Author: Francis Quarles (1592 - 1644)
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Texts set to music as art song or choral works [warning - not necessarily comprehensive]
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- A divine rapture (E'en like two little bank-dividing brooks)
- J. Beeson: On a spiritual fever
- A good night (Close now thine eyes and rest secure
) (from Divine Fancies: digested into epigrammes, meditations, and observations)
- A good night (Close thine eyes and sleep secure ) - J. Beeson
- Canticle I (My beloved is mine) (Ev'n like two little bank-dividing brooks ) - B. Britten FRE
- Close now thine eyes and rest secure
(from Divine Fancies: digested into epigrammes, meditations, and observations)
- Close thine eyes and sleep secure (Close thine eyes and sleep secure ) - M. Plumstead, H. Purcell
- Close thine eyes and sleep secure
- P. Bowles: On a quiet conscience
- M. Plumstead, H. Purcell: Close thine eyes and sleep secure
- J. Beeson: A good night
- E'en like two little bank-dividing brooks
- J. Beeson: On a spiritual fever
- Epigram (My soul, sit thou a patient looker-on) - J. Beeson
- Ev'n like two little bank-divided brooks FRE
- D. Sisco: My best beloved
- B. Britten: Canticle I (My beloved is mine)
- Ev'n like two little bank-dividing brooks
FRE
- D. Sisco: My best beloved
- B. Britten: Canticle I (My beloved is mine)
- Job XIII. XXIV. Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and holdest me for thy enemie? (Why dost thou shade thy lovely face? O why
)
- R. Holloway: Why dost thou shade thy lovely face?
- My beloved is mine, and I am his; He feedeth among the lilies (Ev'n like two little bank-dividing brooks
) FRE
- D. Sisco: My best beloved
- B. Britten: Canticle I (My beloved is mine)
- My best beloved (Ev'n like two little bank-dividing brooks ) - D. Sisco FRE
- My soul, sit thou a patient looker-on
- J. Beeson: Epigram
- Noel! Wassail! Good day, good day
- B. Britten: Variation VI: (Finale) Noel!
- On a quiet conscience (Close thine eyes and sleep secure ) - P. Bowles
- On a spiritual fever (E'en like two little bank-dividing brooks) - J. Beeson
- On Death (Why should we not, as well, desire death) - J. Beeson
- On the World (The world's an Inn; and I her guest) - J. Beeson
- Our life is nothing but a winter's day (Our life is nothing but a winter's day: ) (from Divine Fancies: digested into epigrammes, meditations, and observations) - E. Maconchy
- Our life is nothing but a winter's day:
(from Divine Fancies: digested into epigrammes, meditations, and observations)
- E. Maconchy: Our life is nothing but a winter's day
- The earth trembled (The earth trembled; and heav'n's clos'd eye ) - H. Purcell
- The earth trembled; and heav'n's clos'd eye
- H. Purcell: The earth trembled
- The world's an Inn; and I her guest
- J. Beeson: On the World
- Variation VI: (Finale) Noel! (Noel! Wassail! Good day, good day) - B. Britten
- Why dost thou shade thy lovely face? (Why dost thou shade thy lovely face? O why ) - R. Holloway
- Why dost thou shade thy lovely face? O why
- R. Holloway: Why dost thou shade thy lovely face?
- Why should we not, as well, desire death
- J. Beeson: On Death
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