by Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830 - 1894)
O Lady Moon, your horns point toward the...
Language: English
O Lady Moon, your horns point toward the east: Shine, be increased; O Lady Moon, your horns point toward the west: Wane, be at rest.
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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 Alan Hovhaness (1911 - 2000), "O Lady Moon", op. 139, published 1953 [ soprano or SSA chorus, clarinet and piano ], New Vistas in Song (Marks Music Corp.) [sung text not yet checked]
- by Harvey Worthington Loomis (1865 - 1930), "Lady Moon" [ voices, piano ], from Folk Songs & Arts Songs for Intermediate Grades [sung text not yet checked]
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This text was added to the website: 2006-01-28
Line count: 4
Word count: 25