Texts by A. Graves set in Art Songs and Choral Works

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Alfred Perceval Graves (1846 - 1931)

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Above the thunder crashes (from The Irish Poems of Alfred Perceval Graves - Countryside Songs, and Songs and Ballads) - H. Gaul, C. Stanford (Battle Hymn)
A dream of violets (The scent of violets, by my pillow blowing) - L. Lehmann
Ah, Jenny, I'm not jesting (from Father O'Flynn and other Irish Lyrics) - C. Stanford (Jenny, I'm not jesting)
Ah why, Patrick Sarsfield, did we let your ships sail - C. Stanford
Alone, all alone (When westward I'm called) - C. Stanford
A lovely lass with modest mien (from Father O'Flynn and other Irish Lyrics) - C. Stanford (The confession)
A lover's garland () - C. Parry [x] ⊗
A Lullaby () - J. Raynor [x]
Ancient lullaby (O Sleep, my baby, you are sharing) (from Father O'Flynn and other Irish Lyrics) - C. Stanford
And is he coming home today - C. Stanford
An Irish lullaby (I'd rock my own sweet childie to rest) (from Father O'Flynn and other Irish Lyrics) - N. Page, C. Stanford
A ray from out the ruby - L. Lehmann
Are the stars that beam above us - L. Lehmann
A sailor lad wooed a farmer's daughter (A sailor once wooed a farmer's daughter) (from Irish Songs and Ballads - Songs and Ballads) - C. Stanford
A sailor loved a farmer's daughter (A sailor once wooed a farmer's daughter) (from Irish Songs and Ballads - Songs and Ballads)
A sailor once wooed a farmer's daughter (from Irish Songs and Ballads - Songs and Ballads) - D. Arundell, C. Stanford (A sailor loved a farmer's daughter)
As I rowled on my side-car to Santry Fair - C. Stanford
As I went down to Taunton Town - C. Parry
As I went up a woodland walk - C. Parry
As Jack the jolly ploughboy was ploughing through his land (from Irish Songs and Ballads - Anglo-Irish Ballads) - M. Carmichael (Jack the jolly ploughboy)
As Jack the jolly ploughboy was ploughing through the land (from Father O'Flynn and other Irish Lyrics) - C. Stanford (Jack the jolly ploughboy)
As Kathleen fair beyond compare - C. Stanford
As love was busy raising stolen honey to his lips - C. Stanford
As on Killarney's bosom blue - C. Stanford
As she sat spinning beside her door - C. Stanford
At the hour the long day ends () - C. Parry [x] ⊗
Awake, awake Fianna (Awake, awake, Fianna!) - C. Stanford
Awake, awake, Fianna! - C. Stanford
Away to the wars (When the route is proclaimed thro' the old barrack yard) - C. Stanford
Battle hymn (Above the thunder crashes) (from The Irish Poems of Alfred Perceval Graves - Countryside Songs, and Songs and Ballads) - C. Stanford
Before the first ray of blushing day (from Irish Songs and Ballads - Songs and Ballads) - M. Carmichael, C. Stanford (Kitty Bawn)
Bridges, golden bridges FRE - L. Lehmann
Bright Queen of women, oh, come away - C. Stanford
Changing her mind (As I rowled on my side-car to Santry Fair) - C. Stanford
Chieftain of Tyrconnell (Sore misery to Erin, that you spread) - C. Stanford
Christmas lullaby () - A. Cripps [x]
Clare's dragoons (When on Ramillies' bloody field) - C. Stanford
Colleen Oge Asthore (When I marched away to war) (from Irish Songs and Ballads - Songs and Ballads) - C. Stanford
Daniel Whitty (As she sat spinning beside her door) - C. Stanford
Dawning love (A ray from out the ruby) - L. Lehmann
Diamonds for riches - L. Lehmann ⊗
Ding dong, didilium! the big sledge is swinging (from Irish Songs and Ballads - Songs and Ballads) (The smith's song) -
Disturb it not (When first the lamp of love is lit) - L. Lehmann
