Author: Arthur Symons (1865 - 1945)

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• Amoris Victima
• Ballades and Rondeaus, Chants Royal, Sestinas, Villanelles, etc.
• Days and Nights
• Images of Good and Evil
• Knave of hearts
• London Nights
• Poems of Arthur Symons, Volume 1
• Poems of Arthur Symons, Volume 2
• Silhouettes

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• After love (To part now and parting now) (from Silhouettes)
• After love (To part now and parting now) (from Silhouettes) - Norman Dello Joio, Cedric Wilmot Lemont, Landon Ronald, Sir
• After sunset (The sea lies quieted beneath) (from Silhouettes - At Dieppe) GER
• After sunset (The sea lies quieted beneath) (from Silhouettes - At Dieppe) - John Joseph Becker, Louis Campbell-Tipton, Berthold Neuer, Ethel Mary Smyth, Dame GER
• Against the world I closed my heart (White magic)
• Against the world I closed my heart - Walter Foster (White magic)
• Alla passeretta bruna (If I bid yoUy you will come) (from Silhouettes)
• All things leave me (As a perfume doth remain) (from London Nights - Bianca) - Norman Dello Joio
• A prayer to St. Anthony of Padua (St. Anthony of Padua whom I bear) (from London Nights - Céleste)
• A prayer to St. Anthony of Padua (St. Anthony of Padua whom I bear) (from London Nights - Céleste) - Berthold Neuer, Peter Warlock
• A rondel of rest (The peace of a wandering sky) (from Poems of Arthur Symons, Volume 2 - The Loom of Dreams) - Herbert Norman Howells, Norman Houston O'Neill
• A roundel of rest (The peace of a wandering sky) (from Poems of Arthur Symons, Volume 2 - The Loom of Dreams) - Cyril Meir Scott
• As a perfume doth remain (from London Nights - Bianca) - Norman Dello Joio (All things leave me)
• As a perfume doth remain (As a perfume doth remain) (from London Nights - Bianca) - Walter Foster
• As a perfume doth remain (from London Nights - Bianca) - Walter Foster (As a perfume doth remain)
• As a perfume doth remain (from London Nights - Bianca) - Max R. Wald (As a perfume)
• As a perfume doth remain (from London Nights - Bianca) (Memory)
• As a perfume doth remain (from London Nights - Bianca) - Louis Campbell-Tipton, John Hopkins Densmore, Vivian Hickey, Cedric Wilmot Lemont, Samuel R. Lewis (Memory)
• As a perfume (As a perfume doth remain) (from London Nights - Bianca) - Max R. Wald
• At dawn (She only knew the birth and death) (from Silhouettes)
• At dawn (She only knew the birth and death) (from Silhouettes) - Ethel Leginska, née Liggins
• At Glad-Y-Wern (White-robed against the threefold white) - Walter Foster
• Autumn's twilight (The long September evening dies) (from London Nights - Intermezzo: Pastoral) - Peter Warlock
• Autumn twilight (The long September evening dies) (from London Nights - Intermezzo: Pastoral) - Gerald Wilfred Cockshott, John Raynor
• Because it is the day of Palms (from Images of Good and Evil) GER - Harold Noble (Naples Bay)
• Because it is the day of Palms (from Images of Good and Evil) GER (Palm Sunday : Naples)
• Because it is the day of Palms (from Images of Good and Evil) GER - John Musto (Palm Sunday: Naples)
• Because it is the day of Palms (from Images of Good and Evil) GER - Mary Sheldon (Palm Sunday)
• Because it is the day of Palms (from Images of Good and Evil) GER - John (Nicholson) Ireland (Santa Chiara)
• Because it is the day of Palms (from Images of Good and Evil) GER - Ernest John Moeran (The Day of Palms)
• Before the squall (The wind is rising on the sea) (from Silhouettes - At Dieppe) GER
