by Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892 - 1950)
Come along in then, little girl!
Language: English
Come along in then, little girl! Or else stay out! But in the open door she stands, And bites her lip and twists her hands, And stares upon me, trouble-eyed: "Mother," she says, "I can't decide! I can't decide!"
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Authorship:
- by Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892 - 1950), no title, appears in Poems Selected for Young People, in From a Very Little Sphinx, no. 1, first published 1929 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by John Woods Duke (1899 - 1984), "I can't decide", 1971 [soprano or mezzo-soprano and piano], from From a Very Little Sphinx: Five Songs for Soprano or Mezzo-soprano, no. 1. [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]
This text (or a part of it) is used in a work
- by Michael Armand Fink (b. 1939), "From a very little sphinx", published 1969. [soprano, SSAA chorus, and string quartet or strings]
- by Bernard Wagenaar (1894 - 1971), "From a very little sphinx", published 1926. [soprano or mezzo-soprano and piano]
Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
This text was added to the website: 2011-02-13
Line count: 7
Word count: 39