Dolly (Oh say have you met with my Dolly) - J. Holbrooke ⊗
Emer's farewell to Cucullin (O might a maid confess her secret longing) - C. Stanford
Emer’s Song to Cuchullin (O might a maid confess her secret longing)
Eva Toole (Who's not heard of Eva Toole) - C. Stanford
Fairy nurse song (Mortal babe the fays have brought me) - C. Stanford
Fan Fitzger'l (O my head’s in a whirl for your sake Fan Fitzger’l!) - C. Stanford
Fan Fitzger'l (Wirra, wirra ollogone!) - A. Needham
Farewell! now, Miss Gordon, my day dream is over - C. Stanford
Farewell now, Miss Gordon (Farewell! now, Miss Gordon, my day dream is over) - C. Stanford
Father O'Flynn (Of priests we can offer a charmin’ variety) (from Father O'Flynn and other Irish Lyrics) - C. Stanford
Fond Chloe (Now the starlight only) - C. Stanford
From the red rose to the apple-blossom (from Irish Songs and Ballads - Songs and Sketches) - M. Carmichael (From the red rose)
From the red rose (From the red rose to the apple-blossom) (from Irish Songs and Ballads - Songs and Sketches) - M. Carmichael
Golden bridges (Bridges, golden bridges) - L. Lehmann FRE
Good-night! Good-night! Our feast is ended (Good night) -
Good night (Good-night! Good-night! Our feast is ended)
Good night (Now good night! our feast is over) - C. Stanford
Have you ere a new song (from Songs of Killarney) - M. Carmichael (The Limerick Lasses)
Her brow is like the lily (Her brow is like the lily) - C. Stanford
Her brow is like the lily - C. Stanford
Herring is king (Let all the fish that swim the sea) (from Father O'Flynn and other Irish Lyrics)
Herring our king (Let all the best fish that swim in the sea) - C. Stanford
How happy for the woodbirds on the branches above - B. Burrows, C. Stanford (How happy for the woodbirds)
How happy for the woodbirds (How happy for the woodbirds on the branches above) - B. Burrows, C. Stanford
How many a time in Cratla’s dells - C. Stanford (St. Mary's Bells)
Hurry down, hurry down, hurry down ever - C. Stanford
I am the rose upon the mead - L. Lehmann
I'd rock my own sweet childie to rest (from Father O'Flynn and other Irish Lyrics) - N. Page, C. Stanford (Irish Lullaby)
I heard 'mid oak-trees olden (I heard ‘mid oak trees olden) - C. Stanford
I heard ‘mid oak trees olden - C. Stanford
I'll tell you of a wonder, that will stiffen up your hair - C. Stanford
I'm left all alone like a stone at the side of the street - C. Stanford
In April mood (Love's April mood, ah me!) - L. Lehmann FRE
In the wan, mistful morning to Ocean's wild gales - C. Stanford
I once loved a boy who would come and go - C. Stanford
I pray you be patient (Mourn not beyond measure, my long absent lover) - C. Stanford
Irish Battle Hymn (Above the thunder crashes) (from The Irish Poems of Alfred Perceval Graves - Countryside Songs, and Songs and Ballads) - H. Gaul
Irish Eyes () - C. Stanford [x]
Irish Lullaby (I'd rock my own sweet childie to rest) (from Father O'Flynn and other Irish Lyrics)
I shall not die for love of thee (O Woman, shapely as the swan) - C. Stanford
I sought my own son over Gowra's black field - C. Stanford
I've been soft in a small way (from Father O'Flynn and other Irish Lyrics) - M. Carmichael (The Rose of Kenmare)
I've been soft in a small way (from Songs of Killarney) - C. Stanford (The Rose of Killarney)
I've found my bonny babe a nest - C. Stanford
I've heard the lark's cry thrill the sky o'er the meadows of Lusk - C. Stanford
I was a maiden fair and fond - C. Stanford
I was wishful he'd stay () - C. Wood [x]
Jack the jolly ploughboy (As Jack the jolly ploughboy was ploughing through his land) (from Irish Songs and Ballads - Anglo-Irish Ballads) - M. Carmichael
