by Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830 - 1894)
Crying, my little one, footsore and...
Language: English
Crying, my little one, footsore and weary? Fall asleep, pretty one, warm on my shoulder: I must tramp on through the winter night dreary, While the snow falls on me, colder and colder. You are my one, and I have not another; Sleep soft, my darling, my trouble and treasure; Sleep warm and soft, in the arms of your mother, Dreaming of pretty things, dreaming of pleasure.
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Authorship:
- by Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830 - 1894), no title, appears in Sing-song: a nursery rhyme book, first published 1872 [author's text not yet checked 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 John (Nicholson) Ireland (1879 - 1962), "The Only Child", 1918, published 1919 [ medium voice, piano ], from Mother and Child, no. 2 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Geoffrey Molyneux Palmer (1882 - 1957), "Husho, my Lanna", published 1911 [ voice, piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
Researcher for this page: Ted Perry
This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
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