Author: William Wordsworth (1770 - 1850)

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• Epitaphs
• Lyrical Ballads
• The Prelude or, Growth of a Poet's Mind; An Autobiographical Poem
• The River Duddon, A series of Sonnets : Vaudracour and Julia : and Other Poems

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• A complaint (There is a change -- and I am poor)
• A complaint (There is a change -- and I am poor) - Robert Owens
• A flock of sheep that leisurely pass by GER (To Sleep)
• An den Schlaf (Die Herde Schlaf, die gemächlich zieht) - Ernst Pepping
• And O, ye Fountains, Meadows, Hills, and Groves (There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream) - Gerald Finzi
• A night-piece (The sky is overcast) - Willem Frederik Bon
• A slumber did my spirit seal (A slumber did my spirit seal) (from Lyrical Ballads) - John Linton Gardner, Fritz Bennicke Hart
• A slumber did my spirit seal (from Lyrical Ballads) - John Linton Gardner, Fritz Bennicke Hart (A slumber did my spirit seal)
• A slumber did my spirit seal (from Lyrical Ballads) (Lucy V)
• A slumber did my spirit seal (from Lyrical Ballads) - Nigel Dodd (Lucy V)
• As one who hangs down-bending from the side - Dominick Argento (Prologue: Shadow And Substance)
• A song for the spinning wheel (Swiftly turn the murmuring wheel!) (from The River Duddon, A series of Sonnets : Vaudracour and Julia : and Other Poems) - Herbert Antcliffe SWE
• Away, away, it is the air (Away, away, it is the air)
• Away, away, it is the air (Away, away, it is the air)
• Away, away, it is the air - Willem Frederik Bon (Away, away)
• Away, away (Away, away, it is the air) - Willem Frederik Bon
• Behold her, single in the field CZE - Alec Templeton (Hebridean Song)
• Behold her, single in the field CZE (The solitary reaper)
• Behold her, single in the field CZE - Alan Bullard, Mary Chandler, John Michael Diack, Patrick Arthur Sheldon Hadley, William McCauley, Geraldine Dorothy Rasmussen, W. F. Snell, Eric Harding Thiman, Leslie Walters, Ian Dunn Whyte, Charles Wood, William Brocklesby Wordsworth (The solitary reaper)
• Behold the Child among his new-born blisses (Behold the Child among his new-born blisses) - Gerald Finzi
• Behold the Child among his new-born blisses - Gerald Finzi (Behold the Child among his new-born blisses)
• But that night when on my bed I lay, I was most mov'd (from The Prelude or, Growth of a Poet's Mind; An Autobiographical Poem) CAT FRE
• But that night when on my bed I lay (But that night) (from The Prelude or, Growth of a Poet's Mind; An Autobiographical Poem) - (Edward) Benjamin Britten CAT FRE
• But that night (from The Prelude or, Growth of a Poet's Mind; An Autobiographical Poem) CAT FRE - (Edward) Benjamin Britten (But that night when on my bed I lay)
• Clouds, lingering yet, extend in solid bars - Dominick Argento (The Lake At Evening)
• Composed upon Westminster Bridge, Sept. 3, 1803 (Earth has not anything to show more fair)
• Daffodils (I wandered lonely as a cloud) - Gary Bachlund, Huub de Lange CZE GER GER HUN POL
• Die Herde Schlaf, die gemächlich zieht - Ernst Pepping (An den Schlaf)
• Earth fills her lap with pleasures of her own (Earth fills her lap with pleasures of her own) - Gerald Finzi
• Earth fills her lap with pleasures of her own - Gerald Finzi (Earth fills her lap with pleasures of her own)
• Earth has not anything to show more fair (Composed upon Westminster Bridge, Sept. 3, 1803)
• Earth has not anything to show more fair - John Eaton (Lines written upon Westminster Bridge)
• Earth has not anything to show more fair - Richard Rodney Bennett (Sonnet)
• Earth has not anything to show more fair - Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Audrey Margaret Piggott, Michael Short (Upon Westminster Bridge)
• Earth has not anything to show more fair - Richard Bamford Lane, Geraldine Dorothy Rasmussen, William Brocklesby Wordsworth (Westminster Bridge)
• Epilogue: De Profundis (The world is too much with us; late and soon) - Dominick Argento
• Fair is the Swan, whose majesty, prevailing - Dominick Argento (Fair Is The Swan)
• Fair Is The Swan (Fair is the Swan, whose majesty, prevailing) - Dominick Argento
• From low to high doth dissolution climb (Mutability)
• From low to high doth dissolution climb - Jack Hamilton Beeson (Mutability)
• From 'Lucy' (I travelled among unknown men) (from Lyrical Ballads) - (Edward) Benjamin Britten
• Glide gently, thus for ever, ever glide - William Walton (Glide gently)
• Glide gently (Glide gently, thus for ever, ever glide) - William Walton
• Hebridean Song (Behold her, single in the field) - Alec Templeton CZE
• Hope () - Robert Owens [x]
• How richly glows the water's breast (Lines written while sailing In a boat at evening)
• How richly glows the water's breast - John Axel Fernström (Lines written while sailing In a boat at evening)
• Hymn Near the Rapids (Jesu! bless our slender Boat) - Dominick Argento
• I heard a thousand blended notes - Otto Freudenthal (I heard a thousand...)
