by William Sharp (1855 - 1905), as Fiona Macleod
Sheiling song
Language: English
I go where the sheep go, With the sheep are my feet: I go where the kye go, Their breath is so sweet: O lover who loves me, Art thou half so fleet? Where the sheep climb, the kye go, There shall we meet!
Text Authorship:
- by William Sharp (1855 - 1905), as Fiona Macleod, "Sheiling song", appears in From the Hills of Dream, first published 1896 [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Arnold Edward Trevor Bax, Sir (1883 - 1953), "Sheiling song", 1908, published 1919 [ voice and piano ], from Album of Seven Songs [or Seven Selected Songs], no. 3 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Peggy Glanville-Hicks (1912 - 1990), "Sheiling song", <<1932 [ voice and piano ], unpublished [sung text not yet checked]
- by Fritz Bennicke Hart (1874 - 1949), "Sheiling song", op. 76 (Six Sets of Five Songs Each for Voice and Pianoforte, Set V) no. 4 (1927) [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Jack Hawes (b. 1916), "Sheiling song" [ soprano, SATB chorus, and piano ], from The Bells of Youth [sung text not yet checked]
- by John Theodore Livingston Raynor (1909 - 1970), "Sheiling Song", op. 31 (1944) [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Frederick Titherington , "Sheiling song", published 1920 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
This text was added to the website: 2008-08-15
Line count: 8
Word count: 44