by Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830 - 1894)
Skylark and Nightingale Matches base text
Language: English
When a mounting skylark sings In the sunlit summer morn, I know that heaven is up on high, And on earth are fields of corn. But when a nightingale sings, In the moonlit summer even, I know not if earth is merely earth, Only that heaven is heaven.
Composition:
- Set to music by John (Nicholson) Ireland (1879 - 1962), "Skylark and Nightingale", 1918, published 1919 [ medium voice, piano ], from Mother and Child, no. 4
Text Authorship:
- by Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830 - 1894), no title, appears in Sing-song: a nursery rhyme book, first published 1872
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Researcher for this page: Ted Perry
This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 8
Word count: 48