Singing | Of speckled eggs the birdie sings

Of speckled eggs the birdie sings

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.

A. Bentley sets stanza 2

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Text Authorship:

by Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894), "Singing", 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 Alys Eliza Bentley , "Singing", published 1923, stanza 2 [ unaccompanied voice ] [sung text not yet checked]
by George Whitefield Chadwick (1854 - 1931), "Singing", published 1897 [ voice and piano ], from The Stevenson Song-Book [sung text not yet checked]
by Ethel Crowningshield , "Singing", published 1910 [ voice and piano ], from Robert Louis Stevenson Songs [sung text not yet checked]
by Vladimir Drozdoff , "Singing", published 1951 [ voice and piano ], from Stevensonia [sung text not yet checked]
by Edward Falk , "Singing", published <<1940 [ voice and piano ], from A Child's Garden of Verses [sung text not yet checked]
by Joseph Groocock , "Of speckled eggs the birdie sings", published 1957 [ SSA chorus and piano ], from A Child's Garden [sung text not yet checked]
by Charles Beach Hawley (1858 - 1915), "Singing", published 1897 [ voice and piano ], from The Stevenson Song-Book [sung text not yet checked]
by Maria Herz (1878 - 1950), as Albert Maria Herz, "Singing" [ voice and piano ], from Drei Lieder, no. 3 [sung text not yet checked]
by Maria Herz (1878 - 1950), "Singing", from Drei Lieder, no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
by Sidney Homer (1864 - 1953), "Singing", op. 16 (Three songs from "A Child's Garden of Verses") no. 3 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Jan Masséus (1913 - 1999), "Singing", op. 47a no. 3 (1974), from My kingdom, no. 3 [sung text checked 1 time]
by Ethelbert Woodbridge Nevin (1862 - 1901), "Of speckled eggs the birdie sings", <<1901 [ voice and piano ], from Three songs, no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
by Marvin Radnor , "Singing", published 1923 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Alec Rowley (1892 - 1958), "Of speckled eggs the birdie sings", published 1963 [ unison chorus and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 8
Word count: 45