by Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830 - 1894)
All the bells were ringing
Language: English
All the bells were ringing And all the birds were singing, When Molly sat down crying For her broken doll: O you silly Moll! Sobbing and sighing For a broken doll, When all the bells are ringing And all the birds are singing.
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- by Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830 - 1894), no title, appears in Sing-song: a nursery rhyme book, first published 1872 [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 Charles Wood (1866 - 1926), "All the bells were ringing", published 1925 [unison chorus and piano], from the collection Kikirikee [text not verified]
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