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Texts by R. Herrick set in Art Songs and Choral Works

 § Author § 

Robert Herrick (1591 - 1674)

Text Collections:

  • The Hesperides

Texts set in art song or choral works (not necessarily comprehensive):

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  • About the sweet bag of a bee - F. Hart (The bag of the bee)
  • A canticle to Apollo (Play, Phœbus, on thy lute;) - P. Campbell, M. Carmichael, F. Hart
  • A child's grace (Here a little child I stand) - M. Horder, J. Raynor
  • A Christmas Caroll (What sweeter music can we bring) - K. Leighton
  • A Christmas Carol, Sung To The King In The Presence At White-Hall (What sweeter music can we bring)
  • A dialogue betwixt himself and Mistress Eliza Wheeler, under the name of Amarillis (My dearest Love, since thou wilt go)
  • A dialogue betwixt himself and Mistress Eliza Wheeler (My dearest Love, since thou wilt go) - J. Gardner
  • A dirge (Here she lies, in bed of spice) - R. Quilter
  • Advice to Virgins (Gather ye rosebuds while ye may) - L. Lehrman SPA
  • A funeral stone - F. Hart (To laurels)
  • A grace for a child (Here a little child I stand) - F. Hart
  • A Gyges ring they bear about them still - D. Sisco (Lovers, how they come and part)
  • Ah, Ben! / Say how, or when - M. Gideon (An Ode for Him)
  • Ah, Cruel Love! must I endure - F. Hart, W. Lawes (To Pansies)
  • Ah, cruel love (Ah, Cruel Love! must I endure) - W. Lawes
  • A Hymn to Bacchus (I sing thy praise, Iacchus) - F. Hart
  • A Hymn to Love (I will confess) - J. Gardner, M. Horder
  • A hymn to Neptune (Mighty Neptune, may it please) - F. Hart
  • A Hymn to Venus and Cupid (Sea-born goddess, let me be) - F. Hart
  • Along, come along - F. Hart (The Tinker's Song)
  • Along the dark and silent night - G. Crosse (The Bell-Man)
  • Amarillis, by a spring (Sweet Amarillis, by a spring's) - H. Lawes
  • A meditation for his mistress (You are a tulip seen to-day) - E. Maconchy
  • Am I dispis'd because you say - H. Lawes
  • Amidst the myrtles as I walk'd (Mrs Eliz: Wheeler, under the Name of the Lost Shepherdess) - H. Lawes
  • Among the myrtles as I walk'd - H. Lawes (Mrs Eliz: Wheeler, under the Name of the Lost Shepherdess)
  • An die Massliebchen () - R. Quilter [x]
  • An die Musik () - E. Meyer (Text: Anonymous after Robert Herrick) [x]
  • An epitaph upon a virgin (Here a solemn fast we keep) - F. Hart
  • An Hymn to the Muses (Honour to you who sit) - F. Hart
  • An Ode for Ben Jonson (Ah, Ben! / Say how, or when) - M. Gideon
  • An Ode for Him (Ah, Ben! / Say how, or when)
  • An ode of the birth of our Saviour (In Numbers, and but these few) - K. Leighton
  • An olive branch (Sadly I walk'd within the field) - T. del Riego
  • Another Epitaph (Here a pretty baby lies) - N. Rorem
  • Another on love (Love's of itself too sweet ; the best of all) - J. Gardner
  • Another upon her weeping (She by the river sat, and sitting there)
  • Anthea, I am going hence (To Anthea) -
  • A pastoral sung to the king (Bad are the times)
  • A poet's hymn (Lord, thou hast given me a cell) - G. Dyson
  • A short hymn to Venus (Goddess, I do love a girl) - F. Hart
  • Aske me why I send you here [possibly misattributed] - H. Lawes
  • Ask me why I send you here [possibly misattributed] - F. Hart (The Primrose)
  • Ask me why I send you here [possibly misattributed] - F. Bridge
  • As lately I a garland bound (Upon Cupid (III)) -
  • A Song (Burn, or drown me, choose ye whether)
  • A sweet disorder in the dress - R. Still (The poetry of dress)
  • A vow to Mars (Store of courage to me grant) - F. Hart
  • A vow to Minerva (Goddess, I begin an art) - F. Hart
  • A wearied pilgrim, I have wandered here - F. Hart (On himself)
  • A Welcome Song () - C. Stanford [x]
  • A willow garland thou did'st send - B. Adolphe, F. Hart (The willow garland)
  • A willow garland (A willow garland thou did'st send) - B. Adolphe
  • Bad are the times - F. Hart (A pastoral sung to the king)
  • Beauty no other thing is than a beam (from The Hesperides) - M. Nyman
  • Begin to charm, and as thou strok’st my ears (from The Hesperides) - J. Golland, M. Nyman
  • Begin with Jove; then is the work half done - F. Hart (Evensong)
  • Bellman's Song: Along the dark and silent night (Along the dark and silent night) - G. Crosse
  • Bid me to live, and I will live FRE - D. Arditti, J. Carpenter, J. Gardner, C. Harris, J. Hatton, M. Horder, N. Rorem
  • Bid me to live (Bid me to live, and I will live) - J. Carpenter, M. Horder FRE
  • Bind me but to thee with thine hair - F. Hart (The bondman)
  • Borne I was to meet with age (Born I was to meet with age) - F. Hart
  • Born I was to meet with age - F. Hart (On Himself (VI))
  • Both you two have - F. Hart (To the yew and cypress to grace his funeral)
  • Bright tulips, we do know - F. Hart, R. Quilter (To a bed of tulips)
  • Burne or drowne me (Burn, or drown me, choose ye whether) - F. Hart
  • Burn, or drown me, choose ye whether - F. Hart (A Song)
  • By hours we all live here; in Heaven is known (from The Hesperides) - M. Nyman
  • Canticle to Apollo (Play, Phœbus, on thy lute;) - A. Strilko
  • Charm me asleep, and melt me so GER - E. Bacon, L. Bassett, B. Boyle, E. Carter, A. Douw, M. Dring, J. Edmunds, E. Ewazen, J. Foulds, J. Gardner, M. Gideon, I. Gurney, P. Hindemith, R. Holloway, B. Holmes, M. Horder, N. Rorem, W. Sanderson, D. Sisco, C. Stanford, M. White (To Music, to becalm his fever)
  • Charm me asleep (Charm me asleep, and melt me so) - R. Holloway, M. Horder GER
  • Charms (II) (In the morning when ye rise)
  • Cherry-ripe, ripe, ripe, I cry (from The Hesperides) - E. Freer, J. Gardner, C. Horn, R. Quilter, N. Rorem, C. Scott (Cherry-ripe)
