A birdie with a yellow bill
Hopped upon the window sill,
Cocked his shining eye and said:
"Ain't you 'shamed, you sleepy-head?"
Text Authorship:
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Ethel Crowningshield , "Time to rise", published 1910 [ voice and piano ], from Robert Louis Stevenson Songs [sung text not yet checked]
- by Natalie Burlin Curtis (1875 - 1921), "Time to rise", published 1902 [ medium voice and piano ], from Songs from "A Child's Garden of Verses" [sung text not yet checked]
- by Vladimir Drozdoff , "Time to rise", published 1951 [ voice and piano ], from Stevensonia [sung text not yet checked]
- by Edward Falk , "Time to rise", published <<1940 [ voice and piano ], from A Child's Garden of Verses [sung text not yet checked]
- by Frederica Elvira Gambogi (? - 1940), "Time to rise", published 1902 [ voice and piano ], from Child-Land [sung text not yet checked]
- by Maria Herz (1878 - 1950), "Time to rise" [ voice and piano ], from Drei Lieder, no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Marvin Radnor , "Time to rise", published 1923 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Teresa del Riego (c1876 - 1968), "Time to rise", published 1909 [ voice and piano ], from Children's pictures [sung text not yet checked]
- by Alec Rowley (1892 - 1958), "Time to rise", published 1963 [ unison chorus and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Malcolm Benjamin Graham Christopher Williamson (1931 - 2003), "Time to rise", published 1968 [ high voice and piano ], from From a child's garden, no. 1 [sung text checked 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ITA Italian (Italiano) (Ferdinando Albeggiani) , "Ora di alzarsi", copyright © 2008, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 4
Word count: 22
Un uccelletto con il becco giallo
Venne al mio davanzale con un saltello,
e con gli occhi ammiccando nella mia direzione
"Non ti vergogni" disse "dormiglione?"
