Dormi Jesu

Setting by composers

• Clifford Boyd SSAA
• Fabio Fresi SSATB
• Luc Jakobs SATB
• Christopher Upton SATB with S solo

Other settings possibly not included in the manual list above

• Crys Armbrust — Sleep, Sweet Babe! (Dormi, Jesu!)
• Crys Armbrust — Three Choral Nativity Carols (Full Score)
• Mariano Garau — Dormi, Jesu
• Scott Villard — Dormi, Jesu

Text and translations

Latin text Dormi, Jesu! Mater ridet Quae tam dulcem somnum videt, Dormi, Jesu! blandule! Si non dormis, Mater plorat, Inter fila cantans orat, Blande, veni, somnule.

English translation Sleep, Jesus! Mother smiles Who sees such sweet sleep, Sleep, Jesus, gentling! If you sleep not, Mother weeps, While she spins, in song she prays, Come, gentle little sleep. Paraphrase by Samuel Taylor Coleridge Sleep, sweet babe! my cares beguiling: Mother sits beside thee smiling; Sleep, my darling, tenderly! If thou sleep not, mother mourneth, Singing as her wheel she turneth: Come, soft slumber, balmily!