• Before the squall (The wind is rising on the sea) (from Silhouettes - At Dieppe) - John Joseph Becker, Ethel Mary Smyth, Dame GER
• By the Pool at the Third Rosses (I heard the sighing of the reeds) (from Images of Good and Evil - In Ireland) [x]
• By the Pool at the Third Rosses (I heard the sighing of the reeds) (from Images of Good and Evil - In Ireland) - Harry Thacker Burleigh [x]
• Caprice (Her mouth is all of roses)
• Caprice (Her mouth is all of roses) - Walter Foster
• Consolation (If living sorrows any boon) (from Knave of hearts) - David Tcimpidis
• Dancers from Java (Twitched strings, the clang of metal, beaten drums) (from Silhouettes) - Bohuslav Martinů
• Darkness () - Louis Campbell-Tipton [x]
• Der wilde Sturmwind braust daher - Ethel Mary Smyth, Dame (Vor dem Wetter)
• During music (The music had the heat of blood) (from Silhouettes)
• During music (The music had the heat of blood) (from Silhouettes) - Wintter Watts
• Fantoches (Scaramouche waves a threatening hand) CAT FIN GER GER ITA
• Fantoches (Scaramouche waves a threatening hand) - William Spencer Johnson CAT FIN GER GER ITA
• Frail autumn lights upon the leaves (from Silhouettes) (In autumn)
• Frail autumn lights upon the leaves (from Silhouettes) - Leslie Cochran (In autumn)
• From "La Vida es Sueño" of Calderon (We live, while we see the sun) (from Poems of Arthur Symons, Volume 1) ITA
• Gipsy love (The gipsy tents are on the down)
• Gypsy love (The gipsy tents are on the down) - Walter Foster
• Here, there is peace, cool peace (from Silhouettes) (Peace at noon)
• Here, there is peace, cool peace (from Silhouettes) - Edward Burlingame Hill, Robert William Manton (Peace at noon)
• Her mouth is all of roses (Caprice)
• Her mouth is all of roses - Walter Foster (Caprice)
• I am engulfed, and drown deliciously (from Days and Nights) (The opium-smoker)
• I am engulfed, and drown deliciously (from Days and Nights) - Louis Campbell-Tipton (The opium-smoker)
• I am the torch, she saith, and what to me (Modern beauty)
• I am the torch, she saith, and what to me - Walter Foster (Modern beauty)
• If I bid you, you will come (from Silhouettes) (Alla passeretta bruna)
• If I bid yoUy you will come (from Silhouettes) (Alla passeretta bruna)
• If I bid yoUy you will come (from Silhouettes) - Landon Ronald, Sir (You are mine)
• If living sorrows any boon (from Knave of hearts) - David Tcimpidis (Consolation)
• If, Lord, Thy love for me is strong (If, Lord, Thy love for me is strong) (from Poems of Arthur Symons, Volume 1 - From Santa Teresa) - Lennox Randal Francis Berkeley, Sir
• If, Lord, Thy love for me is strong (from Poems of Arthur Symons, Volume 1 - From Santa Teresa) - Lennox Randal Francis Berkeley, Sir (If, Lord, Thy love for me is strong)
• I have grown tired of sorrow and human tears (from Images of Good and Evil - In Ireland) (In the Wood of Finvara)
• I have grown tired of sorrow and human tears (from Images of Good and Evil - In Ireland) - Harry Thacker Burleigh, Henry Sang (In the Wood of Finvara)
• I have had enough of women, and enough of love (from Images of Good and Evil) (Wanderer's song)
• I have had enough of women, and enough of love (from Images of Good and Evil) - Frederick Delius, Ernest Bristow Farrar, Andrew MacCunn (Wanderer's song)
• I heard the sighing of the reeds (from Images of Good and Evil - In Ireland) [x] (By the Pool at the Third Rosses)
• I heard the sighing of the reeds (from Images of Good and Evil - In Ireland) [x] - Harry Thacker Burleigh (By the Pool at the Third Rosses)
