Minnie and Winnie slept in a shell

Minnie and Winnie
    Slept in a shell.
Sleep, little ladies!
    And they slept well.

Pink was the shell within,
    Silver without;
Sounds of the great sea
    Wander'd about.

Sleep, little ladies!
    Wake not soon!
Echo on echo
    Dies to the moon.

Two bright stars
    Peep'd into the shell.
"What are they dreaming of?
    Who can tell?"

Started a green linnet
    Out of the croft;
Wake, little ladies,
    The sun is aloft!

by Lord Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892) , no title, from Child-Songs

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

by Jean Berger (1909-2002) , "Minnie and Winnie", published 1959. [SSA chorus and piano]
by Sir Ernest Bullock (1890-1979) , "Minnie and Winnie", published 1952. [SS chorus and piano]
by Robert Coningsby Clarke (1879-1934) , "Minnie and Winnie", published 1903 [voice and piano], from Song-Cameos, no. ?
by Cuthbert Forster , "Minnie and Winnie", published 1925. [SA chorus and piano]
by Joseph Groocock , "Minnie and Winnie", published c1954. [unison voices and piano]
by Hubert Hales , "Minnie and Winnie", published 1935. [unison voices and piano]
by Sidney Homer (1864-1953) , "Minnie and Winnie", op. 8 (Eight Poems by Tennyson) no. 2, published 1901. [voice and piano]
by Emily Tennyson, née Sellwood (1813-1896) , "Minnie and Winnie", published 1880 [voice and piano], from Two Child Songs, no. ?
by Alec Wilder (1907-1980) , "Minnie and Winnie", published 1965 [voice and piano], from Lullabies and Night Songs, no. ?
by Becket Williams , "Little ladies", published 1927 [voice and piano], from Two Child Songs, no. ?

Date added to the website: 2007-06-14.

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