Texts by G. Hopkins set in Art Songs and Choral Works

Text Collections:

• Lyra Sacra: A Book of Religious Verse
• Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins
• The Journals

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

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• A Daily Offering (The dappled dieaway cheek and the wimpled lip) - J. Mitchell
• A Little Wedding Music (tacet/) - I. Anhalt
• All the world is full of inscape (All the world is full of inscape) (from The Journals) - A. Gilbert
• All the world is full of inscape (from The Journals) - A. Gilbert
• Antiphonies I (Repeat that, repeat) (from Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins) - J. Druckman
• Antiphonies III (Glory be to God for dappled things) (from Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins) - J. Druckman FIN
• A nun takes the veil (I have desired to go) (from Lyra Sacra: A Book of Religious Verse) - S. Barber GER
• As a dare-gale skylark scanted in a dull cage (from Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins) - A. Campbell (The caged skylark)
• As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies dráw fláme (As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies dráw fláme;) (from Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins) - T. Hold
• As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies dráw fláme; (from Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins) - T. Hold
• A through-grown earth () - L. Illean [x]
• Break the box and shed the nard - D. Gow (Easter)
• (Carrion Comfort) (Not, I'll not, carrion comfort, Despair, not feast on thee) (from Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins) - B. Langley, D. Morgan
• Cloud-puffball, torn tufts, tossed pillows / flaunt forth, then chevy on an air-built thoroughfare (That Nature Is a Heraclitean Fire and of the Comfort of the Resurrection) - M. Babbitt, W. Mellers
• Cloud-puffball, torn tufts, tossed pillows / flaunt forth, then chevy on an air - M. Babbitt, W. Mellers (That Nature Is a Heraclitean Fire and of the Comfort of the Resurrection)
• Concerto Rapsodico (Repeat that, repeat) (from Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins) - K. Füssl
• Cuckoo (Repeat that, repeat) (from Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins) - D. Epstein
• Deutschland (Thou mastering me) (from Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins) - F. Nicolas
• Earnest, earthless, equal, attuneable, ' vaulty, voluminous, … stupendous - M. Babbitt, S. Gendel (Spelt from Sibyl's Leaves)
• Easter (Break the box and shed the nard) - D. Gow
• Elected Silence, sing to me - E. Křenek (The Habit of Perfection)
• Felix Randal the farrier, O he is dead then? my duty all ended - G. Bachlund
• Felix Randal (Felix Randal the farrier, O he is dead then? my duty all ended) - G. Bachlund
• Four Fragments () - R. Orton [x]
• Fourth Canticle (Thou mastering me) (from Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins) - J. Wilson
• Glory be to God for dappled things (Glory be to God for dappled things) (from Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins) - M. Chandler, G. George FIN
• Glory be to God for dappled things (from Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins) FIN - G. Bachlund, N. Brown, A. Campbell, M. Chandler, P. Dickinson, C. Dougherty, J. Druckman, V. Fine, G. George, T. Hold, J. Mitchell, D. Morgan, D. Pinkham, M. Plumstead, E. Rubbra, L. Talma, A. Thomas, R. Ward, L. Widdoes, G. Williams, R. Woollen, R. Zupko (Pied Beauty)
• Glory to God for dappled things (Glory be to God for dappled things) (from Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins) - L. Talma FIN
• God's Grandeur (The world is charged with the grandeur of God) (from Lyra Sacra: A Book of Religious Verse) - G. Bachlund, S. Barber, N. Brown, A. Campbell, P. Dickinson, J. Douglas, K. Leighton, E. Mandel, R. Manno, D. Maves, E. Pellegrini, M. Perry, J. Rico, D. Robertson, E. Rubbra, M. Shaw, R. Ward, P. Whear
• God with honour hang your head
• Have, fair fallen, O fair, fair have fallen, so dear - G. Bachlund, V. Fine (Henry Purcell)
