Author: Stephen Spender (1909 - 1995)
Text Compilations
Texts set to music as art song or choral works [warning - 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.
- A man-made world (What a wild room ) (from The Edge of Being) - N. Brown [x] *
- A man-made world (What a wild room
) (from The Edge of Being) [x] *
- N. Brown: A man-made world
- A stopwatch and an ordnance map (A stopwatch and an ordnance map) (from The Still Centre) - S. Barber [x] *
- A stopwatch and an ordnance map (from The Still Centre) [x] *
- S. Barber: A stopwatch and an ordnance map
- After the first powerful plain manifesto
(from New Signatures) [x] *
- R. Finney: The express
- I am that witness (I am the witness through whom the whole) (from Poems of Dedication - Spiritual Explorations) - N. Brown [x] *
- I am the witness through whom the whole (from Poems of Dedication - Spiritual Explorations) [x] *
- N. Brown: I am that witness
- I hear the cries of evening (I hear the cries of evening, while the paw ) (from Twenty Poems) - N. Maw [x] *
- I hear the cries of evening, while the paw
(from Twenty Poems) [x] *
- N. Maw: I hear the cries of evening
- I think continually of those who were truly great (I think of those who were truly great ) - M. Lawson [x] *
- I think of those (I think of those who were truly great ) - J. Joubert [x] *
- I think of those who were truly great
[x] *
- M. Lawson: I think continually of those who were truly great
- J. Joubert: I think of those
- I wear your kiss like a feather (from The Still Centre) [x] *
- N. Brown: Two kisses
- Ice (She came in from the snowing air ) - H. Wood [x] *
- My parents (My parents kept me from children who were rough) (from New Signatures) [x] *
- N. Brown: My parents kept me from children who were rough
- My parents kept me from children who were rough (My parents kept me from children who were rough) (from New Signatures) - N. Brown [x] *
- My parents kept me from children who were rough (from New Signatures) [x] *
- N. Brown: My parents kept me from children who were rough
- On the first summer day (from The Edge of Being) [x] *
- N. Brown: On the third day
- On the third day (On the first summer day) (from The Edge of Being) - N. Brown [x] *
- Rolled over on Europe (Rolled over on Europe: the sharp dew frozen to stars) (from Poems) - N. Brown [x] *
- Rolled over on Europe: the sharp dew frozen to stars (from Poems) [x] *
- N. Brown: Rolled over on Europe
- She came in from the snowing air
[x] *
- H. Wood: Ice
- The express (After the first powerful plain manifesto ) (from New Signatures) - R. Finney [x] *
- Two kisses (I wear your kiss like a feather) (from The Still Centre) - N. Brown [x] *
- Weep, girl, weep (Weep, girl, weep) (from The Edge of Being) - N. Brown [x] *
- Weep, girl, weep (from The Edge of Being) [x] *
- N. Brown: Weep, girl, weep
- What a wild room
(from The Edge of Being) [x] *
- N. Brown: A man-made world
- What I expected, was (What I expected, was ) - J. Corigliano [x] *
- What I expected, was
[x] *
- J. Corigliano: What I expected, was
Last update: 2015-05-09 19:23:50