  • Cherry ripe (Cherry-ripe, ripe, ripe, I cry) (from The Hesperides) - E. Freer, J. Gardner, C. Horn, R. Quilter, N. Rorem, C. Scott
  • Choose me your valentine (Choose me your valentine) - H. Boot, F. Hart
  • Choose me your valentine - H. Boot, F. Hart (To his mistress)
  • Chop-cherry (Thou gav'st me leave to kiss) - F. Hart
  • Christ, He requires still, wheresoe'er He comes (from The Hesperides) - R. Thompson (Christ's Part)
  • Christ's Part (Christ, He requires still, wheresoe'er He comes) (from The Hesperides)
  • Clear are her eyes - F. Hart (Upon her eyes)
  • Come, come away (from The Hesperides) - G. Bush, F. Hart (Upon a delaying lady)
  • Come Sons of Summer, by whose toile - E. Carter
  • Come to me God ; but do not come (To God) - G. Dyson
  • Comfort to a Youth that had lost his Love (What needs complaints) - V. Fine, N. Rorem GER
  • Corinna's going a-Maying (Get up, get up for shame, the blooming morn) - W. Mayer, E. Walker
  • Corinna's gone a-Maying (Get up, get up for shame, the blooming morn) - J. Gardner
  • Cupid as he lay among - B. Burrows, D. Sisco (The wounded Cupid)
  • Cupid (Love, like a beggar came to me) - R. Quilter
  • Daffadils (Fair daffodils, we weep to see) - M. Woodward CAT CHI DUT FIN GER
  • Dearest of thousands, now the time draws neare (Dearest of thousands, now the time draws neere) - L. Berkeley
  • Dearest of thousands, now the time draws neere - L. Berkeley (His charge to Julia at his death)
  • Dear, though to part it be a hell (To Dianeme) -
  • Dew sat on Julia's hair - F. Hart, R. Quilter (Upon Julia's hair fill'd with dew)
  • Dis-moi d'aimer (Dis-moi de vivre, et je vivrai) - J. Carpenter
  • Dis-moi de vivre, et je vivrai - J. Carpenter
  • Divination by a daffodil (When a daffodil I see) - F. Hart
  • Eglantine (From this bleeding hand of mine) - T. del Riego
  • Epilogue: Eternity (O Years! and age! farewell) - W. Davies
  • Epitaph (upon a Child that died) (Here she lies, a pretty bud) - J. Raynor, N. Rorem
  • Epitaph () - F. Hart [x]
  • Eternity (O Years! and age! farewell) - A. Bax, I. Boyle
  • Evensong (Begin with Jove; then is the work half done)
  • Fair daffodils, we weep to see CAT CHI DUT FIN GER - A. Bax, F. Bridge, B. Britten, H. Darke, F. Delius, M. Dring, E. Farrar, J. Gardner, M. Herbert, D. Holman, E. Moeran, A. Mounsey, S. Newns, H. Procter-Gregg, R. Quilter, A. Rawsthorne, J. Raynor, H. Strübing, A. Sullivan, R. Vaughan Williams, M. White, C. Wong, M. Woodward (To daffodils)
  • Fair daffodils (Fair daffodils, we weep to see) - F. Bridge, J. Gardner, D. Holman, S. Newns, A. Sullivan CAT CHI DUT FIN GER
  • Faire Daffodils (Fair daffodils, we weep to see) - A. Mounsey CAT CHI DUT FIN GER
  • Fair pledges of a fruitful tree - A. Foote, E. Moeran, S. Newns, C. Parry, H. Procter-Gregg, J. Raynor, H. Strübing, M. White, H. Willan, M. Woodward (To blossoms)
  • Fair shows deceive (Smooth was the sea, and seem'd to call) - F. Hart
  • First, April, she with mellow showers CAT DUT DUT FRE GER - B. Britten, E. Křenek
  • Fly me not, though I be gray - F. Hart (Upon his gray hairs)
  • For Thee... (Bid me to live, and I will live) - C. Harris FRE
  • Fortune's a blind profuse of her own (from The Hesperides) - M. Nyman
  • Fortune (Fortune's a blind profuse of her own) (from The Hesperides) - M. Nyman
  • Fresh strewings allow - F. Hart (The Peter-penny)
  • Frolic virgins once these were (Frolic virgins once these were) - F. Hart
  • Frolic virgins once these were - F. Hart (How pansies or heart's-ease came first)
  • From noise of scare-fires rest ye free - F. Hart, E. Maconchy (The bellman)
  • From this bleeding hand of mine - F. Hart, T. del Riego (The bleeding hand; or, the sprig of eglantine given to a maid)
  • Gather yee rosebuds (Gather ye rosebuds while ye may) - M. Woodward SPA
  • Gather ye rosebuds while ye may (Gather ye rosebuds while ye may) - J. Gardner SPA
  • Gather ye rosebuds while ye may SPA - M. Andrews, D. Arditti, M. Dring, H. Gál, J. Gardner, M. Gideon, M. Horder, J. Jeffreys, W. Lawes, L. Lehrman, E. Moeran, B. Moore, A. Mounsey, T. Pasatieri, R. Quilter, B. Roe, W. Sanderson, M. Woodward (To the virgins, to make much of time)
  • Gather ye rosebuds (Gather ye rosebuds while ye may) - M. Andrews, M. Gideon, M. Horder, J. Jeffreys, W. Lawes, E. Moeran, T. Pasatieri, W. Sanderson SPA
  • Get up, get up for shame, the blooming morn - J. Gardner, W. Mayer, E. Walker
  • Give me a cell - F. Hart (His wish to privacy)
  • Give me a man that is not dull - F. Hart (His Desire)
  • Give me one kiss (To Dianeme (IV)) -
  • Goddess, I begin an art - F. Hart (A vow to Minerva)
  • Goddess, I do love a girl - F. Hart (A short hymn to Venus)
  • God gives not only corn for need - B. Roe
  • Goe hence away, and in thy parting know - G. Binkerd
  • Go, happy rose, and interwove - C. Stanford
  • Gone she is a long, long way (Gone she is a long, long way) - F. Hart
  • Gone she is a long, long way - F. Hart (Upon a maid)
  • Good-morrow to the day so fair - D. Arditti, H. Brian, D. Diamond (The Mad Maid's Song)
  • Good speed, for I this day - F. Hart (To the lark)
  • Go, perjur'd man, and if thou e'er return - J. Blow
  • Go, perjur'd man (Go, perjur'd man, and if thou e'er return) - J. Blow
  • Go, perjured man! and if you e'er return - R. Ramsey
  • Go, perjured man (Go, perjured man! and if you e'er return) - R. Ramsey
  • Go, pretty child, and bear this flower - J. Raynor, B. Roe (To a Child)
  • Grace for a Child (Here a little child I stand)
  • Harvest Home (Come Sons of Summer, by whose toile) - E. Carter
  • Hear, ye virgins, and I'll teach - F. Hart (To Virgins)
