The Land of Nod

From breakfast on through all the day
At home among my friends I stay,
But every night I go abroad
Afar into the land of Nod.

All by myself I have to go,
With none to tell me what to do --
All alone beside the streams
And up the mountain-sides of dreams.

The strangest things are these for me,
Both things to eat and things to see,
And many frightening sights abroad
Till morning in the land of Nod.

Try as I like to find the way,
I never can get back by day,
Nor can remember plain and clear
The curious music that I hear.

by Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) , "The Land of Nod", 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 Ethel Crowningshield , "The Land of Nod", published 1910 [voice and piano], from Robert Louis Stevenson Songs, no. ?
by Edward Falk , "The Land of Nod", published <<1940 [voice and piano], from A Child's Garden of Verses, no. ?
by William Wallace Gilchrist (1846-1916) , "The Land of Nod", published 1897 [voice and piano], from The Stevenson Song-Book
by Homer Albert Norris (1860?5-1920) , "The Land of Nod", published 1903. [voice, piano, and violin obbligato]
by Marvin Radnor , "The Land of Nod", published 1923. [voice and piano]
by Luigi Zaninelli (1932-) , "The Land of Nod", published 1962 [SSA and piano or instrumental ensemble], from The world is so full, no. ?

Date added to the website: 2008-12-07.

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