by Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830 - 1894)
Boats sail on the rivers
Language: English
Boats sail on the rivers, And ships sail on the seas; But clouds that sail across the sky Are prettier far than these. There are bridges on the rivers, As pretty as you please; But the bow that bridges heaven, And overtops the trees, And builds a road from earth to sky, Is prettier far than these.
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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 Sidney Homer (1864 - 1953), "Boats sail on the rivers", op. 19 (Seventeen Lyrics from "Sing-song"), Heft 1 no. 6, published 1908 [ high voice or low voice and piano or orchestra ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Hilda May Sarson (1901? - 1958), "Boats and Bridges", published 1933 [ voice and piano ], from Boats and Bridges [sung text not yet checked]
- by Marlys Swinger , "Boats sail on the rivers", published 1968 [ voice and piano ], from Sing Through the Day [sung text not yet checked]
- by Charles Wood (1866 - 1926), "Boats sail on the rivers", published 1916 [ unison chorus and piano ], from Kookoorookoo and other songs [sung text not yet checked]
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This text was added to the website: 2007-06-14
Line count: 10
Word count: 57