Jack the jolly ploughboy (As Jack the jolly ploughboy was ploughing through the land) (from Father O'Flynn and other Irish Lyrics) - C. Stanford
Jenny, I'm not jesting (Ah, Jenny, I'm not jesting) (from Father O'Flynn and other Irish Lyrics) - C. Stanford
Jenny (With laughing looks I once arose) - C. Stanford
Just between the day and dark - C. Stanford
Kitty Bawn (Before the first ray of blushing day) (from Irish Songs and Ballads - Songs and Ballads) - M. Carmichael, C. Stanford
Kitty of the cows (When Kate gives the warning) - C. Stanford
Lady Sybil (She’s bid her maiden bower goodbye, and down the stair she’s stole) - C. Stanford
Lament for Owen Roe O'Neill (Oh! black breaks the morrow in tempest and gloom) - C. Stanford
Let all the best fish that swim in the sea - C. Stanford
Let all the fish that swim the sea (from Father O'Flynn and other Irish Lyrics) (Herring is king) -
Like a ghost I am gone (In the wan, mistful morning to Ocean's wild gales) - C. Stanford
Like a stone in the street (I'm left all alone like a stone at the side of the street) - C. Stanford
Little sister, whom the Fay - C. Stanford
Lost light of my eyes (Oh, why was I left and he taken instead) - C. Stanford
Love enthroned (O sweet the rose in summer blowing) - L. Lehmann ⊗
Lovely Anne, oh! lovely Anne! - C. Stanford
Lovely Anne (Lovely Anne, oh! lovely Anne!) - C. Stanford
Love's April mood, ah me! FRE - L. Lehmann
Love's emblems (I am the rose upon the mead) - L. Lehmann
Love's wishes (Would I were Erin's apple-blossom o'er you) (from Irish Songs and Ballads - Songs and Ballads) - M. Carmichael
Lullaby (I've found my bonny babe a nest) - C. Stanford
Maids, at morn, grind the good corn - C. Stanford
Marching, forced marching - C. Stanford
Marching to Candahar (Marching, forced marching) - C. Stanford
Mary, what's the matter? (Now, Mary, what's the matter) - C. Stanford
Maureen, Maureen (Oh! Maureen, Maureen, have you forgotten) (from Father O'Flynn and other Irish Lyrics) - C. Stanford
Moan, ye winds, ye caverns call - C. Stanford (The return from Fingal)
Molly bawn, white as lawn - C. Stanford (Molly Hewson)
Molly Hewson (Molly bawn, white as lawn) - C. Stanford
More of Cloyne (Little sister, whom the Fay) - C. Stanford
Mortal babe the fays have brought me - C. Stanford (Fairy nurse song)
Mourn not beyond measure, my long absent lover - C. Stanford
My garden at the back (When I came over from old Rosstrevor) - C. Stanford
My love's an arbutus (My love's an arbutus) (from Father O'Flynn and other Irish Lyrics) - J. Raynor, C. Stanford
My love she is far sweeter - C. Stanford
My secret (O hasten your speed, my steed, my steed) - L. Lehmann CAT FRE
Now good night! our feast is over - C. Stanford
Now, Mary, what's the matter - C. Stanford
Now the starlight only - C. Stanford (Fond Chloe)
O'Donnell's march (Oh! have you heard the tidings?) - C. Stanford
Of all the girls with clustering curls from Kerry to Kildare - C. Stanford (O thou of the beautiful hair)
Of all the rovin' Jacks that e'er to Farranfone came over - C. Stanford
Of priests we can offer a charmin’ variety (from Father O'Flynn and other Irish Lyrics) - C. Stanford (Father O'Flynn)
Oft and oft I dream, astore - C. Stanford
O hasten your speed, my steed, my steed CAT FRE - L. Lehmann
Oh! a wan cloud was drawn (from Father O'Flynn and other Irish Lyrics) - C. Stanford (The foggy dew)
Oh! black breaks the morrow in tempest and gloom - C. Stanford
Oh, Harp of Erin what glamour gay - C. Stanford
