by Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894)
The Land of Nod
Language: English
From breakfast on through all the day At home among my friends I stay, But every night I go abroad Afar into the land of Nod. All by myself I have to go, With none to tell me what to do -- All alone beside the streams And up the mountain-sides of dreams. The strangest things are these for me, Both things to eat and things to see, And many frightening sights abroad Till morning in the land of Nod. Try as I like to find the way, I never can get back by day, Nor can remember plain and clear The curious music that I hear.
Text Authorship:
- by Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894), "The Land of Nod", 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 Ethel Crowningshield , "The Land of Nod", published 1910 [ voice and piano ], from Robert Louis Stevenson Songs [sung text not yet checked]
- by Joseph Eidson , "The Land of Nod", 2010 [ mezzo-soprano and piano ], from Songs of Enchantment and Wonder, no. 2 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Edward Falk , "The Land of Nod", published <<1940 [ voice and piano ], from A Child's Garden of Verses [sung text not yet checked]
- by William Wallace Gilchrist (1846 - 1916), "The Land of Nod", published 1897 [ voice and piano ], from The Stevenson Song-Book [sung text not yet checked]
- by Homer Albert Norris (1860?5 - 1920), "The Land of Nod", published 1903 [ voice, piano, and violin obbligato ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Marvin Radnor , "The Land of Nod", published 1923 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Luigi Zaninelli (b. 1932), "The Land of Nod", published 1962 [ SSA chorus and piano or instrumental ensemble ], from The world is so full [sung text not yet checked]
Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
This text was added to the website: 2008-12-07
Line count: 16
Word count: 106