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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]

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2009-01-02
Line count: 8
Word count: 44

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