by Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830 - 1894)
A motherless soft lambkin
Language: English
A motherless soft lambkin Along upon a hill; No mother's fleece to shelter him And wrap him from the cold:-- I'll run to him and comfort him, I'll fetch him, that I will; I'll care for him and feed him Until he's strong and bold.
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Text Authorship:
- by Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830 - 1894), no title, appears in Sing-song: a nursery rhyme book, first published 1872 [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 Sidney Homer (1864 - 1953), "A motherless soft lambkin", op. 19 (Seventeen Lyrics from "Sing-song"), Heft 2 no. 4, published 1908 [ high voice or low voice, piano or orchestra ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Alexander Campbell MacKenzie, Sir (1847 - 1935), "A motherless soft lambkin", published 1916 [ voice and piano ], from Kookoorookoo and other songs [sung text not yet checked]
- by Cecil Sharman (1894 - ?), "A motherless soft lambkin", published 1936 [ unison chorus and piano ], from Four Rossetti Poems [sung text not yet checked]
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This text was added to the website: 2006-01-27
Line count: 8
Word count: 45