Texts by E. Dowson set in Art Songs and Choral Works

Text Collections:

• Book of the Rhymers' Club
• Decorations
• In Praise of Solitude
• The Pierrot of the Minute
• Verses

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

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• A Coronal (Violets and leaves of vine) (from Verses) - R. Quilter, G. Smirnov CHI
• Ad domnulam suam (Little lady of my heart !) (from Book of the Rhymers' Club) - C. Scott
• A gift of Silence, sweet! (from In Praise of Solitude) - C. Scott, G. Smirnov (Amor umbratilis)
• A gift of silence (A gift of Silence, sweet!) (from In Praise of Solitude) - C. Scott
• A Land Of Silence (What land of Silence) (from Verses) - R. Quilter, G. Smirnov
• A last word (Let us go hence: the night is now at hand) - A. Hinton, C. Scott
• A little, passionately, not at all?" - P. Harrison (Villanelle of Marguerite's)
• A little while to walk with thee, dear child - G. Smirnov
• All that I had I brought (from Decorations) - C. Duncan (Exchanges)
• Amor umbratilis (A gift of Silence, sweet!) (from In Praise of Solitude)
• And so I made a Villanelle (I took her dainty eyes, as well) - C. Scott
• April love (We have walked in Love's land a little way) (from Verses) - L. Ronald, C. Scott
• Around were all the roses red (from Decorations - After Paul Verlaine) CAT GER GER GER NOR SRB - J. Ireland
• Asleep () - C. Scott [x]
• A song of Arcady (Oh, I would live in a dairy) (from Verses) - C. Scott
• A song of the setting sun! - F. Delius (Moritura)
• Autumnal (Pale amber sunlight falls across) (from Verses) - C. Scott
• A valediction (If we must part) (from Verses) - M. Rose, C. Scott
• A villanelle (I took her dainty eyes, as well) - S. Lekberg
• Beata solitudo (What land of Silence) (from Verses) - P. Harrison, G. Peterkin
• Before my light goes out for ever, if God should give me a choice of graces - C. von Franckenstein (Impenitentia ultima)
• Beyond (Love's aftermath! I think the time is now) (from Decorations)
• By the sad waters of separation (from Verses) - F. Delius, G. Smirnov (Exile)
• Calm, sad, secure; behind high convent walls (from In Praise of Solitude) - E. Hill (Nuns of the Perpetual Adoration)
• Cease smiling, Dear! a little while be sad - F. Delius
• Come hither, child, and rest (Come hither, child, and rest) (from Book of the Rhymers' Club) - S. Lekberg
• Come hither, child, and rest (from Book of the Rhymers' Club) - H. Gerstle, S. Lekberg, C. Scott (Villanelle of sunset)
• Come not before me now, O visionary face! GER - G. Smirnov (Seraphita)
• Cynara (Last night, ah, yesternight, betwixt her lips and mine) - F. Delius, R. Jones, Q. Maganini
• Dairy song (Oh, I would live in a dairy) (from Verses) - C. Scott
• Dregs (The fire is out, and spent the warmth thereof) (from Decorations) - E. Richardson
• Envoy (They are not long, the weeping and the laughter) (from Verses) - R. Jones, P. Pisk
• Erewhile, before the world was old (from Decorations) - P. Warlock (Jadis)
• Erscheine jetzt nicht, traumverlornes Angesicht (from Zeitgenössische Dichter) - A. Schoenberg
• Evening (Strange grows the river on the sunless evenings!) - C. Scott
• Even now the fragrant darkness of her hair (from Verses) - F. Austin, C. Forsyth (Terre promise)
• Exceeding sorrow consumeth my sad heart! (from Book of the Rhymers' Club) (O Mors! Quam amara est memoria tua homini pacem habenti in substantiis suis) - F. Delius, R. Hageman
• Exceeding sorrow (from Book of the Rhymers' Club) - F. Delius, R. Hageman (O Mors! Quam amara est memoria tua homini pacem habenti in substantiis suis)
• Exchanges (All that I had I brought) (from Decorations) - C. Duncan
• Exile (By the sad waters of separation) (from Verses) - F. Delius, G. Smirnov
• Flos lunae (I would not alter thy cold eyes) (from In Praise of Solitude) - D. ApIvor
• Grief (Exceeding sorrow) (from Book of the Rhymers' Club) - R. Hageman
• If we must part (from Verses) - J. Ireland, M. Rose, C. Scott (A Valediction)
