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I love singing WHO HAS SEEN THE WIND (an illustrated, singable poem by Christina Rossetti) and playing it on my guitar.
Here’s a beautiful illustration I found by artist Anne Grahame Johnstone:
WHO HAS SEEN THE WIND?
Poem by Christina Georgina Rossetti
Traditional Tune
Illustration by Anne Grahame Johnstone
From A YEAR OF POETRY
To hear the tune for singing this poem, click here:
https://soundcloud.com/singbookswithemily/who-has-seen-the-wind-eleg-1
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WHO HAS SEEN THE WIND?
Poem by Christina Georgina Rossetti
Traditional Tune
Hear a tune for singing the poem, here:
https://soundcloud.com/singbookswithemily/who-has-seen-the-wind-eleg-1
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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WHO HAS SEEN THE WIND, A SINGABLE, ILLUSTRATED POEM
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POETRY SINGABLE POETRY IN COMPILATIONS
An list of singable poems from compilations of poetry for children
https://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
https://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!
https://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!
https://singbookswithemily.wordpress.com/2010/12/21/singable-picture-books-for-winter/
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SING BOOKS WITH EMILY SINGABLE ADVENT CALENDAR
https://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
https://singbookswithemily.wordpress.com/2012/12/06/sbwe-advent-calendar-who-has-seen-the-wind/
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SING ALONG POSTERS FOR WHO HAS SEEN THE WIND
https://singbookswithemily.wordpress.com/2013/11/09/sing-along-posters-for-who-has-seen-the-wind/
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A Song Sheet with Guitar Chords for WHO HAS SEEN THE WIND
https://singbookswithemily.wordpress.com/2014/05/07/a-song-sheet-with-guitar-chords-for-who-has-seen-the-wind/
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Addendum 5/7/2014
WHO HAS SEEN THE WIND
I finally made a song sheet with chords printed above the words:
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WHO HAS SEEN THE WIND (with Guitar Chords by ELEG for SBWE)
Poem by Christina Georgina Rossetti
Traditional Tune
To hear the tune for singing this poem, click here:
https://soundcloud.com/singbookswithemily/who-has-seen-the-wind-eleg-1
To view or print the SBWE Singable Poster Sheet with Chords for “Who Has Seen the Wind,” click here:
Who Has Seen the Wind ELEG SBWE w eleg guitar chords
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Who Has Seen the Wind, an Illustrated Singable Poem
https://singbookswithemily.wordpress.com/2010/03/22/who-has-seen-the-wind-a-singable-poem/
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POETRY SINGABLE POETRY IN COMPILATIONS
An list of singable poems from compilations of poetry for children
https://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
https://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!
https://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!
https://singbookswithemily.wordpress.com/2010/12/21/singable-picture-books-for-winter/
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SING BOOKS WITH EMILY SINGABLE ADVENT CALENDAR
https://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
https://singbookswithemily.wordpress.com/2012/12/06/sbwe-advent-calendar-who-has-seen-the-wind/
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SING ALONG POSTERS FOR WHO HAS SEEN THE WIND
https://singbookswithemily.wordpress.com/2013/11/09/sing-along-posters-for-who-has-seen-the-wind/
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A Song Sheet with Guitar Chords for WHO HAS SEEN THE WIND
https://singbookswithemily.wordpress.com/2014/05/07/a-song-sheet-with-guitar-chords-for-who-has-seen-the-wind/
Thanks to my guitar teacher Josh Walker and the Levine School of Music, I’m reaching a couple milestones in playing the guitar. A while back, I found a traditional tune for WHO HAS SEEN THE WIND and wanted to sing it. Recently, my guitar teacher helped me to come up with some chords for playing the tune and singing along so I started working on it and tweaking.
My grandmother Ethel May (I call her Gram) lives in an assisted care facility and has lost some of her faculties from a stroke she had a bit over a year ago. Sometime last year, I began to assemble “Audio Letters” to entertain and communicate with her by using my little Olympus digital recorder to record a couple songs for each letter, plus messages, letters and memories read out loud, readings from the kids and any other audio-fun we could come up with. This morning, I played and sang WHO HAS SEEN THE WIND for Gram into my little digital recorder and decided I liked the results, though SLOW and primitive as my skills with the guitar still are, better than the a-capella scratch recording I’d made for the tune a while back. So I uploaded it to my SoundCloud page:
https://soundcloud.com/singbookswithemily/who-has-seen-the-wind-eleg-1
And wrote out the chords for anyone else who might like to play and sing this pretty tune. I think it’ll be quite nice when my guitar skills improve…it’s such a lovely and haunting little song.
