For You, Mother

Name: Poems by a Little Girl - For You, Mother
Author: Hilda Conkling

I have a dream for you, Mother, Like a soft thick fringe to hide your eyes. I have a surprise for you, Mother, Shaped like a strange butterfly. I have found a way of thinking To make you happy; I have made a song and a poem All twisted into one. If I sing, you listen; If I think, you know. I have a secret from everybody in the world full of people But I cannot always remember how it goes; It is a song For you, Mother, With a curl of cloud and a feather of blue And a mist Blowing along the sky. If I sing it some day, under my voice, Will it make you happy?

Thanks are due to the editors of Poetry: A Magazine of Verse, The Delineator, Good Housekeeping, The Lyric, St. Nicholas, and Contemporary Verse for their courteous permission to reprint many of the following poems.

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Chicago: Hilda Conkling, "For You, Mother," Poems by a Little Girl, ed. Altemus, Henry in Poems by a Little Girl Original Sources, accessed November 23, 2024, http://originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=1GEYKYV95WEARG2.

MLA: Conkling, Hilda. "For You, Mother." Poems by a Little Girl, edited by Altemus, Henry, in Poems by a Little Girl, Original Sources. 23 Nov. 2024. http://originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=1GEYKYV95WEARG2.

Harvard: Conkling, H, 'For You, Mother' in Poems by a Little Girl, ed. . cited in , Poems by a Little Girl. Original Sources, retrieved 23 November 2024, from http://originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=1GEYKYV95WEARG2.