Author: David Emery Gascoyne (1916 - 2001)
Text Compilations
Texts set to music as art song or choral works [warning - not necessarily comprehensive]
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- Adorned with yellow pears (from Hölderlin's Madness) CAT CZE FRE FRE IRI RUS * (The half of life)
- Adorned with yellow pears (from Hölderlin's Madness) CAT CZE FRE FRE IRI RUS * - Eric Hudes (The half of life)
- All is an inscape (from Hölderlin's Madness) * (Form and spirit)
- All is an inscape (from Hölderlin's Madness) * - Eric Hudes (Form and spirit)
- Alone alike elect on heights of prophecy * - Geoffrey Bush (Capricorn: the Goat )
- And little knowledge but much pleasure (And little knowledge but much pleasure) (from Hölderlin's Madness) - Eric Hudes *
- And little knowledge but much pleasure (from Hölderlin's Madness) * - Eric Hudes (And little knowledge but much pleasure)
- Aquarius: the Water-carrier (This burly bent, much burdened figure, who) - Geoffrey Bush *
- Aries: the Ram (Augustly awe inspiring creature, whose famed Fleece) - Geoffrey Bush *
- Augustly awe inspiring creature, whose famed Fleece * - Geoffrey Bush (Aries: the Ram )
- Cancer: the Crab (This fishy thing that sideways crawls But neither swims nor flies) - Geoffrey Bush *
- Capricorn: the Goat (Alone alike elect on heights of prophecy) - Geoffrey Bush *
- De Profundis (Out of these depths) (from Poems 1937-1942 - Miserere) [x] *
- De Profundis (Out of these depths) (from Poems 1937-1942 - Miserere) - Bernard James Naylor [x] *
- Each looks towards his brother and yet sees one more than him * - Geoffrey Bush (Gemini: the Twins )
- Ex Nihilo (Here am I now cast down) (from Poems 1937-1942 - Miserere) [x] *
- Ex Nihilo (Here am I now cast down) (from Poems 1937-1942 - Miserere) - Bernard James Naylor [x] *
- Form and spirit (All is an inscape) (from Hölderlin's Madness) *
- Form and spirit (All is an inscape) (from Hölderlin's Madness) - Eric Hudes *
- Gemini: the Twins (Each looks towards his brother and yet sees one more than him) - Geoffrey Bush *
- Here am I now cast down (from Poems 1937-1942 - Miserere) [x] * (Ex Nihilo)
- Here am I now cast down (from Poems 1937-1942 - Miserere) [x] * - Bernard James Naylor (Ex Nihilo)
- Here is beastly jewel! * - Geoffrey Bush (Scorpio: the Scorpion )
- I, Father, with my little Bow * - Geoffrey Bush (Sagittarius: the Archer )
- Is man's destructive lust insatiable? (from Poems 1937-1942 - Miserere) [x] * (Kyrie)
- Is man's destructive lust insatiable? (from Poems 1937-1942 - Miserere) [x] * - Bernard James Naylor (Kyrie)
- It is finished (from Poems 1937-1942 - Miserere) [x] * (Tenebrae)
- It is finished (from Poems 1937-1942 - Miserere) [x] * - Bernard James Naylor (Tenebrae)
- Kyrie (Is man's destructive lust insatiable?) (from Poems 1937-1942 - Miserere) [x] *
- Kyrie (Is man's destructive lust insatiable?) (from Poems 1937-1942 - Miserere) - Bernard James Naylor [x] *
- Lachrymae (Slow are the years of light) (from Poems 1937-1942 - Miserere) [x] *
- Lachrymae (Slow are the years of light) (from Poems 1937-1942 - Miserere) - Bernard James Naylor [x] *
- Leo: the Lion (No smaller than the Sun amidst the midday sky) - Geoffrey Bush *
- Libra: the Scales (O unjust man behold) - Geoffrey Bush *
- Lunging Beast, Bulging hide, Fatalist * - Geoffrey Bush (Taurus: the Bull )
- No smaller than the Sun amidst the midday sky * - Geoffrey Bush (Leo: the Lion )
- O unjust man behold * - Geoffrey Bush (Libra: the Scales )
- Out of these depths (from Poems 1937-1942 - Miserere) [x] * (De Profundis)
- Out of these depths (from Poems 1937-1942 - Miserere) [x] * - Bernard James Naylor (De Profundis)
- Pieta (Stark in the pasture on the skull-shaped hill) (from Poems 1937-1942 - Miserere) [x] *
- Pieta (Stark in the pasture on the skull-shaped hill) (from Poems 1937-1942 - Miserere) - Bernard James Naylor [x] *
- Pisces: the Fish (They glitter, but they sing) - Geoffrey Bush *
- Sagittarius: the Archer (I, Father, with my little Bow) - Geoffrey Bush *
- Scorpio: the Scorpion (Here is beastly jewel!) - Geoffrey Bush *
- Slow are the years of light (from Poems 1937-1942 - Miserere) [x] * (Lachrymae)
- Slow are the years of light (from Poems 1937-1942 - Miserere) [x] * - Bernard James Naylor (Lachrymae)
- Stark in the pasture on the skull-shaped hill (from Poems 1937-1942 - Miserere) [x] * (Pieta)
- Stark in the pasture on the skull-shaped hill (from Poems 1937-1942 - Miserere) [x] * - Bernard James Naylor (Pieta)
- Sybil (The storm/ bends the branches) (from Hölderlin's Madness) *
- Sybil (The storm/ bends the branches) (from Hölderlin's Madness) - Eric Hudes *
- Taurus: the Bull (Lunging Beast, Bulging hide, Fatalist) - Geoffrey Bush *
- Tenebrae (It is finished) (from Poems 1937-1942 - Miserere) [x] *
- Tenebrae (It is finished) (from Poems 1937-1942 - Miserere) - Bernard James Naylor [x] *
- The half of life (Adorned with yellow pears) (from Hölderlin's Madness) CAT CZE FRE FRE IRI RUS *
- The half of life (Adorned with yellow pears) (from Hölderlin's Madness) - Eric Hudes CAT CZE FRE FRE IRI RUS *
- The Night was Time (from Poems 1937-1942) [x] * - Bernard James Naylor ('The three stars' and 'Epode')
- The Night was Time (from Poems 1937-1942) [x] * (The three stars: a prophecy)
- The storm/ bends the branches (from Hölderlin's Madness) * (Sybil)
- The storm/ bends the branches (from Hölderlin's Madness) * - Eric Hudes (Sybil)
- 'The three stars' and 'Epode' (The Night was Time) (from Poems 1937-1942) - Bernard James Naylor [x] *
- The three stars: a prophecy (The Night was Time) (from Poems 1937-1942) [x] *
- They glitter, but they sing * - Geoffrey Bush (Pisces: the Fish )
- This burly bent, much burdened figure, who * - Geoffrey Bush (Aquarius: the Water-carrier )
- This fishy thing that sideways crawls But neither swims nor flies * - Geoffrey Bush (Cancer: the Crab )
- Virgo: the Virgin (Where waterfalls and willows and interstices Of night blue undissolved by day perform) - Geoffrey Bush *
- Where waterfalls and willows and interstices Of night blue undissolved by day perform * - Geoffrey Bush (Virgo: the Virgin )
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