by Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894)
When I was down beside the sea
Language: English
When I was down beside the sea A wooden spade they gave to me To dig the sandy shore. My holes were empty like a cup. In every hole the sea came up, Till it could come no more.
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Text Authorship:
- by Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894), "At the sea-side", 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 Natalie Burlin Curtis (1875 - 1921), "At the seashore", published 1902 [ medium voice and piano ], from Songs from "A Child's Garden of Verses" [sung text not yet checked]
- by Edward Falk , "At the sea-side", published <<1940 [ voice and piano ], from A Child's Garden of Verses [sung text not yet checked]
- by Frederica Elvira Gambogi (? - 1940), "At the sea-side", published 1902 [ voice and piano ], from Child-Land [sung text not yet checked]
- by Karl Wilson Gehrkens (1882 - 1975), "At the sea-side", published 1933 [ unaccompanied voice ], in New Universal School Music Series: My First Song Book [sung text not yet checked]
- by William Otto Miessner (1880 - 1967), "At the sea-side", published 1929 [ voice and piano ], in the collection The Music-Hour in the Kindergarten and First Grade [sung text not yet checked]
- by Edith Swepstone (flourished 1887-1915), "At the sea side", published 1910 [ voice and piano ], from Robert Louis Stevenson's Songs for Children, no. 1, London : J. Curwen & Sons Ltd. [sung text not yet checked]
Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
This text was added to the website: 2008-11-27
Line count: 6
Word count: 39