A lake and a fairy boat

A lake and a fairy boat
To sail in the moonlight clear, -
And merrily we would float 
From the dragons that watch us here!

Thy gown should be snow-white silk,
And strings of orient pearls,
Like [gossamers]1 dipp'd in milk,
Should twine with thy raven curls!

Red rubies should deck thy hands,
And diamonds should be thy dow'r -
But Fairies have broke their wands,
And wishing has lost its pow'r!

by Thomas Hood (1799-1845) , "Song: For music", from The Plea of the Midsummer Fairies, Hero and Leander, Lycus the Centaur, and Other Poems, published 1827

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

by Malcolm Gordon Davidson (1891-1949) , "A lake and a fairy boat", published 1921. [voice and piano]
by Thomas Frederick Dunhill (1877-1946) , "A lake and a fairy boat", published 1911. [SS and piano]
by Oliver Henry Edwards (1902-) , "A lake and a fairy boat", published <<1972. [TTBB a cappella]
by Shena Eleanor Fraser (1910-1993) , "A lake and a fairy boat", published 1949. [SA and piano]
by Berta Josephine Hecker , "A lake and a fairy boat", published 1921. [voice and piano]
by Joseph (or Josef) Charles Holbrooke (1878-1958) , "A lake and a fairy boat", published 1906 [voice and piano], from Six Romantic Songs
by Gustav Holst (1874-1934) , "A lake and a fairy boat", 1893. [voice and piano]
by Gustav Holst (1874-1934) , "A lake and a fairy boat", 1897. [voice and piano]
by Sidney Homer (1864-1953) , "A lake and a fairy boat", op. 10 (Three Poems of Thomas Hood) no. 3, published 1903. [voice and piano]
by Louis Edgar Johns (1886-) , "A lake and a fairy boat", published 1921. [voice and piano]
by Edward Frampton Kurtz (1881-) , "A lake and a fairy boat", published 1925. [voice and piano]
by Montague Fawcett Phillips (1885-1969) , "A lake and a fairy boat", published 1940. [SS and piano]
by Walter Trinder , "A lake and a fairy boat", published 1939 [voice and piano], SATB a cappella
by William Vincent Wallace (1812-1865) , "A lake and a fairy boat", published 1880? [voice and piano]
by Peter Warlock (1894-1930) [pseudonym] , "A lake and a fairy boat", 1911, published 1972. [voice and piano]

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