by Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830 - 1894)
Eight o'clock
Language: English
Eight o'clock; The postman's knock! Five letters for Papa; One for Lou, And none for you, And three for dear Mamma.
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Text Authorship:
- 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 Allan Blank (b. 1925), "Eight o'clock", published 1969 [ voice, piano duet ], from Escapades: Songs for Rote and Piano Duet [sung text not yet checked]
- by Sidney Homer (1864 - 1953), "Eight o'clock", op. 19 (Seventeen Lyrics from "Sing-song"), Heft 1 no. 1, published 1908 [ high voice, piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Herbert Norman Howells (1892 - 1983), "Eight o'clock, the postman's knock", published 1925 [ voice and piano ], from Kikirikee [sung text not yet checked]
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This text was added to the website: 2006-01-19
Line count: 6
Word count: 21