The summer nights are short (Rossetti, set by (George Whitefield Chadwick, Charles Villiers Stanford, Sir)) (The LiederNet Archive: Texts and Translations to Lieder, mélodies, canzoni, and other classical vocal music)

by Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830 - 1894)

The summer nights are short

Language: English

Available translation(s): GER

The summer nights are short
  Where northern days are long:
For hours and hours lark after lark
  Trills out his song.

The summer days are short
  Where southern nights are long:
Yet short the night when nightingales
  Trill out their song.

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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 George Whitefield Chadwick (1854 - 1931), "The northern days", published 1893 [alto or baritone and piano], note: text has been altered (changes not shown) [
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by Charles Villiers Stanford, Sir (1852 - 1924), "The summer nights are short", published 1916 [voice and piano], from the collection Kookoorookoo and other songs [
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This text was added to the website: 2009-01-02
Line count: 8
Word count: 41