by Hilda Conkling (1910 - 1986)
Moon song
Language: English
There is a star that runs very fast, That goes pulling the moon Through the tops of the poplars. It is all in silver, The tall star: The moon rolls goldenly along Out of breath. Mr. Moon, does he make you hurry?
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Confirmed with Hilda Conkling, Poems by a Little Girl, Project Gutenberg.
Text Authorship:
- by Hilda Conkling (1910 - 1986), "Moon Song", appears in Poems by a Little Girl [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 Benjamin Burrows (1891 - 1966), "Moon song", 1927 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Joshua Shank (b. 1980), "Moon Song", first performed 2005 [ ssaa chorus and piano ], from Three Nightsongs, no. 2 [sung text checked 1 time]
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