  • Hear, ye virgins (Hear, ye virgins, and I'll teach) - F. Hart
  • Hence a blessed soul is fled (Hence a blessed soul is fled) - F. Hart
  • Hence a blessed soul is fled - F. Hart (Upon a maid)
  • Here a little baby lies (Upon a Child) - P. Campbell, I. Gurney, N. Rorem
  • Here a little child I stand - F. Hart, M. Horder, J. Raynor (A Child's Grace)
  • Here a little child I stand (Grace for a Child) - F. Hart, M. Horder, J. Raynor
  • Here a pretty baby lies - P. Campbell, I. Gurney, N. Rorem (Upon a Child)
  • Here a solemn fast we keep - F. Hart (An epitaph upon a virgin)
  • Here, here I live with what my board - F. Hart (His content in the country)
  • Here, here I live (Here, here I live with what my board) - F. Hart
  • Here she lies, a pretty bud - R. Birch, F. Hart, J. Raynor, N. Rorem (Upon a child that died)
  • Here she lies, in bed of spice - R. Quilter
  • Her eyes the glow-worm lend thee (Her eyes the glow-worm lend thee) (from The Hesperides) - C. Parry
  • Her eyes the glow-worm lend thee (from The Hesperides) - H. Brian, M. Carmichael, M. Gideon, H. Parker, C. Parry, R. Quilter (The Night Piece, to Julia)
  • Her pretty feet - F. Hart (Upon her feet)
  • He that will not love must be - W. Lawes
  • He that will not love (He that will not love must be) - W. Lawes
  • His charge to Julia at his death (Dearest of thousands, now the time draws neere)
  • His content in the country (Here, here I live with what my board)
  • His covenant or Protestation to Julia (Why dost thou wound and break my heart)
  • His creed (I do believe that die I must) - F. Hart
  • His Desire (Give me a man that is not dull) - F. Hart
  • His ejaculation to God (My God! look on me with thine eye)
  • His litany, to the Holy Spirit (In the hour of my distress)
  • His recantation (Love, I recant) - F. Hart
  • His wish to privacie (Give me a cell) - F. Hart
  • His wish to privacy (Give me a cell)
  • Holyrood, come forth and shield - F. Hart (The old wives' prayer)
  • Honour to you who sit - F. Hart (An Hymn to the Muses)
  • Hope well and have well : or, fair after foul weather (What though the heaven be lowering now)
  • Hope well and have well (What though the heaven be lowering now) - F. Hart
  • How lilies came white (White though ye be; yet, Lillies, know)
  • How Lillies came white (White though ye be; yet, Lillies, know) - G. Binkerd
  • How love came in I do not know (from The Hesperides) - E. Bacon, L. Berkeley (Of love. A sonnet)
  • How love came in (How love came in I do not know) (from The Hesperides) - L. Berkeley
  • How marigolds came yellow (Jealous girls these sometimes were) - F. Hart, A. Vores
  • How pansies or heart's-ease came first (Frolic virgins once these were)
  • How roses came red (II) ('Tis said, as Cupid danc'd among)
  • How roses came red (Roses at first were white) - F. Hart, A. Vores
  • How Springs came first (These Springs were Maidens once that lov'd) - F. Hart
  • How violets became blue (Love on a day, wise poets tell)
  • How violets came blew (Love on a day, wise poets tell) - A. Vores
  • How violets came blue (Love on a day, wise poets tell) - F. Hart
  • I am of all bereft - F. Hart (The Plunder)
  • I begin to waine in sight (I begin to wane in sight) - F. Hart
  • I begin to wane in sight - F. Hart (Upon his eyesight failing him)
  • I burn, I burn ; and beg of you - W. Lawes (To dews)
  • I burn, I burn. To the Dews (I burn, I burn ; and beg of you) - W. Lawes
  • I call and I call (I call, I call: who do ye call?) - F. Hart
  • I call, I call: who do ye call? - F. Hart (I call and I call)
  • I could but see thee yesterday (To Dianeme (V)) -
  • I dare not ask a kiss (I dare not ask a kiss) - P. Batchelor, M. Herbert, G. Peel, R. Quilter GER
  • I dare not ask a kiss GER - P. Batchelor, G. Binkerd, P. Eben, M. Herbert, W. Mayer, G. Peel, R. Quilter, C. Rogers, M. White, K. Wiggin, H. Willan (To Electra (IV))
  • I dare not ask (I dare not ask a kiss) - P. Eben, C. Rogers GER
  • I do believe that die I must - F. Hart (His creed)
  • I fear no earthly powers (On Himself (III)) -
  • If men can say that beauty dies - F. Hart (Upon a comely and curious maid)
  • If nine times you your bridegroom kiss (If nine times you your bridegroom kiss) (from The Hesperides) - L. Berkeley
  • If nine times you your bridegroom kiss (from The Hesperides) - L. Berkeley (The tithe. -- To the bride)
  • If ye will with Mab find grace - F. Hart (The fairies)
  • I have lost, and lately, these (from The Hesperides) - G. Bush (Upon the Loss of his Mistresses)
  • I held Love's head while it did ache - A. Bullard, F. Hart, P. Warlock (Upon Love)
  • I held Love's head (I held Love's head while it did ache) - A. Bullard, P. Warlock
  • I'll come to thee in all those shapes (To Electra (II)) -
  • I'll to thee a simnel bring (I'll to thee a simnel bring) - F. Hart
  • I'll to thee a simnel bring - F. Hart (To Dianeme. A Ceremony in Gloucester)
  • I'm sick of love: O let me lie - F. Hart, W. Lawes
  • I'm sick of love (I'm sick of love: O let me lie) - W. Lawes
  • In a dream, Love bade me go (In a dream, Love bade me go) - F. Hart
  • In a dream, Love bade me go - F. Hart (Upon Love (VI))
  • In Numbers, and but these few - K. Leighton
  • In the hour of my distress - P. Hurford (His litany, to the Holy Spirit)
  • In the morning when ye rise - F. Hart (Charms (II))
  • In the morning when ye rise (In the morning when ye rise) - F. Hart
  • In this little vault she lies - F. Hart (Upon a wife that died mad with jealousy)
  • In this world, the isle of dreams (The White Island, or Place of the Blest) - G. Dyson
  • I plaid with love (I played with Love, as with the fire) - F. Hart
