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A birdie with a yellow bill Hopped upon the window sill, Cocked his shining eye and said: "Ain't you 'shamed, you sleepy-head?"
Authorship
- by Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894), "Time to rise", 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 Ethel Crowningshield , "Time to rise", published 1910 [voice and piano], from Robert Louis Stevenson Songs [text not verified]
- by Natalie Burlin Curtis (1875 - 1921), "Time to rise", published 1902 [medium voice and piano], from Songs from "A Child's Garden of Verses" [text not verified]
- by Vladimir Drozdoff , "Time to rise", published 1951 [voice and piano], from Stevensonia [text not verified]
- by Edward Falk , "Time to rise", published <<1940 [voice and piano], from A Child's Garden of Verses [text not verified]
- by Frederica Elvira Gambogi (? - 1940), "Time to rise", published 1902 [voice and piano], from Child-Land [text not verified]
- by Marvin Radnor , "Time to rise", published 1923. [voice and piano] [text not verified]
- by Teresa del Riego (c1876 - 1968), "Time to rise", published 1909 [voice and piano], from Children's pictures [text not verified]
- by Alec Rowley (1892 - 1958), "Time to rise", published 1963. [unison chorus and piano] [text not verified]
- by Malcolm Benjamin Graham Christopher Williamson (b. 1931), "Time to rise", published 1968 [high voice and piano], from From a child's garden, no. 1. [text verified 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ITA Italian (Italiano) (Ferdinando Albeggiani) , title 1: "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.
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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?"
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- Translation from English to Italian (Italiano) copyright © 2008 by Ferdinando Albeggiani, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you may ask the copyright-holder(s) directly or ask us; we are authorized to grant permission on their behalf. Please provide the translator's name when contacting us.
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- a text in English by Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894), "Time to rise", appears in A Child's Garden of Verses, first published 1885
This text was added to the website: 2008-10-23
Line count: 4
Word count: 26