© by Christopher Murray Grieve (1892 - 1978)
Wheesht, wheesht
Language: Scottish (Scots)
Available translation(s): ENG
Wheesht, wheesht, my foolish hert [ ... ]
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Confirmed with The Complete Poems of Hugh MacDiarmid, Volume 1, edited by Michael Grieve and W R Aitken, Penguin Books, Middlesex, 1985, page 45.
Authorship:
- by Christopher Murray Grieve (1892 - 1978), "Wheesht, Wheesht", appears in Penny Wheep, no. 2, William Blackwood & Sons, Edinburgh, first published 1926, copyright © [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 Francis George Scott (1880 - 1958), "Wheesht, wheesht", published 1934 [ voice and piano ], from Scottish Lyrics, Book 3, no. 4, Bayley & Ferguson; confirmed with Songs of Francis George Scott, selected and edited by Neil Mackay, Roberton Publications, Aylesbury, 1980, page 18 [sung text checked 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Iain Sneddon) , "Quiet, quiet", copyright © 2018, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
This text was added to the website: 2018-11-24
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