  • I played with Love, as with the fire - F. Hart (Upon Love)
  • I saw about her spotless wrist - M. Purves-Smith (Upon a black twist rounding the arm of the Countess of Carlisle)
  • I saw a fly within a bead - B. Adolphe (The amber bead)
  • I sing of brooks, of blossoms, birds, and bowers - A. Vores
  • I sing thy praise, Iacchus - F. Hart (A Hymn to Bacchus)
  • I will confess with cheerfulness (A Hymn to Love) - A. Douw, J. Gardner, M. Horder
  • I will confess - A. Douw, J. Gardner, M. Horder (A Hymn to Love)
  • I will no longer kiss (I will no longer kiss) - F. Hart
  • I will no longer kiss - F. Hart (On Himself)
  • Jealous girls these sometimes were - F. Hart, A. Vores
  • Jove -- Evensong (Begin with Jove; then is the work half done) - F. Hart
  • Julia's hair (Dew sat on Julia's hair) - R. Quilter
  • Julia (Some ask'd me where the rubies grew) - C. Parry
  • Julia () - J. Andriessen [x]
  • Leander Drownd (When as Leander young was drown'd) (from The Hesperides) - H. Lawes
  • Leander's Obsequies (When as Leander young was drown'd) (from The Hesperides)
  • Let fair or foul my mistress be - F. Hart (Love lightly pleased)
  • Let me now take time and play (Let us now take time and play) - F. Hart
  • Let me sleep this night away (Let me sleep this night away) - F. Hart
  • Let me sleep this night away - F. Hart (Upon himself being buried)
  • Let not thy tombstone e'er be laid by me (from The Hesperides) - F. Hart (To Electra)
  • Let not thy tombstone (Let not thy tombstone e'er be laid by me) (from The Hesperides) - F. Hart
  • Let's now take our time - F. Hart, R. Quilter (To be merry)
  • Let us now take time and play - F. Hart (To Sappho (I))
  • Life of my life, take not so soone Thy flight - D. Arditti
  • Life of my life (Life of my life, take not so soone Thy flight) - D. Arditti
  • Litany to the Holy Spirit (In the hour of my distress) - P. Hurford
  • Live, live with me, and thou shalt see - M. Dring
  • Lord, thou hast given me a cell - G. Dyson
  • Love in a shower of blossoms came - L. Héritte-Viardot (The shower of blossoms)
  • Love, I recant - F. Hart (His recantation)
  • Love is a circle, that doth restless move - J. Gardner (Love, what it is)
  • Love lightly pleased (Let fair or foul my mistress be) - F. Hart
  • Love, like a beggar came to me - R. Quilter
  • Love like a gipsy lately came (Upon Cupid (II)) -
  • Love looks for love (Love love begets, then never be) - F. Hart
  • Love love begets, then never be - F. Hart (To Electra. Love looks for love)
  • Love on a day, wise poets tell - F. Hart, A. Vores (How violets became blue)
  • Lovers, how they come and part (A Gyges ring they bear about them still) - D. Sisco
  • Love's a thing, as I do hear GER - D. Arditti (Upon love)
  • Love-sick I am, and must endure - F. Hart (On Himself (II))
  • Love-sick I am (Love-sick I am, and must endure) - F. Hart
  • Love's of itself too sweet ; the best of all (Another on Love) - J. Gardner
  • Love's of itself too sweet ; the best of all - J. Gardner (On Love)
  • Love's sweet repose (Among the myrtles as I walk'd) - H. Lawes
  • Love: what it is (Love is a circle, that doth restless move) - J. Gardner
  • Lullaby (Here a pretty baby lies) - I. Gurney
  • Make, make me Thine, my gracious God (from The Hesperides) - M. White (To God)
  • Make much of Time (Gather ye rosebuds while ye may) - H. Gál SPA
  • Man is a watch, wound up at first (from The Hesperides) - M. Nyman
  • Mighty Neptune, may it please - F. Hart (A hymn to Neptune)
  • More white than whitest lilies far (from The Hesperides) - G. Bush (To Electra (I))
  • Morning song (Let's now take our time) - R. Quilter
  • Mrs Eliz: Wheeler, under the Name of the Lost Shepherdess (Among the myrtles as I walk'd)
  • Music, thou Queen of Heaven, Care-charming-spell (from The Hesperides) - G. Bachlund, J. Gardner, M. Nyman (To Music)
  • My dearest Love, since thou wilt go - J. Gardner (A dialogue betwixt himself and Mistress Eliza Wheeler, under the name of Amarillis)
  • My God, I'm wounded by my sin (from The Hesperides) (To God: An Anthem, sung in the Chappell at Whitehall, before the King) - B. Roe
  • My God! look on me withe'eye (My God! look on me with thine eye) - L. Berkeley
  • My God! look on me with thine eye - L. Berkeley (His ejaculation to God)
  • Night hath no wings to him that cannot sleep - B. Roe (To his sweet saviour)
  • Night piece to Julia (Her eyes the glow-worm lend thee) (from The Hesperides) - H. Parker
  • No more, my Silvia, do I mean to pray - F. Hart (To Sylvia)
  • No more, my Silvia (No more, my Silvia, do I mean to pray) - F. Hart
  • Now is the time when all the lights wax dim (To Anthea) -
  • Now is your turne, my dearest, to be set (Now is your turne, my dearest, to be set) - L. Berkeley
  • Now is your turne, my dearest, to be set - L. Berkeley, J. Edmunds (To his deare valentine, Mistresse Margaret Falconbrige)
  • Of love. A sonnet (How love came in I do not know) (from The Hesperides)
  • Of love (How love came in I do not know) (from The Hesperides) - E. Bacon
  • Oft have I heard both youths and virgins say - F. Hart (To his valentine on St. Valentine's Day)
  • Old wives have often told how they - F. Hart (Upon Cupid)
  • One ask'd me where the roses grew - F. Hart (The rosary)
  • One silent night of late - C. Parry (The cheat of Cupid; or, The ungentle guest)
  • On gilli-flowers begotten (What was't that fell but now) - F. Hart
  • On gilly-flowers begotten (What was't that fell but now)
  • On Himself (I) (Young I was, but now am old)
  • On Himself (II) (Love-sick I am, and must endure)
  • On Himself (III) (I fear no earthly powers)
  • On Himself (VI) (Born I was to meet with age)
