Alfred Perceval Graves (1846 - 1931) - Vocal Texts and Translations at the LiederNet Archive

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

Last update: 2020-08-05 00:01:37

Author: Alfred Perceval Graves (1846 - 1931)

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