Texts by A. Swinburne set in Art Songs and Choral Works

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Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837 - 1909)

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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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