by Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830 - 1894)
Oh what comes over the sea
Language: English
Oh what comes over the sea, Shoals and quicksands past; And what comes home to me, Sailing slow, sailing fast? A wind comes over the sea With a moan in its blast; But nothing comes home to me, Sailing slow, sailing fast. Let me be, let me be, For my lot is cast: Land or sea all's one to me, And sail it slow or fast.
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Text Authorship:
- by Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830 - 1894), "What comes?", appears in New Poems, first published 1896, rev. 1904 [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 Winifred May Bury (1897 - 1977), "Over the sea", copyright © 1934 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Henry Clough-Leighter (1874 - 1956), "What comes over the sea", published <<1940 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875 - 1912), "Oh what comes over the sea", op. 57 no. 1 (1904), published 1904 [ alto and piano ], from Six Sorrow Songs, no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Thomas Frederick Dunhill (1877 - 1946), "Oh what comes over the sea", published <<1944 [ SSAA chorus a cappella ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Margaret Ruthven Lang (1867 - 1972), "Oh what comes over the sea?", published 1889 [ voice and piano ], Schmidt [sung text checked 1 time]
- by (James) Albert Mallinson (1870 - 1946), "What comes?", published 1901 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Martin Edward Fallas Shaw (1875 - 1958), "Over the sea", published 1917 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Arthur Somervell, Sir (1863 - 1937), "O what comes over the sea", published 1901 [ voice and piano ], from Love in Spring-Time, no. 5 [sung text not yet checked]
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This text was added to the website: 2007-09-30
Line count: 12
Word count: 66