Texts by R. Bulwer-Lytton set in Art Songs and Choral Works
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Texts set in art song or choral works (not necessarily comprehensive):
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- Absence (Not in my life but yours I live) - F. Allitsen
- All the phantoms of the future, all the spectres of the past (from Marah) - F. Allitsen (Omens and oracles)
- A Remembrance ('Twas eve and May when last, through tears)
- At Paris it was, at the opera there; - E. Dickson (Aux Italiens)
- Aux Italiens (At Paris it was, at the opera there;)
- Because she hath the sweetest eyes (from The Poems of Owen Meredith, Volume I - 2. Book II. Absence) (Lines) - H. Willan
- Because she hath the sweetest eyes (from The Poems of Owen Meredith, Volume I - 2. Book II. Absence) (The Message) - H. Willan
- Ceres hath her harvest sweet GER (Les espices sont a Ceres) -
- Dedication (Then, if she smile on you, my Songs) (from The Poems of Owen Meredith, Volume I - 2. Book II. Absence) - H. Willan
- Doubts (All the phantoms of the future, all the spectres of the past) (from Marah) - F. Allitsen
- I may not kiss away the tears that still - B. Thomson (The first farewell)
- Les espices sont a Ceres (Ceres hath her harvest sweet) GER
- Lines (Because she hath the sweetest eyes) (from The Poems of Owen Meredith, Volume I - 2. Book II. Absence)
- Love's quarrel (Standing by the river, gazing on the river) - C. Scott
- Not in my life but yours I live - F. Allitsen (Absence)
- Oh! I thought of her grave below the hill (Aux Italiens) - E. Dickson, as Dolores
- Omens and oracles (All the phantoms of the future, all the spectres of the past) (from Marah)
- Omens and Oracles (Phantoms of the future, spectres of the past) - C. Ives
- Phantoms of the future, spectres of the past - C. Ives
- She comes, she comes — the burden of the deeps! - R. Boughton (The Invincible Armada)
- Since we parted yester eve - F. Allitsen (Since we parted)
- Since we parted (Since we parted yester eve) - F. Allitsen
- Standing by the river, gazing on the river - C. Scott (Love's quarrel)
- Summer night (The summer night fills heaven's remotest spheres) (from Marah) - H. Willan
- The first farewell (I may not kiss away the tears that still) - B. Thomson
- The Invincible Armada (She comes, she comes — the burden of the deeps!) - R. Boughton
- The Living Dead (At Paris it was, at the opera there;) - E. Dickson
- The Message (Because she hath the sweetest eyes) (from The Poems of Owen Meredith, Volume I - 2. Book II. Absence)
- Then, if she smile on you, my Songs (from The Poems of Owen Meredith, Volume I - 2. Book II. Absence) - H. Willan (Lines)
- The summer night fills heaven's remotest spheres (from Marah) - H. Willan (Summer night)
- 'Twas eve and May when last, thro' tears (A Remembrance) - L. Godowsky
- 'Twas eve and May when last, through tears - L. Godowsky (A Remembrance)
- 'Twas eve and May ('Twas eve and May when last, through tears) - L. Godowsky
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