by Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830 - 1894)
Growing in the vale
Language: English
Growing in the vale By the uplands hilly, Growing straight and frail, Lady Daffadowndilly. In a golden crown, And a scant green gown While the spring blows chilly, Lady Daffadown, Sweet Daffadowndilly.
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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 Anonymous/Unidentified Artist , "Lady Daffadown", published 1929 [ voices and piano ], in the collection The Music Hour in the Kindergarten and First Grades [sung text not yet checked]
- by Imogen Clare Holst (1907 - 1984), "Lady Daffadowndilly", 1936, published 1936 [ SS chorus and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Cecil Sharman (1894 - ?), "Daffydowndilly", published 1936 [ unison chorus and piano ], from Four Rossetti Poems [sung text not yet checked]
- by Alfred Jethro Silver (1870 - ?), "Growing in the vale", published 1916 [ voice and piano ], from Kookoorookoo and other songs [sung text not yet checked]
- by Newton Swift , "Lady Daffydowndilly", published 1914 [ voice and piano ], in the collection First Year Music [sung text not yet checked]
- by Felix Harold White (1884 - 1945), "Lady Daffadowndilly", published 1927 [ unison chorus, piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
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This text was added to the website: 2006-01-19
Line count: 9
Word count: 32