Author: Elinor Wylie (1885 - 1928)

Text Compilations

• Angels and Earthly Creatures: A Sequence of Sonnets
• Black Armour: A Book of Poems
• Collected Poems
• Nets to Catch the Wind
• Trivial Breath

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• A strange story (When I died in Berners Street) (from Trivial Breath)
• Avoid the reeking herd - Gary Bachlund (The eagle and the mole)
• A white well (from Nets to Catch the Wind) - Gary Bachlund (Incantation)
• Beauty (Say not of Beauty she is good) (from Nets to Catch the Wind) GER
• Beauty (Say not of Beauty she is good) (from Nets to Catch the Wind) - Gary Bachlund, Russell Woollen GER
• Bells in the rain (Sleep falls, with limpid drops of rain) (from Nets to Catch the Wind)
• Bells in the rain (Sleep falls, with limpid drops of rain) (from Nets to Catch the Wind) - John Woods Duke, Jenni Pinnock, Russell Woollen
• Better to see your cheek grown hollow (from Nets to Catch the Wind) (Madman's song)
• Better to see your cheek grown hollow (from Nets to Catch the Wind) - Paul Fetler, Russell Woollen (Madman's song)
• Dass Schönheit gut ist, sage nicht (Schönheit)
• Dass Schönheit gut ist, sage nicht - Gary Bachlund (Schönheit)
• Down to the Puritan marrow of my bones (Puritan sonnet)
• Down to the Puritan marrow of my bones - John Woods Duke (Puritan sonnet)
• Elegy () - Paul Nordoff [x]
• Fair Annet's song (One thing comes) (from Angels and Earthly Creatures: A Sequence of Sonnets)
• Fair Annet's song (One thing comes) (from Angels and Earthly Creatures: A Sequence of Sonnets) - Arthur Edward Drummond Bliss, Sir, John Woods Duke, Mary (Carlisle) Howe
• Fair Annette's song (One thing comes) (from Angels and Earthly Creatures: A Sequence of Sonnets) - Paul Nordoff
• Golden bough (These lovely groves of fountain-trees that shake) (from Collected Poems)
• Golden bough (These lovely groves of fountain-trees that shake) (from Collected Poems) - Reginald Chauncey Robbins
• Incantation (A white well) (from Nets to Catch the Wind) - Gary Bachlund
• I shall lie hidden in a hut GER (Prophecy)
• Let no charitable hope (Now let no charitable hope) (from Black Armour: A Book of Poems)
• Let us walk in the white snow (Let us walk in the white snow) (from Nets to Catch the Wind) - Mary (Carlisle) Howe GER
• Let us walk in the white snow (from Nets to Catch the Wind) GER - Mary (Carlisle) Howe (Let us walk in the white snow)
• Let us walk in the white snow (from Nets to Catch the Wind) GER (Velvet shoes)
• Let us walk in the white snow (from Nets to Catch the Wind) GER - Evan Copley, John Woods Duke, Louise M. Evans, Richard Hageman, Reginald Chauncey Robbins, Hale Smith, Rick Sowash, Randall Thompson, Russell Woollen (Velvet shoes)
• Little elegy (Withouten you) (from Angels and Earthly Creatures: A Sequence of Sonnets) GER
• Little elegy (Withouten you) (from Angels and Earthly Creatures: A Sequence of Sonnets) - Arthur Edward Drummond Bliss, Sir, John Woods Duke, Mary (Carlisle) Howe, Ned Rorem, Anthony Strilko GER
• Liza, go steep your long white hands (from Nets to Catch the Wind) (Spring pastoral)
• Liza, go steep your long white hands (from Nets to Catch the Wind) - Mary (Carlisle) Howe, Russell Woollen (Spring pastoral)
• Madman's song (Better to see your cheek grown hollow) (from Nets to Catch the Wind)
• Madman's song (Better to see your cheek grown hollow) (from Nets to Catch the Wind) - Paul Fetler, Russell Woollen
• Musa of the sea-blue eyes (from Black Armour: A Book of Poems) (On a singing girl)
• Musa of the sea-blue eyes (from Black Armour: A Book of Poems) - Ned Rorem (On a singing girl)
