Thomas Hardy (1840 - 1928) - Vocal Texts and Translations at the LiederNet Archive

Author: Thomas Hardy (1840 - 1928)

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1967 (In five-score summers! All new eyes) (from Time's Laughingstocks and Other Verses)
A baby watched a ford, whereto (Wagtail and Baby)
A baby watched a ford, whereto - (Edward) Benjamin Britten (Wagtail and Baby)
A bird bills the selfsame song (The selfsame song)
A bird bills the selfsame song - John Linton Gardner (The selfsame song)
A bird sings the selfsame song (The selfsame song)
A bygone occasion (That night, that night) (from Late Lyrics and Earlier with Many Other Verses)
A bygone occasion (That night, that night) (from Late Lyrics and Earlier with Many Other Verses) - Gordon Ware Binkerd, Roy Buckle, John Linton Gardner
A Christmas Ghost-Story (South of the Line, inland from far Durban) - John Pierre Herman Joubert
A church romance (She turned in the high pew, until her sight)
A church romance (She turned in the high pew, until her sight) - Robin Field
A day is drawing to its fall (from Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses) (First sight of her and after)
A day is drawing to its fall (from Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses) - Anthony Payne (First sight of her and after)
After Reading Psalms xxxix, xl., etc. (Simple was I and was young) (from Late Lyrics and Earlier with Many Other Verses)
After the Club-Dance (Black'on frowns east on Maidon) (from Time's Laughingstocks and Other Verses - At Casterbridge Fair)
After the Club Dance (Black'on frowns east on Maidon) (from Time's Laughingstocks and Other Verses - At Casterbridge Fair) - Andrew Downes, Frederic Goossen
After the Fair (The singers are gone from the Cornmarket-place) (from Time's Laughingstocks and Other Verses - At Casterbridge Fair)
After the Fair (The singers are gone from the Cornmarket-place) (from Time's Laughingstocks and Other Verses - At Casterbridge Fair) - Andrew Downes, Frederic Goossen, Alfred Matthew Hale
Afterwards (When the Present has latched its postern behind my tremulous stay) (from Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses)
Afterwards (When the Present has latched its postern behind my tremulous stay) (from Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses) - Gerald Finzi, Christopher Kaye Le Fleming
Alone (Winter is white on turf and tree) (from Poems of the Past and Present) - Rutland Boughton
Amabel (I marked her ruined hues) (from Wessex Poems and Other Verses)
Amabel (I marked her ruined hues) (from Wessex Poems and Other Verses) - Gerald Finzi
A merrymaking in question (I will get a new string for my fiddle) (from Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses)
A merrymaking in question (I will get a new string for my fiddle) (from Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses) - Gerald Finzi
And are ye one of Hermitage (from Time's Laughingstocks and Other Verses - At Casterbridge Fair) (The inquiry)
And are ye one of Hermitage (from Time's Laughingstocks and Other Verses - At Casterbridge Fair) - Frederic Goossen, Alfred Matthew Hale (The inquiry)
And the Spirit said (from Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses) (The Clock of the Years)
And the Spirit said (from Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses) - Gerald Finzi (The clock of the years)
A night in November (I marked when the weather changed) - Andrew Downes, John Ramsden Williamson
Around the house the flakes fly faster (from Poems of the Past and Present) (Birds at Winter Nightfall)
Around the house the flakes fly faster (from Poems of the Past and Present) - Gerald Finzi (Birds at Winter Nightfall)
A sheep fair (The day arrives of the autumn fair) (from Human Shows, Far Phantasies, Songs, and Trifles)
A sheep fair (The day arrives of the autumn fair) (from Human Shows, Far Phantasies, Songs, and Trifles) - Nicholas Marshall
As I drive to the junction of lane and highway - Roy Buckle, Andrew Downes (At Castle Boterel)
A Song of Lyonnesse (When I set out for Lyonnesse) (from Satires of Circumstance, Lyrics and Reveries with Miscellaneous Pieces) - Rutland Boughton
A Song of Weathers (This is the weather the cuckoo likes) - Harold Walter Greenhill
A spot (In years defaced and lost) (from Poems of the Past and Present)
A star looks down at me (Waiting both)
A star looks down at me - Gerald Finzi, Christopher Kaye Le Fleming, Seymour J. Shifrin, Donald Waxman (Waiting both)
At a Lunar Eclipse (Thy shadow, Earth, from Pole to Central Sea) (from Poems of the Past and Present)
At a lunar eclipse (Thy shadow, Earth, from Pole to Central Sea) (from Poems of the Past and Present) - Gerald Finzi
At a Watering Place (They sit and smoke on the esplanade) (from Satires of Circumstance, Lyrics and Reveries with Miscellaneous Pieces)
At a Watering Place (They sit and smoke on the esplanade) (from Satires of Circumstance, Lyrics and Reveries with Miscellaneous Pieces) - Betty Roe
At Castle Boterel (As I drive to the junction of lane and highway) - Roy Buckle, Andrew Downes
At Day-Close in November (The ten hours' light is abating) (from Satires of Circumstance, Lyrics and Reveries with Miscellaneous Pieces) GER
At day-close in November (The ten hours' light is abating) (from Satires of Circumstance, Lyrics and Reveries with Miscellaneous Pieces) - (Edward) Benjamin Britten, Arnold Atkinson Cooke GER
A thunderstorm in town (She wore a new "terra cotta" dress) (from Satires of Circumstance, Lyrics and Reveries with Miscellaneous Pieces) - Garth Baxter, Charlotte Bray
A time there was - as one may guess (from Time's Laughingstocks and Other Verses) (Before Life and After)
A time there was - as one may guess (from Time's Laughingstocks and Other Verses) - (Edward) Benjamin Britten (Before life and after)
At last! In sight of home again - Alfred Matthew Hale (Song of the soldiers' wives and sweethearts)
At last! In sight of home again (Song of the soldiers' wives)
At last I put off love (from Time's Laughingstocks and Other Verses) (He abjures love)
At last I put off love (from Time's Laughingstocks and Other Verses) - Gerald Finzi (He abjures love)
At Middle-Field Gate in February (The bars are thick with drops that show) (from Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses)
At Middle-Field Gate in February (The bars are thick with drops that show) (from Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses) - Gerald Finzi
At news of a woman's death (Not a line of her writing have I) (from Wessex Poems and Other Verses) - Gerald Finzi
At nine in the morning there passed a church (from Late Lyrics and Earlier with Many Other Verses) (Faintheart in a railway train)
At nine in the morning there passed a church (from Late Lyrics and Earlier with Many Other Verses) - Charlotte Bray, Muriel Emily Herbert (Faint heart in a railway train)
At tea (The kettle descants in a cosy drone) (from Satires of Circumstance, Lyrics and Reveries with Miscellaneous Pieces)
At tea (The kettle descants in a cosy drone) (from Satires of Circumstance, Lyrics and Reveries with Miscellaneous Pieces) - Gary Bachlund, Nicholas Maw, Zenobia P. Perry
At the Altar-rail ('My bride is not coming, alas!' says the groom) (from Satires of Circumstance, Lyrics and Reveries with Miscellaneous Pieces)
At the Altar-rail ('My bride is not coming, alas!' says the groom) (from Satires of Circumstance, Lyrics and Reveries with Miscellaneous Pieces) - Betty Roe
At the Piano (A woman was playing) - Joelle Wallach
At the Railway Station, Upway (There is not much that I can do) (from Late Lyrics and Earlier with Many Other Verses)
At the railway station, Upway (There is not much that I can do) (from Late Lyrics and Earlier with Many Other Verses) - (Edward) Benjamin Britten
A wife in London (She sits in the tawny vapour) (from Poems of the Past and Present) - Garth Baxter, John Pierre Herman Joubert
A Wife Waits (Will's at the dance in the Club-room below) (from Time's Laughingstocks and Other Verses - At Casterbridge Fair)
A Wife Waits (Will's at the dance in the Club-room below) (from Time's Laughingstocks and Other Verses - At Casterbridge Fair) - Andrew Downes, Frederic Goossen, Alfred Matthew Hale, Betty Roe, Irwin Spector
A winsome woman (There's no winsome woman so winsome as she) (from Winter Words in Various Moods and Metres)
A woman was playing - Joelle Wallach (At the Piano)
A yawning, sunned concave of purple
A yawning, sunned concave - Roy Buckle (The sheep-boy)
A young man's exhortation (Call off your eyes from care) (from Late Lyrics and Earlier with Many Other Verses)
A young man's exhortation (Call off your eyes from care) (from Late Lyrics and Earlier with Many Other Verses) - Gerald Finzi
Beckon to me to come (Beckon to me to come) (from Human Shows, Far Phantasies, Songs, and Trifles) - John (Nicholson) Ireland
Beckon to me to come (from Human Shows, Far Phantasies, Songs, and Trifles) - John (Nicholson) Ireland (Beckon to me to come)
Beckon to me to come (from Human Shows, Far Phantasies, Songs, and Trifles) (Lover to mistress)
Beeny Cliff (O the opal and the sapphire of that wandering western sea) (from Poems of 1912-1913)
Beeny Cliff (O the opal and the sapphire of that wandering western sea) (from Poems of 1912-1913) - Roy Buckle, Betty Roe
Before and After Summer (Looking forward to the spring)
Before and after summer (Looking forward to the spring) - Gerald Finzi
Before Life and After (A time there was - as one may guess) (from Time's Laughingstocks and Other Verses)
Before life and after (A time there was - as one may guess) (from Time's Laughingstocks and Other Verses) - (Edward) Benjamin Britten
Beneath a knap where flown (from Wessex Poems and Other Verses) (Ditty)
Beneath a knap where flown (from Wessex Poems and Other Verses) - Gerald Finzi (Ditty)
Bereft (In the black winter morning) (from Time's Laughingstocks and Other Verses)
Between us now and here (from Poems of the Past and Present) (Between us now)
Between us now and here (from Poems of the Past and Present) - Gustav Holst (Between us now)
Between us now (Between us now and here) (from Poems of the Past and Present)
Between us now (Between us now and here) (from Poems of the Past and Present) - Gustav Holst
Birds at Winter Nightfall (Around the house the flakes fly faster) (from Poems of the Past and Present)
Birds at Winter Nightfall (Around the house the flakes fly faster) (from Poems of the Past and Present) - Gerald Finzi
Black'on frowns east on Maidon (from Time's Laughingstocks and Other Verses - At Casterbridge Fair) (After the Club-Dance)
Black'on frowns east on Maidon (from Time's Laughingstocks and Other Verses - At Casterbridge Fair) - Andrew Downes, Frederic Goossen (After the Club Dance)
Boys Then and Now (More than one cuckoo?) (from Winter Words in Various Moods and Metres) [x]
Breathe not, hid Heart: cease silently (from Poems of the Past and Present) (To an unborn pauper child)
Breathe not, hid Heart: cease silently (from Poems of the Past and Present) - Allen Stephen Brings (To an unborn pauper child)
Brother Bulleys, let us sing (from Poems of the Past and Present) (The bullfinches)
Brother Bulleys, let us sing (from Poems of the Past and Present) - Alys F. Serrell (The bullfinches)
Budmouth Dears (When we lay where Budmouth Beach is) (from The Dynasts) - Gerald Finzi, Ethel Florence Lindesay Robertson, née Richardson, Martin Edward Fallas Shaw, Boyton Smith
Buonaparty (We be the King's men, hale and hearty) (from The Dynasts) - Harvey Bartlett Gaul, Ralph Vaughan Williams
Bury me on a Sunday" - Betty Roe (Farmer Dunman's Funeral)
'But hear. If you stay, and the child be born (from Satires of Circumstance, Lyrics and Reveries with Miscellaneous Pieces) (In the Restaurant)
'But hear. If you stay, and the child be born (from Satires of Circumstance, Lyrics and Reveries with Miscellaneous Pieces) - Betty Roe (In the Restaurant)
By her Aunt's Grave (Sixpence a week," says the girl to her lover) (from Satires of Circumstance, Lyrics and Reveries with Miscellaneous Pieces)