  • On himselfe () - F. Hart [x]
  • On himself (A wearied pilgrim, I have wandered here)
  • On Himself (I will no longer kiss)
  • On Himself (Weep for the dead, for they have lost this light)
  • On himself () - A. Douw, J. Gardner, M. Horder [x]
  • On Love (Love's of itself too sweet ; the best of all)
  • On love () - F. Hart [x]
  • Open thy gates - F. Hart (To heaven)
  • O times most bad - A. Douw (Upon the troublesome times)
  • O Years! and age! farewell - A. Bax, I. Boyle, W. Davies
  • Play, Phœbus, on thy lute; - P. Campbell, M. Carmichael, F. Hart, A. Strilko (A canticle to Apollo)
  • Purgatory (Readers, we entreat ye pray) - F. Hart
  • Rare is the voice itself: but when we sing (The voice and viol) - M. King
  • Reach, with your whiter hands, to me - B. Crist, F. Hart, H. Strübing (To the water nymphs drinking at the fountain)
  • Readers, we entreat ye pray - F. Hart (Purgatory)
  • Rosebuds (Gather ye rosebuds while ye may) - A. Mounsey SPA
  • Roses at first were white - F. Hart, A. Vores
  • Sadly I walk'd within the field - B. Burrows, T. del Riego (The Olive Branch)
  • Sapho, I will choose to go (from The Hesperides) (To Sappho) - M. Carmichael, F. Hart
  • Sappho, I will choose to go (from The Hesperides) - M. Carmichael, F. Hart (To Sappho)
  • Sea-born goddess, let me be - F. Hart (A Hymn to Venus and Cupid)
  • Shall I a daily beggar be - F. Hart (The beggar)
  • Shall I go to Love and tell (Shall I go to Love and tell) - F. Hart
  • Shall I go to Love and tell - F. Hart (To Electra)
  • She by the river sat, and sitting there - F. Hart (Another upon her weeping)
  • Show me thy feet ; show me thy legs, thy thighs (To Dianeme (III)) -
  • Shut not so soon; the dull-eyed night GER - D. Arditti, J. Gardner, F. Hart, R. Quilter, J. Raynor, N. Rorem, J. Taffs (To daisies, not to shut so soon)
  • Smooth was the sea, and seem'd to call - F. Hart (Fair shows deceive)
  • Soft music (The mellow touch of music most doth wound) - E. Walker
  • So good luck came, and on my roof did light - A. Vores
  • So look the mornings when the sun (from The Hesperides) - R. Quilter
  • Some ask'd me where rubies grew (The rock of rubies, and the quarry of pearls) - C. Parry, A. Spalding
  • Some ask'd me where the rubies grew - C. Parry, A. Spalding (The rock of rubies, and the quarry of pearls)
  • So smooth, so sweet, so silv'ry is thy voice (Upon Julia's voice) - M. King
  • Spend, harmless shade, thy nightly hours (Spend, harmless shade, thy nightly hours) - F. Hart
  • Spend, harmless shade, thy nightly hours - F. Hart (Upon a virgin)
  • Stay while ye will, or go - F. Hart, C. Stanford (To carnations. A song)
  • Store of courage to me grant - F. Hart (A vow to Mars)
  • Sweet Amarillis, by a spring's - H. Lawes (Upon Mrs Eliz. Wheeler, under the Name of Amarillis)
  • Sweet, be not proud of those two eyes (To Dianeme (II)) -
  • Sweet Oenone, do but say - F. Hart (To Oenone)
  • Sweet western wind, whose luck it is - G. Busby, M. Gideon, F. Hart (To the Western Wind)
  • Sweet Western Wind (Sweet western wind, whose luck it is) - M. Gideon
  • Tapers (Those tapers which we set upon the grave) - F. Hart
  • Tell us, thou clear and heavenly tongue - J. Dove, K. Leighton (The star-song)
  • The amber bead (I saw a fly within a bead) - B. Adolphe
  • The argument of his book (I sing of brooks, of blossoms, birds, and bowers) - A. Vores
  • The bag of the bee (About the sweet bag of a bee) - F. Hart
  • The Bed-man, or Grave-maker (THou hast made many Houses for the Dead)
  • The Bed-man (THou hast made many Houses for the Dead) - F. Hart
  • The beggar (Shall I a daily beggar be) - F. Hart
  • The Bell-Man (Along the dark and silent night)
  • The bell-man (From noise of scare-fires rest ye free) - F. Hart, E. Maconchy
  • The Best of Rooms (Christ, He requires still, wheresoe'er He comes) (from The Hesperides) - R. Thompson
  • The bleeding hand; or, the sprig of eglantine given to a maid (From this bleeding hand of mine)
  • The bondman (Bind me but to thee with thine hair) - F. Hart
  • The bracelet to Julia (Why I tie about thy wrist)
  • The bracelet (Why I tie about thy wrist) - R. Quilter
  • The Bride-Cake (This day, my Julia, thou must make) - F. Hart
  • The cheat of Cupid; or, The ungentle guest (One silent night of late)
  • The Cherry-Blossoms (Ye may simper, blush and smile) - F. Hart
  • The coming of good luck (So good luck came, and on my roof did light) - A. Vores
  • The Definition of Beauty (Beauty no other thing is than a beam) (from The Hesperides) - M. Nyman
  • The fairies (If ye will with Mab find grace) - F. Hart
  • The four sweet months (First, April, she with mellow showers) - E. Křenek CAT DUT DUT FRE GER
  • The Funeral Rites of the Roses (The rose was sick, and smiling died) - F. Hart
  • The Funeral Rites of the Rose (The rose was sick, and smiling died)
  • The guest () - S. Coleridge-Taylor [x]
  • The hag is astride (The Hag is astride) - E. Bunge DUT
  • The Hag is astride DUT - F. Bridge, E. Bunge, J. Hatton, J. Jeffreys, C. Wood
  • The hag (The Hag is astride) - F. Bridge, J. Hatton, J. Jeffreys DUT
  • The head-ake (I held Love's head while it did ache) - F. Hart
  • The Herrick Songs [song cycle] () - G. Busby [x]
  • The Impatient Lover (Come, come away) (from The Hesperides) - G. Bush
  • The lily in a crystal (You have beheld a smiling rose) - A. Douw, H. Strübing
  • The Mad Girl's Song (Good-morrow to the day so fair) - D. Arditti
  • The Mad Maid's Song (Good-morrow to the day so fair) - H. Brian, D. Diamond
  • The maiden blush (So look the mornings when the sun) (from The Hesperides) - R. Quilter
