Texts by C. Scott set in Art Songs and Choral Works

 § Author § 

Cyril Meir Scott (1879 - 1970)

Arkwright Lundy [pseudonym]

(Also see this author's vocal compositions.)

Text Collections:

• The Flowers of Evil

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.
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• Afterday () - C. Scott [x]
• All ardent lovers and all sages prize (from The Flowers of Evil) (Cats) -
• A long while I dwelt beneath vast porticos (from The Flowers of Evil) CZE DUT FIN GER ITA POR SPA (Interior Life) -
• Angelus () - C. Scott [x]
• Around me thundered the deafening noise of the street (from The Flowers of Evil) CZE GER (To a Passer-by) -
• Autumn Song (They ask me — thy crystalline eyes, so acute) (from The Flowers of Evil) CZE
• Autumn Song () (from The Flowers of Evil) CZE CZE [x]
• Beauty (I am lovely, O mortals, like a dream of stone) (from The Flowers of Evil)
• Beneath the shades of sombre yews (from The Flowers of Evil) CZE POR SPA (Owls) -
• Beneath this sky, so livid and strange (from The Flowers of Evil) CZE (Magnetic Horror) -
• Benediction (When by the changeless Power of a Supreme Decree) (from The Flowers of Evil) CZE GER POR SPA
• Bertha's Eyes (The loveliest eyes you can scorn with your wondrous glow) (from The Flowers of Evil) CZE GER
• Be wise, O my Woe, seek thy grievance to drown (from The Flowers of Evil) CZE SPA (Meditation) -
• Cats (All ardent lovers and all sages prize) (from The Flowers of Evil)
• Colloquy () - C. Scott [x] *
• Echoes (In Nature's temple, living columns rise) (from The Flowers of Evil) CZE CZE HUN POR
• Evening Harmony (The hour approacheth, when, as their stems incline) (from The Flowers of Evil) CZE GER HUN POL ROM RUS SPA
• Evening melody (Eve, warm and sad, as the last light shimmers) - C. Scott
• Eve, warm and sad, as the last light shimmers - C. Scott (Evening Melody)
• Exotic Perfume (When, with closed eyes, on a hot afternoon) (from The Flowers of Evil) CZE HUN HUN
• Free man! the sea is to thee ever dear! (from The Flowers of Evil) CZE CZE POL (Man and the Sea) -
• From whence it comes, you ask, this gloom acute (from The Flowers of Evil) CZE CZE ROM (Semper Eadem) -
• Great forests, you alarm me like a mighty fane (from The Flowers of Evil) CZE GER POR RUS (Obsession) -
• How beauteous the sun as it rises supreme (from The Flowers of Evil) CZE GER (The Set of the Romantic Sun) -
• How sweet and bitter, on a winter night (from The Flowers of Evil) GER (The Broken Bell) -
• Hymn to Beauty (O Beauty! dost thou generate from Heaven or from Hell?) (from The Flowers of Evil) CZE POR ROM
• I am lovely, O mortals, like a dream of stone (from The Flowers of Evil) (Beauty) -
• Idyllic fantasy () - C. Scott [x]
• Idyll () - C. Scott [x] *
• Ill-Luck (This heavy burden to uplift) (from The Flowers of Evil)
• Illusionary Love (When I behold thee wander by, my languorous love) (from The Flowers of Evil) CZE
• Imagine Diana in gorgeous array (from The Flowers of Evil) CZE GER (Sisina) -
• In a country perfumed with the sun's embrace (from The Flowers of Evil) CZE GER (To a Creolean Lady) -
• In Nature's temple, living columns rise (from The Flowers of Evil) CZE CZE HUN POR (Echoes) -
• Interior Life (A long while I dwelt beneath vast porticos) (from The Flowers of Evil) CZE DUT FIN GER ITA POR SPA
• In the silver moonbeams () - C. Scott [x] *
• Invitation to a Journey (My sister, my dear) (from The Flowers of Evil) CZE DUT GER ITA RUS SPA
• It is Death that consoles — yea, and causes our lives (from The Flowers of Evil) CZE GER (The Death of the Poor) -
• Just like an angel with evil eye (from The Flowers of Evil) CZE GER (The Ghost) -
• Lamentation () - C. Scott [x] *
• Lullabye () - C. Scott [x] *
• Magnetic Horror (Beneath this sky, so livid and strange) (from The Flowers of Evil) CZE
• Man and the Sea (Free man! the sea is to thee ever dear!) (from The Flowers of Evil) CZE CZE POL
• Meditation (Be wise, O my Woe, seek thy grievance to drown) (from The Flowers of Evil) CZE SPA
• Meseemeth thy glance, soft enshrouded with dew (from The Flowers of Evil) (Overcast Sky) -
• Mirabelle is a baggage, we know () - C. Scott [x] *
• Mirabelle's love plaint () - C. Scott [x] *
• Mists and Rains (O last of Autumn and Winter — steeped in haze) (from The Flowers of Evil) CZE GER
• Music (Oft Music possesses me like the seas!) (from The Flowers of Evil) CZE ITA RUS
• My childhood was nought but a ravaging storm (from The Flowers of Evil) CZE HUN (The Enemy) -
