Texts by J. Clare set in Art Songs and Choral Works

Text Collections:

• John Clare: Poems
• Life and Remains of John Clare
• Madrigals and Chronicles
• The Life of John Clare
• The Rural Muse
• The Village Minstrel, and Other Poems

Texts set in art song or choral works (not necessarily comprehensive):

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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.

• All nature has a feeling: woods, fields, brooks GER - M. Savickis (All nature has a feeling)
• All nature has a feeling (All nature has a feeling: woods, fields, brooks) - M. Savickis GER
• All nature owns with one accord GER - P. Dickinson (Nature's Hymn to the Deity)
• An Invite, to Eternity (Say, wilt thou go with me, sweet maid?) (from John Clare: Poems) - I. Venables
• Autumn (I love the fitful gust that shakes) (from John Clare: Poems)
• Badger (When midnight comes a host of dogs and men) (from John Clare: Poems) - P. Dickinson
• Ballad (Winter's gone, the summer breezes) (from The Village Minstrel, and Other Poems) GER
• Birds' lament (Oh, says the linnet, if I sing) (from Madrigals and Chronicles)
• Born upon an angel's breast (In crime and enmity they lie) - I. Venables GER
• Break of day (The lark he rises early) - I. Stephens
• Byron's Funeral (My eye was arrested by straggling groups of common people) - D. Thomas
• Clock-a-clay (In the cowslip pips I lie) (from Life and Remains of John Clare) - R. Bennett, C. Gibbs, T. Hold
• Come queen of months in company (May) - B. Britten
• Conclusion (Dear Sir, / I am in a Madhouse and quite forget your Name) - D. Thomas
• Dear Sir, / I am in a Madhouse and quite forget your Name - D. Thomas
• Early Nightingale (When first we hear the shy-come nightingales) (from John Clare: Poems)
• Elegy (I am: yet what I am none cares or knows) (from The Life of John Clare) - K. Roger GER
• Enquiry (My dear boy) - D. Thomas
• Evening bells (Sweet the merry bells ring round) - I. Venables
• Evening Primrose (When once the sun sinks in the west) (from The Rural Muse - Sonnets) CAT DUT GER
• Farm Breakfast (Maids shout to breakfast in a merry strife) (from John Clare: Poems) - T. Hold
• Farmer's boy (He waits all day beside his little flock) - C. Barratt
• Firwood (The fir trees taper into twigs and wear) (from John Clare: Poems)
• God looks on nature with a glorious eye - D. Thomas
• Hares at play (The birds are gone to bed, the cows are still)
• He loved the brook's soft sound (from John Clare: Poems) - S. Dodgson (Peasant Poet)
• Here morning in the ploughman's songs is met (from John Clare: Poems) - I. Gurney (Ploughman singing)
• He waits all day beside his little flock - C. Barratt
• I am: yet what I am none cares or knows (from The Life of John Clare) GER - T. Hold, T. Mirante, K. Roger, D. Thomas, I. Venables (I am)
• I am (I am: yet what I am none cares or knows) (from The Life of John Clare) - T. Hold, T. Mirante, D. Thomas, I. Venables GER
• Ich bin! Doch was ich bin - mag's keiner wissen? - G. Bachlund (Ich bin)
• Ich bin (Ich bin! Doch was ich bin - mag's keiner wissen?) - G. Bachlund
• I love the fitful gust that shakes (from John Clare: Poems) - R. Werther (Autumn)
• I love the fitful gust (I love the fitful gust that shakes) (from John Clare: Poems) - R. Werther
• In a Madhouse (Dear Sir, / I am in a Madhouse and quite forget your Name) - D. Thomas
• In crime and enmity they lie GER - I. Venables (Love cannot die)
• In the cowslip pips I lie (from Life and Remains of John Clare) - R. Bennett, C. Gibbs, T. Hold, J. Wilson (Clock-a-clay)
