Picture-books in Winter (Stevenson, set by I. Higginson, T. Crawford, E. Crowningshield, D. Mason) (The Lied and Art Song Texts Page: Texts and Translations to Lieder, mélodies, canzoni, and other classical vocal music)


Summer fading, winter comes
Frosty mornings, tingling thumbs,
Window robins, winter rooks,
And the picture story books.

Water now is turned to stone
Nurse and I can walk upon;
Still we find the flowing brooks
In the picture story books.

All the pretty things put by
Wait upon the children's eye,
Sheep and shepherds, trees and crooks,
In the picture story books.

We may see how all things are,
Seas and cities, near and far,
And the flying fairies' looks,
In the picture story books.

How can I to sing your praise,
Happy chimney corner days,
Sitting safe in nurs'ry nooks,
Reading picture story books?

Input by Barbara Miller

Authorship

Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894)

A Child's Garden of Verses

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

Thomas Crawford

Songs with Music from "A Child's Garden of Verses"

Ethel Crowningshield

Robert Louis Stevenson Songs

Ian Higginson

Daniel Gregory Mason (1873-1953)

Five Children's Songs

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

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