Adventures in Color

Red is a sunset
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Text Authorship:

• by Mary O'Neill (1905 - 1990), "What is red?", appears in Hailstones and Halibut Bones, first published 1961, copyright © [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):

Set by Ruth Watson Henderson (1932 - 2026), published 2002, copyright © 2000 [ sa chorus and piano ], Earthsongs
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Gold is a metal 
Gold is a ring 
Gold is a very 
Beautiful thing. 
Gold is the sunshine 
Light and thin 
Warm as a muffin 
On your skin. 
Gold is the moon 
Gold are the stars; 
Jupiter, Venus,
Saturn and Mars, 
Gold is the color of 
Clover honey 
Gold is a certain 
Kind of money. 
Gold is alive 
In a flickering fish 
That lives its life 
In a crystal dish. 
Gold is the answer 
To many a wish. 
Gold is feeling 
Like a king 
It's like having the most 
Of everything – 
Long time ago 
I was told 
Yellow's mother's name 
Is gold...

Text Authorship:

• by Mary O'Neill (1905 - 1990), "What is gold?", appears in Hailstones and Halibut Bones, first published 1961 [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):

Set by Ruth Watson Henderson (1932 - 2026), published 2002, copyright © 2000 [ sa chorus and piano ], Earthsongs
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White is a dove
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Text Authorship:

• by Mary O'Neill (1905 - 1990), "What is white?", appears in Hailstones and Halibut Bones, first published 1961, copyright © [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):

Set by Ruth Watson Henderson (1932 - 2026) [ sa chorus and piano ], Earthsongs
This text may be copyright, so we will not display it until we obtain permission to do so or discover it is public-domain.

Orange is a tiger lily
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Text Authorship:

• by Mary O'Neill (1905 - 1990), "What is Orange?", appears in Hailstones and Halibut Bones, first published 1961, copyright © [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):

Set by Ruth Watson Henderson (1932 - 2026), published 2002, copyright © 2000 [ sa chorus and piano ], Earthsongs
This text may be copyright, so we will not display it until we obtain permission to do so or discover it is public-domain.