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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