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Addendum 1/5/2014
If you’d like to play this pretty little tune on your guitar, here are some chord suggestions:
WHO HAS SEEN THE WIND?
Poem by Christina Georgina Rossetti
Traditional Tune
To hear the tune for singing this poem, click here:
https://soundcloud.com/singbookswithemily/who-has-seen-the-wind-eleg-1
To view or print the SBWE Singable Poster Sheet with Chords for “Who Has Seen the Wind,” click here:
who has seen the wind eleg chords
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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
https://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
https://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!
https://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!
https://singbookswithemily.wordpress.com/2010/12/21/singable-picture-books-for-winter/
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SING BOOKS WITH EMILY SINGABLE ADVENT CALENDAR
https://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
https://singbookswithemily.wordpress.com/2012/12/06/sbwe-advent-calendar-who-has-seen-the-wind/
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SING ALONG POSTERS FOR WHO HAS SEEN THE WIND
https://singbookswithemily.wordpress.com/2013/11/09/sing-along-posters-for-who-has-seen-the-wind/
The traditional sweetly haunting tune and evocative words of WHO HAS SEEN THE WIND makes it a lot of fun to sing. I assembled a few posters for sharing the song (Christina Rosetti’s poem, written in 1890s).
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WHO HAS SEEN THE WIND?
Poem by Christina Georgina Rossetti
Traditional Tune
To hear the tune for singing this poem, click here:
https://soundcloud.com/singbookswithemily/who-has-seen-the-wind-eleg-1
To view or print the SBWE Singable Poster Sheet for “Who Has Seen the Wind,” click here:
Who Has Seen the Wind ELEG SBWE
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WHO HAS SEEN THE WIND?
Poem by Christina Georgina Rossetti
Traditional Tune
Illustration by Marion H. Matchitt
To hear the tune for singing this poem, click here:
https://soundcloud.com/singbookswithemily/who-has-seen-the-wind-eleg-1
To view or print the SBWE Singable Poster Sheet with Illustration by Marion H. Matchitt for “Who Has Seen the Wind,” click here:
Who Has Seen the Wind Matchitt SBWE
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WHO HAS SEEN THE WIND?
Poem by Christina Georgina Rossetti
Traditional Tune
Illustration by Eric Kincaid
To hear the tune for singing this poem, click here:
https://soundcloud.com/singbookswithemily/who-has-seen-the-wind-eleg-1
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WHO HAS SEEN THE WIND?
Poem by Christina Georgina Rossetti
Traditional Tune
Illustration by Gyo Fujikawa
To hear the tune for singing this poem, click here:
https://soundcloud.com/singbookswithemily/who-has-seen-the-wind-eleg-1
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WHO HAS SEEN THE WIND, A SINGABLE POEM
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POETRY SINGABLE POETRY IN COMPILATIONS
An list of singable poems from compilations of poetry for children
https://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
https://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!
https://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!
https://singbookswithemily.wordpress.com/2010/12/21/singable-picture-books-for-winter/
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SING BOOKS WITH EMILY SINGABLE ADVENT CALENDAR
https://singbookswithemily.wordpress.com/2012/11/29/the-sing-books-with-emily-singable-advent-calendar/
A page for the Sing Books with Emily SINGABLE ADVENT CALENDAR
WHO HAS SEEN THE WIND, a haunting, simple, beautiful poem by Christina Rossetti. It makes me think of those moments at holiday time when the weather outside is frightful, seeing evidence of the cold wind blowing through the trees who bow down their heads, but glad to be inside with the warmth and happy glow of the Christmas tree…
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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
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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Sing-Along with Emily:
I got out my little brown Olympus digital recorder and sang the tune for you, here:
http://soundcloud.com/singbookswithemily/who-has-seen-the-wind-eleg
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WHO HAS SEEN THE WIND, A SINGABLE POEM ILLUSTRATED IN PICTURE BOOKS
https://singbookswithemily.wordpress.com/2010/03/22/who-has-seen-the-wind-a-singable-poem/
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POETRY SINGABLE POETRY IN COMPILATIONS
An list of singable poems from compilations of poetry for children
https://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
https://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!
