by Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830 - 1894)
Bread and milk for breakfast
Language: English
Bread and milk for breakfast, And woolen frocks to wear, And a crumb for robin redbreast On the cold days of the year.
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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 Grace Wilbur Conant (1858 - 1948), "In winter", published 1905 [ voice and piano ], in Songs for Little People [sung text not yet checked]
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This text was added to the website: 2007-09-29
Line count: 4
Word count: 23