by Owen Dobson (1914 - 1983)
O my boy: Jesus my first and only son
Language: English
O my boy: Jesus my first and only son, Rock on my breast, my first and only one, my first and only son. O my Jesus: my first and only one: Born of God and born near his sun, bright boy: my only one: O my Jesus, rest on my breast, my first and only son: O my boy: Jesus: rest: shhh, you need the rest.
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Authorship:
- by Owen Dobson (1914 - 1983), appears in Beyond the Blues -- New Poems by American Negroes, first published 1962 [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 Robert James Berkeley Fleming (1921 - 1976), "O my boy: Jesus my first and only son", 1966, published 1968, from The Confession Stone (The Songs of Mary), no. 1. [text verified 1 time]
- by Robert James Berkeley Fleming (1921 - 1976), "O my boy: Jesus my first and only son", 1966, published 1968, from The Confession Stone (The Songs of Mary), no. 8. [text verified 1 time]
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This text was added to the website: 2009-07-26
Line count: 6
Word count: 66