Author: Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1836 - 1907)

Text Compilations

• Cloth of Gold and Other Poems
• Flower and Thorn
• Later Lyrics
• Mercedes and Later Lyrics
• Pampinea and Other Poems
• Poems
• The Ballad of Babie Bell and Other Poems
• The Poems of Thomas Bailey Aldrich
• The Sisters' Tragedy, with Other Poems, Lyrical and Dramatic
• The Writings of Thomas Bailey Aldrich
• Unguarded Gates and Other Poems
• Wyndham Towers

Texts set to music as art song or choral works [warning - not necessarily comprehensive]

[x] indicates a placeholder for a text that is not yet in the database
* indicates that a text cannot (yet?) be displayed on this site because of its copyright status.

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 Ballad of Nantucket (Where go you, pretty Maggie) (from The Ballad of Babie Bell and Other Poems)
• A Ballad of Nantucket (Where go you, pretty Maggie) (from The Ballad of Babie Bell and Other Poems) - Walter S. Kennedy
• A Ballad (The blackbird sings in the hazel-brake) (from The Ballad of Babie Bell and Other Poems)
• Across the Street (With lash on cheek, she comes and goes) (from Flower and Thorn)
• After the rain (The rain has ceased, and in my room) (from The Ballad of Babie Bell and Other Poems)
• After the rain (The rain has ceased, and in my room) (from The Ballad of Babie Bell and Other Poems) - Eleanor Everest Freer
• Amerikanisches Volkslied (Die Glocken sollen klingen) (from Amerikanische Dichtungen) - J. Sipergk
• Andalusian Cradle-Song () (from Mercedes and Later Lyrics) [x]
• Andalusian Song () (from Mercedes and Later Lyrics) - Sebastian Benson Schlesinger [x]
• A serenade (Imp of Dreams, when she's asleep) (from Unguarded Gates and Other Poems)
• A Snow-Flake (Once he sang of summer) (from The Writings of Thomas Bailey Aldrich)
• A Snow-Flake (Once he sang of summer) (from The Writings of Thomas Bailey Aldrich) - Leslie Louis Loth
• A song from the Persian (O sad are they who know not love) (from Poems - Two Songs from the Persian) - Arthur Foote
• A sorrowful woman said to me (from The Ballad of Babie Bell and Other Poems) (Dead)
• A sorrowful woman said to me (from The Ballad of Babie Bell and Other Poems) - Charles Henshaw Dana (The one white rose)
• As sweet as the breath that goes (from Flower and Thorn) - Sebastian Benson Schlesinger (The last word)
• As sweet as the breath that goes (from Flower and Thorn) (Unsung)
• Bagatelle (Imp of Dreams, when she's asleep) (from Unguarded Gates and Other Poems) - Robert Whitman Atkinson
• Before the rain (We knew it would rain, for all the morn) (from Cloth of Gold and Other Poems)
• Before the rain (We knew it would rain, for all the morn) (from Cloth of Gold and Other Poems) - Eleanor Everest Freer
• Cradle song (Ere the moon begins to rise) (from Unguarded Gates and Other Poems)
• Cradle song (Ere the moon begins to rise) (from Unguarded Gates and Other Poems) - Percy Lee Atherton, George F. Bauer, (Henry Louis) Reginald De Koven, Liborius Semmann, Adolf Weidig
• Dead (A sorrowful woman said to me) (from The Ballad of Babie Bell and Other Poems)
• Die Glocken sollen klingen (from Amerikanische Dichtungen) - J. Sipergk (Amerikanisches Volkslied)
• Die Glocken sollen klingen (Die Glocken sollen klingen) (from Amerikanische Dichtungen)
• Die Glocken sollen klingen (from Amerikanische Dichtungen) (Die Glocken sollen klingen)
• Einen Ring von Golde steckt' ich an die Hand (Text: after Thomas Bailey Aldrich) [x] - Eduard Lassen (Verlobung)
• Epics and Lyrics () (from Later Lyrics) [x]
• Epics and Lyrics () (from Later Lyrics) - Liborius Semmann [x]
• Ere the moon begins to rise (from Unguarded Gates and Other Poems) (Cradle song)
• Ere the moon begins to rise (from Unguarded Gates and Other Poems) - Percy Lee Atherton, George F. Bauer, (Henry Louis) Reginald De Koven, Liborius Semmann, Adolf Weidig (Cradle song)
