by Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894)
All the names I know from nurse
Language: English
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.
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Text Authorship:
- by Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894), "The flowers", 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 Maria Herz (1878 - 1950), "The flowers" [ voice and piano ], from Drei Lieder, no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Maria Herz (1878 - 1950), "The flowers", from Drei Lieder, no. 3 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Marvin Radnor , "The flowers", published 1923 [ voice and piano ], in the collection Songs for Little Children [sung text not yet checked]
- by Arthur Rosenstein , "Baby's garden", published <<1940 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Malcolm Benjamin Graham Christopher Williamson (1931 - 2003), "The flowers", published 1968 [ high voice and piano ], from From a child's garden, no. 6 [sung text checked 1 time]
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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
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Word count: 86