Author: Ernest Dowson (1867 - 1900)
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- A coronal (Violets and leaves of vine) (from Verses)
- A coronal (Violets and leaves of vine) (from Verses) - Roger Quilter
- Ad domnulam suam (Little lady of my heart !) (from Book of the Rhymers' Club)
- Ad domnulam suam (Little lady of my heart !) (from Book of the Rhymers' Club) - Cyril Meir Scott
- A gift of Silence, sweet! (from In Praise of Solitude) - Cyril Meir Scott (A gift of silence)
- A gift of Silence, sweet! (from In Praise of Solitude) (Amor umbratilis)
- A gift of silence (A gift of Silence, sweet!) (from In Praise of Solitude) - Cyril Meir Scott
- A Land Of Silence (What land of Silence) (from Verses) - Roger Quilter
- A last word (Let us go hence: the night is now at hand)
- A last word (Let us go hence: the night is now at hand) - Alistair Hinton, Cyril Meir Scott
- A little, passionately, not at all?" (Villanelle of Marguerite's)
- A little, passionately, not at all?" - Pamela Harrison (Villanelle of Marguerite's)
- All that I had I brought (from Decorations) (Exchanges)
- All that I had I brought (from Decorations) - Chester 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) - Cyril Meir Scott
- April love (We have walked in Love's land a little way) (from Verses)
- April love (We have walked in Love's land a little way) (from Verses) - Landon Ronald, Sir, Cyril Meir Scott
- Around were all the roses red (from Decorations - After Paul Verlaine) CAT GER GER NOR SRB - John (Nicholson) Ireland (Spleen (after Paul Verlaine))
- Asleep () - Cyril Meir Scott [x]
- A song of Arcady (Oh, I would live in a dairy) (from Verses) - Cyril Meir Scott
- A song of the setting sun! (Moritura)
- A song of the setting sun! - Frederick Delius
- Autumnal (Pale amber sunlight falls across) (from Verses)
- Autumnal (Pale amber sunlight falls across) (from Verses) - Cyril Meir Scott
- A valediction (If we must part) (from Verses)
- A valediction (If we must part) (from Verses) - Michael Alec Rose, Cyril Meir Scott
- A villanelle (I took her dainty eyes, as well) - Sven Lekberg
- Beata solitudo (What land of Silence) (from Verses)
- Beata solitudo (What land of Silence) (from Verses) - Pamela Harrison, George Norman Peterkin
- Beyond (Love's aftermath! I think the time is now) (from Decorations)
- By the sad waters of separation (from Verses) (Exile)
- By the sad waters of separation (from Verses) - Frederick Delius (Exile)
- Calm, sad, secure; behind high convent walls (from In Praise of Solitude) (Nuns of the Perpetual Adoration)
- Calm, sad, secure; behind high convent walls (from In Praise of Solitude) - Edward Burlingame Hill (Nuns of the Perpetual Adoration)
- Cease smiling, Dear! a little while be sad - Frederick Delius
- Come hither, child, and rest (Come hither, child, and rest) (from Book of the Rhymers' Club) - Sven Lekberg
- Come hither, child, and rest (from Book of the Rhymers' Club) - Sven Lekberg (Come hither, child, and rest)
- Come hither, child, and rest (from Book of the Rhymers' Club) (Villanelle of sunset)
- Come hither, child, and rest (from Book of the Rhymers' Club) - Henry S. Gerstle (Villanelle of sunset)
- Come hither, child, and rest (from Book of the Rhymers' Club) - Cyril Meir Scott (Villanelle)
- Come not before me now, O visionary face! GER (Seraphita)
- Cynara (Last night, ah, yesternight, betwixt her lips and mine) - Frederick Delius, Robert William Jones, Quinto Maganini
- Dairy song (Oh, I would live in a dairy) (from Verses) - Cyril Meir Scott
- Dregs (The fire is out, and spent the warmth thereof) (from Decorations)
- Dregs (The fire is out, and spent the warmth thereof) (from Decorations) - Ethel Florence Lindesay Robertson, née Richardson
- Envoy (They are not long, the weeping and the laughter) (from Verses) - Robert William Jones, Paul Amadeus Pisk
- Erewhile, before the world was old (from Decorations) (Jadis)
- Erewhile, before the world was old (from Decorations) - Peter Warlock (Jadis)
- Erscheine jetzt nicht, traumverlornes Angesicht (from Zeitgenössische Dichter) - Arnold Franz Walter Schoenberg (Seraphita)
- Evening (Strange grows the river on the sunless evenings!) - Cyril Meir Scott
- Even now the fragrant darkness of her hair (from Verses) (Terre promise)
- Even now the fragrant darkness of her hair (from Verses) - Frederic Austin, Cecil 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)
- Exceeding sorrow (from Book of the Rhymers' Club) - Richard Hageman (Grief)
- Exceeding sorrow (from Book of the Rhymers' Club) (O Mors! Quam amara est memoria tua homini pacem habenti in substantiis suis)
- Exceeding sorrow (from Book of the Rhymers' Club) - Frederick Delius (O Mors!)
