Author: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)

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• Against these turbid turquoise skies (Les ballons)
• Against these turbid turquoise skies - Gerald Gover, Charles Tomlinson Griffes (Les ballons)
• Against these turbid turquoise skies - Gary Bachlund (Les Ballons)
• Agyaglábon pihen e nagy-nagy ország (Theoretikos)
• A kékes-arany éji Themze (Impression du matin)
• A ligeten madár dalol (Endymion)
• A liliomok szórják dús aranyjuk (Le jardin)
• A lily-girl, not made for this world's pain GER (Madonna mia)
• A lily-girl, not made for this world's pain GER - Charles Trowbridge Haubiel (Madonna Mia)
• An omnibus across the bridge HUN (Symphony in yellow)
• An omnibus across the bridge HUN - Carey Blyton, Charles Tomlinson Griffes (Symphony in yellow)
• A téli ég fehér ködén (La mer)
• A tompa türkiszkék egen (Les ballons)
• At rest (Tread lightly, she is near) - Harold Vincent Jervis-Read GER GER
• A white mist drifts across the shrouds HUN (La mer)
• A white mist drifts across the shrouds HUN - Charles Tomlinson Griffes (La mer)
• A white mist drifts across the shrouds HUN - Harold Vincent Jervis-Read (The sea)
• Az omnibusz a hidra bú (Sárga szimfónia)
• Ballad of the Greek Sea (The western wind is blowing fair) - Harold Vincent Jervis-Read
• Beautiful star (O beautiful star with the crimson mouth!) (from Shakespearean Show Book) - Maurice Baron
• Come down, O Christ, and help me! reach Thy hand GER (E tenebris)
• Come down, O Christ, and help me! reach Thy hand GER - Charles Trowbridge Haubiel (E Tenebris)
• Could we dig up this long-buried treasure (Could we dig up this long-buried treasure) - Emma Lou Diemer
• Could we dig up this long-buried treasure - Emma Lou Diemer (Could we dig up this long-buried treasure)
• Could we dig up this long-buried treasure (Roses And Rue (To L. L.))
• Early spring () - Kurt Schindler [x]
• Ein Lilienmädchen, fremd im Erdenleben FRE (Text: Anonymous after Oscar Wilde) - Erwin Schulhoff (Madonna mia)
• Endymion (A ligeten madár dalol)
• Endymion (The apple trees are hung with gold) HUN
• Endymion (The apple trees are hung with gold) - Eric Donald McKenzie, Cyril Meir Scott, Charles Louis Seeger, Jr. HUN
• E tenebris (Come down, O Christ, and help me! reach Thy hand) GER
• E Tenebris (Come down, O Christ, and help me! reach Thy hand) - Charles Trowbridge Haubiel GER
• E Tenebris (Komm, Christus, hilf mir! reich mir deine Hand!) - Erwin Schulhoff FRE (Text: Anonymous after Oscar Wilde)
• Hazel eyes () - May (Toupie) Lowther [x]
• Heavenly ladders () - William A. Schaeffer [x]
• He did not wear his scarlet coat GER (The Ballad of Reading Gaol (first version))
• Helas (To drift with every passion till my soul)
• Helas (To drift with every passion till my soul) - Thomas Pasatieri
• Her ivory hands on the ivory keys (In the Gold Room: a Harmony)
• Her ivory hands on the ivory keys - Elaine Fine, Eric Donald McKenzie, Bernard Rogers (In the gold room)
• Her voice (The wild bee reels from bough to bough)
• Her voice (The wild bee reels from bough to bough) - John Alden Carpenter
• Idyll (Out of the mid-wood's twilight) - Francis George Scott
• Impression de Matin (The Thames nocturne of blue and gold) HUN
• Impression du matin (A kékes-arany éji Themze)
• Impression du matin (The Thames nocturne of blue and gold) - Charles Tomlinson Griffes HUN
• In the forest (Out of the mid-wood's twilight)
• In the forest (Out of the mid-wood's twilight) - Gary Bachlund, Isadore Freed, Edwin Tilden, Chee Yean Wong, Melvin Wyble
• In the Gold Room: a Harmony (Her ivory hands on the ivory keys)
• In the gold room (Her ivory hands on the ivory keys) - Elaine Fine, Eric Donald McKenzie, Bernard Rogers
• I - Ronald A. Beckett (Reading Gaol)
• I (The Ballad of Reading Gaol (2nd version))
• Kerker-Ballade () - Henri Zagwijn GER (Text: Anonymous after Oscar Wilde) [x]
• Komm, Christus, hilf mir! reich mir deine Hand! FRE (Text: Anonymous after Oscar Wilde) - Erwin Schulhoff (E Tenebris)
