by William Allingham (1824 - 1889)
Four ducks on a pond
Language: English
Four ducks on a pond, A grass-bank beyond, A blue sky of spring, White clouds on the wing; What a little thing To remember for years-- To remember with tears!
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- by William Allingham (1824 - 1889), "Four Ducks on a Pond", appears in Evil May-Day &c., first published 1882 [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 Walter Butler , "Four ducks on a pond", published <<1940 [voice and piano], from Four Irish Lyrics [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]
- by Edward Toner Cone (b. 1917), "A Memory", 1947, first performed 1947. [TTBB chorus and piano] [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]
- by Bainbridge Crist (1883 - 1969), "What a Little Thing", published << 1940 [voice and piano], from Three Balladettes [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]
- by Blair Fairchild (1877 - 1933), "A Memory", op. 22 no. 3, published 1909? [medium voice, piano] [ sung text checked 1 time]
- by Fritz Bennicke Hart (1874 - 1949), "Four ducks on a pond" [voice, piano] [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]
- by Alicia Adélaïda Needham (1863 - 1945), "Four ducks on a pond", published 1913 [alto and piano], from A Branch of Arbutus [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]
- by Kurt George Roger (1895 - 1966), "Four ducks on a pond", 1952, first performed 1965 [ SATB chorus a cappella], from Three Irish Madrigals, madrigal [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]
- by Louis Versel , "Four ducks on a pond", published << 1940. [voice, piano] [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]
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