https://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!
https://singbookswithemily.wordpress.com/2010/12/21/singable-picture-books-for-winter/
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SING BOOKS WITH EMILY SINGABLE ADVENT CALENDAR
https://singbookswithemily.wordpress.com/2012/11/29/the-sing-books-with-emily-singable-advent-calendar/
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CHRISTMAS
A Collection of Singable Picture Books that celebrate CHRISTMAS!
https://singbookswithemily.wordpress.com/2010/11/28/singable-picture-books-for-christmas/
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WHO HAS SEEN THE WIND?
Poem by Christina Georgina Rossetti
Traditional Tune Adapted and Arranged for Voice and Ukulele by ELEG for SBWE
Illustration by Gyo Fujikawa
Sing with Emily, here:
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WHO HAS SEEN THE WIND for SBWE 2020 w Chords
Poem by Christina Georgina Rossetti
Traditional Tune
Arranged for Ukulele by ELEG for SBWE
To view or print this page, click here:
Who Has Seen the Wind ELEG SBWE w chords
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WHO HAS SEEN THE WIND (SBWE SBS, no chords)
Poem by Christina Georgina Rossetti
Traditional Tune
Page Coordinated by ELEG for SBWE Songbook Series
To view or print this page, click here:
SBWE SBS Who Has Seen the Windw no chords
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Christina Rossetti (1830-1894)
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“Who Has Seen the Wind,” by Christina Rossetti, is a short but evocative 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
Hear a tune for singing the poem, here:
https://soundcloud.com/singbookswithemily/who-has-seen-the-wind-eleg-1
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 Sing Along Poster for
WHO HAS SEEN THE WIND, an Illustrated Song
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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 (Song Sheet by SBWE for Singable Advent Calendar)
Poem by Christina Georgina Rossetti
Traditional Tune
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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WHO HAS SEEN THE WIND (Song Sheet by SBWE)
Poem by Christina Georgina Rossetti
Traditional Tune
To hear the tune for singing this poem, click here:
To view or print the SBWE Singable Poster Sheet for “Who Has Seen the Wind,” click here:
Who Has Seen the Wind ELEG SBWE
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WHO HAS SEEN THE WIND?
Poem by Christina Georgina Rossetti
Traditional Tune
Illustration by Marion H. Matchitt
To view or print the SBWE Singable Poster Sheet with Illustration by Marion H. Matchitt for “Who Has Seen the Wind,” click here:
Who Has Seen the Wind Matchitt SBWE
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WHO HAS SEEN THE WIND?
Poem by Christina Georgina Rossetti
Traditional Tune
Illustration by Anne Grahame Johnstone
From A YEAR OF POETRY
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WHO HAS SEEN THE WIND?
Poem by Christina Georgina Rossetti
Traditional Tune
Illustration by Eric Kincaid
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WHO HAS SEEN THE WIND?
Poem by Christina Georgina Rossetti
Traditional Tune
Illustration by Gyo Fujikawa
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WHO HAS SEEN THE WIND?
Poem by Christina Georgina Rossetti
Traditional Tune
Illustration by Eloise Wilkin
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WHO HAS SEEN THE WIND
Poem by Christina Georgina Rossetti
Traditional Tune
Illustrated by Jane Dyer
From Talking Like the Rain (a First Book of Poems)
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Addendum 1/5/2014
Thanks to my guitar teacher Josh Walker and the Levine School of Music, I’m reaching a couple milestones in playing the guitar. A while back, I found a traditional tune for WHO HAS SEEN THE WIND and wanted to sing it. Recently, my guitar teacher helped me to come up with some chords for playing the tune and singing along so I started working on it and tweaking.