By her Aunt's Grave (Sixpence a week," says the girl to her lover) (from Satires of Circumstance, Lyrics and Reveries with Miscellaneous Pieces) - Zenobia P. Perry, Betty Roe
By the century's deathbed (I leaned upon a coppice gate) GER
By the earth's corpse (O Lord, why grievest Thou?) (from Poems of the Past and Present)
By the earth's corpse (O Lord, why grievest Thou?) (from Poems of the Past and Present) - Gerald Finzi
By the Runic Stone ((Two who became a story)) (from Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses) - Roy Buckle
Call off your eyes from care (from Late Lyrics and Earlier with Many Other Verses) (A young man's exhortation)
Call off your eyes from care (from Late Lyrics and Earlier with Many Other Verses) - Gerald Finzi (A young man's exhortation)
Carrey Clavel (You turn your back, you turn your back) (from Time's Laughingstocks and Other Verses) - Arnold Edward Trevor Bax, Sir, Mary Sheldon
Change and chancefulness in my flowering youthtime (from Wessex Poems and Other Verses) (The Temporary the All)
Change and chancefulness in my flowering youthtime (from Wessex Poems and Other Verses) - Gerald Finzi (The Temporary the All)
Channel Firing (That night your great guns, unawares)
Channel firing (That night your great guns, unawares) - Gerald Finzi, Irwin Heilner, Leo Smit
Childhood among the ferns (I sat one sprinkling day upon the lea) - Gerald Finzi
Christmas Eve, and twelve of the clock - Derek Holman (Christmas Eve)
Christmas Eve, and twelve of the clock (The Oxen)
Christmas Eve, and twelve of the clock - (Edward) Benjamin Britten, Leslie Cochran, Edward Joseph Dent, Jonathan Elkus, Gerald Finzi, Robert James Berkeley Fleming, Cecil Armstrong Gibbs, William Reginald Pasfield, (Gerald) Graham Peel, Alan Rawsthorne, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Robert Williams, Richard K. Winslow (The Oxen)
Christmas Eve (Christmas Eve, and twelve of the clock) - Derek Holman
Close up the casement, draw the blind (from Time's Laughingstocks and Other Verses) (Shut out that moon)
Close up the casement, draw the blind (from Time's Laughingstocks and Other Verses) - Gordon Ware Binkerd, Roy Buckle (Shut out that moon)
Coda (A Christmas Ghost-Story) (South of the Line, inland from far Durban) - Garth Baxter
Come not: yet Come! (In my sage moments I can say) (from Human Shows, Far Phantasies, Songs, and Trifles)
Coomb-Firtrees say that Life is a moan (from Time's Laughingstocks and Other Verses) (Yell'ham-Wood's story)
Coomb-Firtrees say that Life is a moan (from Time's Laughingstocks and Other Verses) - Gerald Finzi (Yell'ham-Wood's story)
Creak, little wood thing, creak (from Late Lyrics and Earlier with Many Other Verses) (The Little Old Table)
Creak, little wood thing, creak (from Late Lyrics and Earlier with Many Other Verses) - (Edward) Benjamin Britten (The little old table)
Dear Lizbie Browne (from Poems of the Past and Present) (To Lizbie Browne)
Dear Lizbie Browne (from Poems of the Past and Present) - Gary Bachlund, Gerald Finzi (To Lizbie Browne)
Dear, think not that they will forget you (Dear, think not that they will forget you) (from Late Lyrics and Earlier with Many Other Verses) - John (Nicholson) Ireland
Dear, think not that they will forget you (from Late Lyrics and Earlier with Many Other Verses) - John (Nicholson) Ireland (Dear, think not that they will forget you)
Dear, think not that they will forget you (from Late Lyrics and Earlier with Many Other Verses) (Her temple)
Dear, think not that they will forget you (from Late Lyrics and Earlier with Many Other Verses) - Gerald Finzi (Her temple)
De Profundis I (Wintertime nighs) (from Poems of the Past and Present)
De Profundis I (Wintertime nighs) (from Poems of the Past and Present) - James Douglas
De Profundis II (When the clouds' swoln bosoms echo back the shouts of the many and) (from Poems of the Past and Present)
De Profundis II (When the clouds' swoln bosoms echo back the shouts of the many and) (from Poems of the Past and Present) - James Douglas
Ditty (Beneath a knap where flown) (from Wessex Poems and Other Verses)
Ditty (Beneath a knap where flown) (from Wessex Poems and Other Verses) - Gerald Finzi
Drummer Hodge (They throw in Drummer Hodge, to rest) - Garth Baxter, Alfred Matthew Hale, John Pierre Herman Joubert
During wind and rain (They sing their dearest songs) (from Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses)
During wind and rain (They sing their dearest songs) (from Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses) - Roy Buckle, Gerald Finzi
Elegy for a cat (Pet was never mourned as you) - Roger S. Keele
Embarcation (Here, where Vespasian's legions struck the sands) - John Pierre Herman Joubert
Epeisodia (Past the hills that peep) (from Late Lyrics and Earlier with Many Other Verses)
Epeisodia (Past the hills that peep) (from Late Lyrics and Earlier with Many Other Verses) - Gerald Finzi
Everybody else, then, going (from Satires of Circumstance, Lyrics and Reveries with Miscellaneous Pieces) (Exeunt omnes)
Everybody else, then, going (from Satires of Circumstance, Lyrics and Reveries with Miscellaneous Pieces) - Gerald Finzi (Exeunt omnes)
Exeunt omnes (Everybody else, then, going) (from Satires of Circumstance, Lyrics and Reveries with Miscellaneous Pieces)
Exeunt omnes (Everybody else, then, going) (from Satires of Circumstance, Lyrics and Reveries with Miscellaneous Pieces) - Gerald Finzi
Faintheart in a railway train (At nine in the morning there passed a church) (from Late Lyrics and Earlier with Many Other Verses)
Faint heart in a railway train (At nine in the morning there passed a church) (from Late Lyrics and Earlier with Many Other Verses) - Charlotte Bray, Muriel Emily Herbert
Farmer Dunman's Funeral (Bury me on a Sunday") - Betty Roe
First or last (If grief come early) (from Late Lyrics and Earlier with Many Other Verses)
First or last (If grief come early) (from Late Lyrics and Earlier with Many Other Verses) - John Linton Gardner, Mary Sheldon, Donald Waxman
First sight of her and after (A day is drawing to its fall) (from Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses)
First sight of her and after (A day is drawing to its fall) (from Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses) - Anthony Payne
For a moment pause (from Winter Words in Various Moods and Metres) (The Mound)
For a moment pause (from Winter Words in Various Moods and Metres) - Roy Buckle, Gerald Finzi (The mound)
Foreboding (If it's ever spring again) (from Late Lyrics and Earlier with Many Other Verses) - Rutland Boughton
For Life I had never cared greatly (For Life I have never cared greatly) (from Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses) - Gerald Finzi
For Life I have never cared greatly (from Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses) - Gerald Finzi (For Life I had never cared greatly)
For Life I have never cared greatly (For Life I have never cared greatly) (from Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses)
For Life I have never cared greatly (from Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses) (For Life I have never cared greatly)
Former beauties (These market-dames, mid-aged, with lips thin-drawn) (from Time's Laughingstocks and Other Verses - At Casterbridge Fair)
Former beauties (These market-dames, mid-aged, with lips thin-drawn) (from Time's Laughingstocks and Other Verses - At Casterbridge Fair) - Andrew Downes, Gerald Finzi, Frederic Goossen, Alfred Matthew Hale
Friends beyond (William Dewy, Tranter Reuben, Farmer Ledlow late at plough) (from Wessex Poems and Other Verses)
Friends beyond (William Dewy, Tranter Reuben, Farmer Ledlow late at plough) (from Wessex Poems and Other Verses) - Hubert James Foss
From the Woodlanders () (from The Woodlanders) - Anthony Payne [x]
Gallant's song (When the maiden leaves off teasing) (from Winter Words in Various Moods and Metres) [x]
God-forgotten (I towered far, and lo! I stood within) (from Poems of the Past and Present)
God-forgotten (I towered far, and lo! I stood within) (from Poems of the Past and Present) - Gerald Finzi
God's education (I saw him steal the light away) (from Time's Laughingstocks and Other Verses)
God's education (I saw him steal the light away) (from Time's Laughingstocks and Other Verses) - Irwin Heilner
Good Father! . . . It was eve in middle June (from Wessex Poems and Other Verses) (The peasant's confession)
Good Father! . . . It was eve in middle June (from Wessex Poems and Other Verses) - Ivor (Bertie) Gurney (The peasant's confession)
Great things (Sweet cyder is a great thing) (from Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses)
Great things (Sweet cyder is a great thing) (from Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses) - Gerald Finzi, John (Nicholson) Ireland
Gruffly growled the wind on Toller downland broad and bare (The homecoming)
Gruffly growled the wind on Toller downland broad and bare - Gustav Holst (The homecoming)
Had he and I but met (from Time's Laughingstocks and Other Verses) GER - Garth Baxter, John Pierre Herman Joubert (The man he killed)
Hap (If but some vengeful god would call to me) (from Wessex Poems and Other Verses)
Hap (If but some vengeful god would call to me) (from Wessex Poems and Other Verses) - Hubert James Foss
He abjures love (At last I put off love) (from Time's Laughingstocks and Other Verses)
He abjures love (At last I put off love) (from Time's Laughingstocks and Other Verses) - Gerald Finzi
He fears his good fortune (There was a glorious time) (from Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses)
He fears his good fortune (There was a glorious time) (from Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses) - Gerald Finzi
He often would ask us (from Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses) (The Choirmaster's Burial)
He often would ask us (from Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses) - (Edward) Benjamin Britten (The choirmaster's burial)
Her definition (I lingered through the night to break of day) (from Time's Laughingstocks and Other Verses)
Her definition (I lingered through the night to break of day) (from Time's Laughingstocks and Other Verses) - Gordon Ware Binkerd
Heredity (I am the family face) - Roy Buckle
Here is the ancient floor (from Poems of the Past and Present) (The self-unseeing)
Here is the ancient floor (from Poems of the Past and Present) - Gerald Finzi, Douglas MacDonald Stewart (The self-unseeing)
Here, where Vespasian's legions struck the sands - John Pierre Herman Joubert (Embarcation)
Her immortality (Upon a noon I pilgrimed through) (from Wessex Poems and Other Verses)
Her immortality (Upon a noon I pilgrimed through) (from Wessex Poems and Other Verses) - Danielle Baas
Her song (I sang that song on Sunday) (from Late Lyrics and Earlier with Many Other Verses)
Her song (I sang that song on Sunday) (from Late Lyrics and Earlier with Many Other Verses) - John (Nicholson) Ireland, Christopher Kaye Le Fleming
Her temple (Dear, think not that they will forget you) (from Late Lyrics and Earlier with Many Other Verses)
Her temple (Dear, think not that they will forget you) (from Late Lyrics and Earlier with Many Other Verses) - Gerald Finzi
Horses abroad (Horses in horsecloths stand in a row) (from Human Shows, Far Phantasies, Songs, and Trifles)
Horses abroad (Horses in horsecloths stand in a row) (from Human Shows, Far Phantasies, Songs, and Trifles) - Peter Dickinson
Horses in horsecloths stand in a row (from Human Shows, Far Phantasies, Songs, and Trifles) (Horses abroad)
Horses in horsecloths stand in a row (from Human Shows, Far Phantasies, Songs, and Trifles) - Peter Dickinson (Horses abroad)
How do you know that the pilgrim track (The year's awakening)
How do you know that the pilgrim track - Alan Bullard (The year's awakening)
I am playing my oldest tunes," declared she (from Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses) (The last performance)
I am playing my oldest tunes," declared she (from Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses) - Barbara Rawling (The old tunes)
I am the family face - Roy Buckle (Heredity)
I am the one whom ringdoves see (I am the one)
