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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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 [text not verified]
- by Cecil Sharman (1894 - ?), "Daffydowndilly", published 1936 [unison chorus and piano], from Four Rossetti Poems [text not verified]
- by Alfred Jethro Silver (1870 - ?), "Growing in the vale", published 1916 [voice and piano], from the collection Kookoorookoo and other songs [text not verified]
- by Newton Swift , "Lady Daffydowndilly", published 1914 [voice and piano], in the collection First Year Music [text not verified]
- by Felix Harold White (1884 - 1945), "Lady Daffadowndilly", published 1927. [unison chorus, piano] [text not verified]
Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
Text added to the website: 2006-01-19 00:00:00
Last modified: 2014-06-16 10:02:17
Line count: 9
Word count: 32