Texts to Art Songs and Choral Works by L. Berkeley

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Song Cycles, Collections, Symphonies, etc.:

• 3 Early Songs
• no. 1. D'un vanneur de blé aux vents (Text: Joachim du Bellay) DUT ENG GER
• no. 2. Pastourelle (Text: Anonymous) [x]
• no. 3. Rondeau (Text: Charles, Duc d'Orléans)
• Another Spring, op. 93 no. 1, op. 93
• no. 1. Poetry (Text: Walter De la Mare)
• no. 2. Another Spring (Text: Walter De la Mare)
• no. 3. Afraid (Text: Walter De la Mare)
• Autumn's Legacy, op. 58
• no. 1. The mighty thoughts of an old world (Text: Thomas Lovell Beddoes)
• no. 2. All night a wind of music (Text: Thomas Lovell Beddoes)
• no. 3. Lesbos (Text: Lawrence Durrell) *
• no. 4. To-night the winds begin to rise (Text: Alfred Tennyson, Lord)
• no. 5. Hurrahing in the harvest (Text: Gerard Manley Hopkins)
• no. 6. Rich days (Text: William Henry Davies)
• no. 7. When we were idlers with the loitering rills (Text: David Hartley Coleridge)
• Five Chinese Songs, op. 78
• no. 1. People hide their love (Text: Arthur Waley after Emperor Wu of the Liang Dynasty) ⊗
• no. 2. The autumn wind (Text: Arthur Waley after Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty) ⊗
• no. 3. Dreaming of a dead lady (Text: Arthur Waley after Shên-Yo) ⊗
• no. 4. Late spring (Text: Robert Kotewall; Norman L. Smith after Yang Knang) ⊗*
• no. 5. The riverside village (Text: Robert Kotewall; Norman L. Smith after Sikong Shu) *
• Five Herrick Poems, op. 89
• no. 1. Now is your turne, my dearest, to be set (Text: Robert Herrick)
• no. 2. Dearest of thousands, now the time draws neare (Text: Robert Herrick)
• no. 3. These springs were maidens once that lov'd (Text: Robert Herrick)
• no. 4. My God! look on me withe'eye (Text: Robert Herrick)
• no. 5. If nine times you your bridegroom kiss (Text: Robert Herrick)
• Five Housman Songs, op. 14 no. 3
• no. 1. The half-moon westers low (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
• no. 2. The street sounds to the soldiers' tread (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
• no. 3. He would not stay for me (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
• no. 4. Look not in my eyes (Text: Alfred Edward Housman) FRE HEB
• no. 5. Because I liked you better (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
• Five poems, op. 53
• no. 1. Lauds (Text: W. H. Auden)
• no. 2. O lurcher-loving collier, black as night (Text: W. H. Auden)
• no. 3. What's in your mind, my dove, my coney? (Text: W. H. Auden)
• no. 4. Eyes look into the well (Text: W. H. Auden)
• no. 5. Carry her over the water (Text: W. H. Auden)
• Five Songs
• Silver (Text: Walter De la Mare) CAT FRE GER
• The song of the soldiers (Text: Walter De la Mare)
• Mistletoe (Text: Walter De la Mare) GER
• Five Songs, op. 26
• no. 1. The horseman (Text: Walter De la Mare)
• no. 2. Mistletoe (Text: Walter De la Mare) GER
• no. 3. Poor Henry (Text: Walter De la Mare)
• no. 4. The song of soldiers (Text: Walter De la Mare)
• no. 5. Silver (Text: Walter De la Mare) CAT FRE GER
• Five Songs, op. 14 no. 2
• no. 1. Night covers up the rigid land (Text: W. H. Auden)
• no. 2. The beacon barn (Text: Patrick O'Malley) [x]
• no. 3. Bells of Cordoba (Text: Stanley Richardson after Federico García Lorca) * FRE
• no. 4. Tant que mes yeux (Text: Louise Labé) ENG ENG GER
• no. 5. Ode du premier jour de mai (Text: Jean Passerat) ENG
• Four Poems of St. Teresa of Avila
• no. 1. If, Lord, Thy love for me is strong (Text: Arthur Symons after Saint Teresa of Ávila) ⊗
• no. 2. Shepherd, shepherd, hark that calling (Text: Arthur Symons after Saint Teresa of Ávila) ⊗
• no. 3. Let mine eyes see thee (Text: Arthur Symons after Saint Teresa of Ávila) ⊗
• no. 4. Today a shepherd and our kin (Text: Arthur Symons after Saint Teresa of Ávila) ⊗
• Songs of the Half-Light, op. 65
• no. 1. Rachel (Text: Walter De la Mare)
• no. 2. Full moon (Text: Walter De la Mare)
• no. 3. All that's past (Text: Walter De la Mare)
• no. 4. The moth (Text: Walter De la Mare)
• no. 5. The fleeting (Text: Walter De la Mare) [x]
• Three Greek Songs, op. 38
• no. 1. Epitaph of Timas (Text: Frederick Adam Wright after Sappho) FRE FRE
• no. 2. Spring Song (Text: Frederick Adam Wright after Antipater of Sidon) ⊗
• no. 3. To Aster (Text: Frederick Adam Wright after Plato) ITA RUS
• Three Songs for Four Male Voices
• Spring goeth all in white (Text: Robert Seymour Bridges)
• Tombeaux
• no. 1. Tombeau de Sapho (Text: Jean Cocteau)
• no. 2. Tombeau de Socrate (Text: Jean Cocteau)
• no. 3. Tombeau d'un fleuve (Text: Jean Cocteau)
• no. 4. Tombeau de Narcisse (Text: Jean Cocteau)
• no. 5. Tombeau de Don Juan (Text: Jean Cocteau)
• Trois poèmes de Vildrac
• no. 1. Sur quel arbre du ciel (Text: Charles Messager , as Charles Vildrac) [x]
• no. 2. Ce caillou chaud de soleil (Text: Charles Messager , as Charles Vildrac) [x]
• no. 3. Cet enfant de jadis (Text: Charles Messager , as Charles Vildrac) [x]

