Texts by A. Swinburne set in Art Songs and Choral Works
Text Collections:
- A Century of Roundels
- A Midsummer Holiday and Other Poems
- Astrophel and Other Poems
- Atalanta in Calydon
- Chastelard, a Tragedy
- Lesbia Brandon
- Poems and Ballads
- Poems and Ballads, Second Series
- Poems and Ballads, Third Series
- Songs Before Sunrise
- The Sisters
- Tristram of Lyonesse and Other Poems
Texts set in art song or choral works (not necessarily comprehensive):
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- A baby's epitaph (April made me: winter laid me here away asleep) (from Poems and Ballads, Third Series) - J. Densmore
- A Baby's feet, like sea-shells pink (from A Century of Roundels) - E. Freer (Étude réaliste)
- A Ballad of Dreamland (I hid my heart in a nest of roses) - A. Fitzgerald
- Across and along, as the bay's breadth opens, and o'er us (from A Century of Roundels - In Guernsey)
- A cycle of roundels () - R. Boughton [x]
- A day, a night (For a day and a night Love sang to us, played with us) (from Poems and Ballads, Second Series) - V. Harris
- A Dialogue (Death, if thou wilt, fain would I plead with thee) - H. King
- Age and Song: To Barry Cornwall (In vain men tell us time can alter) (from Poems and Ballads, Second Series)
- Albeit the Venice girls get praise (Ballad of the women of Paris) -
- A leave-taking (Let us go hence, my songs; she will not hear) - A. Ribári
- Álmatlan szerelem (Gyötrött fejét a Szerelem)
- A Lyke-Wake Song (Fair of face, full of pride) (from Lesbia Brandon) - J. Lang-Hyde
- A marching song (We mix from many lands) (from Songs Before Sunrise) - W. Webber
- A match (If love were what the rose is) (from Poems and Ballads) - N. O'Neill, C. Rogers
- Amour et sommeil (Gisant endormi entre les battements de la nuit) (from Poèmes et Ballades) - H. Poupard [x]
- An interlude (In the greenest growth of the Maytime) (from Poems and Ballads) - L. Ronald
- April made me: winter laid me here away asleep (from Poems and Ballads, Third Series) - J. Densmore (A baby's epitaph)
- April's lady (If love were what the rose is) (from Poems and Ballads) - M. White
- A Reiver’s Neck-Verse (Some die singing, and some die swinging) - P. Grainger
- A roundel is wrought as a ring or a sphere (from A Century of Roundels) - L. Smith (The roundel)
- A roundel is wrought (A roundel is wrought as a ring or a sphere) (from A Century of Roundels) - L. Smith
- As I loved thee () - J. Blumenthal [x]
- Ask nothing more of me, sweet (from Songs Before Sunrise) - H. Brown, F. Cowen, B. Crist, C. Deis, T. Marzials, K. Rathaus, H. Ware (The oblation)
- Ask nothing more (Ask nothing more of me, sweet) (from Songs Before Sunrise) - F. Cowen, C. Deis, T. Marzials
- At parting (For a day and a night Love sang to us, played with us) (from Poems and Ballads, Second Series)
- August (There were four apples on the bough) - D. Holman
- Ave atque vale (Charles Baudelaire emlékezetére) (Rózsát, rutát, vagy tán borostyánt hintsek)
- Ave atque vale (In Memory of Charles Baudelaire) (Now all strange hours and all strange loves are over) - M. Gideon
- Ave atque Vale (In memory of Charles Baudelaire) (Shall I strew on thee rose or rue or laurel)
- Ave atque vale (Shall I strew on thee rose or rue or laurel) - R. Robbins HUN
- Baby, baby bright (from A Midsummer Holiday and Other Poems - Cradle songs) - L. Smith
- Baby, baby dear - M. Herbert
- Baby, baby sweet (from A Midsummer Holiday and Other Poems - Cradle songs) - J. Diack
- Baby-bird, baby-bird (from Poems and Ballads, Third Series) - R. Boughton, J. Lang-Hyde (Baby-Bird)
