A Cradle Song (W. B. Yeats poem)

A Cradle Song
A Cradle Song
by W. B. Yeats
Written	1899
First published in	The Wind Among the Reeds
Language	English
Rhyme scheme	ABBA CDDC EFFE
Publisher	John Lane: The Bodley Head
Publication date	1899
Media type	Hardback
Lines	12
Pages	128
OCLC	3132722
Full text
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"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

^ 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, .
^ Trevor Hold: Parry to Finzi: Twenty English Song-composers (2005), p 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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