• I lie on my pallet bed (from Silhouettes) (Love in dreams)
• I lie on my pallet bed (from Silhouettes) - Landon Ronald, Sir (Love in dreams)
• In autumn (Frail autumn lights upon the leaves) (from Silhouettes)
• In autumn (Frail autumn lights upon the leaves) (from Silhouettes) - Leslie Cochran
• In Fountain Court (The fountain murmuring of sleep) (from Silhouettes)
• In Fountain Court (The fountain murmuring of sleep) (from Silhouettes) - (Edward) Maurice Besly, Malcolm Gordon Davidson, Muriel Emily Herbert, Wynn Hunt, Cedric Wilmot Lemont, Elizabeth Maconchy, Paul McIntyre, (George) Alexander Russell
• In Kensington Gardens (Under the almond tree) (from Silhouettes)
• In Kensington Gardens (Under the almond tree) (from Silhouettes) - Edward Burlingame Hill
• In the Wood of Finvara (I have grown tired of sorrow and human tears) (from Images of Good and Evil - In Ireland)
• In the Wood of Finvara (I have grown tired of sorrow and human tears) (from Images of Good and Evil - In Ireland) - Harry Thacker Burleigh, Henry Sang
• I saw her shadow on the grass (from Ballades and Rondeaus, Chants Royal, Sestinas, Villanelles, etc.) (Vestigia)
• Javanese Dancers (Twitched strings, the clang of metal, beaten drums) (from Silhouettes)
• Judges' Walk (That night on Judges' Walk, the wind) (from Silhouettes) - Charles Edward Ives
• June (The fountain murmuring of sleep) (from Silhouettes) - Cecil Forsyth
• Let mine eyes see thee, sweet Jesus of Nazareth (from Poems of Arthur Symons, Volume 1 - From Santa Teresa) - Lennox Randal Francis Berkeley, Sir (Let mine eyes see thee)
• Let mine eyes see thee (Let mine eyes see thee, sweet Jesus of Nazareth) (from Poems of Arthur Symons, Volume 1 - From Santa Teresa) - Lennox Randal Francis Berkeley, Sir
• Life is a dream (We live, while we see the sun) (from Poems of Arthur Symons, Volume 1) - John Weinzweig ITA
• Love in dreams (I lie on my pallet bed) (from Silhouettes)
• Love in dreams (I lie on my pallet bed) (from Silhouettes) - Landon Ronald, Sir
• Love is a swallow (Love is a swallow) (from Ballades and Rondeaus, Chants Royal, Sestinas, Villanelles, etc.) - Mary Grant Carmichael
• Love is a swallow (from Ballades and Rondeaus, Chants Royal, Sestinas, Villanelles, etc.) - Mary Grant Carmichael (Love is a swallow)
• Love's Magnificat (Praise God, who wrought for you and me) (from London Nights) - Henry Clough-Leighter
• Magnificat (Praise God, who wrought for you and me) (from London Nights)
• Mandoline (The singers of serenades) GER SPA GER GER
• Mandoline (The singers of serenades) - William Spencer Johnson GER SPA GER GER
• Meeresstille () - Ethel Mary Smyth, Dame (Text: after Arthur Symons) [x]
• Memory (As a perfume doth remain) (from London Nights - Bianca)
• Memory (As a perfume doth remain) (from London Nights - Bianca) - Louis Campbell-Tipton, John Hopkins Densmore, Vivian Hickey, Cedric Wilmot Lemont, Samuel R. Lewis
• Modern beauty (I am the torch, she saith, and what to me)
• Modern beauty (I am the torch, she saith, and what to me) - Walter Foster
• Nach dem Sturm () - Ethel Mary Smyth, Dame (Text: after Arthur Symons) [x]
• Naples Bay (Because it is the day of Palms) (from Images of Good and Evil) - Harold Noble GER
• Night, a grey sky, a ghostly sea (from Silhouettes - At Dieppe) (On the beach)
• Night, a grey sky, a ghostly sea (from Silhouettes - At Dieppe) - John Joseph Becker (On the beach)
• O is it death or life that sounds (from Silhouettes - At Dieppe) GER (Requies)