- Baby-Bird (Baby-bird, baby-bird) (from Poems and Ballads, Third Series) - R. Boughton, J. Lang-Hyde
- Baby, see the flowers! (from Poems and Ballads, Third Series) - R. Boughton, M. Lang (In a garden)
- Baby sweet (Baby, baby sweet) (from A Midsummer Holiday and Other Poems - Cradle songs) - J. Diack
- Ballad of Dreamland (I hid my heart in a nest of roses) - L. Smith
- Ballad of the women of Paris (Albeit the Venice girls get praise)
- Before dawn (For a day and a night Love sang to us, played with us) (from Poems and Ballads, Second Series) - N. O'Neill
- Beloved and blest, lit warm with love and fame (from A Century of Roundels - In Guernsey) - L. Smith
- Beloved and blest (Beloved and blest, lit warm with love and fame) (from A Century of Roundels - In Guernsey) - L. Smith
- But now life's face beholden (from A Century of Roundels) - J. Lang-Hyde (Change)
- Butterflies (Fly, white butterflies, out to sea) (from A Century of Roundels) - F. Corbett
- By mere men's hands the flame was lit, we know (from A Century of Roundels - In Guernsey)
- Change (But now life's face beholden) (from A Century of Roundels) - J. Lang-Hyde
- Child, were you kinless and lonely (Child, were you kinless and lonely) (from Tristram of Lyonesse and Other Poems - A Dark Month) - J. Lang-Hyde
- Child, were you kinless and lonely (from Tristram of Lyonesse and Other Poems - A Dark Month) - J. Lang-Hyde
- Choral Ode I (When the hounds of spring are on winter's traces) (from Atalanta in Calydon) - G. Bantock POL
- Cradle song (Baby, baby bright) (from A Midsummer Holiday and Other Poems - Cradle songs) - L. Smith
- Cradle song (Baby, baby dear) - M. Herbert
- Death, if thou wilt, fain would I plead with thee - H. King (A Dialogue)
- Die Wellen tragen [possibly misattributed] - F. Holstein
- East to West (Sunset smiles on sunrise: east and west are one) (from Astrophel and Other Poems)
- Elegy (Stately, kindly, lordly friend) - P. Dickinson
- England: An Ode (Sea and strand, and a lordlier land than sea-tides rolling and rising sun) (from Astrophel and Other Poems)
- England (Sea and strand, and a lordlier land than sea-tides rolling and rising sun) (from Astrophel and Other Poems) - E. MacMillan
- Entreaty () - O. Fox [x]
- Envoi (Fly, white butterflies, out to sea) (from A Century of Roundels) - J. Lang-Hyde
- Eton: an Ode (Four hundred summers and fifty have shone on the meadows of Thames and died) (from Astrophel and Other Poems)
- Eton (Four hundred summers and fifty have shone on the meadows of Thames and died) (from Astrophel and Other Poems) - C. Parry
- Étude réaliste (A Baby's feet, like sea-shells pink) (from A Century of Roundels) - E. Freer
- Fair of face, full of pride (from Lesbia Brandon) - J. Lang-Hyde (A Lyke-Wake Song)
- Far off is the sea, and the land is afar (from Poems and Ballads, Third Series) - J. Bailey (Neap-Tide)
- Félise (What shall be said between us here) (from Poems and Ballads)
- Fly, white butterflies, out to sea (from A Century of Roundels) - K. Bray, R. Cole, F. Corbett, M. Lang, J. Lang-Hyde, J. Rogers (Envoi)
- Fly, white butterflies, out to sea (Fly, white butterflies, out to sea) (from A Century of Roundels) - J. Rogers
- For a day and a night Love sang to us, played with us (from Poems and Ballads, Second Series) - R. Farley, V. Harris, N. O'Neill (At parting)
- For a day and a night (For a day and a night Love sang to us, played with us) (from Poems and Ballads, Second Series) - R. Farley
- Four hundred summers and fifty have shone on the meadows of Thames and died (from Astrophel and Other Poems) - C. Parry (Eton: an Ode)