• Ere the moon begins to rise (Ere the moon begins to rise) (from Unguarded Gates and Other Poems) - George Alfred Grant-Schaefer, Charles Fonteyn Manney, Frederick Newell Shackley
• Ere the moon begins to rise (from Unguarded Gates and Other Poems) - George Alfred Grant-Schaefer, Charles Fonteyn Manney, Frederick Newell Shackley (Ere the moon begins to rise)
• Ere the moon begins to rise (from Unguarded Gates and Other Poems) - Ronald A. Beckett (Lullaby - Ere the moon begins to rise)
• Forever and a day (I little know or care) (from Poems)
• Forever and a Day (I little know or care) (from Poems) - C. W. Dieckmann, Henry Kimball Hadley, Victor Harris, Clayton Johns, Albert A. Mack, Stephen S. Townsend
• Glamourie (Under the night) (from The Poems of Thomas Bailey Aldrich) [x]
• Glamourie (Under the night) (from The Poems of Thomas Bailey Aldrich) - Charles Henshaw Dana, William Henry Pommer [x]
• Good-night! I have to say good-night (from The Ballad of Babie Bell and Other Poems) - Cecil M. Caverly, Arthur T. Goldsborough, Alfred Humphries (or Humphreys) Pease, Arthur Wilder Thayer, Maude Valérie White (Good night)
• Good-night! I have to say good-night (from The Ballad of Babie Bell and Other Poems) (Palabras Cariñosas)
• Good night (Good-night! I have to say good-night) (from The Ballad of Babie Bell and Other Poems) - Cecil M. Caverly, Arthur T. Goldsborough, Alfred Humphries (or Humphreys) Pease, Arthur Wilder Thayer, Maude Valérie White
• I drink, I dare not say to whom (from The Ballad of Babie Bell and Other Poems) (To the Queen's health)
• I drink, I dare not say to whom (from The Ballad of Babie Bell and Other Poems) - Alfred Humphries (or Humphreys) Pease (To the Queen's health)
• I have placed a golden ring (from The Ballad of Babie Bell and Other Poems) GER (The Betrothal)
• I have placed a golden (from The Ballad of Babie Bell and Other Poems) GER - William Henry Pommer (I've placed a golden ring)
• I have placed a golden (from The Ballad of Babie Bell and Other Poems) GER (The Betrothal)
• I have placed a golden (from The Ballad of Babie Bell and Other Poems) GER - Charles Crozat Converse (The golden ring)
• I little know or care (from Poems) (Forever and a day)
• I little know or care (from Poems) - C. W. Dieckmann, Henry Kimball Hadley, Victor Harris, Clayton Johns, Albert A. Mack, Stephen S. Townsend (Forever and a Day)
• I'll not confer with Sorrow (from The Sisters' Tragedy, with Other Poems, Lyrical and Dramatic) - George Y. Hume (Joy)
• Imp of Dreams, when she's asleep (from Unguarded Gates and Other Poems) (A serenade)
• Imp of Dreams, when she's asleep (from Unguarded Gates and Other Poems) - Robert Whitman Atkinson (Bagatelle)
• Imp of Dreams, when she's asleep (from Unguarded Gates and Other Poems) - William Edwin Haesche (Imp of Dreams)
• Imp of Dreams (Imp of Dreams, when she's asleep) (from Unguarded Gates and Other Poems) - William Edwin Haesche
• In my nostrils the summer wind (from The Ballad of Babie Bell and Other Poems) (Nameless pain)
• In my nostrils the summer wind (from The Ballad of Babie Bell and Other Poems) - Margaret Ruthven Lang (Nameless pain)
• In the hushes of the midnight (Near my bed, there, hangs the picture, jewels could not buy from me) (from The Ballad of Babie Bell and Other Poems) - Charles Henshaw Dana
• In the hush of the autumn night (In the hush of the autumn night) (from Mercedes and Later Lyrics) - Sebastian Benson Schlesinger
• In the hush of the autumn night (from Mercedes and Later Lyrics) - Sebastian Benson Schlesinger (In the hush of the autumn night)
• In the hush of the autumn night (from Mercedes and Later Lyrics) (The voice of the sea)
• In the hush of the autumn night (from Mercedes and Later Lyrics) - Carlo Ferrero, William Wallace Gilchrist, John A. O'Shea (The voice of the sea)
