A Cradle Song (W. B. Yeats poem)

"A Cradle Song" is a poem by W. B. Yeats.[1] The earlier version by Yeats was set as a war song by Ivor Gurney (1920).[2]

A Cradle Song
by W. B. Yeats
Written1899
First published inThe Wind Among the Reeds
LanguageEnglish
Rhyme schemeABBA CDDC EFFE
PublisherJohn Lane: The Bodley Head
Publication date1899
Media typeHardback
Lines12
Pages128
OCLC3132722
Full text
The_Wind_Among_the_Reeds/A_Cradle_Song at Wikisource

References

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  1. ^ COLLECTED POEMS OF W.B. YEATS 2008 William Butler Yeats. 25 A Cradle Song The angels are stooping Above your bed; They weary of trooping With the whimpering dead. God's laughing in Heaven To see you so good; The Sailing Seven Are gay with His mood. I sigh that kiss you, .
  2. ^ Trevor Hold: Parry to Finzi: Twenty English Song-composers (2005), p 281. "Cradle Song (1920, 1959) is a wistful lullaby, in which the cradle- rocking accompaniment is subtly and sparingly used. Gurney sets an early version of Yeats's poem, so however much one prefers the later words (printed by the editors in small type), the song should be sung to the earlier version."