Author: Alfred Perceval Graves (1846 - 1931)

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• Father O'Flynn and other Irish Lyrics
• Irish Songs and Ballads
• The Irish Poems of Alfred Perceval Graves

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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]
• 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
• 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 e'er a new song (from Father O'Flynn and other Irish Lyrics) - 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 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 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
• 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) - 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 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 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
• 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 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 e'er a new song) (from Father O'Flynn and other Irish Lyrics) - 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 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 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 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)

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