My grandmother Ethel May (I call her Gram) lives in an assisted care facility and has lost some of her faculties from a stroke she had a bit over a year ago. Sometime last year, I began to assemble “Audio Letters” to entertain and communicate with her by using my little Olympus digital recorder to record a couple songs for each letter, plus messages, letters and memories read out loud, readings from the kids and any other audio-fun we could come up with. This morning, I played and sang WHO HAS SEEN THE WIND for Gram into my little digital recorder and decided I liked the results, though SLOW and primitive as my skills with the guitar still are, better than the a-capella scratch recording I’d made for the tune a while back. So I uploaded it to my SoundCloud page:
HOLDING PLACE FOR ACCEPTABLE RECORDING
And wrote out the chords for anyone else who might like to play and sing this pretty tune. I think it’ll be quite nice when my guitar skills improve…it’s such a lovely and haunting little song.
If you’d like to play this pretty little tune on your guitar, here are some chord suggestions:
WHO HAS SEEN THE WIND (ELEG’s Handwritten Chords)
Poem by Christina Georgina Rossetti
Traditional Tune
To hear the tune for singing this poem, click here:
To view or print the SBWE Singable Poster Sheet with Chords for “Who Has Seen the Wind,” click here:
who has seen the wind eleg chords
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Addendum 5/7/2014
I finally made a song sheet with chords printed above the words:
WHO HAS SEEN THE WIND (with Guitar Chords by ELEG for SBWE)
Poem by Christina Georgina Rossetti
Traditional Tune
To view or print the SBWE Singable Poster Sheet with Chords for “Who Has Seen the Wind,” click here:
Who Has Seen the Wind ELEG SBWE w eleg guitar chords
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Some lovely musical settings of WHO HAS SEEN THE WIND?on SoundCloud.com:
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A choral rendition:
https://soundcloud.com/deisenband/who-has-seen-the-wind
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An art song rendition:
https://soundcloud.com/charlie-carlos/who-has-seen-the-wind
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Another art song setting:
https://soundcloud.com/nathanjohnsonmusik/who-has-seen-the-wind
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WHO HAS SEEN THE WIND (SBWE Songbook Series)
Poem by Christina Georgina Rossetti
Traditional Tune
Page Coordinated by ELEG for SBWE Songbook Series
To view or print this page, click here:
SBS Who Has Seen the Wind w chords
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WHO HAS SEEN THE WIND, an Illustrated Song
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POETRY SINGABLE POETRY IN COMPILATIONS
An list of singable poems from compilations of poetry for children
https://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
https://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!
https://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!
https://singbookswithemily.wordpress.com/2010/12/21/singable-picture-books-for-winter/
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SING BOOKS WITH EMILY SINGABLE ADVENT CALENDAR
https://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
https://singbookswithemily.wordpress.com/2012/12/06/sbwe-advent-calendar-who-has-seen-the-wind/
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SING ALONG POSTERS FOR WHO HAS SEEN THE WIND
https://singbookswithemily.wordpress.com/2013/11/09/sing-along-posters-for-who-has-seen-the-wind/
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A Song Sheet with Guitar Chords for WHO HAS SEEN THE WIND
https://singbookswithemily.wordpress.com/2014/05/07/a-song-sheet-with-guitar-chords-for-who-has-seen-the-wind/
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Another Illustration for WHO HAS SEEN THE WIND
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Sing Books with Emily Songbook Series: Lullabies
https://singbookswithemily.wordpress.com/2015/10/07/sing-books-with-emily-songbook-series-lullabies/
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SING BOOKS WITH EMILY SONGBOOK SERIES HOST PAGE
https://singbookswithemily.wordpress.com/song-book-series-for-the-very-young/
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SING-ALONG RESOURCES AND PRINTABLE MATERIALS
This is the place to find Print Materials Created by Emily
https://singbookswithemily.wordpress.com/sing-along-resources-2/
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New Materials for WHO HAS SEEN THE WIND 2020
The Lobster Quadrille (and Other Poems for Children), a Singable Picture Book and CD
Posted on: March 12, 2010
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The Lobster Quadrille (and Other Poems for Children)
Edited by Lucy Simon
Illustrated by Susan Bennett
This book, a compilation of eleven of the very best children’s poems, compliments Lucy and Carly Simon’s Album:
http://www.amazon.com/Sing-Songs-Children-Carly-Simon/dp/B001I1SFRA/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1268410711&sr=1-1\
I love this collection, made by the Simon Sisters when they were both very young ladies playing these songs in New York City coffee houses. The songs have an intimate feeling specific to that time and place, with the sisters’ voice complimenting each other, Lucy with her lovely soprano and Carly with her rich alto.