• La Fuite de la Lune (To outer senses there is peace) - Charles Tomlinson Griffes
• La mer (A téli ég fehér ködén)
• La mer (A white mist drifts across the shrouds) HUN
• La mer (A white mist drifts across the shrouds) - Charles Tomlinson Griffes HUN
• Le jardin (A liliomok szórják dús aranyjuk)
• Le jardin (The lily's withered chalice falls) HUN
• Le jardin (The lily's withered chalice falls) - Charles Tomlinson Griffes HUN
• Le panneau (Ott, ahol árnyas a csalit)
• Le panneau (Under the rose-tree's dancing shade) HUN
• Le panneau (Under the rose-tree's dancing shade) - Gary Bachlund, Gerald Gover HUN
• Le réveillon (The sky is laced with fitful red) HUN
• Le réveillon (The sky is laced with fitful red) - Charles Tomlinson Griffes HUN
• Le réveillon (Vörös az égen a szegély)
• Les ballons (Against these turbid turquoise skies)
• Les ballons (Against these turbid turquoise skies) - Gerald Gover, Charles Tomlinson Griffes
• Les Ballons (Against these turbid turquoise skies) - Gary Bachlund
• Les ballons (A tompa türkiszkék egen)
• Les silhouettes (The sea is fleck'd with bars of gray)
• Les silhouettes (The sea is fleck'd with bars of gray) - John Alden Carpenter
• Madonna mia (A lily-girl, not made for this world's pain) GER
• Madonna Mia (A lily-girl, not made for this world's pain) - Charles Trowbridge Haubiel GER
• Madonna mia (Ein Lilienmädchen, fremd im Erdenleben) - Erwin Schulhoff FRE (Text: Anonymous after Oscar Wilde)
• Nay, Lord, not thus! white lilies in the spring (Sonnet on hearing the Dies Iræ sung in the Sistine Chapel)
• Nay, Lord, not thus! white lilies in the spring - Daniel Ruyneman (Sonnet 'On hearing the Dies Iræ sung in the Sistine Chapel')
• Nay, Lord, not thus! white lilies in the spring - Malcolm Benjamin Graham Christopher Williamson (Sonnet)
• O beautiful star with the crimson mouth! (from Shakespearean Show Book) - Maurice Baron (Beautiful star)
• O beautiful star with the crimson mouth! (from Shakespearean Show Book) - (William Frances) Lawrence Kellie (Oh! beautiful star)
• O beautiful star with the crimson mouth! (from Shakespearean Show Book) - Bothwell Thomson (Oh! beautiful)
• O beautiful star with the crimson mouth! (from Shakespearean Show Book) (Under the balcony)
• Oh! beautiful star (O beautiful star with the crimson mouth!) (from Shakespearean Show Book) - (William Frances) Lawrence Kellie
• Oh! beautiful (O beautiful star with the crimson mouth!) (from Shakespearean Show Book) - Bothwell Thomson
• Ott, ahol árnyas a csalit (Le panneau)
• Out of the mid-wood's twilight - Francis George Scott (Idyll)
• Out of the mid-wood's twilight (In the forest)
• Out of the mid-wood's twilight - Gary Bachlund, Isadore Freed, Edwin Tilden, Chee Yean Wong, Melvin Wyble (In the forest)
• Out of the mid-wood's twilight (Out of the mid-wood's twilight) - Emma Lou Diemer
• Out of the mid-wood's twilight - Emma Lou Diemer (Out of the mid-wood's twilight)
• Reading Gaol (I) - Ronald A. Beckett
• Requiescat (Still, daß sie es nicht hört) - Erwin Schulhoff FRE (Text: Anonymous after Oscar Wilde)
• Requiescat (Tread lightly, she is near) GER GER
• Requiescat (Tread lightly, she is near) - Gary Bachlund, Howard Leake Boatwright, George Sainton Kaye Butterworth, Kathleen Blair Clarke, Henry Clough-Leighter, George Cory, Matthew Emery, Ferenc Farkas, Charles Trowbridge Haubiel, Robert William Jones, George Frederick McKay, Thomas Pasatieri, Ned Rorem, Evelyn Sharpe, David Van Vactor, Gordon Ellsworth Young GER GER
• Roses And Rue (To L. L.) (Could we dig up this long-buried treasure)
• Ruhe in Frieden (Schreit’ sachte, hier ruht sie) - Gary Bachlund
• Sárga szimfónia (Az omnibusz a hidra bú)
• Schreit’ sachte, hier ruht sie - Gary Bachlund (Ruhe in Frieden)
• Serenade (For Music) (The western wind is blowing fair)
• Sonnet on hearing the Dies Iræ sung in the Sistine Chapel (Nay, Lord, not thus! white lilies in the spring)
• Sonnet 'On hearing the Dies Iræ sung in the Sistine Chapel' (Nay, Lord, not thus! white lilies in the spring) - Daniel Ruyneman