• In the ilex shadows (Up to her chamber window) (from Flower and Thorn) - Fay Foster
• In the old church tower (In the old church tower) (from Pampinea and Other Poems)
• In the old church tower (In the old church tower) (from Pampinea and Other Poems) - August Mignon
• In the old church tower (from Pampinea and Other Poems) (In the old church tower)
• In the old church tower (from Pampinea and Other Poems) - August Mignon (In the old church tower)
• It was a Knight of Aragon, and he was brave to see (from The Ballad of Babie Bell and Other Poems) (It was a Knight of Aragon)
• It was a Knight of Aragon, and he was brave to see (from The Ballad of Babie Bell and Other Poems) - Charles Henshaw Dana (It was a Knight of Aragon)
• It was a Knight of Aragon (It was a Knight of Aragon, and he was brave to see) (from The Ballad of Babie Bell and Other Poems)
• It was a Knight of Aragon (It was a Knight of Aragon, and he was brave to see) (from The Ballad of Babie Bell and Other Poems) - Charles Henshaw Dana
• It was with doubt and trembling (It was with doubt and trembling) (from Wyndham Towers) - Charles Henshaw Dana, Carlo Ferrero
• It was with doubt and trembling (from Wyndham Towers) - Charles Henshaw Dana, Carlo Ferrero (It was with doubt and trembling)
• It was with doubt and trembling (from Wyndham Towers) - Amy Marcy Cheney Beach, Frank Herbert Brackett, Frederic Field Bullard, Mary Grant Carmichael, William L. Glover, Charles Fonteyn Manney, Charles I. Young (Sweetheart, sigh no more)
• I've placed a golden ring (I have placed a golden) (from The Ballad of Babie Bell and Other Poems) - William Henry Pommer GER
• Joy (I'll not confer with Sorrow) (from The Sisters' Tragedy, with Other Poems, Lyrical and Dramatic) - George Y. Hume
• Kathie Morris () (from Pampinea and Other Poems) [x]
• Kathie Morris () (from Pampinea and Other Poems) - Charles Henshaw Dana [x]
• Little Maud (O where is our dainty, our darling) (from The Ballad of Babie Bell and Other Poems)
• Little Maud (O where is our dainty, our darling) (from The Ballad of Babie Bell and Other Poems) - Joseph Philbrick Webster
• Lullaby - Ere the moon begins to rise (Ere the moon begins to rise) (from Unguarded Gates and Other Poems) - Ronald A. Beckett
• Maple leaves (October turned my maple's leaves to gold) (from Flower and Thorn) - Charles Edward Ives
• Marguerite (The merry bells shall ring) (from The Ballad of Babie Bell and Other Poems) - Charles Crozat Converse, Charles Henshaw Dana, Nathaniel Irving Hyatt, George W. Marston, William Henry Pommer GER
• Mignonette (With lash on cheek, she comes and goes) (from Flower and Thorn) - Sebastian Benson Schlesinger
• Nameless pain (In my nostrils the summer wind) (from The Ballad of Babie Bell and Other Poems)
• Nameless pain (In my nostrils the summer wind) (from The Ballad of Babie Bell and Other Poems) - Margaret Ruthven Lang
• Near my bed, there, hangs the picture, jewels could not buy from me (from The Ballad of Babie Bell and Other Poems) - Charles Henshaw Dana (In the hushes of the midnight)
• Near my bed, there, hangs the picture, jewels could not buy from me (from The Ballad of Babie Bell and Other Poems) (The unforgiven)
• Necromancy (Through a chance fissure of the churchyard wall) (from Unguarded Gates and Other Poems) [x]
• Necromancy (Through a chance fissure of the churchyard wall) (from Unguarded Gates and Other Poems) - Adolf Weidig [x]
• Nocturne (Up to her chamber window) (from Flower and Thorn)
• Nocturne (Up to her chamber window) (from Flower and Thorn) - A. L. Barnes, George Whitefield Chadwick, Albert A. Mack, Ethelbert Woodbridge Nevin, William Henry Pommer, J. W. Seymour
• O cease, sweet music, let us rest! (from Poems - Two Songs from the Persian) - Constantin Ivanovich Sternberg (O cease! sweet music!)