I am the one whom ringdoves see - Gary Bachlund, Gerald Finzi (I am the one)
I am the one (I am the one whom ringdoves see)
I am the one (I am the one whom ringdoves see) - Gary Bachlund, Gerald Finzi
If but some vengeful god would call to me (from Wessex Poems and Other Verses) (Hap)
If but some vengeful god would call to me (from Wessex Poems and Other Verses) - Hubert James Foss (Hap)
If grief come early (from Late Lyrics and Earlier with Many Other Verses) (First or last)
If grief come early (from Late Lyrics and Earlier with Many Other Verses) - John Linton Gardner, Mary Sheldon, Donald Waxman (First or last)
If it's ever spring again (from Late Lyrics and Earlier with Many Other Verses) - Rutland Boughton (Foreboding)
If it's ever spring again (If it's ever spring again) (from Late Lyrics and Earlier with Many Other Verses) - (Edward) Benjamin Britten, Christopher Kaye Le Fleming, Robin Humphrey Milford
If it's ever spring again (from Late Lyrics and Earlier with Many Other Verses) - (Edward) Benjamin Britten, Christopher Kaye Le Fleming, Robin Humphrey Milford (If it's ever spring again)
I found her out there (I found her out there) (from Satires of Circumstance, Lyrics and Reveries with Miscellaneous Pieces)
I found her out there (I found her out there) (from Satires of Circumstance, Lyrics and Reveries with Miscellaneous Pieces) - Gerald Finzi
I found her out there (from Satires of Circumstance, Lyrics and Reveries with Miscellaneous Pieces) (I found her out there)
I found her out there (from Satires of Circumstance, Lyrics and Reveries with Miscellaneous Pieces) - Gerald Finzi (I found her out there)
'If you had known' (If you had known) (from Late Lyrics and Earlier with Many Other Verses)
If you had known (If you had known) (from Late Lyrics and Earlier with Many Other Verses) - Garth Baxter
If you had known (from Late Lyrics and Earlier with Many Other Verses) ('If you had known')
If you had known (from Late Lyrics and Earlier with Many Other Verses) - Garth Baxter (If you had known)
I have seen her in gowns the brightest (from Late Lyrics and Earlier with Many Other Verses) - Roy Buckle (The old gown)
I idly cut a parsley stalk (On a midsummer eve)
I idly cut a parsley stalk - Arthur Butterworth, Donald Waxman (On a midsummer eve)
I kissed them in fancy as I came (from Human Shows, Far Phantasies, Songs, and Trifles) (Two lips)
I kissed them in fancy as I came (from Human Shows, Far Phantasies, Songs, and Trifles) - Gerald Finzi (Two lips)
I leaned upon a coppice gate GER (By the century's deathbed)
I leaned upon a coppice gate GER - Ronald Caviani, Lee Hoiby, Robin Humphrey Milford (The darkling thrush)
I leaned upon a coppice gate GER - Judith Weir (Written on terrestrial things)
I lingered through the night to break of day (from Time's Laughingstocks and Other Verses) (Her definition)
I lingered through the night to break of day (from Time's Laughingstocks and Other Verses) - Gordon Ware Binkerd (Her definition)
I longed to love a full-boughed beech (from Wessex Poems and Other Verses) SPA (The Ivy-Wife)
I longed to love a full-boughed beech (from Wessex Poems and Other Verses) SPA - Ben Moore (The Ivy-Wife)
I look into my glass (I look into my glass) (from Wessex Poems and Other Verses) - Gerald Finzi, Nicholas Maw
I look into my glass (from Wessex Poems and Other Verses) - Gerald Finzi, Nicholas Maw (I look into my glass)
I marked her ruined hues (from Wessex Poems and Other Verses) (Amabel)
I marked her ruined hues (from Wessex Poems and Other Verses) - Gerald Finzi (Amabel)
I marked when the weather changed - Andrew Downes, John Ramsden Williamson (A night in November)
In a churchyard (It is sad that so many of worth) (from Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses) - Gerald Finzi
In a solitude of the sea (The convergence of the twain)
In a solitude of the sea - Seymour J. Shifrin (The convergence of the twain)
In a whispering gallery (That whisper takes the voice) (from Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses)
In a whispering gallery (That whisper takes the voice) (from Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses) - Gordon Ware Binkerd
In a wood (Pale beech and pine so blue) (from Wessex Poems and Other Verses)
In a wood (Pale beech and pine so blue) (from Wessex Poems and Other Verses) - Gustav Holst
Indulge no more may we (from Time's Laughingstocks and Other Verses) (The end of the episode)
Indulge no more may we (from Time's Laughingstocks and Other Verses) - Gerald Finzi (The end of the episode)
I need not go (I need not go) (from Poems of the Past and Present) - Gerald Finzi, Donald Waxman
I need not go (from Poems of the Past and Present) - Gerald Finzi, Donald Waxman (I need not go)
In five-score summers! All new eyes (from Time's Laughingstocks and Other Verses) (1967)
In five-score summers! All new eyes (from Time's Laughingstocks and Other Verses) - Gerald Finzi (In five-score summers)
In five-score summers (In five-score summers! All new eyes) (from Time's Laughingstocks and Other Verses) - Gerald Finzi
In my sage moments I can say (from Human Shows, Far Phantasies, Songs, and Trifles) (Come not: yet Come!)
In my sage moments I can say (from Human Shows, Far Phantasies, Songs, and Trifles) - John (Nicholson) Ireland (In my sage moments)
In my sage moments (In my sage moments I can say) (from Human Shows, Far Phantasies, Songs, and Trifles) - John (Nicholson) Ireland
Inscriptions for a peal of eight bells (Thomas Tremble new made me) (from Human Shows, Far Phantasies, Songs, and Trifles)
Inscriptions for a peal of eight bells (Thomas Tremble new made me) (from Human Shows, Far Phantasies, Songs, and Trifles) - Nicholas Marshall, Nicholas Maw
In Tenebris (Wintertime nighs) (from Poems of the Past and Present) - Nicholas Maw
In the black winter morning (from Time's Laughingstocks and Other Verses) (Bereft)
In the black winter morning (In the black winter morning) (from Time's Laughingstocks and Other Verses) - Ivor (Bertie) Gurney
In the black winter morning (from Time's Laughingstocks and Other Verses) - Ivor (Bertie) Gurney (In the black winter morning)
In the mind's eye (That was once her casement) (from Time's Laughingstocks and Other Verses) - Gerald Finzi
In the Moonlight ('O lonely workman, standing there) (from Satires of Circumstance, Lyrics and Reveries with Miscellaneous Pieces)
In the Moonlight ('O lonely workman, standing there) (from Satires of Circumstance, Lyrics and Reveries with Miscellaneous Pieces) - Betty Roe
In the Restaurant ('But hear. If you stay, and the child be born) (from Satires of Circumstance, Lyrics and Reveries with Miscellaneous Pieces)
In the Restaurant ('But hear. If you stay, and the child be born) (from Satires of Circumstance, Lyrics and Reveries with Miscellaneous Pieces) - Betty Roe
In the third-class seat sat the journeying boy (from Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses) (Midnight on the Great Western)
In the third-class seat sat the journeying boy (from Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses) - (Edward) Benjamin Britten, Derek Holman (Midnight on the Great Western)
In the wild October night-time, when the wind raved round the land (from The Dynasts) - Boyton Smith (In the wild October night-time)
In the wild October night-time, when the wind raved round the land (from The Dynasts) (Song: The Night of Trafalgár)
In the wild October night-time, when the wind raved round the land (from The Dynasts) - Ivor (Bertie) Gurney (The night of Trafalgar)
In the wild October night-time, when the wind raved round the land (from The Dynasts) - Cyril Meir Scott (Trafalgar)
In the wild October night-time (In the wild October night-time, when the wind raved round the land) (from The Dynasts) - Boyton Smith
In Time of 'The Breaking of Nations' (Only a man harrowing clods)
In Time of 'The Breaking of Nations' (Only a man harrowing clods) - Joseph W. Baber, Gary Bachlund, Lloyd E. Burritt, Derek Healey, Gordon Archbold Slater
In years defaced and lost (from Poems of the Past and Present) (A spot)
In years defaced and lost (from Poems of the Past and Present) - Roy Buckle, Gerald Finzi (In years defaced)
In years defaced (In years defaced and lost) (from Poems of the Past and Present) - Roy Buckle, Gerald Finzi
I pitched my day's leazings in Crimmercrock Lane (from Time's Laughingstocks and Other Verses) (The dark-eyed gentleman)
I pitched my day's leazings in Crimmercrock Lane (from Time's Laughingstocks and Other Verses) - Arthur Edward Drummond Bliss, Sir, Hubert James Foss (The dark-eyed gentleman)
I play my sweet old airs - Andrew Downes (Lost love)
I rose and went to Rou'tor Town (I rose and went to Rou'tor Town) - Roy Buckle
I rose and went to Rou'tor Town - Roy Buckle (I rose and went to Rou'tor Town)
I rose up as my custom is (I rose up as my custom is) (from Satires of Circumstance, Lyrics and Reveries with Miscellaneous Pieces)
I rose up as my custom is (I rose up as my custom is) (from Satires of Circumstance, Lyrics and Reveries with Miscellaneous Pieces) - Irwin Heilner
I rose up as my custom is (from Satires of Circumstance, Lyrics and Reveries with Miscellaneous Pieces) (I rose up as my custom is)
I rose up as my custom is (from Satires of Circumstance, Lyrics and Reveries with Miscellaneous Pieces) - Irwin Heilner (I rose up as my custom is)
I said to Love (I said to Love) (from Poems of the Past and Present) - Gerald Finzi
I said to Love (from Poems of the Past and Present) - Gerald Finzi (I said to Love)
I sang that song on Sunday (from Late Lyrics and Earlier with Many Other Verses) (Her song)
I sang that song on Sunday (from Late Lyrics and Earlier with Many Other Verses) - John (Nicholson) Ireland, Christopher Kaye Le Fleming (Her song)
I sat one sprinkling day upon the lea - Gerald Finzi (Childhood among the ferns)
I saw him steal the light away (from Time's Laughingstocks and Other Verses) (God's education)
I saw him steal the light away (from Time's Laughingstocks and Other Verses) - Irwin Heilner (God's education)
I say "I'll seek her side (from Time's Laughingstocks and Other Verses) (I say I'll seek her)
I say "I'll seek her side (from Time's Laughingstocks and Other Verses) - Charlotte Bray, Gerald Finzi (I say I'll seek her)
I say I'll seek her (I say "I'll seek her side) (from Time's Laughingstocks and Other Verses)
I say I'll seek her (I say "I'll seek her side) (from Time's Laughingstocks and Other Verses) - Charlotte Bray, Gerald Finzi
I scanned her picture, dreaming (I scanned her picture dreaming) - Gustav Holst CAT DUT FIN FIN FRE FRE GER ITA KOR NOR RUS RUS SPA
I scanned her picture dreaming CAT DUT FIN FIN FRE FRE GER ITA KOR NOR RUS RUS SPA - Gustav Holst (I scanned her picture, dreaming)
I scanned her picture dreaming CAT DUT FIN FIN FRE FRE GER ITA KOR NOR RUS RUS SPA (Song from Heine)
It bends far over Yell'ham Plain (from Poems of the Past and Present) (The comet at Yalbury or Yell'ham)
It bends far over Yell'ham Plain (from Poems of the Past and Present) - Gerald Finzi (The Comet at Yell'ham)
I think of the slope where the rabbits fed (from Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses) (The Background and the Figure)
I think of the slope where the rabbits fed (from Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses) - Bernard James Naylor (The Background and the Figure)
It is a foolish thing," said I (from Satires of Circumstance, Lyrics and Reveries with Miscellaneous Pieces) (Tolerance)
It is a foolish thing," said I (from Satires of Circumstance, Lyrics and Reveries with Miscellaneous Pieces) - Robin Humphrey Milford (Tolerance)
It is dark in the sky (from Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses) (Looking across)
It is dark in the sky (from Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses) - William Parks Grant (Looking across)
It is sad that so many of worth (from Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses) - Gerald Finzi (In a churchyard)
It is sad that so many of worth (from Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses) (While drawing in a churchyard)
It never looks like summer here (from Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses) - Gerald Finzi (It never looks like summer)
