by Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830 - 1894)
The wind has such a rainy sound
Language: English
The wind has such a rainy sound Moaning through the town, The sea has such a windy sound, -- Will the ships go down? The apples in the orchard Tumble from their tree. -- Oh will the ships go down, go down, In the windy sea?
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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 Charles Hubert Hastings Parry, Sir (1848 - 1918), "The wind has such a rainy sound", published 1916 [ voice and piano ], from Kookoorookoo and other songs [sung text not yet checked]
- by Beatrice Macgowan Scott , "The wind has such a rainy sound", published 1933 [ unison chorus a cappella ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Arthur Somervell, Sir (1863 - 1937), "The wind has such a rainy sound", published 1903 [ alto and piano ], from Wind Flowers, no. 3 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Felix Gerald Swinstead (1880 - 1959), "Will the ships go down?", published 1907 [ voice and piano ], from Sing-Song Cycle [sung text not yet checked]
- by Philip George Wilkinson (b. 1929), "Ships in the wind", published 1959 [ unison children's chorus a cappella ] [sung text not yet checked]
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This text was added to the website: 2009-01-02
Line count: 8
Word count: 44