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by Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830 - 1894)

Minnie and Mattie
Language: English 
Minnie and Mattie
  And fat little May,
Out in the country,
  Spending a day.

Such a bright day,
  With the sun glowing,
And the trees half in leaf,
  And the grass growing.

Pinky white pigling
  Squeals through his snout,
Woolly white lambkin
  Frisks all about.

Cluck! cluck! the nursing hen
  Summons her folk, --
Ducklings all downy soft
  Yellow as yolk.

Cluck! cluck! the mother hen
  Summons her chickens
To peck the dainty bits
  Found in her pickings.

Minnie and Mattie
  And May carry posies,
Half of sweet violets,
  Half of primroses.

Give the sun time enough,
  Glowing and glowing,
He'll rouse the roses
  And bring them blowing.

Don't wait for roses
  Losing to-day,
O Minnie, Mattie,
  And wise little May.

Violets and primroses
  Blossom to-day
For Minnie and Mattie
  And fat little May. 

H. Ware sets stanza 2

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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 not yet checked 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), "Minnie and Mattie and fat little May", op. 19 (Seventeen Lyrics from "Sing-song"), Heft 2 no. 7, published 1908 [ high voice or low voice and piano or orchestra ] [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Felix Gerald Swinstead (1880 - 1959), "Minnie and Mattie and May", published 1907 [ voice and piano ], from Sing-Song Cycle [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Harriet Ware (1877 - 1962), "Spring", published 1929, stanza 2 [ voices and piano ], in The Music Hour in the Kindergarten and First Grade [sung text not yet checked]

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2007-06-14
Line count: 36
Word count: 133

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