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Stories I Heard Yesterday

Song Cycle by Rachel Devore Fogarty

1. But I cannot forget  [sung text not yet checked]

Language: English 
Now it is dusky,
And the hermit thrush and the black and white warbler
Are singing and answering together.
There is a sweetness in the tree,
And fireflies are counting the leaves.
I like this country,
I like the way it has,
But I cannot forget my dream I had of the sea,
The gulls swinging and calling,
And the foamy towers of the waves.

Text Authorship:

  • by Hilda Conkling (1910 - 1986), "Evening", appears in Poems by a Little Girl

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Confirmed with Hilda Conkling, Poems by a Little Girl, Project Gutenberg.


Researcher for this page: Joost van der Linden [Guest Editor]

2. The Little Stream  [sung text not yet checked]

Language: English 
The little stream, winding, 
Runs on its way to pour itself 
Into the dying river
And the river lives again
In the valley
The river waits for water
From a feeding stream
The little stream , winding , 
Runs on its way to pour itself 
Into the dying river , 
And the river lives again 
In the valley

Text Authorship:

  • by Hilda Conkling (1910 - 1986), "The Little Stream", appears in Shoes of the Wind: A Book of Poems, first published 1922

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Confirmed with The Spectator, Volume 131, F.C. Westley, 1923, p.87; Age 10


Researcher for this page: Joost van der Linden [Guest Editor]

3. A river in her heart  [sung text not yet checked]

Language: English 
The moon is thinking of the river
Winding through the mountains far away,
Because she has a river in her heart
Full of the same silver.

Text Authorship:

  • by Hilda Conkling (1910 - 1986), "Moon thought", appears in Poems by a Little Girl, first published 1920

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Confirmed with Hilda Conkling, Poems by a Little Girl, Project Gutenberg


Researcher for this page: Joost van der Linden [Guest Editor]

4. The words of their loveliness

Language: English 
— This text is not currently
in the database but will be added
as soon as we obtain it. —

Text Authorship:

  • by Hilda Conkling (1910 - 1986), appears in Shoes of the Wind: A Book of Poems, first published 1922

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5. Golden Wave

Language: English 
— This text is not currently
in the database but will be added
as soon as we obtain it. —

Text Authorship:

  • by Hilda Conkling (1910 - 1986), appears in Shoes of the Wind: A Book of Poems, first published 1922

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Total word count: 149
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