Oh! have you heard the tidings? - C. Stanford
Oh! Maureen, Maureen, have you forgotten (from Father O'Flynn and other Irish Lyrics) - C. Stanford (Maureen, Maureen)
Oh my grief! oh my grief! (Oh my grief! oh my grief!) - C. Stanford
Oh my grief! oh my grief! - C. Stanford
Oh! remember the poor when your fortune is sure - C. Stanford
Oh say have you met with my Dolly - J. Holbrooke (Dolly) ⊗
Oh swan of slenderness (from Irish Songs and Ballads - Songs and Ballads) - C. Stanford (The little red lark)
Oh, take me to your arms, love, for we, alas! must part - C. Stanford
Oh, why was I left and he taken instead - C. Stanford
O might a maid confess her secret longing - C. Stanford (Emer’s Song to Cuchullin)
O my head’s in a whirl for your sake Fan Fitzger’l! - C. Stanford
Once my wheel ran cheerily round (from Father O'Flynn and other Irish Lyrics) - C. Stanford (Spinning-wheel song)
Once the blackbird called unto the solemn crow - C. Stanford
One at a time (As she sat spinning beside her door) - C. Stanford
One morning in May () - C. Wood [x]
One Sunday after Mass (One Sunday after Mass) - C. Stanford
On for ever, on for ever - C. Stanford
On Innisfallen’s fairy isle - C. Stanford
On my heaven he flashed, as the meteor star - C. Stanford
On the deck of Lynch's boat, here I sit in woeful plight - C. Stanford
Orange and green () - M. Shaw [x]
O Sleep, my baby, you are sharing (from Father O'Flynn and other Irish Lyrics) - C. Stanford (Ancient lullaby)
O sweet the rose in summer blowing - L. Lehmann ⊗
O thou of the beautiful hair (Of all the girls with clustering curls from Kerry to Kildare) - C. Stanford
Ould Doctor Mack (Ye may tramp the world over) - C. Stanford
O Woman, shapely as the swan - C. Stanford
Raise us a riddle as spinning we sit - C. Stanford
Rash Son, return! Yon shores that dazzle - C. Stanford
Remember the poor (Oh! remember the poor when your fortune is sure) - C. Stanford
Roddy More the rover (Of all the rovin' Jacks that e'er to Farranfone came over) - C. Stanford
She hath grown cold, whose kindness won me to her - C. Parry
She is my love beyond all thought (She is my love beyond all thought) (from The Irish Poems of Alfred Perceval Graves - Songs of the Gael [and] A Gaelic Story-Telling) - C. Parry, F. Swain
She is my love beyond all thought (from The Irish Poems of Alfred Perceval Graves - Songs of the Gael [and] A Gaelic Story-Telling) - C. Parry, F. Swain (She is my love)
She is my love (She is my love beyond all thought) (from The Irish Poems of Alfred Perceval Graves - Songs of the Gael [and] A Gaelic Story-Telling)
She’s bid her maiden bower goodbye, and down the stair she’s stole - C. Stanford
Since we're apart, since we're apart - C. Stanford
Since we're apart (Since we're apart, since we're apart) - C. Stanford
Sir Spring in shining armour goes - L. Lehmann
Sir spring (Sir Spring in shining armour goes) - L. Lehmann
Sore misery to Erin, that you spread - C. Stanford
Spinning-wheel song (Once my wheel ran cheerily round) (from Father O'Flynn and other Irish Lyrics) - C. Stanford
Star fancies (Are the stars that beam above us) - L. Lehmann
Still side by side (When at the altar) - C. Stanford
St. Mary's Bells (How many a time in Cratla’s dells) - C. Stanford
Tantara rara, hark from Tara, how the herald's trumpet clear - C. Stanford (The royal hunt)
The alarm (Hurry down, hurry down, hurry down ever) - C. Stanford
The banks of the daisies (As Kathleen fair beyond compare) - C. Stanford
The banks of the daisies (When first I saw young Molly)
The beautiful City of Sligo (We may tramp the earth for all that we're worth) - C. Stanford
