Author: James Stephens (1882 - 1950)
Text Compilations
- A Poetry Recital
- Collected Poems
- Here are Ladies
- Insurrections
- Kings and the Moon
- Little Things
- Reincarnations
- Songs from the Clay
- Strict Joy
- The Adventures of Seumas Beg [and] The Rocky Road to Dublin
- The Hill of Vision
Texts set to music as art song or choral works [warning - not necessarily comprehensive]
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- A bird sings now (A bird sings now) (from The Hill of Vision) - John Woods Duke, Walter Byron Mourant
- A bird sings now (from The Hill of Vision) - John Woods Duke, Walter Byron Mourant (A bird sings now)
- A bird sings now (from The Hill of Vision) (Ora pro nobis)
- A field of daisies (In the scented bud of the morning -- O) (from Here are Ladies) - Roger Quilter SPA
- A glass of beer (The lanky hank of a she in the inn over there) (from Reincarnations) - Herbert Kennedy Andrews, James Walter Wilson
- A long green swell (from Insurrections) (Chill of the eve)
- A long green swell (from Insurrections) - Samuel Hans Adler, John Woods Duke, Walter Byron Mourant (Chill of the eve)
- A man came to me at the fair (from Songs from the Clay) (The market)
- A man came to me at the fair (from Songs from the Clay) - Cecil Armstrong Gibbs (The market)
- A man was sitting underneath a tree (from Insurrections) (Seumas Beg)
- A man was sitting underneath a tree (from Insurrections) - Tom Dobson (Seumas Beg)
- And it was stormy weather (Now the winds are riding by) (from Songs from the Clay) - Samuel Hans Adler
- And it was windy weather (Now the winds are riding by) (from Songs from the Clay)
- And suddenly I wakened up in a fright (from The Adventures of Seumas Beg [and] The Rocky Road to Dublin) (Midnight)
- And suddenly I wakened up in such a fright (from The Adventures of Seumas Beg [and] The Rocky Road to Dublin) (Midnight)
- And suddenly I wakened up in such a fright (from The Adventures of Seumas Beg [and] The Rocky Road to Dublin) - John Woods Duke, Horace Lapp (Midnight)
- And then I pressed the shell (from Insurrections) (The shell)
- And then I pressed the shell (from Insurrections) - Walter Byron Mourant (The shell)
- And then I wakened up in such a fright (from The Adventures of Seumas Beg [and] The Rocky Road to Dublin) (Midnight)
- And then / There rung a bell (from Insurrections) (The Tale of Mad Brigid)
- And then / There rung a bell (from Insurrections) - Walter Byron Mourant (The Tale of Mad Brigid)
- An evening falls (At eve the horse is freed of plough or wain) (from Songs from the Clay) - Walter Byron Mourant
- Anthony O'Daly (Anthony!/ Since your limbs were laid out) (from Reincarnations)
- Anthony O'Daly (Anthony!/ Since your limbs were laid out) (from Reincarnations) - Samuel Barber, Walter Byron Mourant
- Anthony!/ Since your limbs were laid out (from Reincarnations) (Anthony O'Daly)
- Anthony!/ Since your limbs were laid out (from Reincarnations) - Samuel Barber, Walter Byron Mourant (Anthony O'Daly)
- A reply (Lift up my heart, and sing again) (from Songs from the Clay - A Reply) - Freda Mary Swain
- A rose for a young head (from Insurrections) (The watcher)
- A rose for a young head (from Insurrections) - Cecil Forsyth, Bryceson Treharne (The watcher)
- Arpeggio (He wills to be) (from Collected Poems) [x]
- Arpeggio (He wills to be) (from Collected Poems) - Walter Byron Mourant [x]
- As bird to nest, when, moodily (from Strict Joy) [x] * (Sarasvati)
- As bird to nest, when, moodily (from Strict Joy) [x] * - Arthur Shepherd (Sarasvati)
- As down the road she wambled slow (from The Hill of Vision) (Bessie Bobtail)
- As down the road she wambled slow (from The Hill of Vision) - Samuel Barber, Walter Byron Mourant (Bessie Bobtail)
