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 Shining Seven are gay with His mood.
I kiss you and kiss you, my pigeon my own.
Ah how I shall miss you when you have grown.

by William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) , "A cradle song", from The Rose, published 1893

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

by (Edward) Maurice Besly (1888-1945) , "The angels are stooping, above your bed", published <<1940.
by Nicholas Douty (1870-1955) , "A cradle song", published <<1940.
by Chester Duncan (1913-) , "A cradle song", published 1974 [unison soprano voices and piano], from Then and Now, no. ?
by Rudolph Ganz (1877-1972) , "The angels are stooping, above your bed", published <<1940.
by Ivor Gurney (1890-1937) , "A cradle song", published 1959. [voice and piano]
by Fritz Bennicke Hart (1874-1949) , "A cradle song", 1913. [voice and piano]
by Derek Healey (1936-) , "A cradle song", 1962 [voice and piano], from Six Irish Songs, no. ?
by Rosalie Housman (1890?-1949) , "The angels are stooping, above your bed", 1935. [voice and piano]
by Henry George Ley (1887-) , "A cradle song", op. 8 no. ? [voice and piano]
by Teresa del Riego (c1876-1968) , "How I shall miss you", published 1914. [voice and piano]
by John Tavener (1944-) , "The angels are stooping", 1984 [soprano and piano], from Song Cycle for Gina, no. 2.
by Eugene Weigel (1910-) , "A cradle song", published 1950 [SSA chorus a cappella], from Four songs for women's voices, no. ?
by Graham Whettam (1927-) , "A cradle song", rev. 1973, first performed 1967, from Three Songs to Poems of W. B. Yeats, no. ?
by Magdalen S. Worder , "A cradle song", published <<1940.

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