The wind

I saw you toss the kites on high
And blow the birds about the sky;
And all around I heard you pass,
Like ladies' skirts across the grass -- 
  O wind, a-blowing all day long,
  O wind, that sings so loud a song!

I saw the different things you did,
But always you yourself you hid.
I felt you push, I heard you call,
I could not see yourself at all -- 
  O wind, a-blowing all day long,
  O wind, that sings so loud a song!

O you that are so strong and cold,
O blower, are you young or old?
Are you a beast of field and tree,
Or just a stronger child than me?
  O wind, a-blowing all day long,
  O wind, that sings so loud a song!

by Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) , "The wind", 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 Frederic Field Bullard (1864-1904) , "The wind", published 1910. [voice and piano]
by Henry A. Clark , "The wind", published 1966. [unison voices and piano]
by Mary E. Covert , "The wind", published 1954. [voice and piano]
by Thomas Crawford , "The wind", published 1915 [voice and piano], from Songs with Music from "A Child's Garden of Verses", no. 6.
by Natalie Burlin Curtis (1875-1921) , "The wind", published 1902 [voice and piano], from Songs from "A Child's Garden of Verses", no. ?
by Keith Fowler , "The wind", published 1926. [unison voices]
by William Wallace Gilchrist (1846-1916) , "The wind", published 1928-30. [unaccompanied voice]
by Caroline Susan Theodora Grosvenor (1858-1940?) , "The wind", published <<1940 [voice and piano], from Five Children's Songs, no. ?
by Victor Herbert (1859-1924) , "The wind", published 1920. [unaccompanied voice]
by Robert Edward Jager (1939-) , "The wind" [soprano and piano or wind ensemble or chamber orchestra], from A Child's Garden of Verses, no. ?
by (Henry Louis) Reginald de Koven (1859-1920) , "The wind", published 1897 [voice and piano], from The Stevenson Song-Book
by John Basil Hugh Longmire (1902-1986) , "A windy day", published 1970. [unison voices and piano]
by Roger Nixon (1921-) , "The wind", published 1962. [SATB chorus a cappella]
by Marvin Radnor , "The wind", published 1923. [voice and piano]

Date added to the website: 2008-12-08.

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