I will make you brooches | I will make you brooches and toys for your delight

I will make you brooches and toys for...

Language: English

Our translations: CAT GER ITA LIT

I will make you brooches and toys for your delight
Of bird-song at morning and star-shine at night,
I will make a palace fit for you and me
Of green days in forests, and blue days at sea.

I will make my kitchen, and you shall keep your room,
Where white flows the river and bright blows the broom;
And you shall wash your linen and keep your body white
In rainfall at morning and dewfall at night.

And this shall be for music when no one else is near,
The fine song for singing, the rare song to hear!
That only I remember, that only you admire,
Of the broad road that stretches and the roadside fire.

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Note: first published in Pall Mall Gazette, January 1895

Text Authorship:

by Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894), no title, appears in Songs of Travel and other verses, no. 11, first published 1896 [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 Harold Allen (b. 1917), "I will make you brooches and toys for your delight", 1971 [ mezzo-soprano, guitar, percussion ensemble ], from The White River [sung text not yet checked]
by Winifred May Bury (1897 - 1977), "I will make you brooches", published 1936 [ medium voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by George Sainton Kaye Butterworth (1885 - 1916), "I will make you brooches", published 1920 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
by Robert Coningsby Clarke (1879 - 1934), "I will make you brooches and toys for your delight", published 1903 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Anthony Vincent Benedictus Collins (1893 - 1963), "I will make you brooches", published <<1940 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Robert Convery , "I will make you brooches and toys", 2008, first performed 2009 [ SATB chorus and piano ], from Under the Greenwood Tree [sung text not yet checked]
by George Cory (b. 1920?), "And this shall be for music", published 1955 [ mezzo-soprano and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Emma Lou Diemer (b. 1927), "Romance", published 1974 [ SATB chorus, piano, optional triangle ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Ernest Bristow Farrar (1885 - 1918), "The roadside fire", op. 10 no. 3 [ voice and piano ], from Vagabond Songs, no. 3 [sung text checked 1 time]
by Willard Samuel Fast (b. 1922), "I will make you brooches", published 1968 [ SATB chorus a cappella ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Donald Ford , "Romance", published 1922, copyright © 1943 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Ivor (Bertie) Gurney (1890 - 1937), "I will make you brooches", 1910 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Marjorie Helyer , "I will make you brooches", published 1958 [ unison chorus and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Richard Hundley (1930 - 2018), "For your delight", published 1962 [ soprano and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
by Chester Edward Ide (1878 - 1944), "Lovers of the wild", published 1907 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by John Jeffreys (1927 - 2010), "Romance" [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by John Jeffreys (1927 - 2010), "I will make you brooches" [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Karl Richard Korte (b. 1928), "I will make you brooches", published 1971 [ SATB chorus and piano ], from Aspects of Love [sung text not yet checked]
by Harold Noble (1903 - 1998), "I will make you brooches", published 1960 [ unison chorus and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by (Gerald) Graham Peel (1878 - 1937), "I will make you brooches" [sung text not yet checked]
by Arthur John Pritchard , "The roadside fire", published 1958 [ SSA chorus and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by John Theodore Livingston Raynor (1909 - 1970), "The Roadside Fire", op. 580 (1960) [sung text not yet checked]
by Cecil Sharman (1894 - ?), "The roadside fire", published 1956 [ SATB chorus a cappella ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Charles Vale , "The roadside fire", published 1956 [ TTBB chorus a cappella ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872 - 1958), "The roadside fire", 1904, published 1905, orchestrated 1905 [ voice and piano ], from Songs of Travel, no. 3 [sung text checked 1 time]
by Peter Warlock (1894 - 1930), "Romance", 1919, published 1921 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]

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Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 12
Word count: 118