I will make you brooches and toys for...

I will make you brooches and toys for your delight
Of bird-song at morning and star-shine at night,
I will make a palace fit for you and me
Of green days in forests, and blue days at sea.

I will make my kitchen, and you shall keep your room,
Where white flows the river and bright blows the broom;
And you shall wash your linen and keep your body white
In rainfall at morning and dewfall at night.

And this shall be for music when no one else is near,
The fine song for singing, the rare song to hear!
That only I remember, that only you admire,
Of the broad road that stretches and the roadside fire.

by Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) , no title, from Songs of Travel and other verses, no. 11, published 1896

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

by Harold Allen (1917-) , "I will make you brooches and toys for your delight", 1971 [mezzo-soprano, guitar, percussion ensemble], from The White River, no. ?
by Winifred Bury , "I will make you brooches", published 1936. [medium voice and piano]
by George Sainton Kaye Butterworth (1885-1916) , "I will make you brooches", published 1920. [voice and piano]
by Robert Coningsby Clarke (1879-1934) , "I will make you brooches and toys for your delight", published 1903. [voice and piano]
by Anthony Vincent Benedictus Collins (1893-1963) , "I will make you brooches", published <<1940. [voice and piano]
by George Cory (1920?-) , "And this shall be for music", published 1955. [mezzo-soprano and piano]
by Emma Lou Diemer (1927-) , "Romance", published 1974. [SATB chorus, piano, optional triangle]
by Ernest Bristow Farrar (1885-1918) , "The roadside fire", op. 10 no. 3 [voice and piano], from Vagabond Songs, no. 3.
by Willard Samuel Fast (1922-) , "I will make you brooches", published 1968. [SATB chorus a cappella]
by Donald Ford , "Romance", published 1922, copyright © 1943. [voice and piano]
by Ivor Gurney (1890-1937) , "I will make you brooches", 1910. [voice and piano]
by Marjorie Helyer , "I will make you brooches", published 1958. [unison voices and piano]
by Richard Hundley (1931-) , "For your delight", published 1962. [soprano and piano]
by Chester Edward Ide (1878-1944) , "Lovers of the wild", published 1907. [voice and piano]
by Karl Korte (1928-) , "I will make you brooches", published 1971 [SATB chorus and piano], from Aspects of Love, no. ?
by Harold Noble (1903-) , "I will make you brooches", published 1960. [unison voices and piano]
by Arthur John Pritchard , "The roadside fire", published 1958. [SSA chorus and piano]
by Cecil Sharman , "The roadside fire", published 1956. [SATB chorus a cappella]
by Charles Vale , "The roadside fire", published 1956. [TTBB chorus a cappella]
by Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958) , "The roadside fire", 1904, published 1905, orchestrated 1905 [voice and piano], from Songs of Travel, no. 3.
by Peter Warlock (1894-1930) [pseudonym] , "Romance", published 1921. [voice and piano]

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