Bed in summer

In winter I get up at night,
And dress by yellow candle light.
In summer, quite the other way,
I have to go to bed by day.

I have to go to bed and see
The birds still hopping on the tree,
Or hear the grown-up people's feet
Still going past me in the street.

And does it not seem hard to you,
When all the sky is clear and blue,
And I should like so much to play,
To have to go to bed by day?

by Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) , "Bed in summer", 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 Mark Andrews (1875-1939) , "Does it not seem hard", published 1911 [voice and piano], from Nine songs from "A Child's Garden of Verse", no. ?
by Norah Blaney , "Bed in summer", published 1918. [voice and piano]
by Harry Brook (1893-?) , "Bed in summer", published 1930. [unison voices and piano]
by Thomas Crawford , "Bed in summer", published 1915 [voice and piano], from Songs with Music from "A Child's Garden of Verses", no. 1.
by Ethel Crowningshield , "Bed in summer", published 1910 [voice and piano], from Robert Louis Stevenson Songs, no. ?
by Edward Falk , "Bed in summer", published <<1940 [voice and piano], from A Child's Garden of Verses, no. ?
by Adolph Martin Foerster (1854-1927) , "Song of Bed-time", op. 67 (Child Lyrics) no. 3.
by John Ireland (1879-1962) , "Bed in summer", 1912.
by John Ireland (1879-1962) , "Bed in summer", published 1916. [voice and piano]
by (James) Albert Mallinson (1870-1946) , "Bed in summer", published 1907. [alto or baritone and piano]
by David Moule-Evans (1905-) , "Bed in summer", published <<1951. [unison voices and piano]
by Ethelbert Nevin (1862-1901) , "In winter I get up at night", <<1901 [voice and piano], from Three songs, no. 1.
by Horatio William Parker (1863-1919) , "Bed in summer", published 1920 [unaccompanied voice], adapted to an English folk air, in The Progressive Music Series
by Sir Charles Hubert Hastings Parry (1848-1918) , "Bed in summer", published c1952. [soprano and piano]
by Marvin Radnor , "Bed in summer", published 1923. [voice and piano]
by Alec Rowley (1892-1958) , "Bed in summer", published 1963. [unison voices and piano]
by Geoffrey Turton Shaw (1879-1943) , "Bed in summer", published 1915. [unison voices and piano]
by Sir Charles Villiers Stanford (1852-1924) , "Bed in summer", op. 30 no. 1, published 1892 [voice and piano], from A Child's Garland of Songs, no. 1.
by Joseph Wardale , "Bed in summer", published 1958. [unison voices and piano]
by Philip George Wilkinson (1929-) , "Bed in summer", published 1955. [unison voices and piano]
by Luigi Zaninelli (1932-) , "Bed in summer", published 1962 [SSA chorus and piano or instrumental ensemble], from The world is so full, no. ?

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