Poems by a little girl

Poems by a little girl

Hilda Conkling

Preface by Amy Lowell
Portrait by James Chapin

Hilda is notable for having composed most of her poetry as a young child, between the ages of four and ten years old. She never wrote them down herself; instead, they came out in conversation with her mother, who would write down Hilda's words either in the moment, or from memory later. If the latter, she would read the lines back to Hilda, who would then correct any deviation from her original words. As Hilda grew up, her mother stopped recording the poems, and Hilda is not known to have written any herself as an adult.

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Children's writing.
Poems by school children.

First published in 1920