• I heard a thousand blended notes (Written in early spring)
• I heard a thousand... (I heard a thousand blended notes) - Otto Freudenthal
• In Remembrance Of Schubert (O glide, fair stream! For ever so) - Dominick Argento
• In the mountains () - Willem Frederik Bon [x]
• It is a beauteous evening, calm and free - Robert Fairfax Birch (It is a beauteous evening)
• It is a beauteous evening (It is a beauteous evening, calm and free) - Robert Fairfax Birch
• It is the first mild day of March GER (To my sister)
• It is the first mild day of March GER - Anton Brejestovsky, Bruce A. Randall (To my sister)
• I travelled among unknown men (from Lyrical Ballads) - (Edward) Benjamin Britten (From 'Lucy')
• I travelled among unknown men (I travelled among unknown men) (from Lyrical Ballads)
• I travelled among unknown men (I travelled among unknown men) (from Lyrical Ballads) - Charles Edward Ives
• I travelled among unknown men (from Lyrical Ballads) (I travelled among unknown men)
• I travelled among unknown men (from Lyrical Ballads) - Charles Edward Ives (I travelled among unknown men)
• I travelled among unknown men (from Lyrical Ballads) - Nigel Dodd (Lucy III)
• I wandered lonely as a cloud CZE GER GER HUN POL - Gary Bachlund, Huub de Lange (Daffodils)
• I wandered lonely as a cloud (I wandered lonely as a cloud) - Eric Harding Thiman CZE GER GER HUN POL
• I wandered lonely as a cloud CZE GER GER HUN POL - Eric Harding Thiman (I wandered lonely as a cloud)
• I wandered lonely as a cloud CZE GER GER HUN POL - Louise Pauline Marie Héritte-Viardot, Frederick Kelley (The Daffodils)
• Jak oblak, cestou já jsem šel GER GER HUN POL (Narcisky)
• Jak obłok ponad pasmem gór (Jak obłok ponad pasmem gór) CZE GER GER HUN
• Jak obłok ponad pasmem gór CZE GER GER HUN (Jak obłok ponad pasmem gór)
• Jesu! bless our slender Boat - Dominick Argento (Hymn Near the Rapids)
• Lines written upon Westminster Bridge (Earth has not anything to show more fair) - John Eaton
• Lines written while sailing In a boat at evening (How richly glows the water's breast)
• Lines written while sailing In a boat at evening (How richly glows the water's breast) - John Axel Fernström
• Little Celandine (Pansies, lilies, kingcups, daisies) - Charles Gounod
• Lucy I (Strange fits of passion have I known) (from Lyrical Ballads)
• Lucy I (Strange fits of passion have I known) (from Lyrical Ballads) - Nigel Dodd
• Lucy II (She dwelt among the untrodden ways) (from Lyrical Ballads)
• Lucy II (She dwelt among the untrodden ways) (from Lyrical Ballads) - Nigel Dodd
• Lucy III (I travelled among unknown men) (from Lyrical Ballads) - Nigel Dodd
• Lucy IV (Three years she grew in sun and shower) (from Lyrical Ballads)
• Lucy IV (Three years she grew in sun and shower) (from Lyrical Ballads) - Nigel Dodd
• Lucy V (A slumber did my spirit seal) (from Lyrical Ballads)
• Lucy V (A slumber did my spirit seal) (from Lyrical Ballads) - Nigel Dodd
• Lutes and voices down th' enchanted woods - Dominick Argento (Music On The Water)
• Music On The Water (Lutes and voices down th' enchanted woods) - Dominick Argento
• Mutability (From low to high doth dissolution climb)
• Mutability (From low to high doth dissolution climb) - Jack Hamilton Beeson
• My heart leaps up when I behold GER - Paul Moravec (My heart leaps up)
• My heart leaps up when I behold GER - Charles Edward Ives (So may it be!)
