by Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894)
Time to rise
Language: English
Our translations: ITA
A birdie with a yellow bill Hopped upon the window sill, Cocked his shining eye and said: "Ain't you 'shamed, you sleepy-head?"
Text Authorship:
- by Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894), "Time to rise", appears in A Child's Garden of Verses, first published 1885 [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 Ethel Crowningshield , "Time to rise", published 1910 [ voice and piano ], from Robert Louis Stevenson Songs [sung text not yet checked]
- by Natalie Burlin Curtis (1875 - 1921), "Time to rise", published 1902 [ medium voice and piano ], from Songs from "A Child's Garden of Verses" [sung text not yet checked]
- by Vladimir Drozdoff , "Time to rise", published 1951 [ voice and piano ], from Stevensonia [sung text not yet checked]
- by Edward Falk , "Time to rise", published <<1940 [ voice and piano ], from A Child's Garden of Verses [sung text not yet checked]
- by Frederica Elvira Gambogi (? - 1940), "Time to rise", published 1902 [ voice and piano ], from Child-Land [sung text not yet checked]
- by Maria Herz (1878 - 1950), "Time to rise" [ voice and piano ], from Drei Lieder, no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Marvin Radnor , "Time to rise", published 1923 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Teresa del Riego (c1876 - 1968), "Time to rise", published 1909 [ voice and piano ], from Children's pictures [sung text not yet checked]
- by Alec Rowley (1892 - 1958), "Time to rise", published 1963 [ unison chorus and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Malcolm Benjamin Graham Christopher Williamson (1931 - 2003), "Time to rise", published 1968 [ high voice and piano ], from From a child's garden, no. 1 [sung text checked 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ITA Italian (Italiano) (Ferdinando Albeggiani) , "Ora di alzarsi", copyright © 2008, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 4
Word count: 22