by Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1836 - 1907)
Ere the moon begins to rise
Language: English
Ere the moon begins to rise Or a star to shine, All the bluebells close their eyes; So close thine, Thine, dear, thine!1 Birds are sleeping in the nest, On the swaying bough; Thus, against the [mother-breast]2, So sleep thou, Sleep, sleep, sleep!
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View original text (without footnotes)1 [?] continues with "Sleep, love, sleep, / Slumber deep; / Sleep, sleep, sleep, / So sleep."
2 [?]: "mother's breast"
Authorship
- by Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1836 - 1907), "Cradle song", appears in Unguarded Gates and Other Poems, first published 1895 [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 Percy Lee Atherton (1871 - 1944), "Cradle song", op. 20 (Four songs) no. 2, published 1903. [text not verified]
- by George F. Bauer , "Cradle song", published 1896. [text not verified]
- by Ronald A. Beckett , "Lullaby - Ere the moon begins to rise", 2008. [voice and piano] [text not verified]
- by (Henry Louis) Reginald De Koven (1859 - 1920), "Cradle song" [text not verified]
- by George Alfred Grant-Schaefer (1872 - 1939), "Ere the moon begins to rise", published 1912. [text not verified]
- by Charles Fonteyn Manney (1872 - 1951), "Ere the moon begins to rise", published 1906. [text not verified]
- by Liborius Semmann (1873 - ?), "Cradle song", published 1909. [text not verified]
- by Frederick Newell Shackley (1868 - ?), "Ere the moon begins to rise", published 1898. [text not verified]
- by Adolf Weidig (1867 - 1931), "Cradle song", op. 80 (Three songs to poems by Thomas Bailey Aldrich) no. 1, published 1927. [text not verified]
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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
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Word count: 43