- From East to West (Sunset smiles on sunrise: east and west are one) (from Astrophel and Other Poems) - C. Stanford
- Garden of Proserpine (Here, where the world is quiet) (from Poems and Ballads) - F. Lesemann, R. Vaughan Williams
- Gdy gończe wiosny tropią zimy ślady (Gdy gończe wiosny) -
- Gdy gończe wiosny (Gdy gończe wiosny tropią zimy ślady)
- Gisant endormi entre les battements de la nuit (from Poèmes et Ballades) [x] - H. Poupard (Amour et sommeil)
- Goodnight and goodbye to the life whose signs denote us (from A Century of Roundels) - J. Rogers (In harbour)
- Gyötrött fejét a Szerelem (Álmatlan szerelem) -
- Here, where the world is quiet (from Poems and Ballads) - F. Lesemann, C. Paston-Cooper, R. Vaughan Williams, I. Walsworth (Garden of Proserpine)
- Here, where the world is quiet (Here, where the world is quiet) (from Poems and Ballads) - I. Walsworth
- Hymn before sunrise () - P. Miles [x]
- Hymn of Man (In the grey beginning of years, in the twilight of things that began) (from Songs Before Sunrise)
- If love were like the Tune (If love were what the rose is) (from Poems and Ballads) - C. Olmstead
- If love were what the rose is (from Poems and Ballads) - P. Ambrose, S. Barab, R. Billin, F. Cowen, A. Foote, H. Hadley, V. Herbert, A. MacKenzie, F. Moore, C. Olmstead, N. O'Neill, C. Pinsuti, C. Rogers, W. Russell, C. Stebbins, M. White (A match)
- If love were what the rose is (If love were what the rose is) (from Poems and Ballads) - P. Ambrose, S. Barab, R. Billin, F. Cowen, A. Foote, H. Hadley, V. Herbert, A. MacKenzie, W. Russell, C. Stebbins
- If (If love were what the rose is) (from Poems and Ballads) - C. Pinsuti
- I hid my heart in a nest of roses - A. Fitzgerald, L. Smith (A Ballad of Dreamland)
- In a garden (Baby, see the flowers!) (from Poems and Ballads, Third Series) - R. Boughton, M. Lang
- In church (Thou whose birth on earth) (from Songs Before Sunrise - Christmas Antiphones)
- In harbour (Goodnight and goodbye to the life whose signs denote us) (from A Century of Roundels) - J. Rogers
- In the greenest growth of the Maytime (from Poems and Ballads) - L. Ronald (An interlude)
- In the grey beginning of years, in the twilight of things that began (from Songs Before Sunrise) - E. Lutyens (Hymn of Man)
- In the orchard (Leave go my hands, let me catch breath and see) (from Poems and Ballads) - A. Fitzgerald
- In vain men tell us time can alter (from Poems and Ballads, Second Series) - J. Lang-Hyde (Age and Song: To Barry Cornwall)
- In vain men tell us time can alter (In vain men tell us time can alter) (from Poems and Ballads, Second Series) - J. Lang-Hyde
- It's a' for the love of thee (Mabel (singing in the next room)) (from The Sisters) - H. Bartlett
- Joy came with the day (Love laid his sleepless head) - F. Barbour HUN
- Joy (If love were what the rose is) (from Poems and Ballads) - F. Moore
- Kissing her hair I sat against her feet (Kissing her hair I sat against her feet) (from Poems and Ballads) - A. Bergh
- Kissing her hair I sat against her feet (from Poems and Ballads) - A. Bergh, R. Vaughan Williams (Rondel)
- Leave go my hands, let me catch breath and see (from Poems and Ballads) - A. Fitzgerald (In the orchard)
- Le navire/ Est a l'eau (from Chastelard, a Tragedy) [possibly misattributed] GER - F. Tosti
- Le navire passe et luit (from Chastelard, a Tragedy) [possibly misattributed] GER
- Let us go hence, my songs; she will not hear - A. Ribári (A leave-taking)
- Like April's kissing May (What shall be said between us here) (from Poems and Ballads) - B. Crist
- Looking on a page where stood (from Tristram of Lyonesse and Other Poems) - J. Lang-Hyde (What is Death?)