• My sister, my dear (from The Flowers of Evil) CZE DUT GER ITA RUS SPA (Invitation to a Journey) -
• Mystic ode () - C. Scott [x] *
• O Beauty! dost thou generate from Heaven or from Hell? (from The Flowers of Evil) CZE POR ROM (Hymn to Beauty) -
• Obsession (Great forests, you alarm me like a mighty fane) (from The Flowers of Evil) CZE GER POR RUS
• Oft Music possesses me like the seas! (from The Flowers of Evil) CZE ITA RUS (Music) -
• Oh, Mother of Memories! Mistress of Mistresses! (from The Flowers of Evil) CAT CZE HUN ROM SPA (The Balcony) -
• O last of Autumn and Winter — steeped in haze (from The Flowers of Evil) CZE GER (Mists and Rains) -
• Old loves () - C. Scott [x]
• Oracle () - C. Scott [x]
• Overcast Sky (Meseemeth thy glance, soft enshrouded with dew) (from The Flowers of Evil)
• Owls (Beneath the shades of sombre yews) (from The Flowers of Evil) CZE POR SPA
• Parents' lament () - C. Scott [x] *
• Sadness of the Moon-Goddess (To-night the Moon dreams with increased weariness) (from The Flowers of Evil) CZE
• Semper Eadem (From whence it comes, you ask, this gloom acute) (from The Flowers of Evil) CZE CZE ROM
• Seven swains () - C. Scott [x] *
• Sisina (Imagine Diana in gorgeous array) (from The Flowers of Evil) CZE GER
• Six years old, come Friday () - C. Scott [x] *
• Sonnet XLIII (What sayest thou, to-night, poor soul so drear) (from The Flowers of Evil) CZE GER
• Spleen (The rainy moon of all the world is weary) (from The Flowers of Evil) CZE
• Spring song () - C. Scott [x]
• Summerland () - C. Scott [x] *
• The Balcony (Oh, Mother of Memories! Mistress of Mistresses!) (from The Flowers of Evil) CAT CZE HUN ROM SPA
• The Broken Bell (How sweet and bitter, on a winter night) (from The Flowers of Evil) GER
• The Death of the Lovers (We will have beds which exhale odours soft) (from The Flowers of Evil) GER ITA POL SPA
• The Death of the Poor (It is Death that consoles — yea, and causes our lives) (from The Flowers of Evil) CZE GER
• The Enemy (My childhood was nought but a ravaging storm) (from The Flowers of Evil) CZE HUN
• The Ghost (Just like an angel with evil eye) (from The Flowers of Evil) CZE GER
• The hour approacheth, when, as their stems incline (from The Flowers of Evil) CZE GER HUN POL ROM RUS SPA (Evening Harmony) -
• The little foreigner () - C. Scott [x] *
• The Living Torch (They stand before me now, those eyes that shine) (from The Flowers of Evil)
• The loveliest eyes you can scorn with your wondrous glow (from The Flowers of Evil) CZE GER (Bertha's Eyes) -
• The rainy moon of all the world is weary (from The Flowers of Evil) CZE (Spleen) -
• The Set of the Romantic Sun (How beauteous the sun as it rises supreme) (from The Flowers of Evil) CZE GER
• The Spiritual Dawn (When the morning white and rosy breaks) (from The Flowers of Evil) CZE
• The Wine of Lovers (To-day the Distance is superb) (from The Flowers of Evil) CZE GER ROM GER GER
• They ask me — thy crystalline eyes, so acute (from The Flowers of Evil) CZE (Autumn Song) -
• They stand before me now, those eyes that shine (from The Flowers of Evil) (The Living Torch) -
• This heavy burden to uplift (from The Flowers of Evil) (Ill-Luck) -
• To a Creolean Lady (In a country perfumed with the sun's embrace) (from The Flowers of Evil) CZE GER
• To a Passer-by (Around me thundered the deafening noise of the street) (from The Flowers of Evil) CZE GER
• To-day the Distance is superb (from The Flowers of Evil) CZE GER ROM GER GER (The Wine of Lovers) -
• Told while spinning () - C. Scott [x] *
• To-night the Moon dreams with increased weariness (from The Flowers of Evil) CZE (Sadness of the Moon-Goddess) -
• To the wedding () - C. Scott [x] *
• Tragedy () - C. Scott [x] *
• Voices of vision () - C. Scott [x]
• We will have beds which exhale odours soft (from The Flowers of Evil) GER ITA POL SPA (The Death of the Lovers) -
• What sayest thou, to-night, poor soul so drear (from The Flowers of Evil) CZE GER (Sonnet XLIII) -
• When by the changeless Power of a Supreme Decree (from The Flowers of Evil) CZE GER POR SPA (Benediction) -
• When I behold thee wander by, my languorous love (from The Flowers of Evil) CZE (Illusionary Love) -
• When the morning white and rosy breaks (from The Flowers of Evil) CZE (The Spiritual Dawn) -
• When, with closed eyes, on a hot afternoon (from The Flowers of Evil) CZE HUN HUN (Exotic Perfume) -
• Willows () - C. Scott [x]

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