• O is it death or life that sounds (from Silhouettes - At Dieppe) GER - John Joseph Becker, Louis Campbell-Tipton, Ethel Mary Smyth, Dame (Requies)
• On Judges' Walk (That night on Judges' Walk, the wind) (from Silhouettes)
• On the beach (Night, a grey sky, a ghostly sea) (from Silhouettes - At Dieppe)
• On the beach (Night, a grey sky, a ghostly sea) (from Silhouettes - At Dieppe) - John Joseph Becker
• O sick heart, be at rest! (from Poems of Arthur Symons, Volume 2 - The Loom of Dreams) - Peter Warlock (The sick heart)
• O Water, voice of my heart (from Poems of Arthur Symons, Volume 2 - The Loom of Dreams) (The crying of water)
• O Water, voice of my heart (from Poems of Arthur Symons, Volume 2 - The Loom of Dreams) - Louis Campbell-Tipton, Paul McIntyre (The crying of water)
• Pain gnaws at my heart like a rat that gnaws at a beam (from Amoris Victima - Amoris Exsul) (The rat)
• Pain gnaws at my heart like a rat that gnaws at a beam (from Amoris Victima - Amoris Exsul) - John (Nicholson) Ireland (The rat)
• Palm Sunday : Naples (Because it is the day of Palms) (from Images of Good and Evil) GER
• Palm Sunday: Naples (Because it is the day of Palms) (from Images of Good and Evil) - John Musto GER
• Palm Sunday (Because it is the day of Palms) (from Images of Good and Evil) - Mary Sheldon GER
• Pantomime (Pierrot, no sentimental swain) CHI GER GER
• Pantomime (Pierrot, no sentimental swain) - William Spencer Johnson CHI GER GER
• Peace at noon (Here, there is peace, cool peace) (from Silhouettes)
• Peace at noon (Here, there is peace, cool peace) (from Silhouettes) - Edward Burlingame Hill, Robert William Manton
• Pierrot, no sentimental swain CHI GER GER (Pantomime)
• Pierrot, no sentimental swain CHI GER GER - William Spencer Johnson (Pantomime)
• Praise God, who wrought for you and me (from London Nights) - Henry Clough-Leighter (Love's Magnificat)
• Praise God, who wrought for you and me (from London Nights) (Magnificat)
• Requies (O is it death or life that sounds) (from Silhouettes - At Dieppe) GER
• Requies (O is it death or life that sounds) (from Silhouettes - At Dieppe) - John Joseph Becker, Louis Campbell-Tipton, Ethel Mary Smyth, Dame GER
• Rest (The peace of a wandering sky) (from Poems of Arthur Symons, Volume 2 - The Loom of Dreams)
• Rest (The peace of a wandering sky) (from Poems of Arthur Symons, Volume 2 - The Loom of Dreams) - John (Nicholson) Ireland
• Santa Chiara (Because it is the day of Palms) (from Images of Good and Evil) - John (Nicholson) Ireland GER
• Scaramouche waves a threatening hand CAT FIN GER GER ITA (Fantoches)
• Scaramouche waves a threatening hand CAT FIN GER GER ITA - William Spencer Johnson (Fantoches)
• She only knew the birth and death (from Silhouettes) (At dawn)
• She only knew the birth and death (from Silhouettes) - Ethel Leginska, née Liggins (At dawn)
• Shepherd, shepherd, hark that calling (Shepherd, shepherd, hark that calling!) (from Poems of Arthur Symons, Volume 1 - From Santa Teresa) - Lennox Randal Francis Berkeley, Sir
• Shepherd, shepherd, hark that calling! (from Poems of Arthur Symons, Volume 1 - From Santa Teresa) - Lennox Randal Francis Berkeley, Sir (Shepherd, shepherd, hark that calling)
• Song of June (The fountain murmuring of sleep) (from Silhouettes) - Hans Gál
• St. Anthony of Padua whom I bear (from London Nights - Céleste) (A prayer to St. Anthony of Padua)
• St. Anthony of Padua whom I bear (from London Nights - Céleste) - Berthold Neuer, Peter Warlock (A prayer to St. Anthony of Padua)