  • The mellow touch of music most doth wound - E. Walker
  • The Night Piece, to Julia (Her eyes the glow-worm lend thee) (from The Hesperides) - M. Carmichael
  • The Night Piece (Her eyes the glow-worm lend thee) (from The Hesperides) - H. Brian, R. Quilter
  • The old wives' prayer (Holyrood, come forth and shield) - F. Hart
  • The Olive Branch (Sadly I walk'd within the field) - B. Burrows
  • The Peter-penny (Fresh strewings allow) - F. Hart
  • The pilgrim (A wearied pilgrim, I have wandered here) - F. Hart
  • The Plunder (I am of all bereft) - F. Hart
  • The poetry of dress (A sweet disorder in the dress) - R. Still
  • The primrose (Aske me why I send you here) - H. Lawes [possibly misattributed]
  • The Primrose (Ask me why I send you here) - F. Hart [possibly misattributed]
  • The Primrose (Ask me why I send you here) - F. Bridge [possibly misattributed]
  • The ride of the witch (The hag) (The Hag is astride) - C. Wood DUT
  • The Rock of Rubies and the Quarrie of Pearls (Some ask'd me where the rubies grew) - A. Spalding
  • The rock of rubies, and the quarry of pearls (Some ask'd me where the rubies grew)
  • The rosarie (One ask'd me where the roses grew) - F. Hart
  • The rosary (One ask'd me where the roses grew)
  • The rose was sick, and smiling died - F. Hart (The Funeral Rites of the Rose)
  • These Springs were Maidens once that lov'd - L. Berkeley, F. Hart (How Springs came first)
  • These springs were maidens once that lov'd (These Springs were Maidens once that lov'd) - L. Berkeley
  • The shades grow great, but greater grows our sorrow (A pastoral sung to the king) - F. Hart
  • The shades grow great (Bad are the times) - F. Hart
  • The shooting starres attend thee (Her eyes the glow-worm lend thee) (from The Hesperides) - M. Gideon
  • The shower of blossoms (Love in a shower of blossoms came) - L. Héritte-Viardot
  • The sprig of eglantine (From this bleeding hand of mine) - F. Hart
  • The star-song (Tell us, thou clear and heavenly tongue) - J. Dove, K. Leighton
  • The succession of the four sweet months (First, April, she with mellow showers) - B. Britten CAT DUT DUT FRE GER
  • The Tinker's Song (Along, come along) - F. Hart
  • The tithe. -- To the bride (If nine times you your bridegroom kiss) (from The Hesperides)
  • The ungentle guest (One silent night of late) - C. Parry
  • The voice and viol (Rare is the voice itself: but when we sing)
  • The Watch (Man is a watch, wound up at first) (from The Hesperides) - M. Nyman
  • The White Island, or Place of the Blest (In this world, the isle of dreams)
  • The willow garland (A willow garland thou did'st send) - F. Hart
  • The wounded Cupid (Cupid as he lay among) - B. Burrows
  • Things are uncertain and the more we get (from The Hesperides) - M. Nyman
  • Things mortal still mutable (Things are uncertain and the more we get) (from The Hesperides) - M. Nyman
  • This day, my Julia, thou must make - F. Hart (The Bride-Cake)
  • Those tapers which we set upon the grave - F. Hart (Tapers)
  • Thou art to all lost love the best - M. Dring, F. Hart, J. Raynor, N. Rorem (To the Willow-Tree)
  • Thou gav'st me leave to kiss - F. Hart, P. Warlock (Chop-cherry)
  • Thou gav'st me leave to kiss (Thou gav'st me leave to kiss) - P. Warlock
  • THou hast made many Houses for the Dead - F. Hart (The Bed-man, or Grave-maker)
  • Thrice happy roses, so much grac'd to have - F. Hart (Upon the roses in Julia's bosom)
  • Through all the night - B. Roe
  • Time in Eternity (By hours we all live here; in Heaven is known) (from The Hesperides) - M. Nyman
  • 'Tis evening, my sweet (To Electra (III)) -
  • 'Tis said, as Cupid danc'd among - F. Hart (How roses came red (II))
  • 'Tis said, as Cupid danc'd ('Tis said, as Cupid danc'd among) - F. Hart
  • To a bed of tulips (Bright tulips, we do know) - F. Hart
  • To a Child (Go, pretty child, and bear this flower) - J. Raynor
  • To Anthea, who may command him anything (Bid me to live, and I will live) - D. Arditti, J. Gardner, J. Hatton, N. Rorem FRE
  • To Anthea (Anthea, I am going hence)
  • To Anthea (Bid me to live, and I will live) - M. Horder FRE
  • To Anthea (Now is the time when all the lights wax dim)
  • To Anthea () - F. Hart [x]
  • To be merry (Let's now take our time) - F. Hart
  • To blossoms (Fair pledges of a fruitful tree) - A. Foote, E. Moeran, S. Newns, C. Parry, H. Procter-Gregg, J. Raynor, H. Strübing, M. White, H. Willan, M. Woodward
  • To carnations. A song (Stay while ye will, or go)
  • To carnations (Stay while ye will, or go) - F. Hart, C. Stanford
  • To Cherry-Blossoms (Ye may simper, blush and smile)
  • To daffodils (Fair daffodils, we weep to see) - A. Bax, B. Britten, H. Darke, F. Delius, M. Dring, E. Farrar, M. Herbert, E. Moeran, H. Procter-Gregg, R. Quilter, A. Rawsthorne, J. Raynor, H. Strübing, R. Vaughan Williams, M. White, C. Wong CAT CHI DUT FIN GER
  • To daisies, not to shut so soon (Shut not so soon; the dull-eyed night) - F. Hart, J. Raynor, N. Rorem GER
  • To daisies, not to shut too soon (Shut not so soon; the dull-eyed night) - J. Gardner GER
  • To Daisies (Shut not so soon; the dull-eyed night) - D. Arditti, R. Quilter, J. Taffs GER
  • To dews (I burn, I burn ; and beg of you)
  • To Dianeme (II) (Sweet, be not proud of those two eyes)
  • To Dianeme (III) (Show me thy feet ; show me thy legs, thy thighs)
  • To Dianeme (IV) (Give me one kiss)
  • To Dianeme (V) (I could but see thee yesterday)
  • To Dianeme. A Ceremony in Gloucester (I'll to thee a simnel bring)
  • To Dianeme (Dear, though to part it be a hell)
  • To Dianeme () - F. Hart, J. Holbrooke [x]
  • To Electra (I) (More white than whitest lilies far) (from The Hesperides)
