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!"
From a very little sphinx
Set by Michael Armand Fink (b. 1939), "From a very little sphinx", published 1969 [ soprano, SSAA chorus, and string quartet or strings ]  [sung text not yet checked]
Note: this setting is made up of several separate texts.
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
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Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]Oh, burdock, and you other dock, That have ground coffee for your seeds, And lovely long thin daisies, dear -- She said that you were weeds! She said, "Oh, what a fine bouquet!" But afterwards I heard her say, "She's always dragging in those weeds."
Authorship:
- by Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892 - 1950), no title, appears in Poems Selected for Young People, in From a Very Little Sphinx, no. 2, first published 1929
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Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]I know a hundred ways to die. I've often thought that I'd try one: Lie down beneath a motor truck Some day when standing by one. Or throw myself from off a bridge -- Except such things must be So hard upon the scavengers And men that clean the sea. I know some poison I could drink. I've often thought I'd taste it. But mother bought it for the sink, And drinking it would waste it.
Authorship:
- by Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892 - 1950), no title, appears in Poems Selected for Young People, in From a Very Little Sphinx, no. 4, first published 1929
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Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]Look, Edwin! Do you see that boy Talking to the other boy? No, over there by the two men -- Wait, don't look now -- now look again. No, not the one in navy-blue; That's the one he's talking to. Sure you see him? Stripèd pants? Well, he was born in Paris, France.
Authorship:
- by Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892 - 1950), no title, appears in Poems Selected for Young People, in From a Very Little Sphinx, no. 5, first published 1929
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Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]Wonder where this horseshoe went. Up and down, up and down, Up and past the monument, Maybe into town. Wait a minute. "Horseshoe, How far have you been?" Says it's been to Salem And halfway to Lynn. Wonder who was in the team. Wonder what they saw. Wonder if they passed a bridge -- Bridge with a draw. Says it went from one bridge Straight upon another. Says it took a little girl Driving with her mother.
Authorship:
- by Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892 - 1950), no title, appears in Poems Selected for Young People, in From a Very Little Sphinx, no. 7, first published 1929
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Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]