Hilda Conkling spoke these poems to her mother, who wrote them down, and they are arranged by the age at which she made them, starting at four. Moons, mice, velvets, sunsets, tree-toads and the shore of Lake Champlain appear in short, surprising lines, and Amy Lowell’s preface makes the case for taking a child’s imagination seriously.
First published in 1920 after appearing in Poetry and St. Nicholas, it remains a striking record of how a young child sees. Download the free EPUB.