• My body is weary to death of my mischievous brain (from Black Armour: A Book of Poems) GER (Nebuchadnezzar)
• My body is weary to death of my mischievous brain (from Black Armour: A Book of Poems) GER - Russell Woollen (Nebuchadnezzar)
• My locks are shorn for sorrow (Ophelia)
• My locks are shorn for sorrow - Anthony Strilko (Ophelia)
• My love came up from Barnegat (The puritan's ballad)
• My love came up from Barnegat - John Woods Duke (The puritan's ballad)
• Nebuchadnezzar (My body is weary to death of my mischievous brain) (from Black Armour: A Book of Poems) GER
• Nebuchadnezzar (My body is weary to death of my mischievous brain) (from Black Armour: A Book of Poems) - Russell Woollen GER
• Now let no charitable hope (from Black Armour: A Book of Poems) (Let no charitable hope)
• Now let no charitable hope (Now let no charitable hope) (from Black Armour: A Book of Poems) - Ned Rorem
• Now let no charitable hope (from Black Armour: A Book of Poems) - Ned Rorem (Now let no charitable hope)
• Now shall the long homesickness have an end (from Angels and Earthly Creatures: A Sequence of Sonnets) GER (One person)
• Now shall the long homesickness have an end (from Angels and Earthly Creatures: A Sequence of Sonnets) GER - Marvin David Levy (One person)
• O clear and musical (from Collected Poems) - Ethel Glenn Hier (The bird in the rain)
• O clear and musical (from Collected Poems) (The bird)
• O clear and musical (from Collected Poems) - John Woods Duke (The bird)
• On a singing girl (Musa of the sea-blue eyes) (from Black Armour: A Book of Poems)
• On a singing girl (Musa of the sea-blue eyes) (from Black Armour: A Book of Poems) - Ned Rorem
• One person (Now shall the long homesickness have an end) (from Angels and Earthly Creatures: A Sequence of Sonnets) GER
• One person (Now shall the long homesickness have an end) (from Angels and Earthly Creatures: A Sequence of Sonnets) - Marvin David Levy GER
• One thing comes and another thing goes (from Angels and Earthly Creatures: A Sequence of Sonnets) (Fair Annet's song)
• One thing comes (from Angels and Earthly Creatures: A Sequence of Sonnets) (Fair Annet's song)
• One thing comes (from Angels and Earthly Creatures: A Sequence of Sonnets) - Arthur Edward Drummond Bliss, Sir, John Woods Duke, Mary (Carlisle) Howe (Fair Annet's song)
• One thing comes (from Angels and Earthly Creatures: A Sequence of Sonnets) - Paul Nordoff (Fair Annette's song)
• Ophelia (My locks are shorn for sorrow)
• Ophelia (My locks are shorn for sorrow) - Anthony Strilko
• Peregrine () (from Black Armour: A Book of Poems) [x]
• Peregrine () (from Black Armour: A Book of Poems) - Russell Woollen [x]
• Poets make pets of pretty, docile words (from Collected Poems) (Pretty words)
• Poets make pets of pretty, docile words (from Collected Poems) - Russell Woollen (Pretty words)
• Pretty words (Poets make pets of pretty, docile words) (from Collected Poems)
• Pretty words (Poets make pets of pretty, docile words) (from Collected Poems) - Russell Woollen
• Prophecy (I shall lie hidden in a hut) GER
• Puritan sonnet (Down to the Puritan marrow of my bones)
• Puritan sonnet (Down to the Puritan marrow of my bones) - John Woods Duke
• Say not of Beauty she is good (from Nets to Catch the Wind) GER (Beauty)
• Say not of Beauty she is good (from Nets to Catch the Wind) GER - Gary Bachlund, Russell Woollen (Beauty)
• Schönheit (Dass Schönheit gut ist, sage nicht)
• Schönheit (Dass Schönheit gut ist, sage nicht) - Gary Bachlund
• Shepherd's holiday (Too honest for a gypsy, too lazy for a farmer) (from Collected Poems)
