by Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894)
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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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 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