© by Ruth Whitman (1922 - 1999)
My daughter the cypress
Language: English
Sleep, little daughter, I'll plant you a tree [ ... ]
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Text Authorship:
- by Ruth Whitman (1922 - 1999), appears in Blood and Milk Poems, first published 1963, copyright © [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 Samuel Hans Adler (b. 1928), "My daughter the cypress", published 1974 [mezzo-soprano or baritone and piano], from Two Songs for Three Years, no. 1, Boosey & Hawkes [text not verified]
- by Robert Stern , "My daughter the cypress", first performed 1988. [SA chorus, viola, and piano] [text not verified]
This text was added to the website: 2004-01-11
Line count: 20
Word count: 139