• O cease, sweet music, let us rest! (from Poems - Two Songs from the Persian) - William Henry Pommer (Song from the Persian)
• O cease! sweet music! (O cease, sweet music, let us rest!) (from Poems - Two Songs from the Persian) - Constantin Ivanovich Sternberg
• October turned my maple's leaves to gold (from Flower and Thorn) - Charles Edward Ives (Maple leaves)
• Once he sang of summer (from The Writings of Thomas Bailey Aldrich) (A Snow-Flake)
• Once he sang of summer (from The Writings of Thomas Bailey Aldrich) - Leslie Louis Loth (A Snow-Flake)
• Only to die (Out from the depths of my heart) (from Poems - Romance) - Noble A. Hardee
• O sad are they who know not love (from Poems - Two Songs from the Persian) - Arthur Foote (A song from the Persian)
• O sad are they who know not love (from Poems - Two Songs from the Persian) - Lucy H. Paine (Passion's tears)
• O sad are they who know not love (from Poems - Two Songs from the Persian) - Bertha Ford (Persian love song)
• O sad are they who know not love (from Poems - Two Songs from the Persian) - William Arms Fisher (Sad are they who know not love)
• O sad are they who know not love (from Poems - Two Songs from the Persian) - George Whitefield Chadwick (Song from the Persian)
• Out from the depths of my heart (from Poems - Romance) - Noble A. Hardee (Only to die)
• O where is our dainty, our darling (from The Ballad of Babie Bell and Other Poems) (Little Maud)
• O where is our dainty, our darling (from The Ballad of Babie Bell and Other Poems) - Joseph Philbrick Webster (Little Maud)
• O where is our dainty, our darling (O where is our dainty, our darling) (from The Ballad of Babie Bell and Other Poems) - Charles Crozat Converse
• O where is our dainty, our darling (from The Ballad of Babie Bell and Other Poems) - Charles Crozat Converse (O where is our dainty, our darling)
• Palabras Cariñosas (Good-night! I have to say good-night) (from The Ballad of Babie Bell and Other Poems)
• Passion's tears (O sad are they who know not love) (from Poems - Two Songs from the Persian) - Lucy H. Paine
• Persian love song (O sad are they who know not love) (from Poems - Two Songs from the Persian) - Bertha Ford
• Romeo's ladder (Up to her chamber window) (from Flower and Thorn) - Leslie Louis Loth, Joseph Deighn Redding
• Sad are they who know not love (O sad are they who know not love) (from Poems - Two Songs from the Persian) - William Arms Fisher
• Seadrift (See where she stands, on the wet sea-sands) (from Poems)
• Seadrift (See where she stands, on the wet sea-sands) (from Poems) - Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
• See where she stands, on the wet sea-sands (from Poems) (Seadrift)
• See where she stands, on the wet sea-sands (from Poems) - Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (Seadrift)
• Sleep (When to soft Sleep we give ourselves away) (from The Writings of Thomas Bailey Aldrich)
• Sleep (When to soft Sleep we give ourselves away) (from The Writings of Thomas Bailey Aldrich) - Arthur Foote
• Song from the Persian (O cease, sweet music, let us rest!) (from Poems - Two Songs from the Persian) - William Henry Pommer
• Song from the Persian (O sad are they who know not love) (from Poems - Two Songs from the Persian) - George Whitefield Chadwick
• Sweetheart, sigh no more (It was with doubt and trembling) (from Wyndham Towers) - Amy Marcy Cheney Beach, Frank Herbert Brackett, Frederic Field Bullard, Mary Grant Carmichael, William L. Glover, Charles Fonteyn Manney, Charles I. Young
• The Betrothal (I have placed a golden) (from The Ballad of Babie Bell and Other Poems) GER
• The blackbird sings in the hazel-brake (from The Ballad of Babie Bell and Other Poems) (A Ballad)
• The blackbird sings in the hazel-brake (from The Ballad of Babie Bell and Other Poems) - Charles Henshaw Dana (The blackbird sings in the hazel-bush)
• The blackbird sings in the hazel-bush (The blackbird sings in the hazel-brake) (from The Ballad of Babie Bell and Other Poems) - Charles Henshaw Dana
• The golden ring (I have placed a golden) (from The Ballad of Babie Bell and Other Poems) - Charles Crozat Converse GER