• Sonnet (Nay, Lord, not thus! white lilies in the spring) - Malcolm Benjamin Graham Christopher Williamson
• Still, daß sie es nicht hört FRE (Text: Anonymous after Oscar Wilde) - Erwin Schulhoff (Requiescat)
• Symphony in yellow (An omnibus across the bridge) HUN
• Symphony in yellow (An omnibus across the bridge) - Carey Blyton, Charles Tomlinson Griffes HUN
• The apple trees are hung with gold HUN (Endymion)
• The apple trees are hung with gold HUN - Eric Donald McKenzie, Cyril Meir Scott, Charles Louis Seeger, Jr. (Endymion)
• The Ballad of Reading Gaol (2nd version) (I)
• The Ballad of Reading Gaol (first version) (He did not wear his scarlet coat) GER
• The garden (The lily's withered chalice falls) - Harold Vincent Jervis-Read HUN
• The harlot's house (We caught the tread of dancing feet)
• The harlot's house (We caught the tread of dancing feet) - Gary Bachlund, Thomas Pasatieri
• The lily's withered chalice falls HUN (Le jardin)
• The lily's withered chalice falls HUN - Charles Tomlinson Griffes (Le jardin)
• The lily's withered chalice falls HUN - Harold Vincent Jervis-Read (The garden)
• Theoretikos (Agyaglábon pihen e nagy-nagy ország)
• Theoretikos (This mighty empire hath but feet of clay) HUN
• Theoretikos (This mighty empire hath but feet of clay) - Christopher Berg HUN
• The sea is fleck'd with bars of gray (Les silhouettes)
• The sea is fleck'd with bars of gray - John Alden Carpenter (Les silhouettes)
• The sea (A white mist drifts across the shrouds) - Harold Vincent Jervis-Read HUN
• The sky is laced with fitful red HUN (Le réveillon)
• The sky is laced with fitful red HUN - Charles Tomlinson Griffes (Le réveillon)
• The Thames nocturne of blue and gold HUN (Impression de Matin)
• The Thames nocturne of blue and gold HUN - Charles Tomlinson Griffes (Impression du matin)
• The western wind is blowing fair - Harold Vincent Jervis-Read (Ballad of the Greek Sea)
• The western wind is blowing fair (Serenade (For Music))
• The western wind is blowing fair - Frederic Hymen Cowen, Sir, Oscar Wilde (To Helen)
• The wild bee reels from bough to bough (Her voice)
• The wild bee reels from bough to bough - John Alden Carpenter (Her voice)
• This mighty empire hath but feet of clay HUN (Theoretikos)
• This mighty empire hath but feet of clay HUN - Christopher Berg (Theoretikos)
• To drift with every passion till my soul (Helas)
• To drift with every passion till my soul - Thomas Pasatieri (Helas)
• To Helen (The western wind is blowing fair) - Frederic Hymen Cowen, Sir, Oscar Wilde
• To outer senses there is peace - Charles Tomlinson Griffes (La Fuite de la Lune)
• Tread lightly, she is near GER GER - Harold Vincent Jervis-Read (At rest)
• Tread lightly, she is near GER GER (Requiescat)
• Tread lightly, she is near GER GER - Gary Bachlund, Howard Leake Boatwright, George Sainton Kaye Butterworth, Kathleen Blair Clarke, Henry Clough-Leighter, George Cory, Matthew Emery, Ferenc Farkas, Charles Trowbridge Haubiel, Robert William Jones, George Frederick McKay, Thomas Pasatieri, Ned Rorem, Evelyn Sharpe, David Van Vactor, Gordon Ellsworth Young (Requiescat)
• Tread lightly, she is near (Tread lightly, she is near) - Luigi Dallapiccola GER GER
• Tread lightly, she is near GER GER - Luigi Dallapiccola (Tread lightly, she is near)
• Under the balcony (O beautiful star with the crimson mouth!) (from Shakespearean Show Book)
• Under the rose-tree's dancing shade HUN (Le panneau)
• Under the rose-tree's dancing shade HUN - Gary Bachlund, Gerald Gover (Le panneau)
• Under the rose-tree's dancing shade (Under the rose-tree's dancing shade) - Emma Lou Diemer HUN
• Under the rose-tree's dancing shade HUN - Emma Lou Diemer (Under the rose-tree's dancing shade)
• Vörös az égen a szegély (Le réveillon)
• We caught the tread of dancing feet (The harlot's house)
• We caught the tread of dancing feet - Gary Bachlund, Thomas Pasatieri (The harlot's house)

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