• In the cowslip pips I lie (In the cowslip pips I lie) (from Life and Remains of John Clare) - J. Wilson
• Invitation to Eternity (Say, wilt thou go with me, sweet maid?) (from John Clare: Poems) - D. Dorward, P. Standford
• It is the evening hour (It is the evening hour) (from John Clare: Poems) - H. Clark, S. Fraser GER
• It is the evening hour (from John Clare: Poems) GER - H. Clark, S. Fraser, L. Walters (Mary Bayfield)
• I've often tried, when tending sheep and cow - T. Hold (The mock bird)
• I wandered out one rainy day - T. Greaves
• Little Trotty Wagtail he went in the rain (from Life and Remains of John Clare) - E. Bainton, A. Bullard, I. Copley, S. Dodgson, T. Greaves, G. Jacob, J. Jeffreys, J. Raynor, E. Rubbra, M. Shaw, P. Warlock, J. Wilson (Little Trotty Wagtail)
• Little Trotty Wagtail (Little Trotty Wagtail he went in the rain) (from Life and Remains of John Clare) - E. Bainton, A. Bullard, I. Copley, T. Greaves, G. Jacob, J. Jeffreys, J. Raynor, E. Rubbra, M. Shaw, P. Warlock
• Love cannot die (In crime and enmity they lie) GER
• Love lives beyond the tomb (Love lives beyond the tomb) (from Life and Remains of John Clare) - I. Venables, R. Werther GER
• Love Lives Beyond (Love lives beyond the tomb) (from Life and Remains of John Clare) - I. Venables GER
• Love, meet me in the green glen - B. Elias
• Maids shout to breakfast in a merry strife (from John Clare: Poems) - T. Hold (Farm Breakfast)
• Market Day (With arms and legs at work and gentle stroke) (from John Clare: Poems) - T. Hold
• Mary Bayfield (It is the evening hour) (from John Clare: Poems) GER
• May (Come queen of months in company)
• Meet me in the green glen (Love, meet me in the green glen) - B. Elias
• Morning (O now the crimson east, its fire-streak burning) (from The Village Minstrel, and Other Poems) - R. Roderick-Jones
• My dear boy - D. Thomas
• My eye was arrested by straggling groups of common people - D. Thomas (Byron's Funeral)
• Nature's Hymn to the Deity (All nature owns with one accord) - P. Dickinson GER
• Nobody will own me or have me at any price [x] * (To Mary Collingwood) -
• No sort of learning ever hurt his head [x] - T. Hold (The lout)
• November (The shepherds almost wonder where they dwell) - T. Greaves, T. Hold
• Oh, says the linnet, if I sing (from Madrigals and Chronicles) - R. Bennett, H. Tye (Birds' lament)
• O Life, thy name to me's a galling sound (from The Village Minstrel, and Other Poems) - D. Diamond (On Death)
• On Death (O Life, thy name to me's a galling sound) (from The Village Minstrel, and Other Poems) - D. Diamond
• O now the crimson east, its fire-streak burning (from The Village Minstrel, and Other Poems) - R. Roderick-Jones (Morning)
• Peasant Poet (He loved the brook's soft sound) (from John Clare: Poems) - S. Dodgson
• Ploughman singing (Here morning in the ploughman's songs is met) (from John Clare: Poems) - I. Gurney
• Quail's Nest (I wandered out one rainy day) - T. Greaves
• Say, wilt thou go with me, sweet maid? (from John Clare: Poems) - D. Dorward, P. Standford, I. Venables (Invitation to Eternity)
• Shepherd's Rondel (Winter's gone, the summer breezes) (from The Village Minstrel, and Other Poems) - A. Rowley GER
• Simple enchantress! wreath'd in summer blooms (from The Village Minstrel, and Other Poems) - R. Roderick-Jones (To the Rural Muse)
• Song's Eternity (What is song's eternity?) (from John Clare: Poems) - E. Boyce, L. Lethbridge, M. Short, P. Standford, J. Wilson
• Sweet the merry bells ring round - I. Venables
• The birds are gone to bed, the cows are still - J. Wilson (Hares at play)
• The birds are gone to bed (The birds are gone to bed, the cows are still) - J. Wilson