It never looks like summer (It never looks like summer here) (from Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses) - Gerald Finzi
I towered far, and lo! I stood within (from Poems of the Past and Present) (God-forgotten)
I towered far, and lo! I stood within (from Poems of the Past and Present) - Gerald Finzi (God-forgotten)
I travel as a phantom now (I travel as a phantom now) (from Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses)
I travel as a phantom now (I travel as a phantom now) (from Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses) - Derek Bourgeois
I travel as a phantom now (from Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses) (I travel as a phantom now)
I travel as a phantom now (from Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses) - Derek Bourgeois (I travel as a phantom now)
Its former green is blue and thin (from Late Lyrics and Earlier with Many Other Verses) (The garden seat)
Its former green is blue and thin (from Late Lyrics and Earlier with Many Other Verses) - Michael (Dewar) Head (The garden seat)
It was what you bore with you, Woman (It was what you bore with you, Woman) (from Late Lyrics and Earlier with Many Other Verses) - John (Nicholson) Ireland
It was what you bore with you, Woman (from Late Lyrics and Earlier with Many Other Verses) - John (Nicholson) Ireland (It was what you bore with you, Woman)
It was what you bore with you, Woman (from Late Lyrics and Earlier with Many Other Verses) (Without, not within her)
I wanted to marry, but father said, "No - Betty Roe (The Orphaned Old Maid)
I went by footpath and by stile (from Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses) (Paying calls)
I went by footpath and by stile (from Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses) - Gerald Finzi (Paying calls)
I will get a new string for my fiddle (from Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses) (A merrymaking in question)
I will get a new string for my fiddle (from Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses) - Gerald Finzi (A merrymaking in question)
I would that folk forgot me quite (from Poems of the Past and Present) (Tess's Lament)
I would that folk forgot me quite (from Poems of the Past and Present) - James Douglas (Tess)
Julie-Jane (Sing; how 'a would sing!) (from Time's Laughingstocks and Other Verses)
Julie-Jane (Sing; how 'a would sing!) (from Time's Laughingstocks and Other Verses) - Arnold Atkinson Cooke, Juliana Hall
June leaves and autumn (Lush summer lit the trees to green)
June leaves and autumn (Lush summer lit the trees to green) - Gerald Finzi
Lalage's coming: where is she now, O? (from Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses) (Timing her)
Lalage's coming (from Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses) (Timing her)
Lalage's coming (from Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses) - Roy Buckle, Gerald Finzi (Timing her)
Last love word (This is the last; the very, very last!) - Andrew Downes
Last words to a dumb friend (Pet was never mourned as you)
Let me enjoy the earth no less - Gerald Finzi (Let me enjoy the Earth)
Let me enjoy the earth no less (Let me enjoy)
Let me enjoy the earth no less - Arnold Atkinson Cooke, Ivor Foster, Donald Waxman (Let me enjoy)
Let me enjoy the Earth (Let me enjoy the earth no less) - Gerald Finzi
Let me enjoy (Let me enjoy the earth no less)
Let me enjoy (Let me enjoy the earth no less) - Arnold Atkinson Cooke, Ivor Foster, Donald Waxman
Life laughs onward (Rambling I looked for an old abode) (from Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses)
Life laughs onward (Rambling I looked for an old abode) (from Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses) - Gerald Finzi
Lines to a movement in Mozart's E-Flat Symphony (Show me again the time) (from Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses)
Little head against my shoulder (from Time's Laughingstocks and Other Verses) (The sigh)
Little head against my shoulder (from Time's Laughingstocks and Other Verses) - Gerald Finzi (The sigh)
Looking across (It is dark in the sky) (from Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses)
Looking across (It is dark in the sky) (from Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses) - William Parks Grant
Looking forward to the spring (Before and After Summer)
Looking forward to the spring - Gerald Finzi (Before and after summer)
Lost love (I play my sweet old airs) - Andrew Downes
Love lures life on (Show me again the time) (from Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses) - Bernard James Naylor
Lover to mistress (Beckon to me to come) (from Human Shows, Far Phantasies, Songs, and Trifles)
Lush summer lit the trees to green (June leaves and autumn)
Lush summer lit the trees to green - Gerald Finzi (June leaves and autumn)
Lyonnesse (When I set out for Lyonnesse) (from Satires of Circumstance, Lyrics and Reveries with Miscellaneous Pieces) - Cecil Armstrong Gibbs
Meet me again as at that time (from Winter Words in Various Moods and Metres) - Roy Buckle (To Louisa in the lane)
Men who march away (What of the faith and fire within us) - Edgar A. Lane
Middle-age enthusiasms (We passed where flag and flower) (from Wessex Poems and Other Verses)
Middle-age enthusiasms (We passed where flag and flower) (from Wessex Poems and Other Verses) - Gerald Finzi
Midnight on the Great Western (In the third-class seat sat the journeying boy) (from Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses)
Midnight on the Great Western (In the third-class seat sat the journeying boy) (from Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses) - (Edward) Benjamin Britten, Derek Holman
More than one cuckoo? (from Winter Words in Various Moods and Metres) [x] (Boys Then and Now)
More than one cuckoo (More than one cuckoo?) (from Winter Words in Various Moods and Metres) - Derek Healey [x]
More than one cuckoo? (from Winter Words in Various Moods and Metres) [x] - Derek Healey (More than one cuckoo)
'My bride is not coming, alas!' says the groom (from Satires of Circumstance, Lyrics and Reveries with Miscellaneous Pieces) (At the Altar-rail)
'My bride is not coming, alas!' says the groom (from Satires of Circumstance, Lyrics and Reveries with Miscellaneous Pieces) - Betty Roe (At the Altar-rail)
My Love's gone a-fighting (My Love's gone a-fighting) (from The Dynasts) - Garth Baxter, Boyton Smith, Charles A. Speyer
My Love's gone a-fighting (from The Dynasts) - Garth Baxter, Boyton Smith, Charles A. Speyer (My Love's gone a-fighting)
My spirit will not haunt the mound (My spirit will not haunt the mound) - David Leo Diamond
My spirit will not haunt the mound - David Leo Diamond (My spirit will not haunt the mound)
My stick!" he says, and turns in the lane (from Satires of Circumstance, Lyrics and Reveries with Miscellaneous Pieces) (Outside the window)
My stick!" he says, and turns in the lane (from Satires of Circumstance, Lyrics and Reveries with Miscellaneous Pieces) - Zenobia P. Perry, Betty Roe (Outside the window)
Neutral tones (We stood by a pond that winter day) (from Wessex Poems and Other Verses)
Neutral tones (We stood by a pond that winter day) (from Wessex Poems and Other Verses) - Roy Buckle, Nicholas Maw
News for her mother (One mile more is) (from Time's Laughingstocks and Other Verses)
News for her mother (One mile more is) (from Time's Laughingstocks and Other Verses) - Gerald Finzi
Night in the old home (When the wasting embers redden the chimney-breast) (from Time's Laughingstocks and Other Verses)
Night in the old home (When the wasting embers redden the chimney-breast) (from Time's Laughingstocks and Other Verses) - Hubert James Foss
Nine leaves a minute (from Human Shows, Far Phantasies, Songs, and Trifles) (The Best she Could)
Nine leaves a minute (from Human Shows, Far Phantasies, Songs, and Trifles) - Gerald Finzi (The too short time)
Nobody took any notice of her as she stood on the causey kerb (from Time's Laughingstocks and Other Verses - At Casterbridge Fair) (The Market-Girl)
Nobody took any notice of her as she stood on the causey kerb (from Time's Laughingstocks and Other Verses - At Casterbridge Fair) - Arnold Edward Trevor Bax, Sir, Gerald Finzi, Frederic Goossen, Alfred Matthew Hale (The Market-Girl)
No smoke spreads out of this chimney-pot (Starlings on the roof)
No smoke spreads out of this chimney-pot - Irwin Heilner (Starlings on the roof)
Not a line of her writing have I (from Wessex Poems and Other Verses) - Gerald Finzi (At news of a woman's death)
Not a line of her writing have I (from Wessex Poems and Other Verses) (Thoughts of Phena at news of her death)
Now, my own, own love," she whispered, "you are mine (from The Woodlanders) - Patrick Arthur Sheldon Hadley (Scene from The Woodlanders)
Now, my own, own love you are mine (from The Woodlanders)
O it was sad enough, weak enough, mad enough (The going of the battery)
O it was sad enough, weak enough, mad enough - Alfred Matthew Hale (The going of the battery)
O Life with the sad seared face (from Poems of the Past and Present) (To Life)
O Life with the sad seared face (from Poems of the Past and Present) - Hubert James Foss, Nicholas Maw (To Life)
'O lonely workman, standing there (from Satires of Circumstance, Lyrics and Reveries with Miscellaneous Pieces) (In the Moonlight)
'O lonely workman, standing there (from Satires of Circumstance, Lyrics and Reveries with Miscellaneous Pieces) - Betty Roe (In the Moonlight)
O Lord, why grievest Thou? (from Poems of the Past and Present) (By the earth's corpse)
O Lord, why grievest Thou? (from Poems of the Past and Present) - Gerald Finzi (By the earth's corpse)
O 'Melia, my dear, this does everything crown! (The ruined maid)
O 'Melia, my dear, this does everything crown! - Judith Lang Zaimont (The ruined maid)
O my pretty pink frock (from Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses) (The pink frock)
O my pretty pink frock (from Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses) - Robin Humphrey Milford (The pink frock)
O my trade it is the rarest one (The stranger's song)
O my trade it is the rarest one - Henry Balfour Gardiner (The stranger's song)
On a discarded curl of hair (When your soft welcomings were said) (from Late Lyrics and Earlier with Many Other Verses) - Gerald Finzi
On a discovered curl of hair (When your soft welcomings were said) (from Late Lyrics and Earlier with Many Other Verses)
On a midsummer eve (I idly cut a parsley stalk)
On a midsummer eve (I idly cut a parsley stalk) - Arthur Butterworth, Donald Waxman
Once at Swanage (The spray sprang up across the face of the moon) - Roy Buckle
One mile more is where your door is (from Time's Laughingstocks and Other Verses) (News for her mother)
One mile more is (from Time's Laughingstocks and Other Verses) (News for her mother)
One mile more is (from Time's Laughingstocks and Other Verses) - Gerald Finzi (News for her mother)
One without looks in tonight (from Late Lyrics and Earlier with Many Other Verses) (The fallow deer at the lonely house)
One without looks in tonight (from Late Lyrics and Earlier with Many Other Verses) - Arthur Edward Drummond Bliss, Sir (The fallow deer at the lonely house)
One without looks in tonight (from Late Lyrics and Earlier with Many Other Verses) - John Woods Duke (The fallow deer)
Only a man harrowing clods (In Time of 'The Breaking of Nations')
Only a man harrowing clods - Joseph W. Baber, Gary Bachlund, Lloyd E. Burritt, Derek Healey, Gordon Archbold Slater (In Time of 'The Breaking of Nations')
Only a man harrowing clods (Only a man harrowing clods) - Gerald Finzi
Only a man harrowing clods - Gerald Finzi (Only a man harrowing clods)
Only a man harrowing clods - Ramon Zupko (The Breaking of Nations)
Only a man harrowing clods - Frederic Austin (Though dynasties pass)
On the balcony (We shall see her no more) - Roy Buckle
On the bridge (Sitting on the bridge) (from Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses) - Arnold Edward Trevor Bax, Sir
O sweet sincerity! (from Time's Laughingstocks and Other Verses) (To sincerity)
