© by Ogden Nash (1902 - 1971)
The sea‑gull
Language: English
Hark to the whimper of the sea-gull [ ... ]
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Text Authorship:
- by Ogden Nash (1902 - 1971), "The sea-gull", appears in The Family Reunion, first published 1950, copyright © [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 Vernon Duke (1903 - 1969), "The sea-gull", published 1947 [ voice and piano ], from Ogden Nash's Musical Zoo [sung text not yet checked]
- by Norman R. Shapiro , "The sea-gull", published 1961 [ soprano and piano ], from Songs for Soprano and Piano [sung text not yet checked]
The text above (or a part of it) is used in the following settings:
- by Jürg Wyttenbach (b. 1935), "Two nonsense verses", 1964, from Two Nonsense Verses, an Epigram and a Madrigal, no. 1
This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
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Word count: 27