• Heaven-Haven (I have desired to go) (from Lyra Sacra: A Book of Religious Verse) - B. Adams, D. Barlow, J. Beeson, B. Burrows, A. Cruft, P. Dickinson, C. Dougherty, W. Flanagan, A. Freed, D. Manneke, D. Pinkham, J. Raynor, R. Ward GER
• Henry Purcell (Have, fair fallen, O fair, fair have fallen, so dear) - G. Bachlund, V. Fine
• How all's to one thing wrought! (from Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins) - E. Křenek (On a piece of music)
• How looks the night? There does not miss a star (from Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins)
• How's all to one thing wrought! (from Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins) (On a piece of music) - E. Křenek
• How to keep – is there ány any, is there none such, nowhere - E. Wellesz (The Leaden Echo and the Golden Echo)
• Hurrahing in harvest (Summer ends now; now, barbarous in beauty, the stooks arise) (from Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins) - B. Langley, D. Robertson, G. Williams
• Hurrahing in the harvest (Summer ends now; now, barbarous in beauty, the stooks arise) (from Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins) - L. Berkeley
• I caught this morning morning's minion, kingdom of daylight's dauphin (from Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins) FIN - L. Berkeley, R. Brindle, N. Brown, A. Campbell, J. Mitchell, J. Paynter, A. Thomas, M. Tippett, G. Williams, R. Woollen (The windhover)
• I caught this morning morning's minion (from Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins) FIN (The windhover) - L. Berkeley, R. Brindle, N. Brown, A. Campbell, J. Mitchell, J. Paynter, A. Thomas, M. Tippett, G. Williams, R. Woollen
• I have desired to go (from Lyra Sacra: A Book of Religious Verse) GER - B. Adams, S. Barber, D. Barlow, J. Beeson, A. Bliss, B. Burrows, A. Cruft, P. Dickinson, C. Dougherty, W. Flanagan, A. Freed, D. Manneke, D. Pinkham, J. Raynor, R. Ward (Heaven-Haven)
• I have desired to go (I have desired to go) (from Lyra Sacra: A Book of Religious Verse) - A. Bliss GER
• Interlude: Bluebells (This day and May the eleventh) (from The Journals) - A. Gilbert [x]
• Into the snows she sweeps (from Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins) (The Wreck of the Deutschland) - G. Kerry, D. Morgan, F. Nicolas, S. Oliver, E. Pellegrini, J. Wilson
• Into the snows she sweeps (Thou mastering me) (from Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins) - G. Kerry
• I wish to die and not see the inscapes of the world destroyed any more DUT
• I woke in the midsummer not-to-call night (from Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins) - E. Křenek, B. Rands, D. Robertson, R. Woollen (Moonrise)
• Jesu Dulcis Memoria (Jesus to cast one thought upon) - R. Woollen DUT FRE
• Jesus to cast one thought upon DUT FRE - R. Woollen (Jesu, dulcis memoria)
• Justus Quidem tu es, Domine (Thou art indeed just, Lord, if I contend) (from Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins) - B. Langley
• Let me be to Thee as the circling bird (from Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins) - G. Bachlund
• Look at the stars! look, look up at the skies! - A. Bliss, E. Hugh-Jones, R. Woollen (The starlight night)
• Look at the stars (Look at the stars! look, look up at the skies!) - A. Bliss
• Margaret, are you grieving - A. Alon, V. Fine, S. Gerber, T. Hoekman, R. Keele, M. Tal, S. Wilkinson (Spring and Fall)
• Master of the Sea (Thou mastering me) (from Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins) - D. Morgan
• Mesmerised () - J. Bank [x]
• Moonless darkness stands between - J. La Montaine
• Moon over Maenefa () - R. Samuel [x]
• Moonrise (I woke in the midsummer not-to-call night) (from Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins) - E. Křenek, B. Rands, D. Robertson, R. Woollen
• Mortal my mate, bearing my rock-a-heart (from Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins) - V. McDermott (To his watch)
• Music for "The Wreck of the Deutschland" (Thou mastering me) (from Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins) - S. Oliver