O sweet sincerity! (from Time's Laughingstocks and Other Verses) - Robin Humphrey Milford (To sincerity)
O the opal and the sapphire of that wandering western sea (from Poems of 1912-1913) (Beeny Cliff)
O the opal and the sapphire of that wandering western sea (from Poems of 1912-1913) - Roy Buckle, Betty Roe (Beeny Cliff)
Outside the window (My stick!" he says, and turns in the lane) (from Satires of Circumstance, Lyrics and Reveries with Miscellaneous Pieces)
Outside the window (My stick!" he says, and turns in the lane) (from Satires of Circumstance, Lyrics and Reveries with Miscellaneous Pieces) - Zenobia P. Perry, Betty Roe
Overlooking the River Stour (The swallows flew in the curves of an eight) (from Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses)
Overlooking the river (The swallows flew in the curves of an eight) (from Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses) - Gerald Finzi
Pale beech and pine so blue (from Wessex Poems and Other Verses) (In a wood)
Pale beech and pine so blue (from Wessex Poems and Other Verses) - Gustav Holst (In a wood)
Past the hills that peep (from Late Lyrics and Earlier with Many Other Verses) (Epeisodia)
Past the hills that peep (from Late Lyrics and Earlier with Many Other Verses) - Gerald Finzi (Epeisodia)
Paying calls (I went by footpath and by stile) (from Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses)
Paying calls (I went by footpath and by stile) (from Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses) - Gerald Finzi
Pet was never mourned as you - Roger S. Keele (Elegy for a cat)
Pet was never mourned as you (Last words to a dumb friend)
Poor wanderer," said the leaden sky (The subalterns)
Poor wanderer," said the leaden sky - Gerald Finzi (The subalterns)
Portions of this yew (from Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses) (Transformations)
Portions of this yew (from Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses) - Gerald Finzi (Transformations)
Proud songsters (The thrushes sing as the sun is going)
Proud songsters (The thrushes sing as the sun is going) - (Edward) Benjamin Britten, Gerald Finzi, Stephen Wilkinson
Queer are the ways of a man I know (from Satires of Circumstance, Lyrics and Reveries with Miscellaneous Pieces) (The phantom horsewoman)
Queer are the ways of a man I know (from Satires of Circumstance, Lyrics and Reveries with Miscellaneous Pieces) - Gerald Finzi (The phantom)
Quick march (When Lawyers strive to heal a breach) (from Wessex Poems and Other Verses) - Rutland Boughton
Rain on the windows, creaking doors - Andrew Downes (The Division)
Rambling I looked for an old abode (from Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses) (Life laughs onward)
Rambling I looked for an old abode (from Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses) - Gerald Finzi (Life laughs onward)
Regret not me (Regret not me) (from Satires of Circumstance, Lyrics and Reveries with Miscellaneous Pieces) - Ethel Florence Lindesay Robertson, née Richardson
Regret not me (from Satires of Circumstance, Lyrics and Reveries with Miscellaneous Pieces) - Ethel Florence Lindesay Robertson, née Richardson (Regret not me)
Regret not me (from Satires of Circumstance, Lyrics and Reveries with Miscellaneous Pieces) - Gerald Finzi (The dance continued)
Retty's Phases (Retty used to shake her head) - Roy Buckle
Retty used to shake her head - Roy Buckle (Retty's Phases)
Rollicum-Rorum (When Lawyers strive to heal a breach) (from Wessex Poems and Other Verses) - Gerald Finzi, Boyton Smith
Rose-Ann (Why didn't you say you was promised, Rose-Ann?) (from Time's Laughingstocks and Other Verses)
Rose-Ann (Why didn't you say you was promised, Rose-Ann?) (from Time's Laughingstocks and Other Verses) - Ivor Foster, Alfred Matthew Hale, Juliana Hall, Mary Sheldon
Scene from The Woodlanders (Now, my own, own love," she whispered, "you are mine) (from The Woodlanders) - Patrick Arthur Sheldon Hadley
She sits in the tawny vapour (from Poems of the Past and Present) - Garth Baxter, John Pierre Herman Joubert (A wife in London)
She, to him I (When you shall see me in the toils of Time) (from Wessex Poems and Other Verses - She, to Him) - Gordon Ware Binkerd
She turned in the high pew, until her sight (A church romance)
She turned in the high pew, until her sight - Robin Field (A church romance)
She wore a new "terra cotta" dress (from Satires of Circumstance, Lyrics and Reveries with Miscellaneous Pieces) - Garth Baxter, Charlotte Bray (A thunderstorm in town)
Shortening days at the homestead (The first fire since the summer is lit, and is smoking into the room) (from Human Shows, Far Phantasies, Songs, and Trifles)
Shortening days (The first fire since the summer is lit, and is smoking into the room) (from Human Shows, Far Phantasies, Songs, and Trifles) - Gerald Finzi
Show me again the time (from Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses) (Lines to a movement in Mozart's E-Flat Symphony)
Show me again the time (from Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses) - Bernard James Naylor (Love lures life on)
Shut out that moon (Close up the casement, draw the blind) (from Time's Laughingstocks and Other Verses)
Shut out that moon (Close up the casement, draw the blind) (from Time's Laughingstocks and Other Verses) - Gordon Ware Binkerd, Roy Buckle
Simple was I and was young (from Late Lyrics and Earlier with Many Other Verses) (After Reading Psalms xxxix, xl., etc.)
Simple was I and was young (from Late Lyrics and Earlier with Many Other Verses) - Gerald Finzi (So I have fared)
Sing, Ballad-singer, raise a hearty tune (from Time's Laughingstocks and Other Verses - At Casterbridge Fair) (The Ballad-Singer)
Sing, Ballad-singer, raise a hearty tune (from Time's Laughingstocks and Other Verses - At Casterbridge Fair) - Arnold Atkinson Cooke, Andrew Downes, Frederic Goossen, Alfred Matthew Hale, Juliana Hall, Lori Laitman, Donald Waxman (The Ballad Singer)
Sing; how 'a would sing! (from Time's Laughingstocks and Other Verses) (Julie-Jane)
Sing; how 'a would sing! (from Time's Laughingstocks and Other Verses) - Arnold Atkinson Cooke, Juliana Hall (Julie-Jane)
Sir Nameless, once of Athelhall, declared (The Children and Sir Nameless)
Sir Nameless, once of Athelhall, declared - (Edward) Benjamin Britten (The Children and Sir Nameless)
Sitting on the bridge (from Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses) - Arnold Edward Trevor Bax, Sir (On the bridge)
Sitting on the bridge (Sitting on the bridge) (from Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses)
Sitting on the bridge (from Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses) (Sitting on the bridge)
Sixpence a week," says the girl to her lover (from Satires of Circumstance, Lyrics and Reveries with Miscellaneous Pieces) (By her Aunt's Grave)
Sixpence a week," says the girl to her lover (from Satires of Circumstance, Lyrics and Reveries with Miscellaneous Pieces) - Zenobia P. Perry, Betty Roe (By her Aunt's Grave)
Slip back, Time! (Slip back, Time!) (from Satires of Circumstance, Lyrics and Reveries with Miscellaneous Pieces) - Roy Buckle
Slip back, Time! (from Satires of Circumstance, Lyrics and Reveries with Miscellaneous Pieces) - Roy Buckle (Slip back, Time!)
Slip back, Time! (from Satires of Circumstance, Lyrics and Reveries with Miscellaneous Pieces) (St. Launce's Revisited)
So I have fared (Simple was I and was young) (from Late Lyrics and Earlier with Many Other Verses) - Gerald Finzi
Something tapped on the pane of my room (from Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses) - Andrew Downes, Joelle Wallach (Something Tapped)
Something Tapped (Something tapped on the pane of my room) (from Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses) - Andrew Downes, Joelle Wallach
Song from Heine (I scanned her picture dreaming) CAT DUT FIN FIN FRE FRE GER ITA KOR NOR RUS RUS SPA
Song of the king's men (We be the King's men, hale and hearty) (from The Dynasts) - Thomas Frederick Dunhill
Song of the soldiers' wives and sweethearts (At last! In sight of home again) - Alfred Matthew Hale
Song of the soldiers' wives (At last! In sight of home again)
Song: The Night of Trafalgár (In the wild October night-time, when the wind raved round the land) (from The Dynasts)
South of the Line, from far Durban
South of the Line, inland from far Durban - John Pierre Herman Joubert (A Christmas Ghost-Story)
South of the Line, inland from far Durban - Garth Baxter (Coda (A Christmas Ghost-Story))
So various (You may have met a man -- quite young)
So various (You may have met a man -- quite young) - Gerald Finzi
So zestfully canst thou sing? (from Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses) (The blinded bird)
So zestfully canst thou sing? (from Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses) - Peter Dickinson (The blinded bird)
Starlings on the roof (No smoke spreads out of this chimney-pot)
Starlings on the roof (No smoke spreads out of this chimney-pot) - Irwin Heilner
St. Launce's Revisited (Slip back, Time!) (from Satires of Circumstance, Lyrics and Reveries with Miscellaneous Pieces)
Stretching eyes west (from Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses) (The riddle)
Stretching eyes west (from Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses) - Gordon Ware Binkerd (The riddle)
Summer schemes (When friendly summer calls again) (from Late Lyrics and Earlier with Many Other Verses)
Summer schemes (When friendly summer calls again) (from Late Lyrics and Earlier with Many Other Verses) - Arnold Atkinson Cooke, Gerald Finzi, John (Nicholson) Ireland
Sweet cyder is a great thing (from Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses) (Great things)
Sweet cyder is a great thing (from Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses) - Gerald Finzi, John (Nicholson) Ireland (Great things)
Sweet cyder is a great thing (from Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses) - Douglas Steele (Sweet cyder)
Sweet cyder (Sweet cyder is a great thing) (from Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses) - Douglas Steele
Tess's Lament (I would that folk forgot me quite) (from Poems of the Past and Present)
Tess (I would that folk forgot me quite) (from Poems of the Past and Present) - James Douglas
That moment (The tragedy of that moment) (from Human Shows, Far Phantasies, Songs, and Trifles)
That night, that night (from Late Lyrics and Earlier with Many Other Verses) (A bygone occasion)
That night, that night (from Late Lyrics and Earlier with Many Other Verses) - Gordon Ware Binkerd, Roy Buckle, John Linton Gardner (A bygone occasion)
That night your great guns, unawares (Channel Firing)
That night your great guns, unawares - Gerald Finzi, Irwin Heilner, Leo Smit (Channel firing)
That was once her casement (from Time's Laughingstocks and Other Verses) - Gerald Finzi (In the mind's eye)
That was once her casement (from Time's Laughingstocks and Other Verses) (The phantom)
That was once her casement (from Time's Laughingstocks and Other Verses) - Ivor (Bertie) Gurney (The phantom)
That whisper takes the voice (from Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses) (In a whispering gallery)
That whisper takes the voice (from Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses) - Gordon Ware Binkerd (In a whispering gallery)
The Background and the Figure (I think of the slope where the rabbits fed) (from Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses)
The Background and the Figure (I think of the slope where the rabbits fed) (from Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses) - Bernard James Naylor
The Ballad-Singer (Sing, Ballad-singer, raise a hearty tune) (from Time's Laughingstocks and Other Verses - At Casterbridge Fair)
The Ballad Singer (Sing, Ballad-singer, raise a hearty tune) (from Time's Laughingstocks and Other Verses - At Casterbridge Fair) - Arnold Atkinson Cooke, Andrew Downes, Frederic Goossen, Alfred Matthew Hale, Juliana Hall, Lori Laitman, Donald Waxman
The bars are thick with drops that show (from Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses) (At Middle-Field Gate in February)