- Love and sleep (Lying asleep between the strokes of night) FRE
- Love at sea (We are in love's land to-day) - R. Boughton, N. O'Neill, P. Reeve CAT GER GER GER ITA
- Love laid his sleepless head (Love laid his sleepless head) - V. Herbert, A. Sullivan HUN
- Love laid his sleepless head HUN - F. Barbour, H. Crossley, V. Herbert, A. Sullivan, W. Walton (Song)
- Love's offering (Ask nothing more of me, sweet) (from Songs Before Sunrise) - B. Crist
- Lying asleep between the strokes of night FRE (Love and sleep) -
- Mabel (singing in the next room) (from The Sisters) - F. Allitsen, S. Barber, H. Bartlett
- Mabel's Song (Mabel (singing in the next room)) (from The Sisters) - F. Allitsen
- Mourning on earth, as when dark hours descend (from A Century of Roundels) - J. Lang-Hyde (The Death of Richard Wagner)
- Mourning on Earth (Mourning on earth, as when dark hours descend) (from A Century of Roundels) - J. Lang-Hyde
- Music: An Ode (Was it light that spake from the darkness) - C. Wood
- My mother sea, my fostress, what new strand (from A Century of Roundels - In Guernsey) - L. Smith
- My mother sea (My mother sea, my fostress, what new strand) (from A Century of Roundels - In Guernsey) - L. Smith
- Neap-Tide (Far off is the sea, and the land is afar) (from Poems and Ballads, Third Series) - J. Bailey
- Night, in utmost noon forlorn and strong, with heart athirst and fasting (from A Century of Roundels - In Guernsey) - L. Smith
- Night, whom in shape so sweet thou here may'st see (from Poems and Ballads, Third Series) CAT FRE GER LIT RUS - J. Lang-Hyde, D. Stewart (Night)
- Night (Night, in utmost noon forlorn and strong, with heart athirst and fasting) (from A Century of Roundels - In Guernsey) - L. Smith
- Night (Night, whom in shape so sweet thou here may'st see) (from Poems and Ballads, Third Series) - J. Lang-Hyde, D. Stewart CAT FRE GER LIT RUS
- Now all strange hours and all strange loves are over - M. Gideon (Ave atque Vale (In memory of Charles Baudelaire))
- Ode to Music (Was it light that spake from the darkness) - W. Duncan
- O lips that mine have grown into (from Poems and Ballads) (Félise) - B. Crist, H. Hadley
- On Dante's track by some funereal spell (from A Century of Roundels - In Guernsey) - L. Smith
- On Dante's Track (On Dante's track by some funereal spell) (from A Century of Roundels - In Guernsey) - L. Smith
- Out of hell a word comes hissing, dark as doom - J. Lang-Hyde (Russia: An Ode)
- Out of hell a word comes hissing (Russia: An Ode) - J. Lang-Hyde
- Out of sight,/ out of mind! (from Tristram of Lyonesse and Other Poems - A Dark Month)
- Out of sight (Out of sight) (from Tristram of Lyonesse and Other Poems - A Dark Month) - J. Lang-Hyde
- Out of sight (from Tristram of Lyonesse and Other Poems - A Dark Month) - J. Lang-Hyde
- O weary fa' the east wind (from Lesbia Brandon) - F. Hart, J. Lang-Hyde, W. Walton (The winds)
- Questions () - M. Plumstead [x]
- Rondel (Kissing her hair I sat against her feet) (from Poems and Ballads) - R. Vaughan Williams
- Rondel (The little eyes that never knew) (from A Century of Roundels - A Baby's Death) - E. Elgar
- Rondel () - P. Atherton [x]
- Rondel () - L. Levy [x]
- Rondel () - G. Williams [x]
- Rózsát, rutát, vagy tán borostyánt hintsek (Ave atque vale (Charles Baudelaire emlékezetére)) -
- Russia: An Ode (Out of hell a word comes hissing, dark as doom)
- Russia (Out of hell a word comes hissing, dark as doom) - J. Lang-Hyde
- Saved () - J. Blumenthal [x]
- Sea and strand, and a lordlier land than sea-tides rolling and rising sun (from Astrophel and Other Poems) - E. MacMillan (England: An Ode)
- Seefahrt (Die Wellen tragen) - F. Holstein [possibly misattributed]
- Shall I strew on thee rose or rue or laurel (Ave atque Vale (In memory of Charles Baudelaire)) - M. Gideon
- Shall I strew on thee rose or rue or laurel HUN - R. Robbins (Ave atque vale)
- Some die singing, and some die swinging - P. Grainger (A Reiver’s Neck-Verse)
- Song from 'Felice' (What shall be said between us here) (from Poems and Ballads) - H. Hadley
- Song (Love laid his sleepless head) - H. Crossley, W. Walton HUN
- Stately, kindly, lordly friend - P. Dickinson, R. Gipps, D. Healey (To a cat)
