by Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892)
Mother and Babe Matches original text
Language: English
I see the sleeping babe nestling the breast of its mother, The sleeping mother and babe -- hush'd, I study them long and long.
Composition:
- Set to music by Ruth Schonthal (1924 - 2006), "Mother and Babe", 1975, published 1979 [ soprano and piano ], from By the Roadside: Six Songs to Poems by Walt Whitman, no. 1, Oxford University Press
Text Authorship:
- by Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892), "Mother and Babe", appears in Leaves of Grass, first published 1900
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Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
This text was added to the website: 2005-10-12
Line count: 2
Word count: 23