• Never spent (The world is charged with the grandeur of God) (from Lyra Sacra: A Book of Religious Verse) - A. Unsworth
• Nothing is so beautiful as Spring (from Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins) - G. Bachlund, R. Panufnik, N. Rorem (Spring)
• Not, I'll not, carrion comfort, Despair, not feast on thee (from Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins) - B. Langley, D. Morgan, L. Talma, J. Wilson ((Carrion Comfort))
• Not, I'll not, carrion comfort, Despair, not feast on thee (Not, I'll not, carrion comfort, Despair, not feast on thee) (from Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins) - L. Talma, J. Wilson
• Now begin on Christmas Day (Moonless darkness stands between) - J. La Montaine
• On a piece of music (How all's to one thing wrought!) (from Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins) - E. Křenek
• Patience, hard thing! the hard thing but to pray (Patience, hard thing! the hard thing but to pray) (from Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins) - J. Wilson
• Patience, hard thing! the hard thing but to pray (from Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins) - E. Křenek, J. Wilson
• Patience (Patience, hard thing! the hard thing but to pray) (from Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins) - E. Křenek
• Peace (When will you ever, Peace, wild wooddove, shy wings shut) (from Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins) - D. Gow, T. Hold, E. Křenek, E. Maconchy, D. Morgan, G. Williams, R. Woollen
• Pied Beauty (Glory be to God for dappled things) (from Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins) - G. Bachlund, N. Brown, A. Campbell, P. Dickinson, C. Dougherty, V. Fine, T. Hold, J. Mitchell, D. Morgan, D. Pinkham, M. Plumstead, E. Rubbra, A. Thomas, R. Ward, L. Widdoes, G. Williams, R. Woollen, R. Zupko FIN
• Repeat that, repeat (from Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins) - J. Druckman, D. Epstein, K. Füssl
• Spelt from Sibyl's Leaves (Earnest, earthless, equal, attuneable, ' vaulty, voluminous, … stupendous) - M. Babbitt, S. Gendel
• Spring and Fall: to a young child (Margaret, are you grieving) - V. Fine, R. Keele
• Spring and Fall (Margaret, are you grieving) - A. Alon, S. Gerber, M. Tal, S. Wilkinson
• Spring (Nothing is so beautiful as Spring) (from Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins) - G. Bachlund, R. Panufnik, N. Rorem
• Strike, churl; hurl, cheerless wind, then; heltering hail (Strike, churl; hurl, cheerless wind, then; heltering hail) (from Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins) - D. Pinkham
• Strike, churl; hurl, cheerless wind, then; heltering hail (from Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins) - D. Epstein, D. Pinkham
• Strike, churl (Strike, churl; hurl, cheerless wind, then; heltering hail) (from Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins) - D. Epstein
• Summa (The best ideal is the true) - W. Wordsworth
• Summer ends now; now, barbarous in beauty, the stooks arise (from Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins) - L. Berkeley, B. Langley, D. Robertson, G. Williams (Hurrahing in harvest)
• tacet/ - I. Anhalt
• That Nature Is a Heraclitean Fire and of the Comfort of the Resurrection (Cloud-puffball, torn tufts, tossed pillows / flaunt forth, then chevy on an air) - M. Babbitt, W. Mellers
• The ashtree growing in the corner of the garden was felled DUT
• The best ideal is the true - W. Wordsworth (Summa)
• The boughs, the boughs are bare enough - B. Langley (Winter with the Gulf Stream)
• The caged skylark (As a dare-gale skylark scanted in a dull cage) (from Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins) - A. Campbell
• The dappled dieaway cheek and the wimpled lip - J. Mitchell
• Thee, God, I come from, to thee go (from Lyra Sacra: A Book of Religious Verse) - J. Mitchell, H. Parrott, A. Ridout, N. Rorem
• Thee God, I come from (Thee, God, I come from, to thee go) (from Lyra Sacra: A Book of Religious Verse) - J. Mitchell, H. Parrott, A. Ridout
• Thee, God (Thee, God, I come from, to thee go) (from Lyra Sacra: A Book of Religious Verse) - N. Rorem