- Sunset smiles on sunrise: east and west are one (from Astrophel and Other Poems) - C. Stanford (East to West)
- The bride's tragedy (The wind wears roun', the day wears doun) (from Poems and Ballads, Third Series) - P. Grainger
- The cat (Stately, kindly, lordly friend) - R. Gipps
- The Death of Richard Wagner (Mourning on earth, as when dark hours descend) (from A Century of Roundels)
- The heavenly bay, ringed round with cliffs and moors (from A Century of Roundels - In Guernsey) - L. Smith
- The heavenly bay (The heavenly bay, ringed round with cliffs and moors) (from A Century of Roundels - In Guernsey) - L. Smith
- The hounds of spring (When the hounds of spring are on winter's traces) (from Atalanta in Calydon) - D. Holman POL
- The house accurst, with cursing sealed and signed (from A Century of Roundels - In Guernsey)
- The Hymn of Man (In the grey beginning of years, in the twilight of things that began) (from Songs Before Sunrise) - E. Lutyens
- The incarnate sun, a tall strong youth (from Tristram of Lyonesse and Other Poems - A Dark Month) - J. Lang-Hyde
- The incarnate sun (The incarnate sun, a tall strong youth) (from Tristram of Lyonesse and Other Poems - A Dark Month) - J. Lang-Hyde
- The little eyes that never knew (from A Century of Roundels - A Baby's Death) - E. Elgar
- The oblation (Ask nothing more of me, sweet) (from Songs Before Sunrise) - H. Brown, K. Rathaus, H. Ware
- There's nae lark loves the lift, my dear (from The Sisters)
- There's nae lark loves the light, my dear (from The Sisters)
- There's nae lark (Mabel (singing in the next room)) (from The Sisters) - S. Barber
- There were four apples on the bough - D. Holman
- The roundel (A roundel is wrought as a ring or a sphere) (from A Century of Roundels)
- The Winds (O weary fa' the east wind) (from Lesbia Brandon) - F. Hart, J. Lang-Hyde, W. Walton
- The wind wears roun', the day wears doun (from Poems and Ballads, Third Series) - P. Grainger (The bride's tragedy)
- Thirty-one pale maidens, clad (from Tristram of Lyonesse and Other Poems - A Dark Month) - J. Lang-Hyde
- Thirty-one pale maidens (Thirty-one pale maidens, clad) (from Tristram of Lyonesse and Other Poems - A Dark Month) - J. Lang-Hyde
- This day born again (Thou whose birth on earth) (from Songs Before Sunrise - Christmas Antiphones) - J. Roff
- Thou whose birth on earth (from Songs Before Sunrise - Christmas Antiphones) - W. Pasfield, J. Roff (In church)
- Thou whose birth on earth (Thou whose birth on earth) (from Songs Before Sunrise - Christmas Antiphones) - W. Pasfield
- To a Cat (Stately, kindly, lordly friend) - D. Healey
- Vieille chanson (Le navire/ Est a l'eau) (from Chastelard, a Tragedy) - F. Tosti [possibly misattributed] GER
- Wake! for night is dead (We mix from many lands) (from Songs Before Sunrise) - C. Deis
- Was it light that spake from the darkness - W. Duncan, C. Wood (Music: An Ode)
- Wasted love (What shall be done for sorrow) (from A Century of Roundels) - J. Lang-Hyde
- We are in love's land to-day CAT GER GER GER ITA - R. Boughton, N. O'Neill, P. Reeve (Love at sea)
- We are not sure of sorrow (Here, where the world is quiet) (from Poems and Ballads) - C. Paston-Cooper
- We mix from many lands (from Songs Before Sunrise) - C. Deis, W. Webber (A marching song)
- What is Death? (Looking on a page where stood) (from Tristram of Lyonesse and Other Poems) - J. Lang-Hyde
- What shall be done for sorrow (from A Century of Roundels) - J. Lang-Hyde (Wasted love)
- What shall be said between us here (from Poems and Ballads) - B. Crist, H. Hadley (Félise)
- When the hounds of spring are on winter's traces (When the hounds of spring are on winter's traces) (from Atalanta in Calydon) - D. Droste POL
- When the hounds of spring are on winter's traces (from Atalanta in Calydon) POL - G. Bantock, D. Droste, D. Holman
- White butterflies (Fly, white butterflies, out to sea) (from A Century of Roundels) - K. Bray, R. Cole, M. Lang
- Whiter and whiter (Whiter and whiter) (from Tristram of Lyonesse and Other Poems - A Dark Month) - J. Lang-Hyde
- Whiter and whiter (from Tristram of Lyonesse and Other Poems - A Dark Month) - J. Lang-Hyde
- Withered roses () - C. Johns [x]
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