  • To Electra (II) (I'll come to thee in all those shapes)
  • To Electra (III) ('Tis evening, my sweet)
  • To Electra (IV) (I dare not ask a kiss) GER
  • To Electra. Love looks for love (Love love begets, then never be)
  • To Electra (I dare not ask a kiss) - G. Binkerd, W. Mayer, R. Quilter, M. White, K. Wiggin, H. Willan GER
  • To Electra (Let not thy tombstone e'er be laid by me) (from The Hesperides)
  • To Electra (More white than whitest lilies far) (from The Hesperides) - G. Bush
  • To Electra (Shall I go to Love and tell)
  • To Electra () - F. Hart, M. Horder, M. Raphael [x]
  • To finde God (Weigh me the fire; or, canst thou find)
  • To flowers () - F. Hart [x]
  • To Fortune (Tumble me down, and I will sit) - F. Hart
  • To God: An Anthem, sung in the Chappell at Whitehall, before the King (Verse. My God, I'm wounded by my sin) (from The Hesperides)
  • To God; An Anthem sung in the Chappell at Whitehall (Verse. My God, I'm wounded by my sin) (from The Hesperides) - B. Roe
  • To God on his sickness (What though my harp and viol be) - F. Hart
  • To God (Come to me God ; but do not come)
  • To God (God gives not only corn for need) - B. Roe
  • To God (Make, make me Thine, my gracious God) (from The Hesperides) - M. White
  • To heaven (Open thy gates) - F. Hart
  • To His Angrie God (Through all the night) - B. Roe
  • To his deare valentine, Mistresse Margaret Falconbrige (Now is your turne, my dearest, to be set)
  • To his mistress objecting his age (Am I dispis'd because you say) - H. Lawes
  • To his mistress (Choose me your valentine)
  • To His Saviour, a Child; A Present, by a Child (Go, pretty child, and bear this flower) - B. Roe
  • To his sweet saviour (Night hath no wings to him that cannot sleep) - B. Roe
  • To his valentine on St. Valentine's Day (Oft have I heard both youths and virgins say)
  • To his Valentine (Oft have I heard both youths and virgins say) - F. Hart
  • To Julia (Whenas in silks my Julia goes) - H. Procter-Gregg, R. Still
  • To laurels (A funeral stone) - F. Hart
  • To love () - J. Gardner [x]
  • To Meadows (Ye have been fresh and green) - R. Stöhr
  • To meadow (Ye have been fresh and green) - M. Carmichael
  • To meddowes (Ye have been fresh and green)
  • To Mistress Margaret Falconbridge (Now is your turne, my dearest, to be set) - J. Edmunds
  • To music, a song (Music, thou Queen of Heaven, Care-charming-spell) (from The Hesperides) - J. Gardner
  • To Music for Calm (Charm me asleep, and melt me so) - I. Gurney GER
  • To Music (ii) (Music, thou Queen of Heaven, Care-charming-spell) (from The Hesperides) - M. Nyman
  • To Music (i) (Begin to charm, and as thou strok’st my ears) (from The Hesperides) - M. Nyman
  • To Musick (Begin to charm, and as thou strok’st my ears) (from The Hesperides) - J. Golland
  • To music - to becalm a sweetsick youth (Charm me asleep, and melt me so) - M. Dring GER
  • To Music, to becalm his fever - charm me asleep (Charm me asleep, and melt me so) - W. Sanderson GER
  • To music, to becalm his fever (Charm me asleep, and melt me so) - B. Boyle, A. Douw, E. Ewazen, J. Gardner, P. Hindemith, N. Rorem, M. White GER
  • To music (Charm me asleep, and melt me so) - L. Bassett, E. Carter, J. Edmunds, J. Foulds, M. Gideon, M. Horder, D. Sisco, C. Stanford GER
  • To music (Music, thou Queen of Heaven, Care-charming-spell) (from The Hesperides) - G. Bachlund
  • To music () - A. Bullard, B. Burrows [x]
  • To Musique, to becalme his Fever (Charm me asleep, and melt me so) - E. Bacon, B. Holmes GER
  • To Oenone (Sweet Oenone, do but say) - F. Hart
  • To Oenone (What conscience, say, is it in thee) - F. Hart
  • To Pansies (Ah, Cruel Love! must I endure) - F. Hart
  • To Phillis - to love and live with him (Live, live with me, and thou shalt see) - M. Dring
  • To primroses filled with morning dew (Why do ye weep, sweet babes? can tears) - F. Hart
  • To Sapho (Sappho, I will choose to go) (from The Hesperides) - M. Carmichael, F. Hart
  • To Sappho (I) (Let us now take time and play)
  • To Sappho (Sappho, I will choose to go) (from The Hesperides)
  • To sycamores (I'm sick of love: O let me lie) - F. Hart
  • To Sylvia (No more, my Silvia, do I mean to pray)
  • To the lark (Good speed, for I this day) - F. Hart
  • To the Nightingale and Robin Redbreast (When I departed am, ring thou my knell) - F. Hart
  • To the river () - B. Adolphe [x]
  • To the rose (Go, happy rose, and interwove) - C. Stanford
  • To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time (Gather ye rosebuds while ye may) - D. Arditti, M. Dring, B. Moore SPA
  • To the virgins (Gather ye rosebuds while ye may) - R. Quilter SPA
  • To the water nymphs drinking at the fountain (Reach, with your whiter hands, to me) - F. Hart, H. Strübing
  • To the water nymphs (Reach, with your whiter hands, to me) - B. Crist
  • To the western wind (Sweet western wind, whose luck it is) - G. Busby, F. Hart
  • To the Willow-tree (Thou art to all lost love the best) - M. Dring, F. Hart, J. Raynor, N. Rorem
  • To the yew and cypress to grace his funeral (Both you two have)
  • To the yew and cypress (Both you two have) - F. Hart
  • To violets (Welcome, maids-of-honour!) - A. Bullard, J. Gardner, I. Gurney, F. Hart, H. Procter-Gregg, R. Quilter, J. Taffs SPA
  • To Virgins, to Make Much of Time (Gather ye rosebuds while ye may) - B. Roe SPA
  • To Virgins (Hear, ye virgins, and I'll teach)
  • Tulips (Bright tulips, we do know) - R. Quilter
  • Tumble me down, and I will sit - F. Hart (To Fortune)
  • Upon a black twist rounding the arm of the Countess of Carlisle (I saw about her spotless wrist) - M. Purves-Smith
  • Upon a child that died (Here she lies, a pretty bud) - R. Birch
