When a mounting skylark sings

When a mounting skylark sings
	In the sunlit summer morn,
I know that heaven is up on high,
	And on earth are fields of corn.

But when a nightingale sings,
	In the moonlit summer even,
I know not if earth is merely earth,
	Only that heaven is heaven.

by Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830-1894) , no title, from Sing-song: a nursery rhyme book, published 1872

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive)

by Edgar Leslie Bainton (1880-1956) , "When a mounting skylark sings", published 1925 [voice and piano], from Kikirikee
by John Ireland (1879-1962) , "Skylark and Nightingale", 1918, published 1919 [medium voice, piano], from Mother and Child, no. 4.
by Hermann Frederic Löhr (1872-1943) , "When a mounting skylark sings", published 1912? [baritone and piano]
by Sir Arthur Somervell (1863-1937) , "When a mounting skylark sings", published 1903 [tenor, vocal quartet, and piano], from Wind Flowers, no. ?
by Felix Gerald Swinstead (1880-1959) , "When a mounting skylark sings", published 1907 [voice and piano], from Sing-Song Cycle, no. ?

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