• If we must part (If we must part) (from Verses) - J. Ireland, C. Scott
• Impenitentia ultima (Before my light goes out for ever, if God should give me a choice of graces) - C. von Franckenstein
• In spring (See how the trees and the osiers lithe) (from Decorations) - F. Delius, R. Quilter
• In tempore senectutis (When I am old)
• Into the lonely park all frozen fast (from Decorations - After Paul Verlaine) GER GER ITA SPA GER
• In your mother's apple-orchard (from Verses) - C. Scott (Yvonne of Brittany)
• I took her dainty eyes, as well - S. Lekberg, M. Roder, C. Scott (Villanelle of his lady's treasures)
• I was not sorrowful, I could not weep (from Verses) SPA - F. Delius, J. Ireland, K. Sorabji, born Leon Dudley Sorabji (Spleen)
• I was not sorrowful (Spleen) (I was not sorrowful, I could not weep) (from Verses) - J. Ireland SPA
• I was not sorrowful (I was not sorrowful, I could not weep) (from Verses) - K. Sorabji, born Leon Dudley Sorabji SPA
• I would not alter thy cold eyes (from In Praise of Solitude) - D. ApIvor, G. Smirnov (Flos lunae)
• I would not alter thy cold eyes (I would not alter thy cold eyes) (from In Praise of Solitude) - G. Smirnov
• Jadis (Erewhile, before the world was old) (from Decorations) - P. Warlock
• Last night, ah, yesternight, betwixt her lips and mine - F. Delius, P. Harrison, R. Jones, Q. Maganini, C. Towsey (Non sum qualis eram bonae sub regno Cynarae)
• Last night, ah, yesternight (Last night, ah, yesternight, betwixt her lips and mine) - C. Towsey
• Let us go hence: the night is now at hand - A. Hinton, C. Scott (A last word)
• Little lady of my heart ! (from Book of the Rhymers' Club) - C. Scott, B. Treharne (Ad domnulam suam)
• Little lady of my heart (Little lady of my heart !) (from Book of the Rhymers' Club) - C. Scott, B. Treharne
• Love heeds no more the sighing of the wind (from Book of the Rhymers' Club) - C. Forsyth (The garden of shadows)
• Love's aftermath! I think the time is now (from Decorations) - C. Scott (Beyond)
• Love's aftermath (Love's aftermath! I think the time is now) (from Decorations) - C. Scott
• Meditation (They are not long, the weeping and the laughter) (from Verses) - C. Scott
• Moritura (A song of the setting sun!)
• Non suma qualis eram bonae sub regno Cynarae (Last night, ah, yesternight, betwixt her lips and mine) - P. Harrison
• Non sum qualis eram bonae sub regno Cynarae (Last night, ah, yesternight, betwixt her lips and mine)
• Nuns of the Perpetual Adoration (Calm, sad, secure; behind high convent walls) (from In Praise of Solitude) - E. Hill
• Oh, I would live in a dairy (Oh, I would live in a dairy) (from Verses) - L. Collingwood
• Oh, I would live in a dairy (from Verses) - L. Collingwood, P. Harrison, C. Scott (Soli cantare periti Arcades)
• O Mors! Quam amara est memoria tua homini pacem habenti in substantiis suis (Exceeding sorrow) (from Book of the Rhymers' Club)
• O Mors! (Exceeding sorrow) (from Book of the Rhymers' Club) - F. Delius
• Pale amber sunlight falls across (from Verses) - F. Delius, C. Scott (Autumnal)
• Passing dreams (They are not long, the weeping and the laughter) (from Verses) - R. Quilter
• Pierrot and the Moon Maiden (THE LADY, questioning him from a little book bound deliciously in vellum) (from The Pierrot of the Minute) - C. Scott
• Retrospect () - C. Scott [x]
• See how the trees and the osiers lithe (from Decorations) - F. Delius, R. Quilter (In Spring)
• Seraphita (Come not before me now, O visionary face!) - G. Smirnov GER
• Seraphita (Erscheine jetzt nicht, traumverlornes Angesicht) (from Zeitgenössische Dichter) - A. Schoenberg
• Sleep! Cast thy canopy (from The Pierrot of the Minute) - G. Bantock (The moon maiden's song)
• Soli cantare periti Arcades (Oh, I would live in a dairy) (from Verses) - P. Harrison
• Sorrow () - C. Scott [x]
• Spleen (after Paul Verlaine) (Around were all the roses red) (from Decorations - After Paul Verlaine) - J. Ireland CAT GER GER GER NOR SRB
