Texts by G. Russell set in Art Songs and Choral Works

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George William Russell (1867 - 1935)

A. E. [pseudonym]

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A cabin on the mountainside (Connla's Well) - P. Campbell
A cabin the mountainside hid in a grassy nook - P. Campbell (Connla's Well)
A diamond glow of winter o'er the world (from The Earth Breath and Other Poems) - F. Hart (Winter)
A dream (I would I could weave in) (from The Earth Breath and Other Poems) - F. Hart
Affinity (You and I have found the secret way) (from Collected Poems) - F. Hart
A holy hill (Be still: be still: nor dare) (from Voices of the Stones) - A. Lora [x]
A leader (Though your eyes with tears were blind) (from The Earth Breath and Other Poems) - A. Bax, F. Hart
Alien (Dark glowed the vales of amethyst) (from The Earth Breath and Other Poems) - F. Hart
A new being (I know myself no more, my child) (from The Divine Vision and Other Poems) - F. Hart
A prayer (O Holy spirit of the Hazel, Hearken now) - P. Campbell [x]
As from our dream we died away (from Homeward: Songs by the Way) - A. Bax, F. Hart (Parting)
As one by one the veils took flight (from Collected Poems) - F. Hart (Creation)
Awakening (The lights shone down the street) (from Collected Poems) - F. Hart
Be still: be still: nor dare (from Voices of the Stones) - A. Lora (A holy hill) [x]
Breathe a gay good-night () - E. Deale [x]
Carrowmore (It's a lonely road through bogland to the lake at Carrowmore) (from The Divine Vision and Other Poems) - G. Bantock
Connla's Well (A cabin the mountainside hid in a grassy nook) - P. Campbell
Creation (As one by one the veils took flight) (from Collected Poems) - F. Hart
Dark glowed the vales of amethyst (from The Earth Breath and Other Poems) - F. Hart (Alien)
Dawn (Still as the holy of holies breathes the vast) (from Homeward: Songs by the Way) - F. Hart
Desire (With Thee a moment! Then what dreams have play!) (from Homeward: Songs by the Way) - F. Hart
Destiny (Like winds or waters were her ways) (from Homeward: Songs by the Way) - F. Hart
Does the earth grow grey with grief (from Homeward: Songs by the Way) - F. Hart (The pain of earth)
Dream love (I did not deem it half so sweet) (from The Earth Breath and Other Poems) - F. Hart
Dusk wraps the village in its dim caress (from Homeward: Songs by the Way) - F. Hart (Dusk)
Dusk (Dusk wraps the village in its dim caress) (from Homeward: Songs by the Way) - F. Hart
Dust (I heard them in their sadness say) (from Homeward: Songs by the Way) - F. Hart
Echoes (The might that shaped itself through storm and stress) (from Homeward: Songs by the Way) - F. Hart
Ere I lose myself in the vastness and drowse myself with the peace (from The Earth Breath and Other Poems) - F. Hart (Love)
Far up the dim twilight fluttered (from Homeward: Songs by the Way) - F. Hart, G. Read (The unknown god)
Freedom (I will not follow you, my bird) (from The Divine Vision and Other Poems) - F. Hart
Frolic (The children were shouting together) (from The Divine Vision and Other Poems) - E. Bainton, G. Bantock, J. Coulthard, P. Glanville-Hicks, F. Hart
Heart-hidden from the outer things I rose (from Homeward: Songs by the Way) - F. Hart (Night)
Heroic love (Ere I lose myself in the vastness and drowse myself with the peace) (from The Earth Breath and Other Poems) - F. Hart
How shallow is this mere that gleams! - F. Hart (Reflections)
I begin through the grass once again to be bound to the Lord (from Collected Poems) - B. Treharne (Reconciliation)
I did not deem it half so sweet (from The Earth Breath and Other Poems) - F. Hart (Dream love)
I heard them in their sadness say (from Homeward: Songs by the Way) - F. Hart (Dust)
I know myself no more, my child (from The Divine Vision and Other Poems) - A. Bax, F. Hart (A new being)