• That night on Judges' Walk, the wind (from Silhouettes) - Charles Edward Ives (Judges' Walk)
• That night on Judges' Walk, the wind (from Silhouettes) (On Judges' Walk)
• The adoration (Why have you brought me myrrh) (from Poems of Arthur Symons, Volume 2 - The Loom of Dreams)
• The adoration (Why have you brought me myrrh) (from Poems of Arthur Symons, Volume 2 - The Loom of Dreams) - John (Nicholson) Ireland
• The boats go out and the boats come in (from Days and Nights) (The fisher's widow)
• The boats go out and the boats come in (from Days and Nights) - Louis Adolphe Coerne, Clara Edwards, Paul McIntyre, Henry Tye (The fisher's widow)
• The crying of water (O Water, voice of my heart) (from Poems of Arthur Symons, Volume 2 - The Loom of Dreams)
• The crying of water (O Water, voice of my heart) (from Poems of Arthur Symons, Volume 2 - The Loom of Dreams) - Louis Campbell-Tipton, Paul McIntyre
• The Day of Palms (Because it is the day of Palms) (from Images of Good and Evil) - Ernest John Moeran GER
• The fisher's widow (The boats go out and the boats come in) (from Days and Nights)
• The fisher's widow (The boats go out and the boats come in) (from Days and Nights) - Louis Adolphe Coerne, Clara Edwards, Paul McIntyre, Henry Tye
• The fountain murmuring of sleep (from Silhouettes) (In Fountain Court)
• The fountain murmuring of sleep (from Silhouettes) - (Edward) Maurice Besly, Malcolm Gordon Davidson, Muriel Emily Herbert, Wynn Hunt, Cedric Wilmot Lemont, Elizabeth Maconchy, Paul McIntyre, (George) Alexander Russell (In Fountain Court)
• The fountain murmuring of sleep (from Silhouettes) - Cecil Forsyth (June)
• The fountain murmuring of sleep (from Silhouettes) - Hans Gál (Song of June)
• The fountain murmuring of sleep (from Silhouettes) - John (Nicholson) Ireland (Tryst)
• The gipsy tents are on the down (Gipsy love)
• The gipsy tents are on the down - Walter Foster (Gypsy love)
• The grey wolf comes again : I had made fast (from Poems of Arthur Symons, Volume 2 - The Loom of Dreams) (The grey wolf)
• The grey wolf comes again : I had made fast (from Poems of Arthur Symons, Volume 2 - The Loom of Dreams) - Harry Thacker Burleigh (The grey wolf)
• The grey wolf (The grey wolf comes again : I had made fast) (from Poems of Arthur Symons, Volume 2 - The Loom of Dreams)
• The grey wolf (The grey wolf comes again : I had made fast) (from Poems of Arthur Symons, Volume 2 - The Loom of Dreams) - Harry Thacker Burleigh
• The long September evening dies (from London Nights - Intermezzo: Pastoral) - Peter Warlock (Autumn's twilight)
• The long September evening dies (from London Nights - Intermezzo: Pastoral) - Gerald Wilfred Cockshott, John Raynor (Autumn twilight)
• The music had the heat of blood (from Silhouettes) (During music)
• The music had the heat of blood (from Silhouettes) - Wintter Watts (During music)
• The opium-smoker (I am engulfed, and drown deliciously) (from Days and Nights)
• The opium-smoker (I am engulfed, and drown deliciously) (from Days and Nights) - Louis Campbell-Tipton
• The peace of a wandering sky (from Poems of Arthur Symons, Volume 2 - The Loom of Dreams) - Herbert Norman Howells, Norman Houston O'Neill (A rondel of rest)
• The peace of a wandering sky (from Poems of Arthur Symons, Volume 2 - The Loom of Dreams) - Cyril Meir Scott (A roundel of rest)
• The peace of a wandering sky (from Poems of Arthur Symons, Volume 2 - The Loom of Dreams) (Rest)
• The peace of a wandering sky (from Poems of Arthur Symons, Volume 2 - The Loom of Dreams) - John (Nicholson) Ireland (Rest)
