by Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894)
Fairy bread
Language: English
Come up here. O dusty feet! Here is fairy bread to eat. Here in my retiring room, Children, you may dine On the golden smell of broom And the shade of pine; And when you have eaten well, Fairy stories hear and tell.
Text Authorship:
- by Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894), "Fairy bread", appears in A Child's Garden of Verses, first published 1885 [author's text checked 1 time 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 Adolph Martin Foerster (1854 - 1927), "Fairy bread", op. 67 (Child Lyrics) no. 2 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Frederica Elvira Gambogi (? - 1940), "Fairy bread", published 1902 [ voice and piano ], from Child-Land [sung text not yet checked]
- by Marvin Radnor , "Fairy bread", published 1923 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Eleanor Smith , "Fairy bread", published <<1940 [ voice and piano ], from Song Pictures [sung text not yet checked]
Researcher for this page: Barbara Miller
This text was added to the website: 2004-02-10
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