by Elkanah Settle (1648 - 1724)
Come all ye songsters
Language: English
Come all ye songsters of the sky, Wake and assemble in this wood; But no ill-boding bird be nigh, No, none but the harmless, and the good.
Authorship:
- by Elkanah Settle (1648 - 1724) [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Henry Purcell (1658/9 - 1695), "Come all ye songsters", Z. 629 no. 7 (1692), published 1702, from The Fairy Queen, an operatic adaptation of Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream, no. 7, published in Orpheus Britannicus, Vol. II [text verified 1 time]
Researcher for this page: Virginia Knight
This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 4
Word count: 27