The blackbird and the wren (Once the blackbird called unto the solemn crow) - C. Stanford
The blackbird (As I went up a woodland walk) - C. Parry
The black phantom (On for ever, on for ever) - C. Stanford
The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power - C. Stanford
The bower in my breast (I once loved a boy who would come and go) - C. Stanford
The confession (A lovely lass with modest mien) (from Father O'Flynn and other Irish Lyrics) - C. Stanford
The County of Mayo (On the deck of Lynch's boat, here I sit in woeful plight) - C. Stanford
The Cradle Of Gold () - J. Raynor [x]
The Daughter of the Rock (As on Killarney's bosom blue) - C. Stanford
The death of General Wolfe (The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power) - C. Stanford
The death of Oscar (I sought my own son over Gowra's black field) - C. Stanford
The faithful lover (She hath grown cold, whose kindness won me to her) - C. Parry
The falling star (On my heaven he flashed, as the meteor star) - C. Stanford
The first morning of March in the year '33 (from Father O'Flynn and other Irish Lyrics) - C. Stanford (The fox hunt)
The flight of the earls (To other shores across the sea) (from Irish Songs and Ballads - Songs and Ballads) - C. Stanford
The foggy dew (Oh! a wan cloud was drawn) (from Father O'Flynn and other Irish Lyrics) - C. Stanford
The foxhunt (The first morning of March in the year '33) (from Father O'Flynn and other Irish Lyrics) - C. Stanford
The heroes of the sea (I'll tell you of a wonder, that will stiffen up your hair) - C. Stanford
The hour I prove false to my dark-headed darling (from Father O'Flynn and other Irish Lyrics) - C. Stanford (The hour I prove false)
The hour I prove false (The hour I prove false to my dark-headed darling) (from Father O'Flynn and other Irish Lyrics) - C. Stanford
The hunt is up! and hound and pup - C. Stanford
The Killarney hunt (The hunt is up! and hound and pup) - C. Stanford
The king's cave (Rash Son, return! Yon shores that dazzle) - C. Stanford
The lament (Ah why, Patrick Sarsfield, did we let your ships sail) - C. Stanford
The leafy Cool-kellure (Just between the day and dark) - C. Stanford
The Limerick Lasses (Have you ere a new song) (from Songs of Killarney) - M. Carmichael
The little red lark (Oh swan of slenderness) (from Irish Songs and Ballads - Songs and Ballads) - C. Stanford
The melody of the harp (Oh, Harp of Erin what glamour gay) - C. Stanford
The Munsters at Mons () - C. Wood [x]
The only one for me (My love she is far sweeter) - C. Stanford
The poison on the darts (As love was busy raising stolen honey to his lips) - C. Stanford
The Potato Song () - C. Wood [x]
The quern song (Maids, at morn, grind the good corn) - C. Stanford
The reaper's revenge (Oft and oft I dream, astore) - C. Stanford
The rejected lover (On Innisfallen’s fairy isle) - C. Stanford
The return from Fingal (Moan, ye winds, ye caverns call) - C. Stanford
The riddle (Raise us a riddle as spinning we sit) - C. Stanford
The Rose of Kenmare (I've been soft in a small way) (from Father O'Flynn and other Irish Lyrics) - M. Carmichael
The Rose of Killarney (I've been soft in a small way) (from Songs of Killarney) - C. Stanford
The Rose of Spring forth venturing - C. Stanford
The royal hunt (Tantara rara, hark from Tara, how the herald's trumpet clear) - C. Stanford
The sailor girl (When the Wild-Geese were flying to Flanders away) (from Father O'Flynn and other Irish Lyrics) - C. Stanford
The sailor's bride (And is he coming home today) - C. Stanford
