by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (1832 - 1898), as Lewis Carroll
Matilda Jane, you never look
Language: English
Matilda Jane, you never look At any toy or picture-book: I show you pretty things in vain -- You must be blind, Matilda Jane! I ask you riddles, tell you tales, But all our conversation fails: You never answer me again -- I fear you're dumb, Matilda Jane! Matilda, darling, when I call, You never seem to hear at all: I shout with all my might and main -- but you're so deaf, Matilda Jane! Matilda Jane, you needn't mind: For, though you're deaf, and dumb, and blind, There's some one loves you, it is plain -- And that is me, Matilda Jane!
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Text Authorship:
- by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (1832 - 1898), as Lewis Carroll, no title, appears in Sylvie and Bruno Concluded, Chapter V (Matilda Jane), Bessie's song to her doll, first published 1893 [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 Gary Bachlund (b. 1947), "Bessie's song to her doll", 2014 [ mezzo-soprano and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Richard Farber (b. 1945), "A Song for my Doll", 2020 [ voice and piano ], from A Game of Five, Six Nonsense Songs for Voice and Piano on Verse by Lewis Carroll, no. 4 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Ulf A. Grahn , "Matilda Jane", published 1996, first performed 1996 [sung text not yet checked]
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This text was added to the website: 2004-04-11
Line count: 16
Word count: 99