by William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
Translation by Paavo Cajander (1846 - 1913)
Come unto these yellow sands
Language: English
Come unto these yellow sands, [Then]1 take hands: Curtsied when you have and kissed, The wild waves [whist]2: Foot it featly here and there; And, sweet sprites, the [burthen]3 bear. Hark, hark! Bow-wow. The watch dogs bark; Bow-wow. Hark, hark! I hear the strain of strutting Chanticleer Cry, Cock-a-diddle dow.
A. Beach sets stanza 1
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View original text (without footnotes)1 Bacon, Beach, Quilter: "And then"
2 Bacon: "shist"
3 Bacon: "burden"
Text Authorship:
- by William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), no title, appears in The Tempest, Act I, scene 2 [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 Morton Achter , "Come unto these yellow sands", published 1974, copyright © 1973 [ SA chorus ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Frederic Ayres (1876 - 1926), "Come unto these yellow sands", op. 3 (Three Songs) no. 3, published 1907 [ medium voice or low voice and piano ], lines 1-6 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Gary Bachlund (b. 1947), "Come unto these yellow sands", 1989 [ counter-tenor and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Ernst Bacon (1898 - 1990), "Ariel", alternate title: "These yellow sands", 1940-46 [ soprano and piano ], from Four Songs for Soprano [sung text checked 1 time]
- by John Banister (c1625 - 1679), "Come unto these yellow sands" [sung text not yet checked]
- by Granville Ransome Bantock, Sir (1868 - 1946), "Come unto these yellow sands", 1934 [ voice and piano ], from Six Shakespeare Songs, no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Amy Marcy Cheney Beach (1867 - 1944), "Come unto these yellow sands", op. 39 no. 2 (1897), stanza 1, from Three Shakespeare choruses, no. 2 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Robert Convery , "Come unto these yellow sands ", 1982, published 1985, rev. 1983 [ SATB chorus a cappella (originally, SSA chorus a cappella) ], from Five Madrigals, New York : Boosey [sung text not yet checked]
- by Brian Dennis (b. 1941), "Come unto these yellow sands", 1982, first performed 1983 [ medium voice and piano ], from 4 Shakespeare Songs [sung text not yet checked]
- by Matthew Dewey (b. 1984), "Come unto these yellow sands", 2013, first performed 2013 [ baritone and piano ], from Four Shakespeare Songs, no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Trevor Hold (1939 - 2004), "Come unto these yellow sands", 1976 [ soprano or tenor and piano ], from Something Rich and Strange, no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Mervyn, Lord Horder, the Second Baron of Ashford (1910 - 1998), "Come unto these yellow sands" [ duet for soprano and baritone with piano ], from Four Shakespeare Duets, no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Frank La Forge (1879 - 1953), "Come unto these yellow sands" [sung text not yet checked]
- by Frank Martin (1890 - 1974), "Come unto these yellow sands", 1950, published 1968, first performed 1953 [ SATB chorus a cappella ], from Songs of Ariel from Shakespeare's Tempest, no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Peter Anthony Monk , "Come unto these yellow sands", 1982, published 1982, first performed 1982 [ SSAA chorus a cappella ], from Ariel's Five Little Songs [sung text not yet checked]
- by Roger Quilter (1877 - 1953), "Come unto these yellow sands", 1946, published 1951 [ voice and piano ], London, Boosey & Hawkes [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Alan Rawsthorne (1905 - 1971), "Come unto these yellow sands", c1934 [ soprano and orchestra ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Rudi Spring (b. 1962), "Scene from "The Tempest" (I/2)", op. 72 no. 2 (1999) [ vocal quintet: five solo voices a cappella (s-mez-a-t-bar) ], from Drei Shakespeare-Gesänge, no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Michael Tippett (1905 - 1998), "Come unto these yellow sands", from Songs for Ariel, no. 1 [sung text checked 1 time]
Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:
- Also set in French (Français), a translation by Guy de Pourtalès (1881 - 1941) ; composed by Arthur Honegger.
- Also set in French (Français), a translation by Benjamin Laroche (1797 - 1852) , no title ; composed by Émile Guimet.
- Also set in French (Français), a translation by Maurice Bouchor (1855 - 1929) ; composed by Ernest Amédée Chausson.
- Also set in Spanish (Español), a translation by Guillermo Macpherson (1824 - 1898) , no title ; composed by Rocío Sanz Quirós.
- Also set in Swedish (Svenska), a translation by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist ; composed by Gösta Nystroem.
Other available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Andrea Maffei) , no title, first published 1869
- FIN Finnish (Suomi) (Paavo Cajander)
- FRE French (Français) (Guy de Pourtalès)
- FRE French (Français) (François-Victor Hugo) , no title
- FRE French (Français) (Maurice Bouchor)
- SWE Swedish (Svenska) (Anonymous/Unidentified Artist)
Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 13
Word count: 53
Tänne keltahiekallen
Language: Finnish (Suomi) after the English
Tänne keltahiekallen Nyt käsikkäin, Niiaten ja suudellen Ja pyörittäin! Sipsutellen hyppikää, Henget kaikki säistäkää! Vait! vait! Hau! hau! Se halli kait. Hau, hau! Vait! Kuules vaan! Jo kukko se laulavi lauluaan: Kukkukiekuu !
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Text Authorship:
- by Paavo Cajander (1846 - 1913) [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]
Based on:
- a text in English by William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), no title, appears in The Tempest, Act I, scene 2
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- [ None yet in the database ]
Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
This text was added to the website: 2010-01-22
Line count: 13
Word count: 32