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Christina Rossetti, portrait by her brother, Dante Gabriel Rossetti "In the Bleak Midwinter" is a poem by the English poet Christina Rossetti.It was published under the title "A Christmas Carol" in the January 1872 issue of Scribner's Monthly, [1] [2] and first collected in book form in Goblin Market, The Prince's Progress and Other Poems (Macmillan, 1875).
Massa's in De Cold Ground (1852) is a song by Stephen Foster. The song was included in the book 55 Songs and Choruses for Community Singing, published in 1917. According to the book, it is one of the most graceful of Stephen C. Foster's melodies.
The Cauld Lad of Hylton is a ghost of murdered stable boy Robert Skelton, said to haunt the ruins of Hylton Castle (in Sunderland, Northern England). [1] [2] The events are said to have taken place in the 16th or 17th century and there are several legends concerning the ghost's origins.
Translation of Catalan lyrics On December five and twenty fum, fum, fum. On December five and twenty, fum, fum fum. Oh, a child was born this night So rosy white, so rosy white Son of Mary, virgin holy In a stable, mean and lowly, fum, fum, fum. On December five and twenty fum, fum, fum. On December five and twenty fum, fum, fum. Comes a most ...
He published it in 1808, naming the air as "My Lodging is on the Cold Ground" from lyrics of British origin with which it was widely associated at the time. The new lyrics were presented in an album of selected Irish melodies arranged by John Andrew Stevenson with “characteristic words” provided by Moore.
In 1850, Sears' lyrics were set to "Carol", a tune written for the poem the same year at his request, by Richard Storrs Willis. This pairing remains the most popular in the United States, while in Commonwealth countries , the lyrics are set to "Noel", a later adaptation by Arthur Sullivan from an English melody.
"I come from the stable where this very night, I, a shepherd maiden, saw a wondrous sight." "What saw'st thou, my maiden, what saw'st thou?" "There within the manger a little babe I saw, lying softly sleeping on the golden straw." "Nothing more, my maiden, nothing more?" "I saw the Holy Mother the little baby hold, and the father, Joseph,
The song's title is borrowed from a hymn that was popular in the nineteenth century American South with fasola singers. “Gethsemane”, written by English clergyman Thomas Haweis in 1792, begins with the lines “Dark was the night, cold was the ground / on which my Lord was laid.” [3] Music historian Mark Humphrey describes Johnson's composition as an impressionistic rendition of ...