- Exchanges (All that I had I brought) (from Decorations)
- Exchanges (All that I had I brought) (from Decorations) - Chester Duncan
- Exile (By the sad waters of separation) (from Verses)
- Exile (By the sad waters of separation) (from Verses) - Frederick Delius
- Flos lunae (I would not alter thy cold eyes) (from In Praise of Solitude)
- Flos lunae (I would not alter thy cold eyes) (from In Praise of Solitude) - Denis ApIvor
- Grief (Exceeding sorrow) (from Book of the Rhymers' Club) - Richard Hageman
- If we must part (from Verses) (A valediction)
- If we must part (from Verses) - Michael Alec Rose, Cyril Meir Scott (A valediction)
- If we must part (If we must part) (from Verses) - John (Nicholson) Ireland, Cyril Meir Scott
- If we must part (from Verses) - John (Nicholson) Ireland, Cyril Meir Scott (If we must part)
- In Spring (See how the trees and the osiers lithe) (from Decorations)
- In spring (See how the trees and the osiers lithe) (from Decorations) - Frederick Delius, Roger Quilter
- In tempore senectutis (When I am old)
- Into the lonely park all frozen fast (from Decorations - After Paul Verlaine) GER GER ITA GER
- In your mother's apple-orchard (from Verses) (Yvonne of Brittany)
- In your mother's apple-orchard (from Verses) - Cyril Meir Scott (Yvonne of Brittany)
- I took her dainty eyes, as well - Cyril Meir Scott (And so I made a Villanelle)
- I took her dainty eyes, as well - Sven Lekberg (A villanelle)
- I took her dainty eyes, as well (Villanelle of his lady's treasures)
- I took her dainty eyes, as well - Milan Roder (Villanelle)
- I was not sorrowful, I could not weep (from Verses) - John (Nicholson) Ireland (I was not sorrowful (Spleen))
- I was not sorrowful, I could not weep (from Verses) - Kaikhosru Sorabji, born Leon Dudley Sorabji (I was not sorrowful)
- I was not sorrowful, I could not weep (from Verses) (Spleen)
- I was not sorrowful, I could not weep (from Verses) - Frederick Delius
- I was not sorrowful (Spleen) (I was not sorrowful, I could not weep) (from Verses) - John (Nicholson) Ireland
- I was not sorrowful (I was not sorrowful, I could not weep) (from Verses) - Kaikhosru Sorabji, born Leon Dudley Sorabji
- I would not alter thy cold eyes (from In Praise of Solitude) (Flos lunae)
- I would not alter thy cold eyes (from In Praise of Solitude) - Denis ApIvor (Flos lunae)
- Jadis (Erewhile, before the world was old) (from Decorations)
- Jadis (Erewhile, before the world was old) (from Decorations) - Peter Warlock
- Last night, ah, yesternight, betwixt her lips and mine - Frederick Delius, Robert William Jones, Quinto Maganini (Cynara)
- Last night, ah, yesternight, betwixt her lips and mine - Cyril Patrick Towsey (Last night, ah, yesternight)
- Last night, ah, yesternight, betwixt her lips and mine - Pamela Harrison (Non suma qualis eram bonae sub regno Cynarae)
- Last night, ah, yesternight, betwixt her lips and mine (Non sum qualis eram bonae sub regno Cynarae)
- Last night, ah, yesternight (Last night, ah, yesternight, betwixt her lips and mine) - Cyril Patrick Towsey
- Let us go hence: the night is now at hand (A last word)
- Let us go hence: the night is now at hand - Alistair Hinton, Cyril Meir Scott (A last word)
- Little lady of my heart ! (from Book of the Rhymers' Club) (Ad domnulam suam)
- Little lady of my heart ! (from Book of the Rhymers' Club) - Cyril Meir Scott (Ad domnulam suam)
- Little lady of my heart (Little lady of my heart !) (from Book of the Rhymers' Club) - Cyril Meir Scott, Bryceson Treharne
- Little lady of my heart ! (from Book of the Rhymers' Club) - Cyril Meir Scott, Bryceson Treharne (Little lady of my heart)
- Love heeds no more the sighing of the wind (from Book of the Rhymers' Club) (The garden of shadows)
- Love heeds no more the sighing of the wind (from Book of the Rhymers' Club) - Cecil Forsyth (The garden of shadows)
- Love's aftermath! I think the time is now (from Decorations) (Beyond)
- Love's aftermath! I think the time is now (from Decorations) - Cyril Meir Scott (Love's aftermath)
