Four songs

Song Cycle by Louis Drakeford

Word count: 104

?. Babies in their mothers' arms [sung text not yet checked]

Infants in their mothers' arms
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by W. H. (Wystan Hugh) Auden (1907 - 1973), appears in The Double Man, first published 1941, copyright ©

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?. My second thoughts condemn [sung text not yet checked]

My second thoughts condemn
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by W. H. (Wystan Hugh) Auden (1907 - 1973), no title, appears in The Collected Poetry of W. H. Austen, first published 1945, copyright ©

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?. Underneath an abject willow [sung text not yet checked]

Underneath an abject willow
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Authorship

by W. H. (Wystan Hugh) Auden (1907 - 1973), no title, appears in Look, Stranger!, first published 1936, copyright © [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

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¹ Britten:

Brooks beneath the thin ice flowing,
To their ocean go.
Coldest love will warm  to action