by Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830 - 1894)
The days are clear
Language: English
The days are clear, Day after day, When April's here, That leads to May, And June Must follow soon: Stay, June, stay! -- If only we could stop the moon And June!
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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 Herbert Norman Howells (1892 - 1983), "The days are clear", published 1925 [ voice and piano ], from Kikirikee [sung text not yet checked]
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