- As evening falls (At eve the horse is freed of plough or wain) (from Songs from the Clay)
- As it was windy weather (Now the winds are riding by) (from Songs from the Clay) - Dorothy Parke
- As lily grows up easily (from Reincarnations) (Peggy Mitchell)
- As lily grows up easily (from Reincarnations) - John Woods Duke, Walter Byron Mourant, Dorothy Parke, Joan Trimble (Peggy Mitchell)
- A snowy field! A stable piled (from Collected Poems) [x] * (Christmas at Freelands)
- A snowy field (The Red-Bud, the Kentucky Tree) (from Collected Poems) - Dorothy Parke [x] *
- A song for lovers (The moon is shining on the sea) (from Songs from the Clay)
- A song for lovers (The moon is shining on the sea) (from Songs from the Clay) - (Joseph) Deems Taylor
- At eve the horse is freed of plough or wain (from Songs from the Clay) - Walter Byron Mourant (An evening falls)
- At eve the horse is freed of plough or wain (from Songs from the Clay) (As evening falls)
- At four o'clock, in dainty talk (from The Adventures of Seumas Beg [and] The Rocky Road to Dublin) (Grafton Street)
- At four o'clock, in dainty talk (from The Adventures of Seumas Beg [and] The Rocky Road to Dublin) - Tom Dobson (Grafton Street)
- At the edge of the sea (There was a river that rose) (from Songs from the Clay)
- At the edge of the sea (There was a river that rose) (from Songs from the Clay) - Tom Dobson
- At the end of the bough, at the top of the tree (from Here are Ladies) FRE (Sweet apple)
- At the end of the bough, at the top of the tree (from Here are Ladies) FRE - Harry R. Spier (Sweet apple)
- A visit from the moon () - Thomas Frederick Dunhill [x]
- A woman is a branchy tree (A woman is a branchy tree) (from The Hill of Vision) - Leslie Mann, Walter Byron Mourant
- A woman is a branchy tree (from The Hill of Vision) - Leslie Mann, Walter Byron Mourant (A woman is a branchy tree)
- A woman is a branchy tree (from The Hill of Vision) (Wind and tree)
- Barbarians (I pause beside the stream and hear) (from Songs from the Clay)
- Barbarians (I pause beside the stream and hear) (from Songs from the Clay) - Walter Byron Mourant
- Bee! tell me whence do you come? (from Songs from the Clay) - Dorothy Parke (Queen of the Bees)
- Bee! tell me whence do you come? (from Songs from the Clay) (The messenger)
- Bee! tell me whence do you come? (from Songs from the Clay) - (Joseph) Deems Taylor (The messenger)
- Bessie Bobtail (As down the road she wambled slow) (from The Hill of Vision)
- Bessie Bobtail (As down the road she wambled slow) (from The Hill of Vision) - Samuel Barber, Walter Byron Mourant
- Breakfast time (The sun is always in the sky) (from The Adventures of Seumas Beg [and] The Rocky Road to Dublin)
- Breakfast time (The sun is always in the sky) (from The Adventures of Seumas Beg [and] The Rocky Road to Dublin) - Tom Dobson, Walter Byron Mourant
- Check (The night was creeping on the ground) (from The Adventures of Seumas Beg [and] The Rocky Road to Dublin)
- Check (The night was creeping on the ground) (from The Adventures of Seumas Beg [and] The Rocky Road to Dublin) - Arthur Butterworth, Walter Byron Mourant
- Chill of the eve (A long green swell) (from Insurrections)
- Chill of the eve (A long green swell) (from Insurrections) - Samuel Hans Adler, John Woods Duke, Walter Byron Mourant
- Christmas at Freelands (The Red-Bud, the Kentucky Tree) (from Collected Poems) [x] *
- Come with me, under my coat (from Reincarnations) - Samuel Barber, Horace Lapp, Walter Byron Mourant, Dorothy Parke (The coolin)
- Come with me, under my coat (from Reincarnations) (The coolun)
- Could you but see her (from Strict Joy) [x] * (The white swan)
- Could you but see her (from Strict Joy) [x] * - M. Bowles (The white swan)
- Dark wings (Sing while you may, O bird upon the tree!)