• The last word (As sweet as the breath that goes) (from Flower and Thorn) - Sebastian Benson Schlesinger
• The merry bells shall ring (from The Ballad of Babie Bell and Other Poems) GER - Charles Crozat Converse, Charles Henshaw Dana, Nathaniel Irving Hyatt, George W. Marston, William Henry Pommer (Marguerite)
• The merry bells shall ring (The merry bells shall ring) (from The Ballad of Babie Bell and Other Poems) GER
• The merry bells shall ring (from The Ballad of Babie Bell and Other Poems) GER (The merry bells shall ring)
• The one white rose (A sorrowful woman said to me) (from The Ballad of Babie Bell and Other Poems) - Charles Henshaw Dana
• The rain has ceased, and in my room (from The Ballad of Babie Bell and Other Poems) (After the rain)
• The rain has ceased, and in my room (from The Ballad of Babie Bell and Other Poems) - Eleanor Everest Freer (After the rain)
• The rose (Up to her chamber window) (from Flower and Thorn) - Adelaide Train
• The unforgiven (Near my bed, there, hangs the picture, jewels could not buy from me) (from The Ballad of Babie Bell and Other Poems)
• The voice of the sea (In the hush of the autumn night) (from Mercedes and Later Lyrics)
• The voice of the sea (In the hush of the autumn night) (from Mercedes and Later Lyrics) - Carlo Ferrero, William Wallace Gilchrist, John A. O'Shea
• Through a chance fissure of the churchyard wall (from Unguarded Gates and Other Poems) [x] (Necromancy)
• Through a chance fissure of the churchyard wall (from Unguarded Gates and Other Poems) [x] - Adolf Weidig (Necromancy)
• To the Queen's health (I drink, I dare not say to whom) (from The Ballad of Babie Bell and Other Poems)
• To the Queen's health (I drink, I dare not say to whom) (from The Ballad of Babie Bell and Other Poems) - Alfred Humphries (or Humphreys) Pease
• Under the night (from The Poems of Thomas Bailey Aldrich) [x] (Glamourie)
• Under the night (from The Poems of Thomas Bailey Aldrich) [x] - Charles Henshaw Dana, William Henry Pommer (Glamourie)
• Unsung (As sweet as the breath that goes) (from Flower and Thorn)
• Up to her chamber window (from Flower and Thorn) - Fay Foster (In the ilex shadows)
• Up to her chamber window (from Flower and Thorn) (Nocturne)
• Up to her chamber window (from Flower and Thorn) - A. L. Barnes, George Whitefield Chadwick, Albert A. Mack, Ethelbert Woodbridge Nevin, William Henry Pommer, J. W. Seymour (Nocturne)
• Up to her chamber window (from Flower and Thorn) - Leslie Louis Loth, Joseph Deighn Redding (Romeo's ladder)
• Up to her chamber window (from Flower and Thorn) - Adelaide Train (The rose)
• Up to her chamber window (Up to her chamber window) (from Flower and Thorn) - Charles Henshaw Dana, Arthur Foote, Sebastian Benson Schlesinger, Charles Dudley Underhill
• Up to her chamber window (from Flower and Thorn) - Charles Henshaw Dana, Arthur Foote, Sebastian Benson Schlesinger, Charles Dudley Underhill (Up to her chamber window)
• Verlobung (Einen Ring von Golde steckt' ich an die Hand) - Eduard Lassen (Text: after Thomas Bailey Aldrich) [x]
• We knew it would rain, for all the morn (from Cloth of Gold and Other Poems) (Before the rain)
• We knew it would rain, for all the morn (from Cloth of Gold and Other Poems) - Eleanor Everest Freer (Before the rain)
• When to soft Sleep we give ourselves away (from The Writings of Thomas Bailey Aldrich) (Sleep)
• When to soft Sleep we give ourselves away (from The Writings of Thomas Bailey Aldrich) - Arthur Foote (Sleep)
• Where go you, lovely Maggie? (Where go you, pretty Maggie) (from The Ballad of Babie Bell and Other Poems) - George W. Marston, C. L. Seaverns
• Where go you, pretty Maggie (from The Ballad of Babie Bell and Other Poems) (A Ballad of Nantucket)
• Where go you, pretty Maggie (from The Ballad of Babie Bell and Other Poems) - Walter S. Kennedy (A Ballad of Nantucket)
• Where go you, pretty Maggie (from The Ballad of Babie Bell and Other Poems) - George W. Marston, C. L. Seaverns (Where go you, lovely Maggie?)
• With lash on cheek, she comes and goes (from Flower and Thorn) (Across the Street)
• With lash on cheek, she comes and goes (from Flower and Thorn) - Sebastian Benson Schlesinger (Mignonette)

---

Last update: 2018-07-12 15:36:34