by Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830 - 1894)
A pocket handkerchief to hem
Language: English
A pocket handkerchief to hem -- Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear! How many stitches it will take Before it's done, I fear. Yet set a stitch and then a stitch, And stitch and stitch away, Till stitch by stitch the hem is done -- And after work is play!
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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 Sidney Homer (1864 - 1953), "A pocket handkerchief to hem", op. 19 (Seventeen Lyrics from "Sing-song"), Heft 2 no. 3, published 1908 [ high voice or low voice and piano or orchestra ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Harriet Ware (1877 - 1962), "Work and play", published 1929 [ chorus and piano ], in The Music Hour in the Kindergarten and First Grade [sung text not yet checked]
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This text was added to the website: 2007-06-14
Line count: 8
Word count: 48