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

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Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837 - 1909)

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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Special notes: All titles and first lines are included in this index, including those used by composers.
Titles used by the text author appear in boldface. First lines appear in italics.
A language code in a blue rectangle like ENG indicates that a translation to that language is available.
A grey rectangle like FRE indicates a particular translation (usually one set to music) exists but isn't yet available.

  • 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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