Texts to Art Songs and Choral Works by J. Williamson
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Song Cycles, Collections, Symphonies, etc.:
- Four Housman Songs
- no. 1. The Isle of Portland -- The star-filled skies (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
- no. 2. I wake from dreams and turning (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
- no. 3. When Adam walked in Eden young (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
- no. 4. The mill stream (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
- Three More Housman Songs
- no. 1. 'Tis five years since, "An end," said I (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
- no. 2. Parta quies - Good-night; ensured release (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
- no. 3. Oh is it the jar of nations (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
All titles of vocal settings in Alphabetic order
- A. J. J. (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
- Along the fields as we came by (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
- A Night in November (Text: Thomas Hardy)
- As I gird on for fighting (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
- Ask me no more, for fear I should reply (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
- Because I liked you better (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
- Before the battle (Text: Siegfried Lorraine Sassoon) FRE
- By shores and woods and steeples (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
- Carol (Text: Norman Cornthwaite Nicholson, OBE) [x]*
- Carol (Text: Randall Carline Swingler) [x]
- Could man be drunk for ever (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
- Cricket (Text: Walter De la Mare) [x]
- Delight it is in youth and May (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
- Easter Hymn (Text: Alfred Edward Housman) GER
- Eight o'clock (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
- Fancy's knell - When lads were home from labour (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
- Fancy's knell (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
- Farewell to a name and a number (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
- Farewell to barn and stack and tree (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
- Far in a western brookland (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
- For my funeral - O thou that from thy mansion (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
- From Clee to heaven the beacon burns (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
- From far, from eve and morning (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
- Give me a land of boughs in leaf (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
- He looked at me with eyes I thought (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
- Ho, everyone that thirsteth (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
- How clear, how lovely bright (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
- How clear, how lovely bright (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
- Hughley Steeple - The vane on Hughley Steeple (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
- I did not lose my heart in summer's even (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
- If truth in hearts that perish (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
- I hoed and trenched and weeded (Text: Alfred Edward Housman) GER
- I lay me down and slumber (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
- Illic jacet (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
- In summertime on Bredon (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
- In the morning (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
- In valleys green and still (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
- In valleys of springs of rivers (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
- I promise nothing; friends will part (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
- Is my team ploughing (Text: Alfred Edward Housman) FRE HEB
- I stood with the dead (Text: Siegfried Lorraine Sassoon) FRE
- It is no gift I tender (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
- It nods and curtseys (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
- I wake from dreams and turning (in Four Housman Songs) (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
- Keeping sheep by moonlight - On moonlit heath and lonesome bank (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
- Lancer - I 'listed at home for a lancer (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
- Late September (Text: Ivor Gurney)
- Like mine, the veins of these that slumber (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
- Lines composed in a Wood on a windy day (Text: Anne Brontë)
- Look not in my eyes (Text: Alfred Edward Housman) FRE HEB
- Loveliest of trees, the cherry now (Text: Alfred Edward Housman) FRE HEB
- Loveliest of trees (Text: Alfred Edward Housman) FRE HEB
- March - The sun at noon to higher air (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
- My dreams are of a field afar (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
- Nod (Text: Walter De la Mare)
- Now dreary dawns the eastern light (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
- Now hollow fires burn out to black (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
- Oh fair enough are sky and plain (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
- Oh is it the jar of nations (in Three More Housman Songs) (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
- Oh see how thick the goldcup flowers (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
- Oh stay at home, my lad, and plough (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
- Oh turn not in from marching (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
- Oh were he and I together (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
- Oh, when I was in love with you (Text: Alfred Edward Housman) GER
- On forelands high in heaven (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
- On the idle hill of summer (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
- On Wenlock Edge the wood's in trouble (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
- On your midnight pallet lying (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
- Others, I am not the first (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
- Parta quies - Good-night; ensured release (in Three More Housman Songs) (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
- Reveille - Wake, the silver dusk returning (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
- Revolution - West and away the wheels of darkness roll (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
- R.L.S. - Home is the sailor, home from the sea (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
- Saint Elfod's Song (Text: Rhian Churchill) [x]
- Say, lad, have you things to do (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
- Shadows (Text: Alun Lewis) [x]
- Shot? (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
- Sinner's rue (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
- Smooth between sea and land (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
- Soldier from the wars returning (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
- Spring morning - Star and coronal and bell (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
- Tell me not here, it needs not saying (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
- The carpenter's son - Here the hangman stops his cart (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
- The culprit - The night my father got me (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
- The day of battle - Far I hear the bugle blow (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
- The defeated - In battles of no renown (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
- The fairies break their dances (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
- The farms of home lie lost in even (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
- The first of May (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
- The grenadier - The Queen she sent to look for me (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
- The half-moon westers low, my love (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
- The Isle of Portland -- The star-filled skies (in Four Housman Songs) (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
- The lads in their hundreds (Text: Alfred Edward Housman) FRE HEB
- The lent lily (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
- The mill stream (in Four Housman Songs) (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
- The new mistress - Oh, sick I am to see you (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
- The night is freezing fast (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
- The olive - The olive in its orchard (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
- The plain (Text: Ivor Gurney) [x]
- The ploughman (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
- The rain, it streams on stone and hillock (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
- The rainy Pleiads wester (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
- The recruit - Leave your home behind, lad (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
- There pass the careless people (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
- The sigh that heaves the grasses (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
- The street sounds to the soldiers' tread (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
- The weeping Pleiads wester (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
- The winds out of the west land blow (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
- The world goes none the lamer (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
- Think no more, lad (Text: Alfred Edward Housman) FRE HEB
- This time of year a twelvemonth past (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
- 'Tis five years since, "An end," said I (in Three More Housman Songs) (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
- 'Tis time, I think, by Wenlock town (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
- Trees (Text: Walter De la Mare)
- Twice a week the winter through (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
- Wake not for the world-heard thunder (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
- Walking song (Text: Ivor Gurney)
- Weathers (Text: Thomas Hardy)
- Westward on the high-hilled plain (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
- When Adam walked in Eden young (in Four Housman Songs) (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
- When first my way to fair I took (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
- When green buds hang in the elm like dust (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
- When I came last to Ludlow (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
- When Israel out of Egypt came (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
- When I was one-and-twenty (Text: Alfred Edward Housman) FRE GER HEB
- When I watch the living meet (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
- When I would muse in boyhood (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
- When summer's end is nighing (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
- When the eye of day is shut (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
- When the lad for longing sighs (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
- White in the moon the long road lies (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
- With rue my heart is laden (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
- With seed the sowers scatter (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
- Yonder see the morning blink (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
- Yon flakes that fret the eastern sky (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
- Young is the blood that yonder (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
Last update: 2023-05-11 18:39:44