by Walter De la Mare (1873 - 1956)
The Queen of Arabia, Uanjinee
Language: English
The Queen of Arabia, Uanjinee, Slaves to dress her had thirty-three; Eleven in scarlet, eleven in rose,, Eleven in orange, as every one knows; And never was lady lovelier than she The Queen of Arabia, Uanjinee.
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Text Authorship:
- by Walter De la Mare (1873 - 1956), no title, appears in A Child's Day: A Book of Rhymes, first published 1912 [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 Marshall Moore Bartholomew (1885 - 1978), "The Queen of Arabia", published 1928-30 [ voice, unaccompanied ], in the collection The Music Hour, vol. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
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This text was added to the website: 2009-12-22
Line count: 6
Word count: 36