• The Habit of Perfection (Elected Silence, sing to me) - E. Křenek
• The Leaden Echo and the Golden Echo (How to keep – is there ány any, is there none such, nowhere) - E. Wellesz
• The Sea took pity: it interposed with doom: (from Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins)
• The starlight night (Look at the stars! look, look up at the skies!) - E. Hugh-Jones
• The Starlit Night (Look at the stars! look, look up at the skies!) - R. Woollen
• The time our task is; time's some part (from Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins) (To his watch) - V. McDermott
• The times are nightfall, look, their light grows less (from Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins) - L. Kirchner
• The times are nightfall (The times are nightfall, look, their light grows less) (from Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins) - L. Kirchner
• The windhover (I caught this morning morning's minion, kingdom of daylight's dauphin) (from Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins) - L. Berkeley, R. Brindle, N. Brown, A. Campbell, J. Mitchell, J. Paynter, A. Thomas, M. Tippett, G. Williams, R. Woollen FIN
• The world is charged with the grandeur of God (from Lyra Sacra: A Book of Religious Verse) - G. Bachlund, S. Barber, A. Bliss, N. Brown, A. Campbell, P. Dickinson, J. Douglas, K. Leighton, E. Mandel, R. Manno, D. Maves, E. Pellegrini, M. Perry, J. Rico, D. Robertson, E. Rubbra, M. Shaw, A. Unsworth, R. Ward, P. Whear (God's Grandeur)
• The world is charged with the grandeur of God (The world is charged with the grandeur of God) (from Lyra Sacra: A Book of Religious Verse) - A. Bliss
• The Wreck of the Deutschland (Thou mastering me) (from Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins) - E. Pellegrini
• This day and May the eleventh (from The Journals) - A. Gilbert [x]
• Thou art indeed just, Lord, if I contend (Thou art indeed just, Lord, if I contend) (from Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins) - J. Wilson
• Thou art indeed just, Lord, if I contend (from Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins) - T. Briccetti, P. Dickinson, T. Hold, B. Langley, D. Robertson, J. Wilson
• Thou art indeed just, Lord (Thou art indeed just, Lord, if I contend) (from Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins) - T. Briccetti, P. Dickinson, T. Hold
• Thou art indeed just (Thou art indeed just, Lord, if I contend) (from Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins) - D. Robertson
• Thou mastering me (from Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins) - G. Kerry, D. Morgan, F. Nicolas, S. Oliver, E. Pellegrini, J. Wilson (The Wreck of the Deutschland)
• To a young child (Margaret, are you grieving) - T. Hoekman
• To Call Thee Love (Let me be to Thee as the circling bird) (from Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins) - G. Bachlund
• To his watch (Mortal my mate, bearing my rock-a-heart) (from Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins) - V. McDermott
• Walked up the valley of the Aar, sallow-coloured and torrent, to the Grimsel (from The Journals) - A. Gilbert
• Walked up the valley of the Aar (Walked up the valley of the Aar, sallow-coloured and torrent, to the Grimsel) (from The Journals) - A. Gilbert
• We have had other such afternoons (We have had other such afternoons) (from The Journals) - A. Gilbert [x]
• We have had other such afternoons (from The Journals) - A. Gilbert [x]
• When will you ever, Peace, wild wooddove, shy wings shut (from Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins) - D. Gow, E. Hill, T. Hold, E. Křenek, E. Maconchy, D. Morgan, L. Talma, G. Williams, R. Woollen (Peace)
• When will you ever, Peace, wild wooddove, shy wings shut (When will you ever, Peace, wild wooddove, shy wings shut) (from Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins) - L. Talma
• Wild Wooddove (When will you ever, Peace, wild wooddove, shy wings shut) (from Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins) - E. Hill
• Winter with the Gulf Stream (The boughs, the boughs are bare enough) - B. Langley

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