• Spleen (I was not sorrowful, I could not weep) (from Verses) SPA
• Strange grows the river on the sunless evenings! - C. Scott (Vesperal)
• Tears fall within mine heart (from Decorations - After Paul Verlaine) CAT DUT GER GER GER GER GER RUS SPA GER GER GER GER RUS RUS - G. Smirnov
• Tears fall within my heart (Tears fall within mine heart) (from Decorations - After Paul Verlaine) - G. Smirnov CAT DUT GER GER GER GER GER RUS SPA GER GER GER GER RUS RUS
• Terre promise (Even now the fragrant darkness of her hair) (from Verses) - F. Austin, C. Forsyth
• The days of wine and roses (They are not long, the weeping and the laughter) (from Verses) - G. Smirnov
• The fire is out, and spent the warmth thereof (from Decorations) - D. Bedford, E. Richardson (Dregs)
• The garden of shadows (Love heeds no more the sighing of the wind) (from Book of the Rhymers' Club) - C. Forsyth
• The gift of Silence (A gift of Silence, sweet!) (from In Praise of Solitude) - G. Smirnov
• The golden wine is drunk (The fire is out, and spent the warmth thereof) (from Decorations) - D. Bedford
• THE LADY, questioning him from a little book bound deliciously in vellum (from The Pierrot of the Minute) - C. Scott
• The moon maiden's song (Sleep! Cast thy canopy) (from The Pierrot of the Minute) - G. Bantock
• There comes an end to summer (There comes an end to summer) - C. Scott
• There comes an end to summer - C. Scott (To his mistress)
• The sky is up above the roof (from Decorations - After Paul Verlaine) CAT CHI CHI CZE GER GER GER ITA RUS RUS SPA GER RUS RUS
• The valley of silence (What land of Silence) (from Verses) - C. Scott
• They are not long, the weeping and the laughter (from Verses) - F. Delius, C. Forsyth, P. Glanville-Hicks, P. Harrison, E. Hill, R. Jones, B. Pentland, P. Pisk, R. Quilter, C. Scott, G. Smirnov, I. Venables, H. Wells (Vitae summa brevis spem nos vetat incohare longam)
• They are not long (They are not long, the weeping and the laughter) (from Verses) - P. Glanville-Hicks, E. Hill, B. Pentland, H. Wells
• To his mistress (There comes an end to summer)
• Transition (A little while to walk with thee, dear child) - G. Smirnov
• Vesperal (Strange grows the river on the sunless evenings!) - C. Scott
• Villanelle of his lady's treasures (I took her dainty eyes, as well)
• Villanelle of Marguerite's (A little, passionately, not at all?") - P. Harrison
• Villanelle of sunset (Come hither, child, and rest) (from Book of the Rhymers' Club) - H. Gerstle
• Villanelle of the Poet's Road (Wine and woman and song) (from Decorations) - C. Scott
• Villanelle (Come hither, child, and rest) (from Book of the Rhymers' Club) - C. Scott
• Villanelle (I took her dainty eyes, as well) - M. Roder
• Violets and leaves of vine (from Verses) CHI - R. Quilter, G. Smirnov (A Coronal)
• Vitae summa brevis spem nos vetat incohare longam (They are not long, the weeping and the laughter) (from Verses) - P. Harrison
• Vitae Summa Brevis (They are not long, the weeping and the laughter) (from Verses) - I. Venables
• Vitae summa (They are not long, the weeping and the laughter) (from Verses) - F. Delius
• We have walked in Love's land a little way (from Verses) - L. Ronald, C. Scott (April love)
• What is Love? (from The Pierrot of the Minute)
• What land of Silence (from Verses) - P. Harrison, G. Peterkin, R. Quilter, C. Scott, G. Smirnov (Beata Solitudo)
• When I am old - J. Ireland (In tempore senectutis)
• When I am old (When I am old) - J. Ireland
• When this, our rose, is faded (When this, our rose, is faded) - G. Smirnov
• When this, our rose, is faded - G. Smirnov
• Wine and woman and song (from Decorations) - C. Scott (Villanelle of the Poet's Road)
• Within a dream (They are not long, the weeping and the laughter) (from Verses) - C. Forsyth
• Yvonne of Brittany (In your mother's apple-orchard) (from Verses) - C. Scott

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