by Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830 - 1894)
What can lambkins do
Language: English
What can lambkins do All the keen night through? Nestle by their woolly mother The careful ewe. What can nestlings do In the nightly dew? Sleep beneath their mother's wing Till day breaks anew. If in a field or tree There might only be Such a warm soft sleeping-place Found for me!
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Text Authorship:
- by Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830 - 1894), "A chill", appears in The Prince's Progress and other Poems, first published 1866 [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 Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875 - 1912), "What can lambkins do", published 1908 [ SSA chorus and piano ], London: Novello [sung text not yet checked]
- by Marjorie Helyer , "What can lambkins do", published 1957 [ unison chorus and piano ], London: Novello [sung text not yet checked]
- by Philip George Wilkinson (b. 1929), "What can lambkins do", published 1956 [ unison chorus and piano ], London: Novello [sung text not yet checked]
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Word count: 52