it make you happy?
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Thanks are due to the editors of Poetry: A Magazine of Verse, The Delineator, Good Housekeeping, The Lyric, St. Nicholas, and Contemporary Verse for their courteous permission to reprint many of the following poems.
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PREFACE
A book which needs to be written is one dealing with the childhood of authors. It would be not only interesting, but instructive; not merely profitable in a general way, but practical in a ...
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