by Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830 - 1894)
O sailor, come ashore
Language: English
O sailor, come ashore, What have you brought for me? Red coral, white coral, Coral from the sea. I did not dig it from the ground, Nor pluck it from a tree; Feeble insects made it In the stormy sea.
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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 Karl Wilson Gehrkens (1882 - 1975), "O sailor", published 1935 [ chorus a cappella ], in the collection Art Songs and Part Songs [sung text not yet checked]
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This text was added to the website: 2007-09-29
Line count: 8
Word count: 41