All titles of vocal settings in Alphabetic order

• Afraid, op. 93 no. 1c (in Another Spring, op. 93 no. 1) (Text: Walter De la Mare)
• All night a wind of music, op. 58 no. 2 (in Autumn's Legacy) (Text: Thomas Lovell Beddoes)
• All that's past, op. 65 no. 3 (in Songs of the Half-Light) (Text: Walter De la Mare)
• Another Spring, op. 93 no. 1b (in Another Spring, op. 93 no. 1) (Text: Walter De la Mare)
• Automne, op. 60 no. 3 (Text: Wilhelm Albert Włodzimierz Apolinary Kostrowicki , as Guillaume Apollinaire) ENG
• Batter my heart (Text: John Donne) FRE GER
• Because I liked you better, op. 14 no. 3e (in Five Housman Songs, op. 14 no. 3) (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
• Bells of Cordoba, op. 14 no. 2c (in Five Songs, op. 14 no. 2) (Text: Stanley Richardson after Federico García Lorca) * FRE
• Carry her over the water, op. 53 no. 5 (in Five poems) (Text: W. H. Auden)
• Ce caillou chaud de soleil (in Trois poèmes de Vildrac) (Text: Charles Messager , as Charles Vildrac) [x]
• Cet enfant de jadis (in Trois poèmes de Vildrac) (Text: Charles Messager , as Charles Vildrac) [x]
• Colonnus' praise (Text: William Butler Yeats)
• Counting the beats (Text: Robert Graves) *
• Dearest of thousands, now the time draws neare, op. 89 no. 2 (in Five Herrick Poems) (Text: Robert Herrick)
• Dreaming of a dead lady, op. 78 no. 3 (in Five Chinese Songs) (Text: Arthur Waley after Shên-Yo) ⊗
• D'un vanneur de blé aux vents (in 3 Early Songs) (Text: Joachim du Bellay) DUT ENG GER
• Epitaph of Timas, op. 38 no. 1 (in Three Greek Songs) (Text: Frederick Adam Wright after Sappho) FRE FRE
• Eyes look into the well, op. 53 no. 4 (in Five poems) (Text: W. H. Auden)
• Full moon, op. 65 no. 2 (in Songs of the Half-Light) (Text: Walter De la Mare)
• He would not stay for me, op. 14 no. 3c (in Five Housman Songs, op. 14 no. 3) (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
• How love came in (Text: Robert Herrick)
• Hurrahing in the harvest, op. 58 no. 5 (in Autumn's Legacy) (Text: Gerard Manley Hopkins)
• If, Lord, Thy love for me is strong (in Four Poems of St. Teresa of Avila) (Text: Arthur Symons after Saint Teresa of Ávila) ⊗
• If nine times you your bridegroom kiss, op. 89 no. 5 (in Five Herrick Poems) (Text: Robert Herrick)
• Late spring , op. 78 no. 4 (in Five Chinese Songs) (Text: Robert Kotewall; Norman L. Smith after Yang Knang) ⊗*
• Lauds, op. 53 no. 1 (in Five poems) (Text: W. H. Auden)
• Lesbos, op. 58 no. 3 (in Autumn's Legacy) (Text: Lawrence Durrell) *
• Let mine eyes see thee (in Four Poems of St. Teresa of Avila) (Text: Arthur Symons after Saint Teresa of Ávila) ⊗
• Look not in my eyes, op. 14 no. 3d (in Five Housman Songs, op. 14 no. 3) (Text: Alfred Edward Housman) FRE HEB
• Lullaby (Text: William Butler Yeats)
• Mistletoe (in Five Songs) (Text: Walter De la Mare) GER
• Mistletoe, op. 26 no. 2 (in Five Songs) (Text: Walter De la Mare) GER
• My God! look on me withe'eye, op. 89 no. 4 (in Five Herrick Poems) (Text: Robert Herrick)
• Night covers up the rigid land, op. 14 no. 2a (in Five Songs, op. 14 no. 2) (Text: W. H. Auden)
• Now is your turne, my dearest, to be set, op. 89 no. 1 (in Five Herrick Poems) (Text: Robert Herrick)
• Ode du premier jour de mai, op. 14 no. 2e (in Five Songs, op. 14 no. 2) (Text: Jean Passerat) ENG
• O lurcher-loving collier, black as night, op. 53 no. 2 (in Five poems) (Text: W. H. Auden)
• Pastourelle (in 3 Early Songs) (Text: Anonymous) [x]