- Love's aftermath (Love's aftermath! I think the time is now) (from Decorations) - Cyril Meir Scott
- Meditation (They are not long, the weeping and the laughter) (from Verses) - Cyril Meir 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) - Pamela 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)
- Nuns of the Perpetual Adoration (Calm, sad, secure; behind high convent walls) (from In Praise of Solitude) - Edward Burlingame Hill
- Oh, I would live in a dairy (from Verses) - Cyril Meir Scott (A song of Arcady)
- Oh, I would live in a dairy (from Verses) - Cyril Meir Scott (Dairy song)
- Oh, I would live in a dairy (Oh, I would live in a dairy) (from Verses) - Lawrance Arthur Collingwood
- Oh, I would live in a dairy (from Verses) - Lawrance Arthur Collingwood (Oh, I would live in a dairy)
- Oh, I would live in a dairy (from Verses) (Soli cantare periti Arcades)
- Oh, I would live in a dairy (from Verses) - Pamela Harrison (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) - Frederick Delius
- Pale amber sunlight falls across (from Verses) (Autumnal)
- Pale amber sunlight falls across (from Verses) - Cyril Meir Scott (Autumnal)
- Pale amber sunlight falls across (from Verses) - Frederick Delius
- Passing dreams (They are not long, the weeping and the laughter) (from Verses) - Roger Quilter
- Pierrot and the Moon Maiden (THE LADY, questioning him from a little book bound deliciously in vellum) (from The Pierrot of the Minute) - Cyril Meir Scott
- Retrospect () - Cyril Meir Scott [x]
- See how the trees and the osiers lithe (from Decorations) (In Spring)
- See how the trees and the osiers lithe (from Decorations) - Frederick Delius, Roger Quilter (In spring)
- Seraphita (Come not before me now, O visionary face!) GER
- Seraphita (Erscheine jetzt nicht, traumverlornes Angesicht) (from Zeitgenössische Dichter) - Arnold Franz Walter Schoenberg
- Sleep! Cast thy canopy (from The Pierrot of the Minute) (The moon maiden's song)
- Sleep! Cast thy canopy (from The Pierrot of the Minute) - Granville Ransome Bantock, Sir (The moon maiden's song)
- Soli cantare periti Arcades (Oh, I would live in a dairy) (from Verses)
- Soli cantare periti Arcades (Oh, I would live in a dairy) (from Verses) - Pamela Harrison
- Sorrow () - Cyril Meir Scott [x]
- Spleen (after Paul Verlaine) (Around were all the roses red) (from Decorations - After Paul Verlaine) - John (Nicholson) Ireland CAT GER GER NOR SRB
- Spleen (I was not sorrowful, I could not weep) (from Verses)
- Strange grows the river on the sunless evenings! - Cyril Meir Scott (Evening)
- Strange grows the river on the sunless evenings! (Vesperal)
- Strange grows the river on the sunless evenings! - Cyril Meir Scott (Vesperal)
- Tears fall within mine heart (from Decorations - After Paul Verlaine) CAT GER GER GER GER GER RUS GER GER GER RUS
- Terre promise (Even now the fragrant darkness of her hair) (from Verses)
- Terre promise (Even now the fragrant darkness of her hair) (from Verses) - Frederic Austin, Cecil Forsyth
- The fire is out, and spent the warmth thereof (from Decorations) (Dregs)
- The fire is out, and spent the warmth thereof (from Decorations) - Ethel Florence Lindesay Robertson, née Richardson (Dregs)
- The fire is out, and spent the warmth thereof (from Decorations) - David Bedford (The golden wine is drunk)
- The garden of shadows (Love heeds no more the sighing of the wind) (from Book of the Rhymers' Club)
- The garden of shadows (Love heeds no more the sighing of the wind) (from Book of the Rhymers' Club) - Cecil Forsyth
- The golden wine is drunk (The fire is out, and spent the warmth thereof) (from Decorations) - David Bedford
- THE LADY, questioning him from a little book bound deliciously in vellum (from The Pierrot of the Minute) - Cyril Meir Scott (Pierrot and the Moon Maiden)
- The moon maiden's song (Sleep! Cast thy canopy) (from The Pierrot of the Minute)
- The moon maiden's song (Sleep! Cast thy canopy) (from The Pierrot of the Minute) - Granville Ransome Bantock, Sir
