by William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
Translation by François-Victor Hugo (1828 - 1873)
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), no title, 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
Venez sur ces sables jaunes
Language: French (Français) after the English
Venez sur ces sables jaunes, Et puis prenez-vous les mains. Quand vous vous serez salués et baisés Dans le silence des vagues sauvages, Gambadez lestement çà et là ; Et, doux esprits, entonnez le refrain. Chut ! chut ! Ouh ! ouh ! C'est l'aboiement des chiens de garde. Ouh ! ouh ! Chut ! chut ! j'entends la voix du coq qui se rengorge En criant : Cocorico !
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Text Authorship:
- by François-Victor Hugo (1828 - 1873), no title [author's text checked 1 time 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 page: Guy Laffaille [Guest Editor]
This text was added to the website: 2013-03-07
Line count: 13
Word count: 59