The bars are thick with drops that show (from Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses) - Gerald Finzi (At Middle-Field Gate in February)
The battle (They come beset by riddling hail) (from The Dynasts) - Garth Baxter
The Best she Could (Nine leaves a minute) (from Human Shows, Far Phantasies, Songs, and Trifles)
The blinded bird (So zestfully canst thou sing?) (from Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses)
The blinded bird (So zestfully canst thou sing?) (from Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses) - Peter Dickinson
The Breaking of Nations (Only a man harrowing clods) - Ramon Zupko
The bullfinches (Brother Bulleys, let us sing) (from Poems of the Past and Present)
The bullfinches (Brother Bulleys, let us sing) (from Poems of the Past and Present) - Alys F. Serrell
The Children and Sir Nameless (Sir Nameless, once of Athelhall, declared)
The Children and Sir Nameless (Sir Nameless, once of Athelhall, declared) - (Edward) Benjamin Britten
The Choirmaster's Burial (He often would ask us) (from Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses)
The choirmaster's burial (He often would ask us) (from Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses) - (Edward) Benjamin Britten
The Clock of the Years (And the Spirit said) (from Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses)
The clock of the years (And the Spirit said) (from Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses) - Gerald Finzi
The cold moon hangs to the sky by its horn (from Time's Laughingstocks and Other Verses) (The night of the dance)
The cold moon hangs to the sky by its horn (from Time's Laughingstocks and Other Verses) - Gerald Finzi (The night of the dance)
The colour (What shall I bring you?) (from Late Lyrics and Earlier with Many Other Verses)
The colour (What shall I bring you?) (from Late Lyrics and Earlier with Many Other Verses) - Mervyn, Lord Horder, the Second Baron of Ashford, Christopher Kaye Le Fleming, Robin Humphrey Milford, Mary Sheldon
The comet at Yalbury or Yell'ham (It bends far over Yell'ham Plain) (from Poems of the Past and Present)
The Comet at Yell'ham (It bends far over Yell'ham Plain) (from Poems of the Past and Present) - Gerald Finzi
The convergence of the twain (In a solitude of the sea)
The convergence of the twain (In a solitude of the sea) - Seymour J. Shifrin
The curtains now are drawn (The curtains now are drawn)
The curtains now are drawn (The curtains now are drawn) - Roy Buckle, Andrew Downes, Robert H. Patterson
The curtains now are drawn (The curtains now are drawn)
The curtains now are drawn - Roy Buckle, Andrew Downes, Robert H. Patterson (The curtains now are drawn)
The dance continued (Regret not me) (from Satires of Circumstance, Lyrics and Reveries with Miscellaneous Pieces) - Gerald Finzi
The dark-eyed gentleman (I pitched my day's leazings in Crimmercrock Lane) (from Time's Laughingstocks and Other Verses)
The dark-eyed gentleman (I pitched my day's leazings in Crimmercrock Lane) (from Time's Laughingstocks and Other Verses) - Arthur Edward Drummond Bliss, Sir, Hubert James Foss
The darkling thrush (I leaned upon a coppice gate) - Ronald Caviani, Lee Hoiby, Robin Humphrey Milford GER
The day arrives of the autumn fair (from Human Shows, Far Phantasies, Songs, and Trifles) (A sheep fair)
The day arrives of the autumn fair (from Human Shows, Far Phantasies, Songs, and Trifles) - Nicholas Marshall (A sheep fair)
The Dead Drummer (They throw in Drummer Hodge, to rest)
The Division (Rain on the windows, creaking doors) - Andrew Downes
The Drummer (They throw in Drummer Hodge, to rest) - John Edmunds
The end of the episode (Indulge no more may we) (from Time's Laughingstocks and Other Verses)
The end of the episode (Indulge no more may we) (from Time's Laughingstocks and Other Verses) - Gerald Finzi
The faithful swallow (When summer shone) (from Human Shows, Far Phantasies, Songs, and Trifles)
The faithful swallow (When summer shone) (from Human Shows, Far Phantasies, Songs, and Trifles) - Gerald Finzi, Carl J. Kittleson
The fallow deer at the lonely house (One without looks in tonight) (from Late Lyrics and Earlier with Many Other Verses)
The fallow deer at the lonely house (One without looks in tonight) (from Late Lyrics and Earlier with Many Other Verses) - Arthur Edward Drummond Bliss, Sir
The fallow deer (One without looks in tonight) (from Late Lyrics and Earlier with Many Other Verses) - John Woods Duke
The fiddler knows what's brewing (from Time's Laughingstocks and Other Verses) (The fiddler)
The fiddler knows what's brewing (from Time's Laughingstocks and Other Verses) - Frederic Austin, Arnold Atkinson Cooke, Juliana Hall (The fiddler)
The fiddler (The fiddler knows what's brewing) (from Time's Laughingstocks and Other Verses)
The fiddler (The fiddler knows what's brewing) (from Time's Laughingstocks and Other Verses) - Frederic Austin, Arnold Atkinson Cooke, Juliana Hall
The first fire since the summer is lit, and is smoking into the room (from Human Shows, Far Phantasies, Songs, and Trifles) (Shortening days at the homestead)
The first fire since the summer is lit, and is smoking into the room (from Human Shows, Far Phantasies, Songs, and Trifles) - Gerald Finzi (Shortening days)
The gallant's song (When the maiden leaves off teasing) (from Winter Words in Various Moods and Metres) - Marcus Adeney [x]
The garden seat (Its former green is blue and thin) (from Late Lyrics and Earlier with Many Other Verses)
The garden seat (Its former green is blue and thin) (from Late Lyrics and Earlier with Many Other Verses) - Michael (Dewar) Head
The going of the battery (O it was sad enough, weak enough, mad enough)
The going of the battery (O it was sad enough, weak enough, mad enough) - Alfred Matthew Hale
The homecoming (Gruffly growled the wind on Toller downland broad and bare)
The homecoming (Gruffly growled the wind on Toller downland broad and bare) - Gustav Holst
The inquiry (And are ye one of Hermitage) (from Time's Laughingstocks and Other Verses - At Casterbridge Fair)
The inquiry (And are ye one of Hermitage) (from Time's Laughingstocks and Other Verses - At Casterbridge Fair) - Frederic Goossen, Alfred Matthew Hale
The Ivy-Wife (I longed to love a full-boughed beech) (from Wessex Poems and Other Verses) SPA
The Ivy-Wife (I longed to love a full-boughed beech) (from Wessex Poems and Other Verses) - Ben Moore SPA
The kettle descants in a cosy drone (from Satires of Circumstance, Lyrics and Reveries with Miscellaneous Pieces) (At tea)
The kettle descants in a cosy drone (from Satires of Circumstance, Lyrics and Reveries with Miscellaneous Pieces) - Gary Bachlund, Nicholas Maw, Zenobia P. Perry (At tea)
The king's men (We be the King's men, hale and hearty) (from The Dynasts) - Ian Alfred Copley, Cecil Armstrong Gibbs, Ethel Florence Lindesay Robertson, née Richardson, Hilda May Sarson, Philip George Wilkinson
The last performance (I am playing my oldest tunes," declared she) (from Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses)
The Little Old Table (Creak, little wood thing, creak) (from Late Lyrics and Earlier with Many Other Verses)
The little old table (Creak, little wood thing, creak) (from Late Lyrics and Earlier with Many Other Verses) - (Edward) Benjamin Britten
The man he killed (Had he and I but met) (from Time's Laughingstocks and Other Verses) - Garth Baxter, John Pierre Herman Joubert GER
The Market-Girl (Nobody took any notice of her as she stood on the causey kerb) (from Time's Laughingstocks and Other Verses - At Casterbridge Fair)
The Market-Girl (Nobody took any notice of her as she stood on the causey kerb) (from Time's Laughingstocks and Other Verses - At Casterbridge Fair) - Arnold Edward Trevor Bax, Sir, Gerald Finzi, Frederic Goossen, Alfred Matthew Hale
The master and the leaves (We are budding, Master, budding) (from Owl)
The master and the leaves (We are budding, Master, budding) (from Owl) - Gerald Finzi
The Mound (For a moment pause) (from Winter Words in Various Moods and Metres)
The mound (For a moment pause) (from Winter Words in Various Moods and Metres) - Roy Buckle, Gerald Finzi
The night of the dance (The cold moon hangs to the sky by its horn) (from Time's Laughingstocks and Other Verses)
The night of the dance (The cold moon hangs to the sky by its horn) (from Time's Laughingstocks and Other Verses) - Gerald Finzi
The night of Trafalgar (In the wild October night-time, when the wind raved round the land) (from The Dynasts) - Ivor (Bertie) Gurney
The old gown (I have seen her in gowns the brightest) (from Late Lyrics and Earlier with Many Other Verses) - Roy Buckle
The old tunes (I am playing my oldest tunes," declared she) (from Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses) - Barbara Rawling
The Orphaned Old Maid (I wanted to marry, but father said, "No) - Betty Roe
The Oxen (Christmas Eve, and twelve of the clock)
The Oxen (Christmas Eve, and twelve of the clock) - (Edward) Benjamin Britten, Leslie Cochran, Edward Joseph Dent, Jonathan Elkus, Gerald Finzi, Robert James Berkeley Fleming, Cecil Armstrong Gibbs, William Reginald Pasfield, (Gerald) Graham Peel, Alan Rawsthorne, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Robert Williams, Richard K. Winslow
The peasant's confession (Good Father! . . . It was eve in middle June) (from Wessex Poems and Other Verses)
The peasant's confession (Good Father! . . . It was eve in middle June) (from Wessex Poems and Other Verses) - Ivor (Bertie) Gurney
The phantom horsewoman (Queer are the ways of a man I know) (from Satires of Circumstance, Lyrics and Reveries with Miscellaneous Pieces)
The phantom (Queer are the ways of a man I know) (from Satires of Circumstance, Lyrics and Reveries with Miscellaneous Pieces) - Gerald Finzi
The phantom (That was once her casement) (from Time's Laughingstocks and Other Verses)
The phantom (That was once her casement) (from Time's Laughingstocks and Other Verses) - Ivor (Bertie) Gurney
The pink frock (O my pretty pink frock) (from Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses)
The pink frock (O my pretty pink frock) (from Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses) - Robin Humphrey Milford
The protean maiden (This single girl is two girls) (from Human Shows, Far Phantasies, Songs, and Trifles)
There are some heights in Wessex, shaped as if by a kindly hand (Wessex Heights)
There are some heights in Wessex, shaped as if by a kindly hand - Roy Buckle (Wessex Heights)
There is not much that I can do (from Late Lyrics and Earlier with Many Other Verses) (At the Railway Station, Upway)
There is not much that I can do (from Late Lyrics and Earlier with Many Other Verses) - (Edward) Benjamin Britten (At the railway station, Upway)
The reminder (While I watch the Christmas blaze)
The reminder (While I watch the Christmas blaze) - Donald Waxman
There's no winsome woman so winsome as she (from Winter Words in Various Moods and Metres) (A winsome woman)
There's no winsome woman so winsome as she (from Winter Words in Various Moods and Metres) - Derek Healey (There's no winsome woman)
There's no winsome woman (There's no winsome woman so winsome as she) (from Winter Words in Various Moods and Metres) - Derek Healey
There was a glorious time (from Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses) (He fears his good fortune)
There was a glorious time (from Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses) - Gerald Finzi (He fears his good fortune)
There was a singing woman (The singing woman)
There was a singing woman - John Linton Gardner (The singing woman)
The riddle (Stretching eyes west) (from Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses)
The riddle (Stretching eyes west) (from Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses) - Gordon Ware Binkerd
The robin (When up aloft) (from Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses)
The robin (When up aloft) (from Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses) - Kenneth Leighton
The ruined maid (O 'Melia, my dear, this does everything crown!)
