by Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892)
Mother and Babe
Language: English
I see the sleeping babe nestling the breast of its mother, The sleeping mother and babe -- hush'd, I study them long and long.
Text Authorship:
- by Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892), "Mother and Babe", appears in Leaves of Grass, first published 1900 [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 Ronald A. Beckett , "Mother and babe", 2015 [ voice and strings ], from By the roadside, no. 4 [sung text not yet checked]
- by John M. Klein (b. 1915), "Mother and Babe", published 1946 [ SSAA chorus, optional piano ], from Sentences from Whitman [sung text not yet checked]
- by Ruth Schonthal (1924 - 2006), "Mother and Babe", 1975, published 1979 [ soprano and piano ], from By the Roadside: Six Songs to Poems by Walt Whitman, no. 1, Oxford University Press [sung text checked 1 time]
Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
This text was added to the website: 2005-10-12
Line count: 2
Word count: 23