Texts by G. MacDonald set in Art Songs and Choral Works

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George MacDonald (1824 - 1905)

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Alas, how easily things go wrong! (from Phantastes: A Faerie Romance for Men and Women) - E. Charlemont (Sweet Peril)
Alas! (Alas, how easily things go wrong!) (from Phantastes: A Faerie Romance for Men and Women) - E. Charlemont
And in the perfect time, O perfect God (from A Book of Strife in the Form of The Diary of an Old Soul)
And when grim Death doth take me by the throat (from A Book of Strife in the Form of The Diary of an Old Soul)
Baby (Where did you come from baby dear?) - A. Beach
Come to me, Lord: I will not speculate how (from A Book of Strife in the Form of The Diary of an Old Soul)
Dawn, far eastward, on the mountain! (from Rampolli: Growths from a Long Planted Root. Being Translations, New and Old, Chiefly from the German) (Spiritual Songs, number 2) -
Diamonds hast thou and pearls (Diamonds hast thou and pearls) (from Poems Selected from Heinrich Heine, ed. by Kate Freiligrath Kroeker) - F. Allitsen FRE POR RUS RUS CZE HEB
Diamonds hast thou and pearls (from Poems Selected from Heinrich Heine, ed. by Kate Freiligrath Kroeker) FRE POR RUS RUS CZE HEB - F. Allitsen (Du hast Diamanten und Perlen)
Do not leave (O do not leave me, mother, till I sleep) - M. Emery
Du hast Diamanten und Perlen (Diamonds hast thou and pearls) (from Poems Selected from Heinrich Heine, ed. by Kate Freiligrath Kroeker) FRE POR RUS RUS CZE HEB
Few understand the mystery of Love (from Rampolli: Growths from a Long Planted Root. Being Translations, New and Old, Chiefly from the German) CAT DUT FRE (Spiritual Songs, number 7) -
Give me a world, to part for praise and sunder (from A Book of Strife in the Form of The Diary of an Old Soul) - M. Taylor
Gloriously wasteful, O my Lord, art thou! (from A Book of Strife in the Form of The Diary of an Old Soul)
He lives! he's risen from the dead! (from Rampolli: Growths from a Long Planted Root. Being Translations, New and Old, Chiefly from the German) CAT DUT FRE (Spiritual Songs, number 9) -
If I him but have (from Rampolli: Growths from a Long Planted Root. Being Translations, New and Old, Chiefly from the German) CAT DUT FRE (Spiritual Songs, number 5) -
In countless pictures I behold thee (from Rampolli: Growths from a Long Planted Root. Being Translations, New and Old, Chiefly from the German) CAT DUT FRE (Spiritual Songs, number 15) -
In the perfect time, when we are in our natal home (from A Book of Strife in the Form of The Diary of an Old Soul)
I shall, with childness fresh, look up to thee (from A Book of Strife in the Form of The Diary of an Old Soul)
Life music () - F. Hart [x]
Must the morning always return? (from Rampolli: Growths from a Long Planted Root. Being Translations, New and Old, Chiefly from the German)
My faith to thee I break not (from Rampolli: Growths from a Long Planted Root. Being Translations, New and Old, Chiefly from the German) AFR CAT DUT FRE (Spiritual Songs, number 6) -
Not a sound but echoing in me (Not a sound) (from Phantastes: A Faerie Romance for Men and Women) - G. Holst
Not a sound (from Phantastes: A Faerie Romance for Men and Women) - G. Holst
O do not leave me, mother, till I sleep - M. Emery
Of the thousand hours me meeting (from Rampolli: Growths from a Long Planted Root. Being Translations, New and Old, Chiefly from the German) (Spiritual Songs, number 4) -
Once when I was shedding bitter tears (from Rampolli: Growths from a Long Planted Root. Being Translations, New and Old, Chiefly from the German)
Over I pilgrim (from Rampolli: Growths from a Long Planted Root. Being Translations, New and Old, Chiefly from the German) CAT DUT FRE
Part for Praise (Give me a world, to part for praise and sunder) (from A Book of Strife in the Form of The Diary of an Old Soul) - M. Taylor
Rest is now filled full of beauty (from Phantastes: A Faerie Romance for Men and Women) - G. Holst
Ritter Toggenburg (True love, knight, as to a brother) (from Rampolli: Growths from a Long Planted Root. Being Translations, New and Old, Chiefly from the German) CAT DUT FRE SWE
Said the Wind to the Moon, I’ll blow you out - S. Wilkinson