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Poems illustrated and set to music in the book, and on the CD, include:
- Wynken, Blynken and Nod (Eugene Field)
- Calico Pie (Edward Lear)
- The Lamplighter (Robert Louis Stevenson)
- The Owl and the Pussycat (Edward Lear)
- Sleep, Baby, Sleep (Traditional Lullaby)
- The Lamb (William Blake)
- The Lobster Quadrille (Lewis Carroll)
- Who Has Seen the Wind (Christina Rossetti)
- I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
- A Red, Red Rose (Robert Burns)
- A Pavane for the Nursery (William Jay Smith)
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Carly Simon’s Webpage for this work:
http://www.carlysimon.com/music/Sing_Songs_For_Children.html
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A great bit of information on how this album came to be, here:
http://www.allmusic.com/album/sing-the-lobster-quadrille-and-other-songs-for-children-mw0000958258
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A wiki written about the album:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Simon_Sisters_Sing_the_Lobster_Quadrille_and_Other_Songs_for_Children
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Related Articles
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THE SPIDER AND THE FLY, A SINGABLE PICTURE BOOK
https://singbookswithemily.wordpress.com/2011/07/28/the-spider-and-the-fly-a-singable-picture-book/
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CARLY SIMON
The Singable Picture Books of Carly Simon
https://singbookswithemily.wordpress.com/2012/08/22/the-singable-picture-books-of-carly-simon/
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POETRY SINGABLE POETRY IN COMPILATIONS
An list of singable poems from compilations of poetry for children
https://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
https://singbookswithemily.wordpress.com/2012/04/20/poems-individually-illustrated-spb/
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CHILDCRAFT
The singable poems in Childcraft, Volume 1, The Poems of Early Childhood (1954)
https://singbookswithemily.wordpress.com/2013/04/13/childcraft-poems-of-early-childhood-a-singable-collection-of-poetry/
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CHILD’S GARDEN OF VERSES
Most Robert Louis Stevenson’s book of poetry for children have been set to music
https://singbookswithemily.wordpress.com/2010/03/28/a-childs-garden-of-verses-singable-poems-by-robert-louis-stevenson/
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EDWARD LEAR
A list of books with musical settings of, and illustrating Singable Picture Book versions of, Edward Lear’s poems:
https://singbookswithemily.wordpress.com/2011/02/03/singable-picture-book-spotlight-1302011-edward-lear-and-william-mathias-learsongs/
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AULD LANG SYNE, A SINGABLE PICTURE BOOK (Poem by Robert Burns)
https://singbookswithemily.wordpress.com/2012/01/08/auld-lang-syne-favorite-new-years-eve-song-exhibit-at-morgan-library-in-nyc/
In the Bleak Midwinter, The February Blizzard of 2010, A Singable Poem, A Simple Gift
Posted on: February 7, 2010
Snowflake photographed by Wilson Bentley
Writing this in February of 2010, I remember some serious snowstorms in my youth. But never in all my days do I recall a winter storm with snow as deep as what is piled up outside my door in Arlington, VA. We already had snow on the ground when this storm began. AND, the weather man says that more snow is on the way later in the week…snow on snow on snow…
All this snow on snow reminds me of Christina Rossetti’s poem “In the Bleak Midwinter.” A beautiful Christmas poem which can be sung. Rossetti writes of a winter in which “Snow had fallen, snow on snow, / Snow on snow, /In the bleak mid-winter /Long ago.”
In the Bleak Midwinter
Christina Rossetti
In the bleak mid-winter
Frosty wind made moan,
Earth stood hard as iron,
Water like a stone;
Snow had fallen, snow on snow,
Snow on snow,
In the bleak mid-winter
Long ago.
