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Poems by a Little Girl

 
[frontispiece]
 
[title page]
 
[dedication]
 
[acknowledgements]
 
PREFACE
 
CONTENTS

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FOUR TO FIVE YEARS OLD
 
FIRST SONGS
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FIVE TO SIX YEARS OLD
 
GARDEN OF THE WORLD
 
THEATRE-SONG
 
VELVETS By a Bed of Pansies
 
TWO SONGS After Hearing the Wagner Story-book
 
MOON SONG
 
SUNSET
 
MOUSE
 
SHORT STORY
 
BY LAKE CHAMPLAIN
 
SPRING SONG
 
WATER
 
SHADY BRONN
 
CHICKADEE
 
THE CHAMPLAIN SANDMAN
 
ROSE-MOSS
 
ABOUT MY DREAMS
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SIX TO SEVEN YEARS OLD
 
AUTUMN SONG
 
THE DREAM
 
BUTTERFLY
 
EVENING
 
THUNDER SHOWER
 
RED CROSS SONG
 
PURPLE ASTERS
 
SONG FOR A PLAY
 
PEACOCK FEATHERS
 
RED ROOSTER
 
TREE-TOAD
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SEVEN TO NINE YEARS OLD
 
THE LONESOME WAVE
 
RED-CAP MOSS
 
RAMBLER ROSE
 
GIFT
 
THE WHITE CLOUD
 
MOON THOUGHT
 
THE OLD BRIDGE
 
FERNS
 
LAND OF NOD
 
SUN FLOWERS
 
HOLLAND SONG For a Dutch picture
 
FOUNTAIN-TALK
 
POPLARS
 
THE TOWER AND THE FALCON
 
THOUGHTS
 
POEM-SKETCH IN THREE PARTS (Made for the picture on the jacket of the Norwegian book, The Great Hunger, by Johan Bojer)
 
THE DEW-LIGHT
 
YELLOW SUMMER-THROAT
 
PEGASUS
 
VENICE BRIDGE For a painting
 
NIGHT GOES RUSHING BY
 
DANDELION
 
IF I COULD TELL YOU THE WAY
 
ROSE-PETAL
 
POEMS
 
SEAGARDE
 
EASTER
 
BLUEBIRD
 
GEOGRAPHY
 
MARCH THOUGHT
 
MORNING
 
SONG
 
SNOWFLAKE SONG
 
SNOWSTORM
 
POPPY
 
BUTTERFLY
 
CLOUDS
 
NARCISSUS
 
LITTLE SNAIL
 
CHERRIES ARE RIPE
 
A THING FORGOTTEN
 
LITTLE PAPOOSE:
 
FAIRIES AGAIN
 
OH, MY HAZEL-EYED MOTHER
 
THE GREEN PALM TREE
 
TREASURE
 
TWO PICTURES
 
TELL ME
 
SILVERHORN
 
SPARKLING DROP OF WATER
 
HAY-COCK
 
ONLY MORNING-GLORY THAT FLOWERED
 
WEATHER
 
SUMMER-DAY SONG
 
PINK ROSE-PETALS
 
THE LONESOME GREEN APPLE
 
I AM
 
MUSHROOM SONG
 
THE APPLE-JELLY-FISH-TREE
 
THREE LOVES
 
THE FIELD OF WONDER
 
MOON DOVES
 
I WENT TO SEA
 
THREE THOUGHTS OF MY HEART
 
SNOW-CAPPED MOUNTAIN
 
THE BROOK AND ITS CHILDREN
 
BIRD OF PARADISE
 
SHINY BROOK
 
HILLS
 
ADVENTURE
 
FAIRIES
 
HUMMING-BIRD
 
BLUE GRASS
 
ENVOY

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EASTER

ON Easter morn
Up the faint cloudy sky
I hear the Easter bell,
Ding dong . . . ding dong . . .
Easter morning scatters lilies
On every doorstep;
Easter morning says a glad thing
Over and over.
Poor people, beggars, old women
Are hearing the Easter bell . . .
Ding dong . . . ding dong . . .
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