• The birds' lament (Oh, says the linnet, if I sing) (from Madrigals and Chronicles) - R. Bennett, H. Tye
• The driving boy beside his team (May) - B. Britten
• The early nightingale (When first we hear the shy-come nightingales) (from John Clare: Poems) - R. Bennett
• The evening primrose (When once the sun sinks in the west) (from The Rural Muse - Sonnets) - B. Britten CAT DUT GER
• The fir trees taper into twigs and wear (from John Clare: Poems) - R. Werther (Firwood)
• The firtrees taper (The fir trees taper into twigs and wear) (from John Clare: Poems) - R. Werther
• The Fox (The shepherd on his journey heard when nigh) (from John Clare: Poems) - S. Dodgson
• The insect world amid the suns and dew - R. Bennett
• The insect world (The insect world amid the suns and dew) - R. Bennett
• The lark he rises early - I. Stephens
• The lost one (It is the evening hour) (from John Clare: Poems) - L. Walters GER
• The lout (No sort of learning ever hurt his head) - T. Hold [x]
• The mock bird (I've often tried, when tending sheep and cow) - T. Hold
• There is a charm in solitude that cheers (There is a charm in Solitude that cheers) - D. Thomas
• The shepherd on his journey heard when nigh (from John Clare: Poems) - S. Dodgson (The Fox)
• The shepherds almost wonder where they dwell - T. Greaves, T. Hold (November)
• The turkeys wade the close to catch the bees (from John Clare: Poems) - S. Dodgson (Turkeys)
• The winter robin () - A. Bullard [x]
• To John Clare (Well, honest John, how fare you now at home?) (from John Clare: Poems) - T. Hold
• To Mary Collingwood (Nobody will own me or have me at any price) [x] *
• To the Rural Muse (Simple enchantress! wreath'd in summer blooms) (from The Village Minstrel, and Other Poems) - R. Roderick-Jones
• Trotty Wagtail (Little Trotty Wagtail he went in the rain) (from Life and Remains of John Clare) - S. Dodgson, J. Wilson
• Turkeys (The turkeys wade the close to catch the bees) (from John Clare: Poems) - S. Dodgson
• Twas born upon an angel's breast GER (Love cannot die) - I. Venables
• Well, honest John, how fare you now at home? (from John Clare: Poems) - T. Hold (To John Clare)
• What is song's eternity? (from John Clare: Poems) - E. Boyce, L. Lethbridge, M. Short, P. Standford, J. Wilson (Song's Eternity)
• When first we hear the shy-come nightingales (from John Clare: Poems) - R. Bennett, R. Werther (Early Nightingale)
• When first we hear (When first we hear the shy-come nightingales) (from John Clare: Poems) - R. Werther
• When midnight comes a host of dogs and men (from John Clare: Poems) - P. Dickinson, J. Wilson (Badger)
• When midnight comes (When midnight comes a host of dogs and men) (from John Clare: Poems) - J. Wilson
• When once the sun sinks in the west (from The Rural Muse - Sonnets) CAT DUT GER - B. Britten (Evening Primrose)
• Wilt thou go with me, sweet maid (from John Clare: Poems) (Invitation to Eternity) - D. Dorward, N. Muhly, P. Standford, I. Venables
• Winter's gone, the summer breezes (from The Village Minstrel, and Other Poems) GER - W. Bennett, A. Rowley (Ballad)
• Winter's gone (Winter's gone, the summer breezes) (from The Village Minstrel, and Other Poems) - W. Bennett GER
• Winter's Macht ist überwunden - W. Bennett
• Winters Macht (Winter's Macht ist überwunden) - W. Bennett
• With a glorious eye (God looks on nature with a glorious eye) - D. Thomas
• With arms and legs at work and gentle stroke (from John Clare: Poems) - T. Hold (Market Day)
• You told me to enquire about my old companions

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