by Vachel Lindsay (1879 - 1931)
The Moon's the North Wind's cooky
Language: English
When does the moon look like a cooky with a big bite out of it? I wonder who eats the moon-scraps. What the Little Girl said The Moon's the North Wind's cooky. He bites it, day by day, Until there's but a rim of scraps That crumble all away. The South Wind is a baker. He kneads clouds in his den, And bakes a crisp new moon that . . . greedy North . . . Wind . . . eats . . . again!
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Text Authorship:
- by Vachel Lindsay (1879 - 1931), "The Moon's the North Wind's Cooky (What the Little Girl Said)", appears in The Congo and Other Poems, in 4. Fourth Section: Twenty Poems in which the Moon is the Principal Figure of Speech, in 1. First Section: Moon Poems for the Children/Fairy-tales for the Children, no. 4, first published 1914 [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 Jake Heggie (b. 1961), "The Moon's the North Wind's Cooky (What the little girl said)", 1998, first performed 1998 [voice and piano], from Songs to the Moon, Part 1: "Fairy-Tales for the Children", no. 5. [text verified 1 time]
- by Eunice Lea Kettering (b. 1906), "The Moon's the North Wind's Cooky", published 1949. [SSA chorus a cappella] [text not verified]
- by M. Ryan Taylor (b. 1972), "What the Little Girl Said", 1999 [voice and piano], from The Moon Songs, no. 3. [text not verified]
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This text was added to the website: 2007-07-29
Line count: 11
Word count: 86