LUCIO PETROCCIONE, COMPOSER
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A Children's Lullaby

This piece was inspired by a poem by Yeats.

The Angels are stooping above your bed
They weary of trooping with the whimpering dead
Gods laughing in heaven to see you so good
The Shining Seven are gay with his mood
I Kiss you and kiss you my pigeon my dove
And how I shall miss you when you have grown

The opening of the piece is the melody for the poem. The second part - my feelings as I watched the children slowly fall asleep. It is one of my favorite themes.  I felt such peace and joy watching them toss and turn. Such a wonderful memory - I could hear them asking "Dad, can you read it one more time...please." (over and over again)

Score: Piano
Copyright 2025 by Lucio  Petroccione - all rights reserved
  • Home
    • Biography
  • Orchestral Works
    • Four Panels of Christ
    • Yellow Winter Orange Sky
    • Kerry's Field
    • Stealing Pieces of Time
    • When Whales Walked
    • Blackbirds
    • House by the Sea
    • Kill Devil Hill
    • A Winter's Tale
    • Autumn
    • Sermon on the Mount
  • Chamber Works
    • Aurora
    • The Swan
    • Two Sketches
    • The Summer House
    • Poesia
    • Ocean Sketches >
      • A Year of Storms
      • Baylight
      • Coming Home
      • Day Break
      • Evening Run
      • Heading Out
      • Night Fog
      • Spring Tide
      • Storm at 5 Mile
      • Storms Edge
      • Morning Run
    • Blue Fields
    • You and I
    • Two Movements for Voice
    • Red Rhapsody
    • Holding Up Half the Sky
    • Standing Still
    • Jagged Memories
    • Of Younger Days
    • Children's Lullaby
    • The Snowman and the Bridge
    • An Awkward Man
  • Soundscapes
    • Heartbeat
    • Like the Rain
    • driving home...
    • away from home
    • incredible day
    • without you...
    • gehrig st
    • ice storm
    • touching fire
    • flying
    • every moment
    • breathe me
    • fragments
    • tear my soul...
    • distorted memory
    • sweet agony
    • beautiful Girl
    • starlight
    • moody ways
    • believe me
    • house
    • stonington lane
    • sunday afternoon
  • Basement
    • Words >
      • the yellow taxi
      • yesterday
      • pink sweater
      • brown meadows
      • snowing in new york
      • thirty years
      • some dogs for me
      • the table
      • disturb
      • travel too
      • every every
      • god
      • home
      • unusual
      • the night before
      • the passing
      • soaring
      • as one
      • hundred times
      • Us
      • a poem
      • fallen
      • dance as she sings
      • tender and sweet
      • the hill
      • the bridge
      • wistful words
      • lay witness
      • family
      • how far can i run
      • with you
      • twenty minutes to the bridge
      • a wine glass of you
      • drowning into you
      • broken
      • still more
      • waiting for you
      • winter calls
      • rainstorm
      • your road
      • rooftops
      • on her way home
      • wait
      • i have you
      • turbulence
      • yellow winter orange sky
      • white
      • passes
      • and
      • and i miss you
      • hotel
      • duet
    • Every Storm Passes
  • Contact Lucio