Come unto these yellow sands

Come unto these yellow sands,
Then take hands:
Curtsied when you have and kissed,
The wild waves whist:
Foot it featly here and there;
And, sweet sprites, the burthen 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.

by William Shakespeare (1564-1616) , no title, from 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)

by Morton Achter , "Come unto these yellow sands", published 1974, copyright © 1973. [SA chorus]
by Frederic Ayres (1876-1926) , "Come unto these yellow sands", op. 3 (Three Songs) no. 3, published 1907 [medium or low voice and piano], lines 1-6
by Gary Bachlund , "Come unto these yellow sands", 1989. [countertenor and piano]
by John Banister (c1625-1679) , "Come unto these yellow sands"
by Brian Dennis , "Come unto these yellow sands", 1982, first performed 1983 [medium voice and piano], from 4 Shakespeare Songs, no. ?
by Mervyn, Lord Horder, the Second Baron of Ashford (1910-1998) , "Come unto these yellow sands" [soprano and baritone duet with piano], from Four Shakespeare Duets, no. 2.
by Frank La Forge (1879-1953) , "Come unto these yellow sands"
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.
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, no. ?
by Michael Tippett (1905-1998) , "Come unto these yellow sands", from Songs for Ariel, no. 1.

by Arthur Honegger (1892-1955) , no title, H. 48B no. 1 (1923), published 1925, from 2 Chants d'Ariel, no. 1, note: see also Full Fathom Five

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