Author: Samuel Byrne (flourished 1889)
Texts set to music as art song or choral works [warning - not necessarily comprehensive]
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- Absence (Come back, come back, my dearest love!) GER GER ITA
- All through plums (If you would like to know just why)
- Arabian song (Trav'ler, cease your amorous dreams)
- Aubade (My darling, daylight doth appear)
- Autumn days (Since flowers you, dear lady, love)
- Come and seek a nice shady nook, dear (Come and seek a nice shady nook)
- Come and seek a nice shady nook (Come and seek a nice shady nook, dear)
- Come back, come back, my dearest love! GER GER ITA (Absence)
- For me alone she culled the roses (For me alone she culled the roses)
- For me alone she culled the roses (For me alone she culled the roses)
- If you would like to know just why (All through plums)
- In this world all the flow'rs wither GER ITA RUS (In this world)
- In this world (In this world all the flow'rs wither) GER ITA RUS
- Let's love! Let's dream! Let our voices commingle! (Loving and dreaming)
- Let us not forget (She was so young and so fair)
- Long ago there was (Rosemonde)
- Love's sorrows (The girl I loved till yesterday)
- Loving and dreaming (Let's love! Let's dream! Let our voices commingle!)
- Marie ('Tis thus, when the flower of springtime)
- My darling, daylight doth appear (Aubade)
- My heart is full of sadness (To love I try but vainly, in vain I strive to rouse me)
- My Sunday bonnet (One Sunday fine we all set out)
- One sultry ev'ning in the forest (Why are you weeping?)
- One Sunday fine we all set out (My Sunday bonnet)
- On your lips, with fondest desire (On your lips, with fondest desire)
- On your lips, with fondest desire (On your lips, with fondest desire)
- Rosemonde (Long ago there was)
- Rose (When through the wood she slowly strayed)
- She was so young and so fair (Let us not forget)
- Since flowers you, dear lady, love (Autumn days)
- Starry night, beneath your pinions, be GER (Starry night)
- Starry night (Starry night, beneath your pinions, be) GER
- The girl I loved till yesterday (Love's sorrows)
- The new sweet Spring has quaff'd from the palm of her hand GER GER (You will love tomorrow)
- The quest of love (To a far off land together)
- This you said: My heart remains still afflicted (You told me so)
- 'Tis thus, when the flower of springtime (Marie)
- To a far off land together (The quest of love)
- To love I try but vainly, in vain I strive to rouse me (My heart is full of sadness)
- Trav'ler, cease your amorous dreams (Arabian song)
- Villanelle (When verdant spring again approaches) FRI GER GER ITA GER
- When my hand trembles if yours it only touches (When my hand trembles)
- When my hand trembles (When my hand trembles if yours it only touches)
- When through the wood she slowly strayed (Rose)
- When verdant spring again approaches FRI GER GER ITA GER (Villanelle)
- When winter cold and bleak has passed (When winter has passed)
- When winter has passed (When winter cold and bleak has passed)
- Why are you weeping? (One sultry ev'ning in the forest)
- You told me so (This you said: My heart remains still afflicted)
- You will love tomorrow (The new sweet Spring has quaff'd from the palm of her hand) GER GER
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