by Katherine Mansfield (1888 - 1923)
Winter song
Language: English
Rain and wind, and wind and rain. Will the Summer come again? Rain on houses, on the street, Wetting all the people's feet. Though they run with might and main. Rain and wind, and wind and rain. Snow and sleet, and sleet and snow. Will the Winter never go? What do beggar children do With no fire to cuddle to, P'r'aps with nowhere warm to go? Snow and sleet, and sleet and snow. Hail and ice, and ice and hail, Water frozen in the pail. See the robins, brown and red, They are waiting to be fed. Poor dears; battling in the gale! Hail and ice, and ice and hail.
Text Authorship:
- by Katherine Mansfield (1888 - 1923), "Winter Song", appears in Poems, first published 1924 [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 Thomas Baron Pitfield (1903 - 1999), "Winter song", published 1953 [ SS chorus a cappella ], from Two seasonal songs [sung text not yet checked]
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This text was added to the website: 2023-04-17
Line count: 18
Word count: 110