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]

References
  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- Page 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."


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