by Emily Brontë (1818 - 1848)
Language: English
... What woke? A little child Strayed from its father's cottage door And in the hour of moonlight Lay lonely on the desert moor I heard it - a shriek of misery That wild wild music Wailed to me
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Note: In the Fisk work, this is sung by Lockwood
Note: Fisk has made substantial omissions to the original text
Researcher for this page: Terry Fisk
Note: In the Fisk work, this is sung by Lockwood
Note: Fisk has made substantial omissions to the original text
Authorship:
- by Emily Brontë (1818 - 1848), "Redbreast early in the morning" [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 Terry Fisk , "What woke? A little child", published 2002, from Wuthering Heights, no. 4. [text verified 1 time]
Researcher for this page: Terry Fisk
This text was added to the website: 2004-02-05
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Word count: 41