The ruined maid (O 'Melia, my dear, this does everything crown!) - Judith Lang Zaimont
The seasons of her year (Winter is white on turf and tree) (from Poems of the Past and Present)
The seasons of her year (Winter is white on turf and tree) (from Poems of the Past and Present) - Carl J. Kittleson
These flowers are I, poor Fanny Hurd (Voices from things growing in a churchyard)
These flowers are I, poor Fanny Hurd - Gerald Finzi (Voices from things growing in a churchyard)
The selfsame song (A bird bills the selfsame song)
The selfsame song (A bird bills the selfsame song) - John Linton Gardner
The self-unseeing (Here is the ancient floor) (from Poems of the Past and Present)
The self-unseeing (Here is the ancient floor) (from Poems of the Past and Present) - Gerald Finzi, Douglas MacDonald Stewart
These market-dames, mid-aged, with lips thin-drawn (from Time's Laughingstocks and Other Verses - At Casterbridge Fair) (Former beauties)
These market-dames, mid-aged, with lips thin-drawn (from Time's Laughingstocks and Other Verses - At Casterbridge Fair) - Andrew Downes, Gerald Finzi, Frederic Goossen, Alfred Matthew Hale (Former beauties)
The sergeant's song (When Lawyers strive to heal a breach) (from Wessex Poems and Other Verses)
The sergeant's song (When Lawyers strive to heal a breach) (from Wessex Poems and Other Verses) - Hubert James Foss, Gustav Holst, J. Frederick Keel
The sheep-boy (A yawning, sunned concave) - Roy Buckle
The sigh (Little head against my shoulder) (from Time's Laughingstocks and Other Verses)
The sigh (Little head against my shoulder) (from Time's Laughingstocks and Other Verses) - Gerald Finzi
The singers are gone from the Cornmarket-place (from Time's Laughingstocks and Other Verses - At Casterbridge Fair) (After the Fair)
The singers are gone from the Cornmarket-place (from Time's Laughingstocks and Other Verses - At Casterbridge Fair) - Andrew Downes, Frederic Goossen, Alfred Matthew Hale (After the Fair)
The singing woman (There was a singing woman)
The singing woman (There was a singing woman) - John Linton Gardner
The sleep-worker (When wilt thou wake, O Mother, wake and see) (from Poems of the Past and Present)
The sleep-worker (When wilt thou wake, O Mother, wake and see) (from Poems of the Past and Present) - Hubert James Foss
The song of the soldiers (What of the faith and fire within us)
The song of the soldiers (What of the faith and fire within us) - F. Wilson Parish
The spray sprang up across the face of the moon - Roy Buckle (Once at Swanage)
The stranger's song (O my trade it is the rarest one)
The stranger's song (O my trade it is the rarest one) - Henry Balfour Gardiner
The subalterns (Poor wanderer," said the leaden sky)
The subalterns (Poor wanderer," said the leaden sky) - Gerald Finzi
The swallows flew in the curves of an eight (from Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses) (Overlooking the River Stour)
The swallows flew in the curves of an eight (from Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses) - Gerald Finzi (Overlooking the river)
The Temporary the All (Change and chancefulness in my flowering youthtime) (from Wessex Poems and Other Verses)
The Temporary the All (Change and chancefulness in my flowering youthtime) (from Wessex Poems and Other Verses) - Gerald Finzi
The ten hours' light is abating (from Satires of Circumstance, Lyrics and Reveries with Miscellaneous Pieces) GER (At Day-Close in November)
The ten hours' light is abating (from Satires of Circumstance, Lyrics and Reveries with Miscellaneous Pieces) GER - (Edward) Benjamin Britten, Arnold Atkinson Cooke (At day-close in November)
The thrushes sing as the sun is going (Proud songsters)
The thrushes sing as the sun is going - (Edward) Benjamin Britten, Gerald Finzi, Stephen Wilkinson (Proud songsters)
The too short time (Nine leaves a minute) (from Human Shows, Far Phantasies, Songs, and Trifles) - Gerald Finzi
The tragedy of that moment (from Human Shows, Far Phantasies, Songs, and Trifles) (That moment)
The tragedy of that moment (The tragedy of that moment) (from Human Shows, Far Phantasies, Songs, and Trifles) - John (Nicholson) Ireland
The tragedy of that moment (from Human Shows, Far Phantasies, Songs, and Trifles) - John (Nicholson) Ireland (The tragedy of that moment)
The voice of the thorn (When the thorn on the down) (from Time's Laughingstocks and Other Verses)
The voice of the thorn (When the thorn on the down) (from Time's Laughingstocks and Other Verses) - Ivor Foster
The voice (Woman much missed, how you call to me, call to me) (from Satires of Circumstance, Lyrics and Reveries with Miscellaneous Pieces) - Joelle Wallach FRI
The walk (You did not walk with me) - Andrew Downes
The weather the cuckoo likes (This is the weather the cuckoo likes) - Peter Charles Crossley-Holland
They come beset by riddling hail (from The Dynasts) - Garth Baxter (The battle)
The year's awakening (How do you know that the pilgrim track)
The year's awakening (How do you know that the pilgrim track) - Alan Bullard
The years have gathered grayly - Roy Buckle (Thine for ever!)
They sing their dearest songs (from Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses) (During wind and rain)
They sing their dearest songs (from Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses) - Roy Buckle, Gerald Finzi (During wind and rain)
They sit and smoke on the esplanade (from Satires of Circumstance, Lyrics and Reveries with Miscellaneous Pieces) (At a Watering Place)
They sit and smoke on the esplanade (from Satires of Circumstance, Lyrics and Reveries with Miscellaneous Pieces) - Betty Roe (At a Watering Place)
They throw in Drummer Hodge, to rest - Garth Baxter, Alfred Matthew Hale, John Pierre Herman Joubert (Drummer Hodge)
They throw in Drummer Hodge, to rest (The Dead Drummer)
They throw in Drummer Hodge, to rest - John Edmunds (The Drummer)
Thine for ever! (The years have gathered grayly) - Roy Buckle
This is the last; the very, very last! - Andrew Downes (Last love word)
This is the weather the cuckoo likes - Harold Walter Greenhill (A Song of Weathers)
This is the weather the cuckoo likes - Peter Charles Crossley-Holland (The weather the cuckoo likes)
This is the weather the cuckoo likes (This is the weather the cuckoo likes) - Derek Healey
This is the weather the cuckoo likes - Derek Healey (This is the weather the cuckoo likes)
This is the weather the cuckoo likes - John Jeffreys (This is the weather)
This is the weather the cuckoo likes (Weathers)
This is the weather the cuckoo likes - (Edward) Maurice Besly, James Brown, James Henry Baseden Butt, Gerald Finzi, Roger Elwyn Fiske, Norman Gilbert, Michael (Dewar) Head, Rae Holmes, John (Nicholson) Ireland, Carl J. Kittleson, Christopher Kaye Le Fleming, William Lovelock, Robin Humphrey Milford, Charles Hubert Hastings Parry, Sir, Dorothy Pilling, Arthur John Pritchard, David E. Stone, Eric Harding Thiman, Alan Dales Thompson, Jack Allan Westrup, John Ramsden Williamson, Ramon Zupko (Weathers)
This is the weather (This is the weather the cuckoo likes) - John Jeffreys
This single girl is two girls (from Human Shows, Far Phantasies, Songs, and Trifles) (The protean maiden)
This single girl is two girls (This single girl is two girls) (from Human Shows, Far Phantasies, Songs, and Trifles) - Derek Healey
This single girl is two girls (from Human Shows, Far Phantasies, Songs, and Trifles) - Derek Healey (This single girl is two girls)
Thomas Tremble new made me (from Human Shows, Far Phantasies, Songs, and Trifles) (Inscriptions for a peal of eight bells)
Thomas Tremble new made me (from Human Shows, Far Phantasies, Songs, and Trifles) - Nicholas Marshall, Nicholas Maw (Inscriptions for a peal of eight bells)
Though dynasties pass (Only a man harrowing clods) - Frederic Austin
Thoughts of Phena at news of her death (Not a line of her writing have I) (from Wessex Poems and Other Verses)
Thy shadow, Earth, from Pole to Central Sea (from Poems of the Past and Present) (At a Lunar Eclipse)
Thy shadow, Earth, from Pole to Central Sea (from Poems of the Past and Present) - Gerald Finzi (At a lunar eclipse)
Timing her (Lalage's coming) (from Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses)
Timing her (Lalage's coming) (from Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses) - Roy Buckle, Gerald Finzi
To a joyful lady singing () - Donald Waxman [x]
To an unborn pauper child (Breathe not, hid Heart: cease silently) (from Poems of the Past and Present)
To an unborn pauper child (Breathe not, hid Heart: cease silently) (from Poems of the Past and Present) - Allen Stephen Brings
To Carrey Clavel (You turn your back, you turn your back) (from Time's Laughingstocks and Other Verses)
To Carrey Clavel (You turn your back, you turn your back) (from Time's Laughingstocks and Other Verses) - Juliana Hall
Tolerance (It is a foolish thing," said I) (from Satires of Circumstance, Lyrics and Reveries with Miscellaneous Pieces)
Tolerance (It is a foolish thing," said I) (from Satires of Circumstance, Lyrics and Reveries with Miscellaneous Pieces) - Robin Humphrey Milford
To Life (O Life with the sad seared face) (from Poems of the Past and Present)
To Life (O Life with the sad seared face) (from Poems of the Past and Present) - Hubert James Foss, Nicholas Maw
To Lizbie Browne (Dear Lizbie Browne) (from Poems of the Past and Present)
To Lizbie Browne (Dear Lizbie Browne) (from Poems of the Past and Present) - Gary Bachlund, Gerald Finzi
To Louisa in the lane (Meet me again as at that time) (from Winter Words in Various Moods and Metres) - Roy Buckle
To sincerity (O sweet sincerity!) (from Time's Laughingstocks and Other Verses)
To sincerity (O sweet sincerity!) (from Time's Laughingstocks and Other Verses) - Robin Humphrey Milford
To the moon (What have you looked at, Moon) (from Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses)
To the moon (What have you looked at, Moon) (from Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses) - (Robert) Norman Fulton
Trafalgar (In the wild October night-time, when the wind raved round the land) (from The Dynasts) - Cyril Meir Scott
Transformations (Portions of this yew) (from Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses)
Transformations (Portions of this yew) (from Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses) - Gerald Finzi
Two lips (I kissed them in fancy as I came) (from Human Shows, Far Phantasies, Songs, and Trifles)
Two lips (I kissed them in fancy as I came) (from Human Shows, Far Phantasies, Songs, and Trifles) - Gerald Finzi
(Two who became a story) (from Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses) - Roy Buckle (By the Runic Stone)
Under the waterfall (Whenever I plunge my arm, like this) - Roy Buckle FRI
Upon a noon I pilgrimed through (from Wessex Poems and Other Verses) (Her immortality)
Upon a noon I pilgrimed through (from Wessex Poems and Other Verses) - Danielle Baas (Her immortality)
Valenciennes (We trenched, we trumpeted and drummed) (from Wessex Poems and Other Verses)
Valenciennes (We trenched, we trumpeted and drummed) (from Wessex Poems and Other Verses) - Boyton Smith
Voices from things growing in a churchyard (These flowers are I, poor Fanny Hurd)
Voices from things growing in a churchyard (These flowers are I, poor Fanny Hurd) - Gerald Finzi
Wagtail and Baby (A baby watched a ford, whereto)
Wagtail and Baby (A baby watched a ford, whereto) - (Edward) Benjamin Britten
Waiting both (A star looks down at me)
Waiting both (A star looks down at me) - Gerald Finzi, Christopher Kaye Le Fleming, Seymour J. Shifrin, Donald Waxman
We are budding, Master, budding (from Owl) (The master and the leaves)
We are budding, Master, budding (from Owl) - Gerald Finzi (The master and the leaves)
Weathers (This is the weather the cuckoo likes)
Weathers (This is the weather the cuckoo likes) - (Edward) Maurice Besly, James Brown, James Henry Baseden Butt, Gerald Finzi, Roger Elwyn Fiske, Norman Gilbert, Michael (Dewar) Head, Rae Holmes, John (Nicholson) Ireland, Carl J. Kittleson, Christopher Kaye Le Fleming, William Lovelock, Robin Humphrey Milford, Charles Hubert Hastings Parry, Sir, Dorothy Pilling, Arthur John Pritchard, David E. Stone, Eric Harding Thiman, Alan Dales Thompson, Jack Allan Westrup, John Ramsden Williamson, Ramon Zupko
We be the King's men, hale and hearty (from The Dynasts) - Harvey Bartlett Gaul, Ralph Vaughan Williams (Buonaparty)
We be the King's men, hale and hearty (from The Dynasts) - Thomas Frederick Dunhill (Song of the king's men)
We be the King's men, hale and hearty (from The Dynasts) - Ian Alfred Copley, Cecil Armstrong Gibbs, Ethel Florence Lindesay Robertson, née Richardson, Hilda May Sarson, Philip George Wilkinson (The king's men)
We passed where flag and flower (from Wessex Poems and Other Verses) (Middle-age enthusiasms)
We passed where flag and flower (from Wessex Poems and Other Verses) - Gerald Finzi (Middle-age enthusiasms)
We shall see her no more - Roy Buckle (On the balcony)
Wessex Heights (There are some heights in Wessex, shaped as if by a kindly hand)
Wessex Heights (There are some heights in Wessex, shaped as if by a kindly hand) - Roy Buckle
We stood by a pond that winter day (from Wessex Poems and Other Verses) (Neutral tones)
We stood by a pond that winter day (from Wessex Poems and Other Verses) - Roy Buckle, Nicholas Maw (Neutral tones)
We trenched, we trumpeted and drummed (from Wessex Poems and Other Verses) (Valenciennes)
We trenched, we trumpeted and drummed (from Wessex Poems and Other Verses) - Boyton Smith (Valenciennes)
What have you looked at, Moon (from Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses) (To the moon)
What have you looked at, Moon (from Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses) - (Robert) Norman Fulton (To the moon)
What of the faith and fire within us - Edgar A. Lane (Men who march away)
What of the faith and fire within us (The song of the soldiers)
What of the faith and fire within us - F. Wilson Parish (The song of the soldiers)
What shall I bring you? (from Late Lyrics and Earlier with Many Other Verses) (The colour)
What shall I bring you? (from Late Lyrics and Earlier with Many Other Verses) - Mervyn, Lord Horder, the Second Baron of Ashford, Christopher Kaye Le Fleming, Robin Humphrey Milford, Mary Sheldon (The colour)
What's there to tell of the world (from Human Shows, Far Phantasies, Songs, and Trifles) ("What's there to tell?")