- Day by day/ the sun's broad beam (from Songs from the Clay) (This way to Winter)
- Day by day (from Songs from the Clay) (This way to Winter)
- Day by day (from Songs from the Clay) - Leslie Mann (This way to Winter)
- Dip and swing (from A Poetry Recital) * (The rose in the wind)
- Dip and swing (from A Poetry Recital) * - Seymour Barab, Walter Byron Mourant (The rose in the wind)
- Egan O'Rahilly (Here in a distant place I hold my tongue) (from Reincarnations)
- Egan O'Rahilly (Here in a distant place I hold my tongue) (from Reincarnations) - Walter Byron Mourant
- Every Sunday there's a throng (from The Adventures of Seumas Beg [and] The Rocky Road to Dublin) (Westland Row)
- Every Sunday there's a throng (from The Adventures of Seumas Beg [and] The Rocky Road to Dublin) - Tom Dobson (Westland Row)
- Everything that I can spy (Everything that I can spy) (from The Hill of Vision) - Walter Byron Mourant
- Everything that I can spy (from The Hill of Vision) - Walter Byron Mourant (Everything that I can spy)
- Follow, follow, follow ! (from The Hill of Vision - A Prelude and a Song) - Richard Hageman (Me company along)
- Gleaming in silver are the hills (from Songs from the Clay) (Washed in silver)
- Gleaming in silver are the hills (from Songs from the Clay) - Walter Byron Mourant (Washed in silver)
- Grafton Street (At four o'clock, in dainty talk) (from The Adventures of Seumas Beg [and] The Rocky Road to Dublin)
- Grafton Street (At four o'clock, in dainty talk) (from The Adventures of Seumas Beg [and] The Rocky Road to Dublin) - Tom Dobson
- Here in a distant place I hold my tongue (from Reincarnations) (Egan O'Rahilly)
- Here in a distant place I hold my tongue (from Reincarnations) - Walter Byron Mourant (Egan O'Rahilly)
- Hesperus (Upon the sober sky thy robes are spread) (from Songs from the Clay) FRE GER GER ITA
- Hesperus (Upon the sober sky thy robes are spread) (from Songs from the Clay) - Frederick M. May FRE GER GER ITA
- He wills to be (from Collected Poems) [x] (Arpeggio)
- He wills to be (from Collected Poems) [x] - Walter Byron Mourant (Arpeggio)
- I bent again unto the ground (from Songs from the Clay) (The voice of God)
- I bent again unto the ground (from Songs from the Clay) - Walter Byron Mourant (The voice of God)
- I can see (from Songs from the Clay) (The buds)
- I cling and swing (from The Adventures of Seumas Beg [and] The Rocky Road to Dublin) - Frank Bridge, Geoffrey Gwyther (So early in the morning, O)
- I cling and swing (from The Adventures of Seumas Beg [and] The Rocky Road to Dublin) (The fifteen acres)
- If the Moon had a hand (from Here are Ladies) - Henry C. F. Castleman (If the Moon)
- If the Moon had a hand (from Here are Ladies) (The Moon)
- If the Moon (If the Moon had a hand) (from Here are Ladies) - Henry C. F. Castleman
- I heard a bird at dawn (from Songs from the Clay) (The rivals)
- I heard a bird at dawn (from Songs from the Clay) - Seymour Barab, M. Bowles, Arthur Duff, Walter Byron Mourant, (Joseph) Deems Taylor, Roy Teed, L. J. White (The rivals)
- I know a girl (I know a girl) (from The Adventures of Seumas Beg [and] The Rocky Road to Dublin) - Horace Lapp
- I know a girl (from The Adventures of Seumas Beg [and] The Rocky Road to Dublin) - Horace Lapp (I know a girl)
- I know a girl (from The Adventures of Seumas Beg [and] The Rocky Road to Dublin) (The canal bank)