I know myself no more, my child (I know myself no more, my child) (from The Divine Vision and Other Poems) - A. Bax
Illusion (What is the love of shadowy lips) (from The Earth Breath and Other Poems) - F. Hart
Image of beauty, when I gaze on thee (from The Earth Breath and Other Poems) - F. Hart (Janus)
Inspiration (Lightest of dancers, with no thought) (from Collected Poems) - F. Hart
I pitied one whose tattered dress (from Homeward: Songs by the Way) - F. Hart (The vesture of the soul)
I said my pleasure shall not move (from Homeward: Songs by the Way) - F. Hart (Our thrones decay)
I thought, beloved, to have brought to you (from The Earth Breath and Other Poems) - F. Hart (The gift)
It's a lonely road through bogland to the lake at Carrowmore (from The Divine Vision and Other Poems) - G. Bantock (Carrowmore)
Its edges foamed with amethyst and rose (from Homeward: Songs by the Way) - S. Dillon, F. Hart (The great breath)
I will not follow you, my bird (from The Divine Vision and Other Poems) - F. Hart (Freedom)
I woke to find my pillow wet (from Collected Poems) - F. Hart (The dream)
I would I could weave in (from The Earth Breath and Other Poems) - F. Hart (A dream)
Janus (Image of beauty, when I gaze on thee) (from The Earth Breath and Other Poems) - F. Hart
Light and dark (Not the soul that's whitest) (from The Divine Vision and Other Poems) - F. Hart
Lightest of dancers, with no thought (from Collected Poems) - F. Hart (Inspiration)
Like winds or waters were her ways (from Homeward: Songs by the Way) - F. Hart (Destiny)
Lone and forgotten (from Voices of the Stones) - J. Edmunds (The lonely) [x]
Love (Ere I lose myself in the vastness and drowse myself with the peace) (from The Earth Breath and Other Poems)
Men have made them gods of love (from Homeward: Songs by the Way) - F. Hart (Pain)
Mistrust (You look at me with wan, bright eyes) (from Collected Poems) - F. Hart
Momentary (The sweetest song was ever sung) (from Collected Poems) - F. Hart
Mother, with whom our lives should be (from Homeward: Songs by the Way) - F. Hart (The Veils of Maya)
Natural magic (We are tired who follow after) (from Homeward: Songs by the Way) - F. Hart
Night (Heart-hidden from the outer things I rose) (from Homeward: Songs by the Way) - F. Hart
Not the soul that's whitest (from The Divine Vision and Other Poems) - F. Hart (Light and dark)
Oh, at the eagle's height (from The Earth Breath and Other Poems) - F. Hart (The mountaineer)
O Holy spirit of the Hazel, Hearken now - P. Campbell [x]
Oh, the sudden wings arising from the ploughed fields brown - I. Boyle
On me to rest, my bird my bird (from The Divine Vision and Other Poems) - W. Busch, P. Glanville-Hicks, F. Hart, J. Raynor (Rest)
Our thrones decay (I said my pleasure shall not move) (from Homeward: Songs by the Way) - F. Hart
Pain (Men have made them gods of love) (from Homeward: Songs by the Way) - F. Hart
Parting (As from our dream we died away) (from Homeward: Songs by the Way) - A. Bax, F. Hart
Recall (What call may draw thee back again) (from The Divine Vision and Other Poems) - F. Hart
Reconciliation (I begin through the grass once again to be bound to the Lord) (from Collected Poems) - B. Treharne
Reflections (How shallow is this mere that gleams!) - F. Hart
Refuge (Twilight, a timid fawn, went glimmering by) (from The Divine Vision and Other Poems) - F. Hart
Rest (On me to rest, my bird my bird) (from The Divine Vision and Other Poems) - W. Busch, P. Glanville-Hicks, F. Hart, J. Raynor
Sacrifice (Those delicate wanderers) (from Homeward: Songs by the Way) - F. Hart
Still as the holy of holies breathes the vast (from Homeward: Songs by the Way) - F. Hart (Dawn)
The awakening (Well it is gone now) (from The Earth Breath and Other Poems) - F. Hart
The children were shouting together (from The Divine Vision and Other Poems) - E. Bainton, G. Bantock, J. Coulthard, P. Glanville-Hicks, F. Hart (Frolic)