The sailor (A sailor once wooed a farmer's daughter) (from Irish Songs and Ballads - Songs and Ballads) - D. Arundell
The sapphire (Diamonds for riches) - L. Lehmann ⊗
The scent of violets, by my pillow blowing - L. Lehmann
The smith's song (Ding dong, didilium! the big sledge is swinging) (from Irish Songs and Ballads - Songs and Ballads)
The smith's song (While we sing a song) - C. Stanford
The song of the Fairy King (Bright Queen of women, oh, come away) - C. Stanford
The song of the rose (The Rose of Spring forth venturing) - C. Stanford
The songs Erin sings (I've heard the lark's cry thrill the sky o'er the meadows of Lusk) - C. Stanford
The spirit of the Spring (As I went down to Taunton Town) - C. Parry
The stolen heart (I was a maiden fair and fond) - C. Stanford
The stratagem (Who'd win a heart must learn the art) - C. Stanford
The white blossom's off the bog, and the leaves are off the trees (from Irish Songs and Ballads - Songs and Ballads) - M. Carmichael (The white blossom's off the bog)
The white blossom's off the bog (The white blossom's off the bog, and the leaves are off the trees) (from Irish Songs and Ballads - Songs and Ballads) - M. Carmichael
The willow tree (Oh, take me to your arms, love, for we, alas! must part) - C. Stanford
'Tis I can weave woollen and linen ('Tis I can weave woollen and linen) (from Irish Songs and Ballads - Songs and Ballads) - C. Stanford
To other shores across the sea (from Irish Songs and Ballads - Songs and Ballads) - C. Stanford (The flight of the earls)
Trottin' to the fair (Trottin' to the fair) (from The Irish Poems of Alfred Perceval Graves - Countryside Songs, and Songs and Ballads) - T. Johnston, C. Stanford
'Twas pretty to be in Ballinderry ('Twas pretty to be in Ballinderry) (from Father O'Flynn and other Irish Lyrics) - C. Stanford
We may tramp the earth for all that we're worth - C. Stanford
What is life without a wife (What is life without a wife?) - C. Stanford
What is life without a wife? - C. Stanford
When at the altar - C. Stanford
When first I saw young Molly (The banks of the daisies) -
When first the lamp of love is lit - L. Lehmann
When I came over from old Rosstrevor - C. Stanford
When I marched away to war (from Irish Songs and Ballads - Songs and Ballads) - C. Stanford (Colleen Oge Asthore)
When Kate gives the warning - C. Stanford
When on Ramillies' bloody field - C. Stanford
When she answered me her voice was low – but, oh! (When she answered me her voice was low) -
When she answered me her voice was low (When she answered me her voice was low – but, oh!)
When she answered me her voice was low (When she answered me her voice was low) - C. Stanford
When she answered me her voice was low - C. Stanford
When the route is proclaimed thro' the old barrack yard - C. Stanford
When the Wild-Geese were flying to Flanders away (from Father O'Flynn and other Irish Lyrics) - C. Stanford (The sailor girl)
When westward I'm called - C. Stanford
When with sap the vine's athrill - L. Lehmann
When young love comes knocking (When with sap the vine's athrill) - L. Lehmann
While we sing a song - C. Stanford
Who'd win a heart must learn the art - C. Stanford
Who's not heard of Eva Toole - C. Stanford
Will you float in my boat? (Will you float in my boat) - C. Stanford
Wirra, wirra ollogone! - A. Needham (Fan Fitzgerl)
With laughing looks I once arose - C. Stanford (Jenny)
Would I were Erin's apple-blossom o'er you (from Irish Songs and Ballads - Songs and Ballads) - M. Carmichael (Love's wishes)
Ye may tramp the world over - C. Stanford (Ould Doctor Mack)

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