Two Lullaby Carols

Song Cycle by Ian Alfred Copley (b. 1926)

?. Dormi, Jesu  [sung text not yet checked]

Language: English 
Sleep, sweet babe! my cares beguiling:
Mother sits beside thee smiling;
Sleep, my darling, tenderly!
If thou sleep not, mother mourneth,
Singing as her wheel she turneth:
Come, soft slumber, balmily!

Text Authorship:

  • by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 - 1834), "The Virgin's Cradle-Hymn Copied from a print of the Virgin in a Roman Catholic village in Germany" [an adaptation]

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First published in Courier, August 1811, revised 1817 with the word "Roman" removed from the title.

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
Total word count: 31