The dream (I woke to find my pillow wet) (from Collected Poems) - F. Hart
The gift (I thought, beloved, to have brought to you) (from The Earth Breath and Other Poems) - F. Hart
The great breath (Its edges foamed with amethyst and rose) (from Homeward: Songs by the Way) - S. Dillon, F. Hart
The hero first thought it to him 'twas a deed (from Homeward: Songs by the Way) (Truth) - F. Hart
The hero first thought it (from Homeward: Songs by the Way) - F. Hart (Truth)
The Joy of Earth (Oh, the sudden wings arising from the ploughed fields brown) - I. Boyle
The last hero (We laid him to rest with tenderness) - F. Hart
The lights shone down the street (from Collected Poems) - F. Hart (Awakening)
The lonely (Lone and forgotten) (from Voices of the Stones) - J. Edmunds [x]
The Mid-World (This is the red, red region) (from The Earth Breath and Other Poems) - F. Hart
The might that shaped itself through storm and stress (from Homeward: Songs by the Way) - F. Hart (Echoes)
The mountaineer (Oh, at the eagle's height) (from The Earth Breath and Other Poems) - F. Hart
The pain of earth (Does the earth grow grey with grief) (from Homeward: Songs by the Way) - F. Hart
There's a cure for sorrow in the well at Ballylee - P. Campbell (The Well of All-Healing)
The sea was hoary, hoary (from The Earth Breath and Other Poems) - F. Hart (The voice of the sea)
The sweetest song was ever sung (from Collected Poems) - F. Hart (Momentary)
The unknown god (Far up the dim twilight fluttered) (from Homeward: Songs by the Way) - F. Hart, G. Read
The Veils of Maya (Mother, with whom our lives should be) (from Homeward: Songs by the Way) - F. Hart
The vesture of the soul (I pitied one whose tattered dress) (from Homeward: Songs by the Way) - F. Hart
The voice of the sea (The sea was hoary, hoary) (from The Earth Breath and Other Poems) - F. Hart
The well of all-healing (There's a cure for sorrow in the well at Ballylee) - P. Campbell
The winds, the stars, and the skies though wrought - F. Hart (Unconscious)
This is the red, red region (from The Earth Breath and Other Poems) - F. Hart (The Mid-World)
Those delicate wanderers (from Homeward: Songs by the Way) - F. Hart (Sacrifice)
Though your eyes with tears were blind (from The Earth Breath and Other Poems) - A. Bax, F. Hart (A leader)
Truth (The hero first thought it) (from Homeward: Songs by the Way) - F. Hart
Twilight, a timid fawn, went glimmering by (from The Divine Vision and Other Poems) - F. Hart (Refuge)
Unconscious (The winds, the stars, and the skies though wrought) - F. Hart
Waiting (When the dawn comes forth I wonder) (from Homeward: Songs by the Way) - F. Hart
Was it because the Easter Time (Was it because the Easter time) - B. Boydell
Was it because the Easter time - B. Boydell
We are tired who follow after (from Homeward: Songs by the Way) - F. Hart (Natural magic)
We laid him to rest with tenderness - F. Hart (The last hero)
Well it is gone now (from The Earth Breath and Other Poems) - F. Hart
What call may draw thee back again (from The Divine Vision and Other Poems) - F. Hart (Recall)
What is the love of shadowy lips (from The Earth Breath and Other Poems) - F. Hart (Illusion)
When mine hour is come let no teardrop fall (from Collected Poems) (When) - S. Dillon, F. Hart
When mine hour is come (from Collected Poems) - S. Dillon, F. Hart (When)
When the dawn comes forth I wonder (from Homeward: Songs by the Way) - F. Hart (Waiting)
When (When mine hour is come) (from Collected Poems) - S. Dillon, F. Hart
Winter (A diamond glow of winter o'er the world) (from The Earth Breath and Other Poems) - F. Hart
With Thee a moment! Then what dreams have play! (from Homeward: Songs by the Way) - F. Hart (Desire)
You and I have found the secret way (from Collected Poems) - F. Hart (Affinity)
You look at me with wan, bright eyes (from Collected Poems) - F. Hart (Mistrust)

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