What's there to tell of the world (from Human Shows, Far Phantasies, Songs, and Trifles) - Seymour J. Shifrin (What's there to tell?)
"What's there to tell?" (What's there to tell of the world) (from Human Shows, Far Phantasies, Songs, and Trifles)
What's there to tell? (What's there to tell of the world) (from Human Shows, Far Phantasies, Songs, and Trifles) - Seymour J. Shifrin
Whenever I plunge my arm, like this FRI - Roy Buckle (Under the waterfall)
When friendly summer calls again (from Late Lyrics and Earlier with Many Other Verses) (Summer schemes)
When friendly summer calls again (from Late Lyrics and Earlier with Many Other Verses) - Arnold Atkinson Cooke, Gerald Finzi, John (Nicholson) Ireland (Summer schemes)
When I set out for Lyonnesse (from Satires of Circumstance, Lyrics and Reveries with Miscellaneous Pieces) - Rutland Boughton (A Song of Lyonnesse)
When I set out for Lyonnesse (from Satires of Circumstance, Lyrics and Reveries with Miscellaneous Pieces) - Cecil Armstrong Gibbs (Lyonnesse)
When I set out for Lyonnesse (When I set out for Lyonnesse) (from Satires of Circumstance, Lyrics and Reveries with Miscellaneous Pieces)
When I set out for Lyonnesse (When I set out for Lyonnesse) (from Satires of Circumstance, Lyrics and Reveries with Miscellaneous Pieces) - Frederic Austin, John Woods Duke, Gerald Finzi, Sidney Harrison, Fritz Bennicke Hart, Irwin Heilner, Christopher Kaye Le Fleming, Tom M. McCourt, Katharine E. O'Brien, Charles A. Speyer, Leslie Walters
When I set out for Lyonnesse (from Satires of Circumstance, Lyrics and Reveries with Miscellaneous Pieces) (When I set out for Lyonnesse)
When I set out for Lyonnesse (from Satires of Circumstance, Lyrics and Reveries with Miscellaneous Pieces) - Frederic Austin, John Woods Duke, Gerald Finzi, Sidney Harrison, Fritz Bennicke Hart, Irwin Heilner, Christopher Kaye Le Fleming, Tom M. McCourt, Katharine E. O'Brien, Charles A. Speyer, Leslie Walters (When I set out for Lyonnesse)
When Lawyers strive to heal a breach (from Wessex Poems and Other Verses) - Rutland Boughton (Quick march)
When Lawyers strive to heal a breach (from Wessex Poems and Other Verses) - Gerald Finzi, Boyton Smith (Rollicum-Rorum)
When Lawyers strive to heal a breach (from Wessex Poems and Other Verses) (The sergeant's song)
When Lawyers strive to heal a breach (from Wessex Poems and Other Verses) - Hubert James Foss, Gustav Holst, J. Frederick Keel (The sergeant's song)
When summer shone (from Human Shows, Far Phantasies, Songs, and Trifles) (The faithful swallow)
When summer shone (from Human Shows, Far Phantasies, Songs, and Trifles) - Gerald Finzi, Carl J. Kittleson (The faithful swallow)
When the clouds' swoln bosoms echo back the shouts of the many and strong (from Poems of the Past and Present) (De Profundis II)
When the clouds' swoln bosoms echo back the shouts of the many and (from Poems of the Past and Present) (De Profundis II)
When the clouds' swoln bosoms echo back the shouts of the many and (from Poems of the Past and Present) - James Douglas (De Profundis II)
When the maiden leaves off teasing (from Winter Words in Various Moods and Metres) [x] (Gallant's song)
When the maiden leaves off teasing (from Winter Words in Various Moods and Metres) [x] - Marcus Adeney (The gallant's song)
When the Present has latched its postern behind my tremulous stay (from Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses) (Afterwards)
When the Present has latched its postern behind my tremulous stay (from Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses) - Gerald Finzi, Christopher Kaye Le Fleming (Afterwards)
When the thorn on the down (from Time's Laughingstocks and Other Verses) (The voice of the thorn)
When the thorn on the down (from Time's Laughingstocks and Other Verses) - Ivor Foster (The voice of the thorn)
When the wasting embers redden the chimney-breast (from Time's Laughingstocks and Other Verses) (Night in the old home)
When the wasting embers redden the chimney-breast (from Time's Laughingstocks and Other Verses) - Hubert James Foss (Night in the old home)
When up aloft I fly and fly (from Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses) (The robin)
When up aloft (from Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses) (The robin)
When up aloft (from Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses) - Kenneth Leighton (The robin)
When we lay where Budmouth Beach is (from The Dynasts) - Gerald Finzi, Ethel Florence Lindesay Robertson, née Richardson, Martin Edward Fallas Shaw, Boyton Smith (Budmouth Dears)
When wilt thou wake, O Mother, wake and see (from Poems of the Past and Present) (The sleep-worker)
When wilt thou wake, O Mother, wake and see (from Poems of the Past and Present) - Hubert James Foss (The sleep-worker)
When your soft welcomings were said (from Late Lyrics and Earlier with Many Other Verses) - Gerald Finzi (On a discarded curl of hair)
When your soft welcomings were said (from Late Lyrics and Earlier with Many Other Verses) (On a discovered curl of hair)
When you shall see me in the toils of Time (from Wessex Poems and Other Verses - She, to Him) - Gordon Ware Binkerd (She, to him I)
Where the picnic was (Where we made the fire) (from Satires of Circumstance, Lyrics and Reveries with Miscellaneous Pieces)
Where the picnic was (Where we made the fire) (from Satires of Circumstance, Lyrics and Reveries with Miscellaneous Pieces) - Andrew Downes, Gerald Finzi
Where we made the fire (from Satires of Circumstance, Lyrics and Reveries with Miscellaneous Pieces) (Where the picnic was)
Where we made the fire (from Satires of Circumstance, Lyrics and Reveries with Miscellaneous Pieces) - Andrew Downes, Gerald Finzi (Where the picnic was)
While drawing in a churchyard (It is sad that so many of worth) (from Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses)
While I watch the Christmas blaze (The reminder)
While I watch the Christmas blaze - Donald Waxman (The reminder)
Why didn't you say you was promised, Rose-Ann? (from Time's Laughingstocks and Other Verses) (Rose-Ann)
Why didn't you say you was promised, Rose-Ann? (from Time's Laughingstocks and Other Verses) - Ivor Foster, Alfred Matthew Hale, Juliana Hall, Mary Sheldon (Rose-Ann)
William Dewy, Tranter Reuben, Farmer Ledlow late at plough (from Wessex Poems and Other Verses) (Friends beyond)
William Dewy, Tranter Reuben, Farmer Ledlow late at plough (from Wessex Poems and Other Verses) - Hubert James Foss (Friends beyond)
Will's at the dance in the Club-room below (from Time's Laughingstocks and Other Verses - At Casterbridge Fair) (A Wife Waits)
Will's at the dance in the Club-room below (from Time's Laughingstocks and Other Verses - At Casterbridge Fair) - Andrew Downes, Frederic Goossen, Alfred Matthew Hale, Betty Roe, Irwin Spector (A Wife Waits)
Winter is white on turf and tree (from Poems of the Past and Present) - Rutland Boughton (Alone)
Winter is white on turf and tree (from Poems of the Past and Present) (The seasons of her year)
Winter is white on turf and tree (from Poems of the Past and Present) - Carl J. Kittleson (The seasons of her year)
Wintertime nighs; but my bereavement-pain (from Poems of the Past and Present) (De Profundis I)
Wintertime nighs (from Poems of the Past and Present) (De Profundis I)
Wintertime nighs (from Poems of the Past and Present) - James Douglas (De Profundis I)
Wintertime nighs (from Poems of the Past and Present) - Nicholas Maw (In Tenebris)
Without, not within her (It was what you bore with you, Woman) (from Late Lyrics and Earlier with Many Other Verses)
Woman much missed, how you call to me, call to me (from Satires of Circumstance, Lyrics and Reveries with Miscellaneous Pieces) FRI - Joelle Wallach (The voice)
Written on terrestrial things (I leaned upon a coppice gate) - Judith Weir GER
Yell'ham-Wood's story (Coomb-Firtrees say that Life is a moan) (from Time's Laughingstocks and Other Verses)
Yell'ham-Wood's story (Coomb-Firtrees say that Life is a moan) (from Time's Laughingstocks and Other Verses) - Gerald Finzi
You did not walk with me - Andrew Downes (The walk)
You may have met a man -- quite young (So various)
You may have met a man -- quite young - Gerald Finzi (So various)
You turn your back, you turn your back (from Time's Laughingstocks and Other Verses) - Arnold Edward Trevor Bax, Sir, Mary Sheldon (Carrey Clavel)
You turn your back, you turn your back (from Time's Laughingstocks and Other Verses) (To Carrey Clavel)
You turn your back, you turn your back (from Time's Laughingstocks and Other Verses) - Juliana Hall (To Carrey Clavel)

Last update: 2019-06-04 00:17:39

Author: Thomas Hardy (1840 - 1928)

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