- There comes an end to summer (There comes an end to summer) - Cyril Meir Scott
- There comes an end to summer - Cyril Meir Scott (There comes an end to summer)
- There comes an end to summer (To his mistress)
- The sky is up above the roof (from Decorations - After Paul Verlaine) CHI CZE GER GER GER ITA SPA GER RUS
- The valley of silence (What land of Silence) (from Verses) - Cyril Meir Scott
- They are not long, the weeping and the laughter (from Verses) - Robert William Jones, Paul Amadeus Pisk (Envoy)
- They are not long, the weeping and the laughter (from Verses) - Cyril Meir Scott (Meditation)
- They are not long, the weeping and the laughter (from Verses) - Roger Quilter (Passing dreams)
- They are not long, the weeping and the laughter (from Verses) - Peggy Glanville-Hicks, Edward Burlingame Hill, Barbara Pentland, Howard Wells (They are not long)
- They are not long, the weeping and the laughter (from Verses) (Vitae summa brevis spem nos vetat incohare longam)
- They are not long, the weeping and the laughter (from Verses) - Pamela Harrison (Vitae summa brevis spem nos vetat incohare longam)
- They are not long, the weeping and the laughter (from Verses) - Frederick Delius (Vitae summa)
- They are not long, the weeping and the laughter (from Verses) - Cecil Forsyth (Within a dream)
- They are not long (They are not long, the weeping and the laughter) (from Verses) - Peggy Glanville-Hicks, Edward Burlingame Hill, Barbara Pentland, Howard Wells
- To his mistress (There comes an end to summer)
- Vesperal (Strange grows the river on the sunless evenings!)
- Vesperal (Strange grows the river on the sunless evenings!) - Cyril Meir Scott
- Villanelle of his lady's treasures (I took her dainty eyes, as well)
- Villanelle of Marguerite's (A little, passionately, not at all?")
- Villanelle of Marguerite's (A little, passionately, not at all?") - Pamela Harrison
- Villanelle of sunset (Come hither, child, and rest) (from Book of the Rhymers' Club)
- Villanelle of sunset (Come hither, child, and rest) (from Book of the Rhymers' Club) - Henry S. Gerstle
- Villanelle of the Poet's Road (Wine and woman and song) (from Decorations)
- Villanelle of the Poet's Road (Wine and woman and song) (from Decorations) - Cyril Meir Scott
- Villanelle (Come hither, child, and rest) (from Book of the Rhymers' Club) - Cyril Meir Scott
- Villanelle (I took her dainty eyes, as well) - Milan Roder
- Violets and leaves of vine (from Verses) (A coronal)
- Violets and leaves of vine (from Verses) - Roger Quilter (A coronal)
- Vitae summa brevis spem nos vetat incohare longam (They are not long, the weeping and the laughter) (from Verses)
- Vitae summa brevis spem nos vetat incohare longam (They are not long, the weeping and the laughter) (from Verses) - Pamela Harrison
- Vitae summa (They are not long, the weeping and the laughter) (from Verses) - Frederick Delius
- We have walked in Love's land a little way (from Verses) (April love)
- We have walked in Love's land a little way (from Verses) - Landon Ronald, Sir, Cyril Meir Scott (April love)
- What is Love? (from The Pierrot of the Minute)
- What land of Silence (from Verses) - Roger Quilter (A Land Of Silence)
- What land of Silence (from Verses) (Beata solitudo)
- What land of Silence (from Verses) - Pamela Harrison, George Norman Peterkin (Beata solitudo)
- What land of Silence (from Verses) - Cyril Meir Scott (The valley of silence)
- When I am old (In tempore senectutis)
- When I am old (When I am old) - John (Nicholson) Ireland
- When I am old - John (Nicholson) Ireland (When I am old)
- Wine and woman and song (from Decorations) (Villanelle of the Poet's Road)
- Wine and woman and song (from Decorations) - Cyril Meir Scott (Villanelle of the Poet's Road)
- Within a dream (They are not long, the weeping and the laughter) (from Verses) - Cecil Forsyth
- Yvonne of Brittany (In your mother's apple-orchard) (from Verses)
- Yvonne of Brittany (In your mother's apple-orchard) (from Verses) - Cyril Meir Scott
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