Our God, Heaven cannot hold Him
Nor earth sustain;
Heaven and earth shall flee away
When He comes to reign:
In the bleak mid-winter
A stable-place sufficed
The Lord God Almighty,
Jesus Christ.
Enough for Him, whom cherubim
Worship night and day,
A breastful of milk
And a mangerful of hay;
Enough for Him, whom angels
Fall down before,
The ox and ass and camel
Which adore.
Angels and archangels
May have gathered there,
Cherubim and seraphim
Thronged the air,
But only His mother
In her maiden bliss,
Worshipped the Beloved
With a kiss.
What can I give Him,
Poor as I am?
If I were a shepherd
I would bring a lamb,
If I were a wise man
I would do my part,
Yet what I can I give Him,
Give my heart.
I found the first verse of the poem illustrated is Roger Priddy’s sweet book of Sing-Along Christmas Carols.
Christmas Carols (Priddy Books)
Illustrated by Holly Russell
(This book comes with a sing-along CD with arrangements by Andrew Dodge and sung by Emma Cannon, Gerard Carey, and Andrew Dodge)
My favorite setting of this song is by Gustav Holst (1874-1934) and it can be heard many recordings.
This excellent page for “In the Bleak Midwinter,” features text, midi-files (for piano, organ or bells), and free PDF sheet music for download:
http://www.hymnsite.com/lyrics/umh221.sht
The printed music is available online by clicking here:
http://www.hymnsandcarolsofchristmas.com/Hymns_and_Carols/PDF/cranham.pdf
Historical information on the song and poem also available by clicking here: http://www.hymnsandcarolsofchristmas.com/Hymns_and_Carols/in_the_bleak_midwinter.htm
For singing along, I love the guitar rendition by John Fahey (Track 14):
http://www.amazon.com/Christmas-Guitar-Vol-John-Fahey/dp/B0000003O7/ref=sr_1_9?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1265481694&sr=8-9
You can also sing-along with these wonderful YouTube videos:
This one includes the words with the video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRobryliBLQ
This one sung by the great opera star Kiri Te Kanawa (which also included words)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbcpKCdTREQ
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I am writing now in December of 2010. Nearly a year has passed since I wrote the post about “In the Bleak Midwinter.” It is almost ironic that since then, we experienced the hottest summer ever on record in Washington, DC and yet we are now about to be buried under with snow again.
I have had the marvelous experience this holiday season to be repeatedly made aware of Simple Gifts. I have re-discovered the song, heard children singing at a nursing home, discovered “Simple Gifts” as the theme of 2010 holiday decorations at the White House, and heard “The Little Drummer Boy” anew in the light of its being a story about a little boy giving the simple best of what he has to offer. And just now, again, another song, “In the Bleak Midwinter,” presented itself as a Simple Gift.
Like “The Little Drummer Boy,” the story teller in this poem is stuck by profound wonder and seeks to give something worthy of the moment. The narrator, wishing for something more tangible, gives something ultimately which will last forever, her heart. I take this to mean she gives her love and her faith. In this case, the narrator is a Christian, but I think anyone of any faith can take from this that love and BELIEF IN someone else is a gift more precious than anything we can lay our hands on.
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Other Posts on the Subject of SIMPLE GIFTS
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In the Bleak Midwinter, A Singable Poem, A Simple Gift
https://singbookswithemily.wordpress.com/2010/12/25/in-the-bleak-m…ingable-poem-a/
In the Bleak Midwinter, The February Blizzard of 2010, A Singable Poem, A Simple Gift
https://singbookswithemily.wordpress.com/2010/02/07/in-the-bleak-midwinter/
The Little Drummer Boy, A Singable Picture Book, A Simple Gift
https://singbookswithemily.wordpress.com/2010/12/24/the-little-drummer-boy-a-singable-picture-book-a-simple-gift/
Simple Gifts at the White House:
https://singbookswithemily.wordpress.com/2010/12/23/simple-gifts-at-the-white-house/
Simple Gifts, a Singable Picture Book:
https://singbookswithemily.wordpress.com/2010/12/10/simple-gifts-a-singable-picture-book/
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Simple Gifts (The Shaker Hymn)
Words and Music by Elder Joseph Brackett
Illustrated by Chris Raschka
Sing Books with Emily, the Blog 