Texts by A. Noyes set in Art Songs and Choral Works

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Alfred Noyes (1880 - 1958)

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

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A slumber song of the Madonna (Sleep, little baby, I love thee) (from Forty Singing Seamen and Other Poems - Slumber Songs of the Madonna) - S. Barber, M. Head
A Song of Union () - E. Elgar [x]
Bacchus and the Pirates (Half a hundred terrible pig-tails, pirates famous in song and story) - M. Brough
Because her heart is all too proud - E. Elgar
Come, choose your road and away, my lad (from The Enchanted Isle and Other Poems) - M. Kern, R. Parfrey, J. West (The Call of the Spring)
Come in () - S. Coleridge-Taylor [x]
Cown down to Kew (There's a barrel-organ carolling across a golden street) - C. Deis
Go down to Kew in lilac-time, in lilac-time, in lilac-time (The barrel-organ) - C. Deis, A. Foote, G. Peel, W. Steere, C. Willeby
Go down to Kew in lilac time (There's a barrel-organ carolling across a golden street) - G. Peel
Great Sawara, the painter (from A Tale of Old Japan)
Half a hundred terrible pig-tails, pirates famous in song and story - M. Brough (Bacchus and the Pirates)
I cannot tell why - G. Coleridge-Taylor (The Rustling of Grass)
I lived in a cottage adown in the West - G. Peel (Song of the wooden-legged fiddler)
Land of dead dreams (They are crammed and jammed in buses) - W. Mayer
Lilac-time (There's a barrel-organ carolling across a golden street) - A. Foote, W. Steere, C. Willeby
Merchant adventurers () - E. Elgar [x]
Moon and flower and butterfly (from A Tale of Old Japan)
Oh, many a lover (O, many a lover sighs) - B. Burrows
O, many a lover sighs - B. Burrows (Song)
O, once, by Cuckmere Haven (from The Elfin Artist and Other Poems) - E. Charles (The Sussex sailor)
Over the Blue Mountains - E. Elgar
Peonies, peonies crowned the May! (from A Tale of Old Japan)
Peonies, peonies thronged the May (from A Tale of Old Japan)
Pilot, how far from home? (from The Enchanted Isle and Other Poems) - C. Seiler (The lights of home)
Red o' the dawn () - S. Coleridge-Taylor [x]
Sailing westward () - E. Elgar [x]
Shakespeare's Kingdom (When Shakespeare came to London) - E. Elgar FRE
Sleep, little baby, I love thee (from Forty Singing Seamen and Other Poems - Slumber Songs of the Madonna) - S. Barber, M. Head, J. Keel, C. Taylor
Sleep little baby (Sleep, little baby, I love thee) (from Forty Singing Seamen and Other Poems - Slumber Songs of the Madonna) - C. Taylor
Slumber Song of the Madonna (Sleep, little baby, I love thee) (from Forty Singing Seamen and Other Poems - Slumber Songs of the Madonna) - J. Keel
So, in ber blue kimono (from A Tale of Old Japan)
Song of the wooden-legged fiddler (I lived in a cottage adown in the West) - G. Peel
Song (O, many a lover sighs)
Song (What is there hid in the heart of a rose) (from The Forest Of Wild Thyme: A Tale For Children Under Ninety)
Song () - B. Burrows, R. Werther [x]
So, when the rich young merchant (from A Tale of Old Japan)
The barrel-organ (There's a barrel-organ carolling across a golden street)
The Blue Mountains (A Song of Australia) (Over the Blue Mountains) - E. Elgar
The Call of Spring (Come, choose your road and away, my lad) (from The Enchanted Isle and Other Poems) - M. Kern
The Call of the Spring (Come, choose your road and away, my lad) (from The Enchanted Isle and Other Poems) - R. Parfrey, J. West
The heart of a rose (What is there hid in the heart of a rose) (from The Forest Of Wild Thyme: A Tale For Children Under Ninety) - J. Duke, E. Warren
The Heart of Canada (Because her heart is all too proud) - E. Elgar
The highwayman (The wind was a torrent of darkness among the gusty trees) (from Forty Singing Seamen and Other Poems) - M. Andrews, C. Gibbs, D. Taylor
The Immortal Legions () - E. Elgar [x]
The Islands (A Song of New Zealand) () - E. Elgar [x]
The lights of home (Pilot, how far from home?) (from The Enchanted Isle and Other Poems) - C. Seiler
There's a barrel-organ carolling across a golden street - C. Deis, A. Foote, G. Peel, W. Steere, C. Willeby (The barrel-organ)
The Rustling of Grass (I cannot tell why) - G. Coleridge-Taylor
The Sussex sailor (O, once, by Cuckmere Haven) (from The Elfin Artist and Other Poems) - E. Charles
The wind was a torrent of darkness among the gusty trees (from Forty Singing Seamen and Other Poems) - M. Andrews, C. Gibbs, D. Taylor (The highwayman)
They are crammed and jammed in buses - W. Mayer
Waiting () - S. Coleridge-Taylor [x]
What is there hid in the heart of a rose (from The Forest Of Wild Thyme: A Tale For Children Under Ninety) - J. Duke, E. Warren (Song)
When Shakespeare came to London FRE - E. Elgar (Shakespeare's Kingdom)
Yoichi Tenko, the painter (from A Tale of Old Japan)
Your heart's desire () - S. Coleridge-Taylor [x]

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