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Poems by a Little Girl

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FOUR TO FIVE YEARS OLD

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FIVE TO SIX YEARS OLD

GARDEN OF THE WORLD

VELVETS By a Bed of Pansies

TWO SONGS After Hearing the Wagner Story-book

BY LAKE CHAMPLAIN

THE CHAMPLAIN SANDMAN

ABOUT MY DREAMS

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SIX TO SEVEN YEARS OLD

SONG FOR A PLAY

PEACOCK FEATHERS

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SEVEN TO NINE YEARS OLD

THE LONESOME WAVE

THE WHITE CLOUD

HOLLAND SONG For a Dutch picture

THE TOWER AND THE FALCON

POEM-SKETCH IN THREE PARTS (Made for the picture on the jacket of the Norwegian book, The Great Hunger, by Johan Bojer)

YELLOW SUMMER-THROAT

VENICE BRIDGE For a painting

NIGHT GOES RUSHING BY

IF I COULD TELL YOU THE WAY

CLOUDS

CHERRIES ARE RIPE

A THING FORGOTTEN

LITTLE PAPOOSE:

OH, MY HAZEL-EYED MOTHER

THE GREEN PALM TREE

SPARKLING DROP OF WATER

ONLY MORNING-GLORY THAT FLOWERED

SUMMER-DAY SONG

PINK ROSE-PETALS

THE LONESOME GREEN APPLE

THE APPLE-JELLY-FISH-TREE

THE FIELD OF WONDER

THREE THOUGHTS OF MY HEART

SNOW-CAPPED MOUNTAIN

THE BROOK AND ITS CHILDREN

BIRD OF PARADISE

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CLOUDS

THE clouds were gray all day.
At last they departed
And the blue diamonds shone again.
I watched clouds float past and flow back
Like waves across the sea,
Waves that are foamy and soft,
When they hear clouds calling
Mother Sea, send us up your song
Of hushaby!