Rain

The rain is raining all around,
It falls on field and tree,
It rains on the umbrellas here,
And on the ships at sea.

by Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) , "Rain", from A Child's Garden of Verses, published 1885

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive)

by Grace Wilbur Conant , "Rain", published 1915 [voice and piano], from Children's Year
by Ethel Crowningshield , "Rain", published 1910 [voice and piano], from Robert Louis Stevenson Songs, no. ?
by Natalie Burlin Curtis (1875-1921) , "Rain", published 1902 [medium voice and piano], from Songs from "A Child's Garden of Verses", no. ?
by Vladimir Drozdoff , "Rain", published 1951 [voice and piano], from Stevensonia, no. ?
by Edward Falk , "Rain", published <<1940 [voice and piano], from A Child's Garden of Verses, no. ?
by Carlisle Floyd (1926-) , "Rain", published 1967 [unison voices and piano], from Two Stevenson songs, no. ?
by George Hugh Gartlan (1882-1963) , "Rain", published 1934 [chorus a cappella], from New Universal School Music Series: Introduction to Part Singing
by Karl Wilson Gehrkens (1882-1975) , "Rain", published 1933 [unison voices unaccompanied], from New Universal School Music Series: Unison Songs
by Jan Masseus , "Rain", op. 47a no. 2 (1974), from My kingdom, no. 2.
by Marvin Radnor , "Rain", published 1923. [voice and piano]
by Floy Adele Rossman , "Raining", published 1928 [voice and piano], from Pre-School Music
by Malcolm Benjamin Graham Christopher Williamson (1931-) , "Rain", published 1968 [high voice and piano], from From a child's garden, no. 7.
by Luigi Zaninelli (1932-) , "Rain", published 1962 [SSA chorus and piano or instrumental chorus], from The world is so full, no. ?

by Gary Bachlund , "The Rain Is Failing", 2005 [mezzo soprano and piano], from Nursery Rhymes and Children's Prayers, no. 6.

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