• The rat (Pain gnaws at my heart like a rat that gnaws at a beam) (from Amoris Victima - Amoris Exsul)
• The rat (Pain gnaws at my heart like a rat that gnaws at a beam) (from Amoris Victima - Amoris Exsul) - John (Nicholson) Ireland
• The sea lies quieted beneath (from Silhouettes - At Dieppe) GER (After sunset)
• The sea lies quieted beneath (from Silhouettes - At Dieppe) GER - John Joseph Becker, Louis Campbell-Tipton, Berthold Neuer, Ethel Mary Smyth, Dame (After sunset)
• The sick heart (O sick heart, be at rest!) (from Poems of Arthur Symons, Volume 2 - The Loom of Dreams) - Peter Warlock
• The singers of serenades GER SPA GER GER (Mandoline)
• The singers of serenades GER SPA GER GER - William Spencer Johnson (Mandoline)
• The wanderers (Wandering, ever wandering) (from Amoris Victima - Amoris Exsul)
• The wanderers (Wandering, ever wandering) (from Amoris Victima - Amoris Exsul) - Fritz Bennicke Hart
• The wind is rising on the sea (from Silhouettes - At Dieppe) GER (Before the squall)
• The wind is rising on the sea (from Silhouettes - At Dieppe) GER - John Joseph Becker, Ethel Mary Smyth, Dame (Before the squall)
• Today a shepherd and our kin (Today a shepherd and our kin) (from Poems of Arthur Symons, Volume 1 - From Santa Teresa) - Lennox Randal Francis Berkeley, Sir
• Today a shepherd and our kin (from Poems of Arthur Symons, Volume 1 - From Santa Teresa) - Lennox Randal Francis Berkeley, Sir (Today a shepherd and our kin)
• To part now and parting now (from Silhouettes) (After love)
• To part now and parting now (from Silhouettes) - Norman Dello Joio, Cedric Wilmot Lemont, Landon Ronald, Sir (After love)
• Tryst (The fountain murmuring of sleep) (from Silhouettes) - John (Nicholson) Ireland
• Twitched strings, the clang of metal, beaten drums (from Silhouettes) - Bohuslav Martinů (Dancers from Java)
• Twitched strings, the clang of metal, beaten drums (from Silhouettes) (Javanese Dancers)
• Under the almond tree (from Silhouettes) (In Kensington Gardens)
• Under the almond tree (from Silhouettes) - Edward Burlingame Hill (In Kensington Gardens)
• Vestigia (I saw her shadow on the grass) (from Ballades and Rondeaus, Chants Royal, Sestinas, Villanelles, etc.)
• Vor dem Wetter (Der wilde Sturmwind braust daher) - Ethel Mary Smyth, Dame
• Wanderer's song (I have had enough of women, and enough of love) (from Images of Good and Evil)
• Wanderer's song (I have had enough of women, and enough of love) (from Images of Good and Evil) - Frederick Delius, Ernest Bristow Farrar, Andrew MacCunn
• Wandering, ever wandering (from Amoris Victima - Amoris Exsul) (The wanderers)
• Wandering, ever wandering (from Amoris Victima - Amoris Exsul) - Fritz Bennicke Hart (The wanderers)
• We live, while we see the sun (from Poems of Arthur Symons, Volume 1) ITA (From "La Vida es Sueño" of Calderon)
• We live, while we see the sun (from Poems of Arthur Symons, Volume 1) ITA - John Weinzweig (Life is a dream)
• White magic (Against the world I closed my heart)
• White magic (Against the world I closed my heart) - Walter Foster
• White-robed against the threefold white - Walter Foster (At Glad-Y-Wern)
• Why have you brought me myrrh (from Poems of Arthur Symons, Volume 2 - The Loom of Dreams) (The adoration)
• Why have you brought me myrrh (from Poems of Arthur Symons, Volume 2 - The Loom of Dreams) - John (Nicholson) Ireland (The adoration)
• You are mine (If I bid yoUy you will come) (from Silhouettes) - Landon Ronald, Sir

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