• People hide their love, op. 78 no. 1 (in Five Chinese Songs) (Text: Arthur Waley after Emperor Wu of the Liang Dynasty) ⊗
• Poetry, op. 93 no. 1a (in Another Spring, op. 93 no. 1) (Text: Walter De la Mare)
• Poor Henry, op. 26 no. 3 (in Five Songs) (Text: Walter De la Mare)
• Poor Henry (Text: Walter De la Mare)
• Rachel, op. 65 no. 1 (in Songs of the Half-Light) (Text: Walter De la Mare)
• Rich days, op. 58 no. 6 (in Autumn's Legacy) (Text: William Henry Davies)
• Rondeau (in 3 Early Songs) (Text: Charles, Duc d'Orléans)
• Shepherd, shepherd, hark that calling (in Four Poems of St. Teresa of Avila) (Text: Arthur Symons after Saint Teresa of Ávila) ⊗
• Silver (in Five Songs) (Text: Walter De la Mare) CAT FRE GER
• Silver, op. 26 no. 5 (in Five Songs) (Text: Walter De la Mare) CAT FRE GER
• Sonnet, op. 102 (Text: Louise Labé) ENG GER
• Spring goeth all in white (in Three Songs for Four Male Voices) (Text: Robert Seymour Bridges)
• Spring Song, op. 38 no. 2 (in Three Greek Songs) (Text: Frederick Adam Wright after Antipater of Sidon) ⊗
• Sur quel arbre du ciel (in Trois poèmes de Vildrac) (Text: Charles Messager , as Charles Vildrac) [x]
• Tant que mes yeux, op. 14 no. 2d (in Five Songs, op. 14 no. 2) (Text: Louise Labé) ENG ENG GER
• The autumn wind, op. 78 no. 2 (in Five Chinese Songs) (Text: Arthur Waley after Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty) ⊗
• The beacon barn, op. 14 no. 2b (in Five Songs, op. 14 no. 2) (Text: Patrick O'Malley) [x]
• The ecstatic (Text: Cecil Day Lewis) *
• The fleeting, op. 65 no. 5 (in Songs of the Half-Light) (Text: Walter De la Mare) [x]
• The half-moon westers low, op. 14 no. 3a (in Five Housman Songs, op. 14 no. 3) (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
• The horseman, op. 26 no. 1 (in Five Songs) (Text: Walter De la Mare)
• The mighty thoughts of an old world, op. 58 no. 1 (in Autumn's Legacy) (Text: Thomas Lovell Beddoes)
• The moth, op. 65 no. 4 (in Songs of the Half-Light) (Text: Walter De la Mare)
• The riverside village, op. 78 no. 5 (in Five Chinese Songs) (Text: Robert Kotewall; Norman L. Smith after Sikong Shu) *
• These springs were maidens once that lov'd, op. 89 no. 3 (in Five Herrick Poems) (Text: Robert Herrick)
• The song of soldiers, op. 26 no. 4 (in Five Songs) (Text: Walter De la Mare)
• The song of the soldiers (in Five Songs) (Text: Walter De la Mare)
• The street sounds to the soldiers' tread, op. 14 no. 3b (in Five Housman Songs, op. 14 no. 3) (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
• The windhover (Text: Gerard Manley Hopkins) FIN
• Thou hast made me (Text: John Donne) FRE GER
• To Aster, op. 38 no. 3 (in Three Greek Songs) (Text: Frederick Adam Wright after Plato) ITA RUS
• Today a shepherd and our kin (in Four Poems of St. Teresa of Avila) (Text: Arthur Symons after Saint Teresa of Ávila) ⊗
• Tombeau de Don Juan (in Tombeaux) (Text: Jean Cocteau)
• Tombeau de Narcisse (in Tombeaux) (Text: Jean Cocteau)
• Tombeau de Sapho (in Tombeaux) (Text: Jean Cocteau)
• Tombeau de Socrate (in Tombeaux) (Text: Jean Cocteau)
• Tombeau d'un fleuve (in Tombeaux) (Text: Jean Cocteau)
• To-night the winds begin to rise, op. 58 no. 4 (in Autumn's Legacy) (Text: Alfred Tennyson, Lord)
• What's in your mind, my dove, my coney?, op. 53 no. 3 (in Five poems) (Text: W. H. Auden)
• When we were idlers with the loitering rills, op. 58 no. 7 (in Autumn's Legacy) (Text: David Hartley Coleridge)

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