• Shepherd's holiday (Too honest for a gypsy, too lazy for a farmer) (from Collected Poems) - Arthur Benjamin
• Silver filigree (The icicles wreathing) (from Nets to Catch the Wind) - Gary Bachlund
• Sleep falls, with limpid drops of rain (from Nets to Catch the Wind) (Bells in the rain)
• Sleep falls, with limpid drops of rain (from Nets to Catch the Wind) - John Woods Duke, Jenni Pinnock, Russell Woollen (Bells in the rain)
• Song () - Russell Woollen [x]
• Spring pastoral (Liza, go steep your long white hands) (from Nets to Catch the Wind)
• Spring pastoral (Liza, go steep your long white hands) (from Nets to Catch the Wind) - Mary (Carlisle) Howe, Russell Woollen
• The bird in the rain (O clear and musical) (from Collected Poems) - Ethel Glenn Hier
• The bird (O clear and musical) (from Collected Poems)
• The bird (O clear and musical) (from Collected Poems) - John Woods Duke
• The eagle and the mole (Avoid the reeking herd) - Gary Bachlund
• The Hielan' lassies are a' for spinnin' (from Nets to Catch the Wind) (The prinkin' leddie)
• The Hielan' lassies are a' for spinnin' (from Nets to Catch the Wind) - Mary (Carlisle) Howe (The prinkin' leddie)
• The icicles wreathing (from Nets to Catch the Wind) - Gary Bachlund (Silver filigree)
• The prinkin' leddie (The Hielan' lassies are a' for spinnin') (from Nets to Catch the Wind)
• The prinkin' leddie (The Hielan' lassies are a' for spinnin') (from Nets to Catch the Wind) - Mary (Carlisle) Howe
• The puritan's ballad (My love came up from Barnegat)
• The puritan's ballad (My love came up from Barnegat) - John Woods Duke
• These lovely groves of fountain-trees that shake (from Collected Poems) (Golden bough)
• These lovely groves of fountain-trees that shake (from Collected Poems) - Reginald Chauncey Robbins (Golden bough)
• Three wishes () (from Black Armour: A Book of Poems) [x]
• Three wishes () (from Black Armour: A Book of Poems) - Russell Woollen [x]
• To a cough in the street at midnight () (from Angels and Earthly Creatures: A Sequence of Sonnets) [x]
• To a cough in the street at midnight () (from Angels and Earthly Creatures: A Sequence of Sonnets) - Russell Woollen [x]
• Too honest for a gypsy, too lazy for a farmer (from Collected Poems) (Shepherd's holiday)
• Too honest for a gypsy, too lazy for a farmer (from Collected Poems) - Arthur Benjamin (Shepherd's holiday)
• Velvet shoes (Let us walk in the white snow) (from Nets to Catch the Wind) GER
• Velvet shoes (Let us walk in the white snow) (from Nets to Catch the Wind) - Evan Copley, John Woods Duke, Louise M. Evans, Richard Hageman, Reginald Chauncey Robbins, Hale Smith, Rick Sowash, Randall Thompson, Russell Woollen GER
• Viennese waltz () (from Collected Poems) [x]
• Viennese waltz () (from Collected Poems) - John Woods Duke, Mary (Carlisle) Howe [x]
• When I died in Berners Street (from Trivial Breath) (A strange story)
• When I died in Berner's Street (When I died in Berners Street) (from Trivial Breath) - Mary (Carlisle) Howe
• When I died in Berners Street (from Trivial Breath) - Mary (Carlisle) Howe (When I died in Berner's Street)
• Withouten you/ No rose can grow (from Angels and Earthly Creatures: A Sequence of Sonnets) GER (Little elegy)
• Withouten you (from Angels and Earthly Creatures: A Sequence of Sonnets) GER (Little elegy)
• Withouten you (from Angels and Earthly Creatures: A Sequence of Sonnets) GER - Arthur Edward Drummond Bliss, Sir, John Woods Duke, Mary (Carlisle) Howe, Ned Rorem, Anthony Strilko (Little elegy)
• Without you/ No rose can grow (from Angels and Earthly Creatures: A Sequence of Sonnets) GER (Little elegy)

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