• My heart leaps up when I behold GER - Ned Rorem (The Rainbow)
• My heart leaps up (My heart leaps up when I behold) - Paul Moravec GER
• Narcisky (Jak oblak, cestou já jsem šel) GER GER HUN POL
• No Nightingale did ever chaunt CZE (The solitary reaper)
• Now, while the birds thus sing a joyous song (Now, while the birds thus sing a joyous song) - Gerald Finzi
• Now, while the birds thus sing a joyous song - Gerald Finzi (Now, while the birds thus sing a joyous song)
• Ode on Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood (There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream)
• O glide, fair stream! For ever so - Dominick Argento (In Remembrance Of Schubert)
• Oh joy! That in our embers
• O joy! that in our embers (O joy! that in our embers) - Gerald Finzi
• O joy! that in our embers - Gerald Finzi (O joy! that in our embers)
• O joy! that in our embers - Leon Kirchner (Words from Wordsworth)
• On such a night of June (The sun has long been set) - Willem Frederik Bon
• Osamělá žnečka (Viz tamo děvče samotné)
• Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting (Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting) - Gerald Finzi
• Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting - Gerald Finzi (Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting)
• Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting - George Dyson (Our birth is but a sleep)
• Our birth is but a sleep (Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting) - George Dyson
• Pansies, lilies, kingcups, daisies - Charles Gounod (Little Celandine)
• Prologue: Shadow And Substance (As one who hangs down-bending from the side) - Dominick Argento
• Seven Daughters had Lord Archibald GER (The Seven Sisters)
• She dwelt among the untrodden ways (from Lyrical Ballads) (Lucy II)
• She dwelt among the untrodden ways (from Lyrical Ballads) - Nigel Dodd (Lucy II)
• She dwelt among the untrodden ways (She dwelt among the untrodden ways) (from Lyrical Ballads) - Nick Peros
• She dwelt among the untrodden ways (from Lyrical Ballads) - Nick Peros (She dwelt among the untrodden ways)
• She dwelt among the untrodden ways (from Lyrical Ballads) - P(atrick) Peter Sacco (She dwelt among untrodden ways)
• She dwelt among untrodden ways (She dwelt among the untrodden ways) (from Lyrical Ballads) - P(atrick) Peter Sacco
• Sieben Töchter hatte Lord Archibald - Joseph (Gabriel) Rheinberger (Vom einsamen Grund)
• Snurra hjulet, raska på [x] * - Jacob Ekström (Visa vid spinnrocken )
• So may it be! (My heart leaps up when I behold) - Charles Edward Ives GER
• Song for the spinning wheel (Swiftly turn the murmuring wheel!) (from The River Duddon, A series of Sonnets : Vaudracour and Julia : and Other Poems) SWE
• Song for the spinning wheel (Swiftly turn the murmuring wheel!) (from The River Duddon, A series of Sonnets : Vaudracour and Julia : and Other Poems) - Florence Newell Barbour, William Henry Ibberson, Gordon Percival Septimus Jacob, Madeleine Peck-Taylor, Montague Fawcett Phillips SWE
• Sonnet (Earth has not anything to show more fair) - Richard Rodney Bennett
• Strange fits of passion have I known (from Lyrical Ballads) (Lucy I)
• Strange fits of passion have I known (from Lyrical Ballads) - Nigel Dodd (Lucy I)
• Sweet are the sounds that mingle from afar - Dominick Argento (The Lake At Night)
• Sweet is the love (Up! up! my friend, and clear your looks) - Otto Freudenthal
• Swiftly turn the murmuring wheel! (from The River Duddon, A series of Sonnets : Vaudracour and Julia : and Other Poems) SWE - Herbert Antcliffe (A song for the spinning wheel)
• Swiftly turn the murmuring wheel! (from The River Duddon, A series of Sonnets : Vaudracour and Julia : and Other Poems) SWE (Song for the spinning wheel)
• Swiftly turn the murmuring wheel! (from The River Duddon, A series of Sonnets : Vaudracour and Julia : and Other Poems) SWE - Florence Newell Barbour, William Henry Ibberson, Gordon Percival Septimus Jacob, Madeleine Peck-Taylor, Montague Fawcett Phillips (Song for the spinning wheel)
• The Daffodils (I wandered lonely as a cloud) - Louise Pauline Marie Héritte-Viardot, Frederick Kelley CZE GER GER HUN POL
• The death of young Romilly : a ballad (What is good for a bootless bene?") - Mrs. Robert Arkwright (Frances Crauford, née Kemble?)
