Little Maud

O where is our dainty, our darling --
The daintiest darling of all;
O where is the voice on the stairway,
O where is the voice in the hall?
The little short steps on the entry,
The silvery laugh in the hall?
O where is our dainty, our darling --
The daintiest darling of all?

Little Maud, little Maud,
Oh the daintiest darling of all.

The peaches are ripe in the garden,
The apricots ready to fall;
The blue grapes are dripping their honey,
In sunshine upon the white wall.
Oh! where are the lips full and melting,
That look'd up so pouting and red,
When we dangled the sun-purpl'd beaches
Of Isabella over her head?
Oh Maud! little Maud? say, where are you?
(She never replies to our call;)
Oh where is our dainty, our darling,
The daintiest darling of all?

Authorship

by Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1836-1907) , "Little Maud", from The Ballad of Babie Bell and Other Poems, published 1859

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

by Charles Crozat Converse (1832-1918) , "O where is our dainty, our darling"
by Joseph Philbrick Webster (1819-1875) , "Little Maud", published 1865. [voice and SATB chorus, piano]

Text added to the website: 2005-12-19.

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