  • Upon a child that dyed (Here she lies, a pretty bud) - F. Hart
  • Upon a child (Here a pretty baby lies) - P. Campbell
  • Upon a child () - F. Hart [x]
  • Upon a comely and curious maid (If men can say that beauty dies) - F. Hart
  • Upon a delaying lady (Come, come away) (from The Hesperides) - F. Hart
  • Upon a maide () - F. Hart [x]
  • Upon a maid (Gone she is a long, long way)
  • Upon a maid (Hence a blessed soul is fled)
  • Upon a virgin (Spend, harmless shade, thy nightly hours)
  • Upon a wife that died mad with jealousy (In this little vault she lies)
  • Upon a wife that dyed with jealousie (In this little vault she lies) - F. Hart
  • Upon Cupid (II) (Love like a gipsy lately came)
  • Upon Cupid (III) (As lately I a garland bound)
  • Upon Cupid (Old wives have often told how they) - F. Hart
  • Upon Electra (When out of bed my love doth spring) - F. Hart
  • Upon her eyes (Clear are her eyes) - F. Hart
  • Upon her feet (Her pretty feet) - F. Hart
  • Upon himself being buried (Let me sleep this night away)
  • Upon himselfe () - F. Hart [x]
  • Upon his eyesight failing him (I begin to wane in sight)
  • Upon his gray hairs (Fly me not, though I be gray) - F. Hart
  • Upon his kinswoman, Mistress Bridget Herrick (When I consider, dearest, thou dost stay)
  • Upon Julia's clothes (Whenas in silks my Julia goes) - B. Adolphe, G. Bush, J. Corigliano, J. Gardner, F. Hart, N. Rorem
  • Upon Julia's hair fill'd with dew (Dew sat on Julia's hair)
  • Upon Julia's hair filled with dew (Dew sat on Julia's hair) - F. Hart
  • Upon Julia's voice (So smooth, so sweet, so silv'ry is thy voice)
  • Upon Julia's weeping (She by the river sat, and sitting there) - F. Hart
  • Upon Love (VI) (In a dream, Love bade me go)
  • Upon Love (I held Love's head while it did ache)
  • Upon Love (I played with Love, as with the fire)
  • Upon love (Love's a thing, as I do hear) - D. Arditti GER
  • Upon love () - B. Burrows, F. Hart, D. Sisco [x]
  • Upon Mrs Eliz. Wheeler, under the Name of Amarillis (Sweet Amarillis, by a spring's)
  • Upon parting (Goe hence away, and in thy parting know) - G. Binkerd
  • Upon thee departed hence () - F. Hart [x]
  • Upon the Loss of his Mistresses (I have lost, and lately, these) (from The Hesperides) - G. Bush
  • Upon the roses in Julia's bosom (Thrice happy roses, so much grac'd to have) - F. Hart
  • Upon the troublesome times (O times most bad) - A. Douw
  • Verse. My God, I'm wounded by my sin (from The Hesperides) - B. Roe (To God: An Anthem, sung in the Chappell at Whitehall, before the King)
  • Weep for the dead, for they have lost the light (Weep for the dead, for they have lost this light) - F. Hart
  • Weep for the dead, for they have lost this light - F. Hart (On Himself)
  • Weigh me the fire; or, canst thou find (To finde God) - G. Dyson
  • Welcome, maids-of-honour! SPA - B. Britten, A. Bullard, J. Gardner, I. Gurney, F. Hart, H. Procter-Gregg, R. Quilter, J. Taffs (To violets)
  • Welcome, Maids of Honour (Welcome, maids-of-honour!) - B. Britten SPA
  • What conscience, say, is it in thee - F. Hart (To Oenone)
  • What needs complaints GER - V. Fine, N. Rorem
  • What sweeter music can we bring - G. Binkerd, K. Leighton, J. Rutter (A Christmas Carol, Sung To The King In The Presence At White-Hall)
  • What sweeter music (What sweeter music can we bring) - G. Binkerd, J. Rutter
  • What though my harp and viol be - F. Hart (To God: On his sickness)
  • What though the heaven be lowering now - F. Hart (Hope well and have well : or, fair after foul weather)
  • What was't that fell but now - F. Hart (On gilly-flowers begotten)
  • When a daffodil I see - F. Hart (Divination by a daffodil)
  • Whenas in silks my Julia goes - B. Adolphe, G. Bush, J. Corigliano, J. Edmunds, J. Gardner, F. Hart, J. Lessard, H. Procter-Gregg, N. Rorem, R. Still (Upon Julia's clothes)
  • Whenas in silks my Julia goes (Whenas in silks my Julia goes) - J. Edmunds, J. Lessard
  • When as Leander young was drown'd (from The Hesperides) - H. Lawes (Leander's Obsequies)
  • When I consider, dearest, thou dost stay - F. Hart (Upon his kinswoman, Mistress Bridget Herrick)
  • When I consider, dearest (When I consider, dearest, thou dost stay) - F. Hart
  • When I departed am, ring thou my knell - F. Hart (To the Nightingale and Robin Redbreast)
  • When out of bed my love doth spring - F. Hart (Upon Electra)
  • When words we want, Love teacheth to indite - D. Sisco (Writing)
  • White though ye be. On the Lilies (White though ye be; yet, Lillies, know) - W. Lawes
  • White though ye be; yet, Lillies, know - G. Binkerd, W. Lawes (How lilies came white)
  • Why dost thou wound and break my heart - H. Brian (His covenant or Protestation to Julia)
  • Why dost thou wound, and break my heart? (Why dost thou wound and break my heart) - H. Brian
  • Why do ye weep, sweet babes? can tears/ speak grief in you (To primroses filled with morning dew) - F. Hart
  • Why do ye weep, sweet babes? can tears - F. Hart (To primroses filled with morning dew)
  • Why I tie about thy wrist - R. Quilter (The bracelet to Julia)
  • Women useless - an hymne to love (I will confess) - A. Douw
  • Wounded Cupid (Cupid as he lay among) - D. Sisco
  • Writing (When words we want, Love teacheth to indite) - D. Sisco
  • Ye have been fresh and green - M. Carmichael, R. Stöhr (To meddowes)
  • Ye may simper, blush and smile - F. Hart (To Cherry-Blossoms)
  • You are a tulip seen to-day - E. Maconchy
  • You have beheld a smiling rose - A. Douw, H. Strübing (The lily in a crystal)
  • Young I was, but now am old (On Himself (I)) -

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