All the names I know from nurse: Gardener's garters, Shepherd's purse, Bachelor's buttons, Lady's smock, And the Lady Hollyhock, Fairy places, fairy things, Fairy woods where the wild bee wings, Tiny trees for tiny dames - These must all be fairy names! Tiny woods below whose boughs Shady fairies weave a house; Tiny tree-tops, rose or thyme, Where the braver fairies climb! Fair are grown-up people's trees, But the fairest woods are these; Where if I were not so tall, I should live for good and all.
Drei Lieder
Song Cycle by Maria Herz (1878 - 1950)
1. The flowers [sung text not yet checked]
Language: English
Text Authorship:
- by Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894), "The flowers", appears in A Child's Garden of Verses, first published 1885
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Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]2. Looking‑glass river [sung text not yet checked]
Language: English
Smooth it slides upon its travel, Here a wimple, there a gleam - O the clean gravel! O the smooth stream! Sailing blossoms, silver fishes, Paven pools as clear as air - How a child wishes To live down there!
Text Authorship:
- by Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894), "Looking-Glass River", appears in A Child's Garden of Verses, first published 1885
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Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]3. Singing [sung text not yet checked]
Language: English
Of speckled eggs the birdie sings And nests among the trees; The sailor sings of ropes and things In ships upon the seas. The children sing in far Japan, The children sing in Spain; The organ with the organ man Is singing in the rain.
Text Authorship:
- by Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894), "Singing", appears in A Child's Garden of Verses, first published 1885
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Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]Total word count: 169