Who Has Seen the Wind, a Singable Poem
Posted on: March 22, 2010
Christina Rossetti (1830-1894)
“Who Has Seen the Wind,” by Christina Rossetti, is a short but powerful poem about the mysterious forces in our world that we cannot see but which are keenly felt. This poem is probably too short to get its own individual book, but it has been printed and illustrated into many anthologies of children’s poetry, including:
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Talking Like the Rain: A Read-to-Me Book of Poems
Selected by X.J. Kennedy and Dorothy M. Kennedy
Illustrated by Jane Dyer
(“Who Has Seen the Wind” is printed and illustrated on p. 71)
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A Family of Poems (My Favorite Poetry for Children)
Selected by Caroline Kennedy
Illustrated by Jon Muth
(“Who Has Seen the Wind” is printed and illustrated on p. 75)
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Who Has Seen the Wind (An Illustrated Collection of Poetry for Young Poeple from the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston)
Edited by Kathryn Sky-Peck
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“Who Has Seen the Wind” (by Christina Rossetti), from:
Sing a Song of Popcorn (Every Child’s Book of Poems)
Illustrated by Nine Caldecott Medal Artists
Words and Music by Various Artists
Published by Scholastic Inc., New York
ISBN 0-590-40645-0
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“Who Has Seen the Wind” has received a few musical settings, but I’ve taken a fancy to a 34 second track by Patsy Biscoe. The first 7 seconds are taken up by a cheesy verbal intro, but the rest of the track is a truly lovely musical setting and pretty vocal for this sweetly thought provoking poem.
http://www.patsybiscoe.com/cd02.aspx
Track 19
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You can hear a clip of this song and buy the track on i-tunes:
http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/50-favourite-nursery-rhymes/id292626146
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“Who Has Seen the Wind” was originally published in 1893, featured in Christina Rossetti’s “SING-SONG, A NURSERY RHYME BOOK”
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Sing-Song, A Nursery Rhyme Book
Poems by Christina Rossetti
Illustrated by Arthur Hughes
(This edition includes the original 120 illustrations by Arthur Hughes)
Click here to read the poems in Christina Rossetti’s book ”SING-SONG, A NURSERY RHYME BOOK”
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/rossetti/singsong/singsong.html#ab
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WHO HAS SEEN THE WIND?
Poem by Christina Georgina Rossetti
Traditional Tune
Sing the poem with Emily, here:
http://soundcloud.com/singbookswithemily/who-has-seen-the-wind-eleg
Who has seen the wind?
Neither I nor you.
But when the leaves hang trembling,
The wind is passing through.
Who has seen the wind?
Neither you nor I.
But when the trees bow down their heads,
The wind is passing by.
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Read biographies and find the poetry of Christina Rossetti on the web:
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/rossetti.htm
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poet.html?id=5853
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A page for the Sing Books with Emily SINGABLE ADVENT CALENDAR,
WHO HAS SEEN THE WIND
WHO HAS SEEN THE WIND?
Poem by Christina Georgina Rossetti
Traditional Tune
Sing the poem with Emily, here:
http://soundcloud.com/singbookswithemily/who-has-seen-the-wind-eleg
To view or print the SBWE Singable Advent Calendar sheet for “Who Has Seen the Wind,” click here:
SBWE Advent Calendar Who Has Seen the Wind
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Related Posts
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POETRY SINGABLE POETRY IN COMPILATIONS
An list of singable poems from compilations of poetry for children
http://singbookswithemily.wordpress.com/2011/04/17/singable-poetry-a-list-of-poems-that-can-be-sung-from-illustrated-compilations-of-poetry-and-singable-picture-books/
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POETRY, SINGABLE POETRY IN INDIVIDUALLY ILLUSTRATED SINGABLE PICTURE BOOKS
A list of individually illustrated poems that have been set to music and can be sung
http://singbookswithemily.wordpress.com/2012/04/20/poems-individually-illustrated-spb/
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EDUCATIONAL CONTENT
A list of SPBs with fun and sneakily educational content. The kids won’t even know they’re learning!
http://singbookswithemily.wordpress.com/2011/08/15/singable-picture-books-with-sneaky-educational-content/
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WINTER
Singable Picture Books for Winter
Some of these are sung at Christmastime, but this is a list of songs about Winter that you can sing all season long!
http://singbookswithemily.wordpress.com/2010/12/21/singable-picture-books-for-winter/
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SING BOOKS WITH EMILY SINGABLE ADVENT CALENDAR
http://singbookswithemily.wordpress.com/2012/11/29/the-sing-books-with-emily-singable-advent-calendar/
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SBWE Singable Advent Calendar: Who Has Seen the Wind
