© by Ogden Nash (1902 - 1971)
Song to be sung by the father of infant female children
Language: English
My heart leaps up when I behold [ ... ]
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Note: The first two lines quote Wordsworth's poem.
Note: The first two lines quote Wordsworth's poem.
Text Authorship:
- by Ogden Nash (1902 - 1971), "Song to be sung by the father of infant female children", appears in Happy Days, first published 1933, 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), "Song to be sung by the father of infant female children", published 1974 [medium voice and piano], from Two Songs for Three Years, no. 2, Boosey & Hawkes [text not verified]
This text was added to the website: 2004-01-12
Line count: 57
Word count: 355