Said the Wind to the Moon, I will blow you out (The Wind and the Moon) -
Song to the Sleeping Lady (Rest is now filled full of beauty) (from Phantastes: A Faerie Romance for Men and Women) - G. Holst
Spiritual Songs, number 2 (Dawn, far eastward, on the mountain!) (from Rampolli: Growths from a Long Planted Root. Being Translations, New and Old, Chiefly from the German)
Spiritual Songs, number 4 (Of the thousand hours me meeting) (from Rampolli: Growths from a Long Planted Root. Being Translations, New and Old, Chiefly from the German)
Spiritual Songs, number 5 (If I him but have) (from Rampolli: Growths from a Long Planted Root. Being Translations, New and Old, Chiefly from the German) CAT DUT FRE
Spiritual Songs, number 6 (My faith to thee I break not) (from Rampolli: Growths from a Long Planted Root. Being Translations, New and Old, Chiefly from the German) AFR CAT DUT FRE
Spiritual Songs, number 7 (Few understand the mystery of Love) (from Rampolli: Growths from a Long Planted Root. Being Translations, New and Old, Chiefly from the German) CAT DUT FRE
Spiritual Songs, number 9 (He lives! he's risen from the dead!) (from Rampolli: Growths from a Long Planted Root. Being Translations, New and Old, Chiefly from the German) CAT DUT FRE
Spiritual Songs, number 10 (The times are all so wretched!) (from Rampolli: Growths from a Long Planted Root. Being Translations, New and Old, Chiefly from the German)
Spiritual Songs, number 13 (When in hours of fear and failing) (from Rampolli: Growths from a Long Planted Root. Being Translations, New and Old, Chiefly from the German) FRE
Spiritual Songs, number 15 (In countless pictures I behold thee) (from Rampolli: Growths from a Long Planted Root. Being Translations, New and Old, Chiefly from the German) CAT DUT FRE
Sweet Peril (Alas, how easily things go wrong!) (from Phantastes: A Faerie Romance for Men and Women)
The baby (Where did you come from baby dear?)
The grave is deep and soundless (from Rampolli: Growths from a Long Planted Root. Being Translations, New and Old, Chiefly from the German) CAT DUT FRE GER RUS (The grave) -
The grave (The grave is deep and soundless) (from Rampolli: Growths from a Long Planted Root. Being Translations, New and Old, Chiefly from the German) CAT DUT FRE GER RUS
Then one to his neighbor may call out, Come (from A Book of Strife in the Form of The Diary of an Old Soul)
Then to his neighbour one may call out, Come (from A Book of Strife in the Form of The Diary of an Old Soul)
The times are all so wretched! (from Rampolli: Growths from a Long Planted Root. Being Translations, New and Old, Chiefly from the German) (Spiritual Songs, number 10) -
The Wind and the Moon (Said the Wind to the Moon, I’ll blow you out) - S. Wilkinson
The Wind and the Moon (Said the Wind to the Moon, I will blow you out)
Thou, then as now, no less wilt be my life (from A Book of Strife in the Form of The Diary of an Old Soul)
Thou wilt interpret life to me, and men (from A Book of Strife in the Form of The Diary of an Old Soul)
Three pairs and one (You have two ears -- and but one mouth) (from Rampolli: Growths from a Long Planted Root. Being Translations, New and Old, Chiefly from the German) DUT
Thy fishes breathe but where thy waters roll (from A Book of Strife in the Form of The Diary of an Old Soul) - M. Taylor
Thy fishes breathe (Thy fishes breathe but where thy waters roll) (from A Book of Strife in the Form of The Diary of an Old Soul) - M. Taylor
Triolet () - C. Rogers [x]
True love, knight, as to a brother (from Rampolli: Growths from a Long Planted Root. Being Translations, New and Old, Chiefly from the German) CAT DUT FRE SWE (Ritter Toggenburg) -
Uplifted is the stone (from Rampolli: Growths from a Long Planted Root. Being Translations, New and Old, Chiefly from the German)
When in hours of fear and failing (from Rampolli: Growths from a Long Planted Root. Being Translations, New and Old, Chiefly from the German) FRE (Spiritual Songs, number 13) -
Where did you come from baby dear? - A. Beach (The baby)
You have two ears -- and but one mouth (from Rampolli: Growths from a Long Planted Root. Being Translations, New and Old, Chiefly from the German) DUT (Three pairs and one) -

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