My Heart Is Like A Singing Bird (Kenneth Langer)

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• (Posted 2025-05-28)  CPDL #85131:         

Editor: Kenneth Langer (submitted 2025-05-28).   Score information: Letter, 6 pages, 135 kB   Copyright: CPDL

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General Information

Title: Rossetti Songs 2
Composer: Kenneth Langer
Lyricist: Christina Rossetti
Number of voices: 1v   Voicing: Soprano solo
Genre: Secular, Art song

Language: English
Instruments: Keyboard

First published: 2025
Description: 

Original text and translations

English text

My heart is like a singing bird
whose nest is in a watered shoot;
my heart is like an apple tree
whose boughs are bent with thickset fruit;

my heart is like a rainbow shell
that paddles in a halcyon sea;
my heart is gladder than all these
because my love is come to me.

Raise me a dais of silk and down;
hang it with vair and purple dyes;
carve it in doves and pomegranites,
and peacocks with a hundred eyes;

work it in gold and silver grapes,
in leaves and silver fleur de lys;
because the birthday of my life is come.

My heart is like a singing bird
whose nest is in a watered shoot;
my heart is like an apple tree
whose boughs are bent with thickset fruit;

my heart is like a rainbow shell
that paddles in a halcyon sea;
my heart is gladder than all these
because my love is come to me.