The moon

The moon has a face like the clock in the hall;	 
She shines on thieves on the garden wall,
On streets and fields and harbour quays,
And birdies asleep in the forks of the trees.
  
The squalling cat and the squeaking mouse,
The howling dog by the door of the house,
The bat that lies in bed at noon,
All love to be out by the light of the moon.
  
But all of the things that belong to the day
Cuddle to sleep to be out of her way;
And flowers and children close their eyes
Till up in the morning the sun shall arise.

by Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) , "The moon", 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 Armand Balendonck , "The moon", published <<1940.
by Mary E. Covert , "The moon", published 1954. [voice and piano]
by Edward Falk , "The moon", published <<1940 [voice and piano], from A Child's Garden of Verses, no. ?
by Marjorie Helyer , "The moon", published 1959 [unison voices and piano], in The Classroom Chorister
by Alan Hovhaness (1911-2000) , "The moon has a face", op. 156 (1932), published 1968. [medium voice and piano]
by Liza Lehmann (1862-1918) , "The moon", published 1893 [tenor and piano], from The daisy chain: twelve songs of childhood, no. 10.
by Marvin Radnor , "The moon", published 1923. [voice and piano]
by Arnold McC. Shields , "The moon", published 1937. [unison voices and piano]
by Philip George Wilkinson (1929-) , "The moon", published 1955. [unison voices and piano]
by Patrick Williams , "The moon", published 1961. [unison voices and piano]

Date added to the website: 2004-02-10.

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