- I know a girl (from The Adventures of Seumas Beg [and] The Rocky Road to Dublin) - M. Bowles, Dorothy Parke, Anthony Strilko (The canal bank)
- I know the man without a soul (from Songs from the Clay) (The king of the fairy men)
- I know the man without a soul (from Songs from the Clay) - Sidney Homer, Freda Mary Swain (The king of the fairy men)
- I looked from Mount Derision at (from The Hill of Vision) (Nucleolus)
- I looked from Mount Derision at (from The Hill of Vision) - Freda Mary Swain (Nucleolus)
- In Dublin town the people see (from The Adventures of Seumas Beg [and] The Rocky Road to Dublin) (O'Connell Bridge)
- In Dublin town the people see (from The Adventures of Seumas Beg [and] The Rocky Road to Dublin) - Walter Byron Mourant (When you walk)
- Inis Fál (Now may we turn aside) (from Reincarnations) [x]
- Inis Fál (Now may we turn aside) (from Reincarnations) - Joan Trimble [x]
- In the bud of the morning-O (In the scented bud of the morning -- O) (from Here are Ladies) - Roger Quilter SPA
- In the café where I sit (from Songs from the Clay) (The four old men)
- In the café where I sit (from Songs from the Clay) - Freda Mary Swain (The four old men)
- In the night (There always is a noise when it is dark) (from Songs from the Clay)
- In the night (There always is a noise when it is dark) (from Songs from the Clay) - Edward Toner Cone
- In the poppy field (Mad Patsy said, he said to me) (from Reincarnations)
- In the poppy field (Mad Patsy said, he said to me) (from Reincarnations) - Joyce McGowan Clark, Joan Trimble
- In the scented bud of the morning -- O (from Here are Ladies) SPA - Roger Quilter (A field of daisies)
- In the scented bud of the morning -- O (from Here are Ladies) SPA - Roger Quilter (In the bud of the morning-O)
- In the scented bud of the morning-O (In the scented bud of the morning -- O) (from Here are Ladies) - Arthur Shepherd SPA
- In the scented bud of the morning -- O (from Here are Ladies) SPA - Arthur Shepherd (In the scented bud of the morning-O)
- In the scented bud of the morning -- O (from Here are Ladies) SPA (The daisies)
- In the scented bud of the morning -- O (from Here are Ladies) SPA - Seymour Barab, Samuel Barber, M. Bowles, John Edmunds, Roland Farley, Leslie Mann, Walter Byron Mourant, Michael Mulliner, Dorothy Parke, Marion Wyrill (The daisies)
- In the winter children go (from The Adventures of Seumas Beg [and] The Rocky Road to Dublin) (White fields)
- In the winter children go (from The Adventures of Seumas Beg [and] The Rocky Road to Dublin) - Walter Byron Mourant (White fields)
- I pause beside the stream and hear (from Songs from the Clay) (Barbarians)
- I pause beside the stream and hear (from Songs from the Clay) - Walter Byron Mourant (Barbarians)
- It is not on her gown (from Reincarnations) (Nancy Walsh)
- It is not on her gown (from Reincarnations) - Walter Byron Mourant (Nancy Walsh)
- I was frightened, for a wind (from The Adventures of Seumas Beg [and] The Rocky Road to Dublin) (The secret)
- I was frightened, for a wind (from The Adventures of Seumas Beg [and] The Rocky Road to Dublin) - Walter Byron Mourant (The secret)
- I went to the Wood of Flowers (from The Adventures of Seumas Beg [and] The Rocky Road to Dublin) (The Wood of Flowers)
- I went to the Wood of Flowers (from The Adventures of Seumas Beg [and] The Rocky Road to Dublin) - Ivy Frances Klein, n
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