Author: Edward Carpenter (1844 - 1929)
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Text Compilations
- Sketches from Life in Town and Country and Some Verses
- Towards Democracy
- Who Shall Command the Heart
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- A tiny perfect sea-shell on the shore (from Who Shall Command the Heart) - John Woods Duke (The babe)
- A trio perfect: the man, the woman, and the babe: (from Who Shall Command the Heart) (The babe)
- April (O April, month of Nymphs and Fauns and Cupids) (from Towards Democracy)
- April (O April, month of Nymphs and Fauns and Cupids) (from Towards Democracy) - Henry Balfour Gardiner
- Child of the lonely heart (Child of the lonely heart) (from Towards Democracy) [x]
- Child of the lonely heart (Child of the lonely heart) (from Towards Democracy) - Rutland Boughton [x]
- Child of the lonely heart (from Towards Democracy) [x] (Child of the lonely heart)
- Child of the lonely heart (from Towards Democracy) [x] - Rutland Boughton (Child of the lonely heart)
- Christmas Eve (Hark! The bells ringing!) (from Towards Democracy)
- Christmas Eve (Hark! The bells ringing!) (from Towards Democracy) - Edgar Leslie Bainton
- England, arise! The long long night is over (from Sketches from Life in Town and Country and Some Verses) (England, arise!)
- England, arise! The long long night is over (from Sketches from Life in Town and Country and Some Verses) - Edward Carpenter, Edgar F. Day, Eric Harding Thiman, Arthur Sydney Warrell (England, arise!)
- England, arise! The long long night is over (from Sketches from Life in Town and Country and Some Verses) - Ralph Vaughan Williams (Guildford ("England Arise"))
- England, arise! (England, arise! The long long night is over) (from Sketches from Life in Town and Country and Some Verses)
- England, arise! (England, arise! The long long night is over) (from Sketches from Life in Town and Country and Some Verses) - Edward Carpenter, Edgar F. Day, Eric Harding Thiman, Arthur Sydney Warrell
- Fly messenger! through the streets of the cities ancle-plumed Mercury fly! (from Towards Democracy) [x] - Rutland Boughton (Fly messenger)
- Fly messenger (Fly messenger! through the streets of the cities ancle-plumed Mercury fly!) (from Towards Democracy) - Rutland Boughton [x]
- Four Madrigals on Fragments by Edward Carpenter [song cycle] () - Paul Siskind [x]
- Guildford ("England Arise") (England, arise! The long long night is over) (from Sketches from Life in Town and Country and Some Verses) - Ralph Vaughan Williams
- Hark! The bells ringing! (from Towards Democracy) (Christmas Eve)
- Hark! The bells ringing! (from Towards Democracy) - Edgar Leslie Bainton (Christmas Eve)
- High in my chamber I hear the deep bells chime (from Towards Democracy) [x] (High in my chamber)
- High in my chamber I hear the deep bells chime (from Towards Democracy) [x] - Rutland Boughton (Midnight)
- High in my chamber (High in my chamber I hear the deep bells chime) (from Towards Democracy) [x]
- Let your mind be quiet, realising the beauty of the world (from Towards Democracy) (The Lake of Beauty)
- Let your mind be quiet, realising the beauty of the world (from Towards Democracy) - Rutland Boughton (The Lake of Beauty)
- Little heart within thy cage so many years (from Towards Democracy) - Edgar Leslie Bainton (Little heart within thy cage)
- Little heart within thy cage (Little heart within thy cage so many years) (from Towards Democracy) - Edgar Leslie Bainton
- Midnight (High in my chamber I hear the deep bells chime) (from Towards Democracy) - Rutland Boughton [x]
- O April, month of Nymphs and Fauns and Cupids (from Towards Democracy) (April)
- O April, month of Nymphs and Fauns and Cupids (from Towards Democracy) - Henry Balfour Gardiner (April)
- O Freedom, beautiful beyond compare (from Towards Democracy) [x] - Rutland Boughton (To Freedom)
- On the outskirts of a great city (from Towards Democracy) [x] (The triumph of civilisation)
- On the outskirts of a great city (from Towards Democracy) [x] - Rutland Boughton (The triumph of civilisation)
- Once more the dead Christ lies (from Towards Democracy) [x] (The dead Christ)
- Once more the dead Christ lies (from Towards Democracy) [x] - Rutland Boughton (The dead Christ)
- Standing beyond Time (Standing beyond Time) (from Towards Democracy) - Rutland Boughton [x]
- Standing beyond Time (from Towards Democracy) [x] - Rutland Boughton (Standing beyond Time)
- The babe (A tiny perfect sea-shell on the shore ) (from Who Shall Command the Heart) - John Woods Duke
- The babe (A trio perfect: the man, the woman, and the babe:) (from Who Shall Command the Heart)
- The city of the sun () - Edward Carpenter [x]
- The dead Christ (Once more the dead Christ lies) (from Towards Democracy) [x]
- The dead Christ (Once more the dead Christ lies) (from Towards Democracy) - Rutland Boughton [x]
- The Lake of Beauty (Let your mind be quiet, realising the beauty of the world) (from Towards Democracy)
- The Lake of Beauty (Let your mind be quiet, realising the beauty of the world) (from Towards Democracy) - Rutland Boughton
- The people to their land () - Edward Carpenter [x]
- The triumph of civilisation (On the outskirts of a great city) (from Towards Democracy) [x]
- The triumph of civilisation (On the outskirts of a great city) (from Towards Democracy) - Rutland Boughton [x]
- The wind () - Rutland Boughton [x]
- To Freedom (O Freedom, beautiful beyond compare) (from Towards Democracy) - Rutland Boughton [x]
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