Where be [ye]1 going, you Devon Maid? And what have ye there in the Basket? Ye tight little fairy just fresh from the dairy, Will ye give me some cream if I ask it? I love your Meads, and I love your flowers, And I love your junkets mainly, But 'hind the door I love kissing more, O look not so disdainly. I love your hills, and I love your dales, And I love your flocks a-bleating -- But O, on the heather to lie together, With both our hearts a-beating! I'll put your Basket all safe in [a]2 nook, Your shawl [I]3 hang up on the willow, And we will sigh in the daisy's eye And kiss on [a]2 grass green pillow.
F. Bridge sets stanzas 1, 4, 3
R. Quilter sets stanzas 1, 3, 4
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View original text (without footnotes)1 Bridge, Quilter: "you"
2 Bridge: "the"
3 Bridge, Quilter: "I'll"
Text Authorship:
- by John Keats (1795 - 1821), "The Devon maid", subtitle: "Stanzas Sent in a Letter to B. R. Haydon" [author's text checked 1 time 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 Dominick Argento (1927 - 2019), "The Devon maid", 1968, published 1969 [ mixed chorus a cappella ], from A Nation of Cowslips, no. 1, NY: Boosey & Hawkes [sung text not yet checked]
- by Franz Carl Bornschein (1879 - 1948), "The Devon maid", published 1928 [ TTBB and piano (or a cappella ad libitum) ], NY : J. Fischer [sung text not yet checked]
- by Frank Bridge (1879 - 1941), "The Devon maid", 1903, stanzas 1,4,3 [ medium voice and piano ], from Two Songs, no. 1, first appeared in Vocalist, 1905 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Clifford Curwin , "The Devon maid", published 1963 [ women's chorus and piano ], London : Leonard, Gould & Boltller [sung text not yet checked]
- by Dwight Fiske , "The Devon maid", published 1918 [ voice and piano ], NY : H. W. Gray [sung text not yet checked]
- by (Charles William) Eric Fogg (1903 - 1939), "The Devon maid", published 1925 [ tenor or low voice and piano ], London : Elkin [sung text not yet checked]
- by Aston Fyrrold , "The Devon maid", op. 7 no. 1, published 1917 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Richard Harding Graves (b. 1926), "Where be you going, you Devon maid?", published 1948 [ unison chorus and piano ], London : Black [sung text not yet checked]
- by (Herbert) Hamilton Harty, Sir (1879 - 1941), "The Devon maid", published 1903 [ voice and piano ], London : Augener [sung text not yet checked]
- by Eugene Hartzell (1932 - 2000), "The Devon maid", 1978 [ tenor and guitar ], from A Keats Songbook, Vienna : Doblinger ; with a German translationby Wolfgang Ploderer [sung text not yet checked]
- by Clarence S. Hill , "Where be you going, you Devon maid", published 1907 [ tenor or baritone and piano ], from Five Songs by Keats, London : Novello [sung text not yet checked]
- by Joseph Holbrooke (1878 - 1958), "Where be you going", op. 54 no. 4 (1909), published 1910 [ voice and piano ], from Dramatic Songs, no. 4, London : Cramer [sung text not yet checked]
- by Vincent Jackson , "Where be you going, you Devon maid", published 1905 [ voice and piano ], London : Augener ; in the collection The Minstrelsy of England, Vol. I [sung text not yet checked]
- by Horace Keats (1895 - 1945), "The Devon maid", published 1945 [ voice and piano ], Sydney : Chappell [sung text not yet checked]
- by Isidore Luckstone (1861 - 1941), "Where be ye going", published 1920 [ voice and piano ], London : Winthrop Rogers [sung text not yet checked]
- by Jeffrey Mark , "Where be ye going", published 1930 [ voice and piano ], London : Oxford University Press [sung text not yet checked]
- by Norman Houston O'Neill (1875 - 1934), "Where be you going, you Devon maid?", op. 35 (Two Songs) no. 2 (1909), published 1909 [ voice and piano ], London : Schott [sung text not yet checked]
- by Florence Parr-Gere , "You Devon maid", published <<1940 [ voice and piano ], NY : Harold Flammer [sung text not yet checked]
- by Roger Quilter (1877 - 1953), "Where be you going", op. 18 (Six songs) no. 2 (1913), published 1914, stanzas 1,3,4 [ voice and piano ], London, Elkin [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Olga Racster , "The Devon maid", published 1903 [ voice and piano ], London : Boosey & Hawkes [sung text not yet checked]
- by John Urich , "The Devon maid", published 1916 [ voice and piano ], London : A. Weekes & Co. [sung text not yet checked]
- by Maurice Vinden , "The Devon maid", published 1923 [ voice and piano ], London : Murdoch, Murdoch & Co. [sung text not yet checked]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- GER German (Deutsch) (Richard Flatter) , "Der Korb", appears in Die Fähre, Englische Lyrik aus fünf Jahrhunderten, first published 1936
Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 16
Word count: 122
Wohin des Weges, mein schönes Kind, Mit dem Korb und dem festen Schritte? Du klein-liebes Mädchen, So straff wie ein Fädchen, Was gibst du mir, wenn ich dich bitte? Ich lieb deine Wiesen, die blumigen Aun, Deinen Rahmkäs lieb ich beträchtlich; Doch am liebsten zuvor Einen Kuß hinter´m Tor – Oh, schau nicht gar so verächtlich! Ich lieb deine Hügel, die Täler dazu, Deine Lämmer, die blöken und klagen; Doch, oh, auf der Heide, Da liegen wir beide, Die Herzen pochen und schlagen. Ich stell dir den Korb in ein sichres Versteck, Den Shawl häng ich auf an der Weide Und wir liegen in Ruh – Die Disteln schaun zu – Auf grasgrünem Polster, wir beide.
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Confirmed with Die Fähre, Englische Lyrik aus fünf Jahrhunderten Übersetzt von Richard Flatter, Walter Krieg Verlag, Wien-Bad Bocklet-Zürich, 1954, 2nd edition (1st edition 1936), page 163.
Text Authorship:
- by Richard Flatter (1891 - 1960), "Der Korb", appears in Die Fähre, Englische Lyrik aus fünf Jahrhunderten, first published 1936 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Based on:
- a text in English by John Keats (1795 - 1821), "The Devon maid", subtitle: "Stanzas Sent in a Letter to B. R. Haydon"
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- [ None yet in the database ]
Researcher for this page: Volkmar Henschel
This text was added to the website: 2021-02-25
Line count: 20
Word count: 116