Pierrot stands in the garden
Beneath a waning moon,
And on his lute he fashions
A [fragile]1 silver tune.

Pierrot plays in the garden,
He thinks he plays for me,
But I am quite forgotten
Under the cherry tree.

Pierrot plays in the garden,
And all the roses know
That Pierrot loves his music, --
But I love Pierrot.

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¹ Griffes, Rybner: "little"

Authorship:

• by Sara Teasdale (1884 - 1933), "Pierrot" [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 Mark Andrews (1875 - 1939), "Pierrot", published 1919 [ voice, piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
• by Mark Andrews (1875 - 1939), "Pierrot", published 1929 [ SSA chorus and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
• by Gary Bachlund (b. 1947), "Pierrot ", 2008 [ mezzo-soprano and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Robert F. Baksa (b. 1938), "Portrait of Pierrot", from Teasdale Songs, no. 4 [sung text not yet checked]
• by Seymour Barab (1921 - 2014), "Pierrot", published 1970 [ SSA chorus and piano ], from First Person Feminine, no. 1, Boosey and Hawkes [sung text not yet checked]
• by Charles Tomlinson Griffes (1884 - 1920), "Pierrot", A. 30 (1912) [ high voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Nika Leoni , "Pierrot", 2015 [ soprano and piano ], from Six Love Songs by Sara Teasdale, no. 3 [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Josephine McGill (1877 - 1919), "Pierrot", published 1914 [ soprano, piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
• by Harold Vincent Milligan (1888 - 1951), "Pierrot", published 1917 [ voice and piano ], from 5 Lyrics by Sara Teasdale [sung text not yet checked]
• by Gardner Read (1913 - 2005), "Pierrot", published 1943 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Dagmar de Corval Rybner (1890 - 1965), "Pierrot", published 1912 [ high voice or low voice, piano ], New York: G. Schirmer; Boston: Boston Music Co. [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Homer Samuels , "Pierrot", published 1922 [ voice, piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
• by Wintter Haynes Watts (1884 - 1962), "Pierrot", published 1919 [ high voice or medium voice, piano ] [sung text not yet checked]

Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

• GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , copyright © 2021, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Research team for this text: Barbara Miller , Garrett Medlock [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website: 2004-05-27
Line count: 12
Word count: 58