by Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830 - 1894)
Love me, ‑ I love you
Language: English
Love me, - I love you, Love me, my baby; Sing it high, sing it low, Sing it as may be. Mother's arms under you, Her eyes above you; Sing it high, sing it low, Love me, - I love you.
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Text Authorship:
- by Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830 - 1894), no title, appears in Sing-song: a nursery rhyme book, first published 1872 [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):
- by Thomas Frederick Dunhill (1877 - 1946), "Love me, -- I love you", published 1925 [ voice and piano ], from Kikirikee [sung text not yet checked]
- by Sidney Homer (1864 - 1953), "Love me, -- I love you", op. 19 (Seventeen Lyrics from "Sing-song"), Heft 1 no. 4, published 1908 [ high voice or low voice, piano or orchestra ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by John (Nicholson) Ireland (1879 - 1962), "Baby", 1918, published 1919 [ medium voice, piano ], from Mother and Child, no. 6 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Martin Edward Fallas Shaw (1875 - 1958), "Love me, -- I love you", published 1920 [ voice, piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Felix Gerald Swinstead (1880 - 1959), "Love me, -- I love you", published 1907 [ voice and piano ], from Sing-Song Cycle [sung text not yet checked]
- by Hanna van Vollenhoven Vories (1889 - 1972), as Hanna Vollenhoven, "Love me, -- I love you", published <<1940 [ voice, piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
Researcher for this page: Ted Perry
This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
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