by Robert Frost (1874 - 1963)
The pasture
Language: English
I'm going out to clean the pasture spring; I'll only stop to rake the leaves away (And wait to watch the water clear, I may): I sha'n't be gone long. You come too. I'm going out to fetch the little calf That's standing by the mother. It's so young, It totters when she licks it with her tongue. I sha'n't be gone long. You come too.
Text Authorship:
- by Robert Frost (1874 - 1963), "The pasture", appears in North of Boston, first published 1915 [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 Margaret Allison Bonds (1913 - 1972), "The pasture", 1958 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Henry Dixon Cowell (1897 - 1965), "The pasture", 1944 [ high voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Philip Gordon (1894 - 1983), "The pasture", published 1958 [ SATB chorus a cappella ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Bain Murray (b. 1926), "The pasture" [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Charles Naginski (1909 - 1940), "The pasture", published 1940, from Four songs [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Vincent Persichetti (1915 - 1987), "The pasture", op. 76 no. 2 (1957), from Robert Frost Songs, no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Randall Thompson (1899 - 1984), "The pasture", published 1959 [ TTB chorus and piano ], from Frostiana [sung text not yet checked]
- by Douglas Gordon Weiland (b. 1954), "The Pasture", op. 69 no. 6 (2023) [ voice and piano ], from Cycle of Six Songs to Poems by the 'Dymock' Poets, no. 6 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Joel Weiss , "The pasture", 1994 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 11
Word count: 66