• The Force of Prayer; or, The Founding of Bolton Priory: A Tradition (What is good for a bootless bene?")
• The Lake At Evening (Clouds, lingering yet, extend in solid bars) - Dominick Argento
• The Lake At Night (Sweet are the sounds that mingle from afar) - Dominick Argento
• Then sing, ye Birds, sing, sing a joyous song! (There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream) - Gerald Finzi
• The Rainbow comes and goes (The rainbow comes and goes) - Gerald Finzi
• The rainbow comes and goes - Gerald Finzi (The Rainbow comes and goes)
• The Rainbow (My heart leaps up when I behold) - Ned Rorem GER
• There is a change -- and I am poor (A complaint)
• There is a change -- and I am poor - Robert Owens (A complaint)
• There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream - Gerald Finzi (And O, ye Fountains, Meadows, Hills, and Groves)
• There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream (Ode on Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood)
• There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream - Gerald Finzi (Then sing, ye Birds, sing, sing a joyous song!)
• There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream (There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream) - Gerald Finzi
• There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream - Gerald Finzi (There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream)
• The Seven Sisters (Seven Daughters had Lord Archibald) GER
• The sky is overcast - Willem Frederik Bon (A night-piece)
• The solitary reaper (Behold her, single in the field) CZE
• The solitary reaper (Behold her, single in the field) - Alan Bullard, Mary Chandler, John Michael Diack, Patrick Arthur Sheldon Hadley, William McCauley, Geraldine Dorothy Rasmussen, W. F. Snell, Eric Harding Thiman, Leslie Walters, Ian Dunn Whyte, Charles Wood, William Brocklesby Wordsworth CZE
• The sun has long been set - Willem Frederik Bon (On such a night of June)
• The sun has long been set (The sun has long been set)
• The sun has long been set (The sun has long been set)
• The tables turned; An Evening Scene on the same Subject (Up! up! my friend, and clear your looks)
• The world is too much with us; late and soon - Dominick Argento (Epilogue: De Profundis)
• The world is too much with us; late and soon - Melinda Bargreen (The world is too much with us)
• The world is too much with us (The world is too much with us; late and soon) - Melinda Bargreen
• Thou, whose exterior semblance doth belie (Thou, whose exterior semblance doth belie) - Gerald Finzi
• Thou, whose exterior semblance doth belie - Gerald Finzi (Thou, whose exterior semblance doth belie)
• Three years she grew in sun and shower (from Lyrical Ballads) (Lucy IV)
• Three years she grew in sun and shower (from Lyrical Ballads) - Nigel Dodd (Lucy IV)
• To my sister (It is the first mild day of March) GER
• To my sister (It is the first mild day of March) - Anton Brejestovsky, Bruce A. Randall GER
• To Sleep (A flock of sheep that leisurely pass by) GER
• Travelling () - Willem Frederik Bon [x]
• Upon Westminster Bridge (Earth has not anything to show more fair) - Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Audrey Margaret Piggott, Michael Short
• Up! up! my friend, and clear your looks - Otto Freudenthal (Sweet is the love)
• Up! up! my friend, and clear your looks (The tables turned; An Evening Scene on the same Subject)
• Visa vid spinnrocken (Snurra hjulet, raska på ) - Jacob Ekström [x] *
• Viz tamo děvče samotné (Osamělá žnečka)
• Vom einsamen Grund (Sieben Töchter hatte Lord Archibald) - Joseph (Gabriel) Rheinberger
• Weep not, beloved Friends! nor let the air (from Epitaphs) - Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, Cyril Bradley Rootham (Weep not, beloved friends)
• Weep not, beloved friends (Weep not, beloved Friends! nor let the air) (from Epitaphs) - Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, Cyril Bradley Rootham
• Westminster Bridge (Earth has not anything to show more fair) - Richard Bamford Lane, Geraldine Dorothy Rasmussen, William Brocklesby Wordsworth
• What is good for a bootless bene?" - Mrs. Robert Arkwright (Frances Crauford, née Kemble?) (The death of young Romilly : a ballad)
• What is good for a bootless bene?" (The Force of Prayer; or, The Founding of Bolton Priory: A Tradition)
• Words from Wordsworth (O joy! that in our embers) - Leon Kirchner
• Written in early spring (I heard a thousand blended notes)
• Ye blessed Creatures, I have heard the call (Ye blessed creatures, I have heard the call) - Gerald Finzi
• Ye blessed creatures, I have heard the call - Gerald Finzi (Ye blessed Creatures, I have heard the call)
• Young Romilly through Barden woods (The Force of Prayer; or, The Founding of Bolton Priory: A Tradition)

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