The songs#

William Blake (17571827)“A Cradle Song” (Poems from the Notebook, 1794, verses 12 and 45 only) # Robert Burns (175996)“A Highland Balou” (Last Songs for the Scots Musical Museum, 1792. Published in Volume 5, 1839) # Robert Greene (155892)“Sephestia’s Lullaby” (from the prose-poem Menaphon, 1589, verses 1 and 3 only) # Thomas Randolph (160535)“A Charm” (from The Jealous Lovers, 1632, the two stanzas beginning “Quiet sleep”) # John Phillip ()“The Nurse’s Song” (from The Commodye of Pacient and Meeke Grissill, 1559, “Lullaby baby, thy nurse will tend thee”)#

External links#

• Britten-Pears Foundation
• Boosey & Hawkes