At the sea‑side

When I was down beside the sea
A wooden spade they gave to me
  To dig the sandy shore.

My holes were empty like a cup.
In every hole the sea came up,
  Till it could come no more.

by Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) , "At the sea-side", 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 Natalie Burlin Curtis (1875-1921) , "At the seashore", published 1902 [medium voice and piano], from Songs from "A Child's Garden of Verses", no. ?
by Edward Falk , "At the sea-side", published <<1940 [voice and piano], from A Child's Garden of Verses, no. ?
by Frederica Elvira Gambogi (?-1940) , "At the sea-side", published 1902 [voice and piano], from Child-Land, no. ?
by Karl Wilson Gehrkens (1882-1975) , "At the sea-side", published 1933 [unaccompanied voice], from New Universal School Music Series: My First Song Book
by William Otto Miessner (1880-1967) , "At the sea-side", published 1929 [voice and piano], from The Music-Hour in the Kindergarten and First Grade

Date added to the website: 2008-11-27.

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