Texts to Art Songs and Choral Works by F. Allitsen

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Song Cycles, Collections, Symphonies, etc.:

• Album of Eight Songs [later reissued as Eight Songs from Poems by Heine]
• no. 1. Der Fichtenbaum (Text: Heinrich Heine) CAT CHI DUT ENG ENG ENG ENG ENG ENG ENG ESP FRE FRE FRE HEB ITA NOR NOR RUS RUS RUS RUS RUS UKR
• no. 1. A pinetree standeth lonely (Text: James Thomson after Heinrich Heine) CAT CHI DUT ESP FRE FRE FRE HEB ITA NOR NOR RUS RUS RUS RUS RUS UKR
• no. 2. Saphire sind die Augen dein (Text: Heinrich Heine) ENG ENG ENG FRE
• no. 2. Two sapphires those dear eyes of thine (Text: Alma Strettell after Heinrich Heine) FRE
• no. 3. Du hast Diamanten und Perlen (Text: Heinrich Heine) ENG ENG ENG FRE POR RUS RUS
• no. 3. Diamonds hast thou and pearls (Text: George MacDonald after Heinrich Heine) FRE POR RUS RUS
• no. 4. Die Botschaft (Text: Heinrich Heine) ENG ENG FRE RUS RUS
• no. 4. King Duncan's daughters (Text: Kate Freiligrath Kroeker after Heinrich Heine) FRE RUS RUS
• no. 5. Seit die Liebste war entfernt (Text: Heinrich Heine) ENG ENG FRE FRE
• no. 5. Since my love now loves me not (Text: Franklin Johnson after Heinrich Heine) FRE FRE
• no. 6. Mag da draußen Schnee sich türmen (Text: Heinrich Heine) ENG ENG ENG ENG FRE ITA RUS RUS SPA
• no. 6. Fathoms deep may drift the snow (Text: Theodore Martin, Sir, KCB KCVO after Heinrich Heine) FRE ITA RUS RUS SPA
• no. 7. Der Tod, das ist die kühle Nacht (Text: Heinrich Heine) CAT DUT ENG ENG ENG ENG ENG FIN FRE GRE HEB ITA LIT RUS RUS RUS SPA SPA
• no. 7. Oh Death, it is the cold, cold night (Text: Theodore Martin, Sir, KCB KCVO after Heinrich Heine) CAT DUT FIN FRE GRE HEB ITA LIT RUS RUS RUS SPA SPA
• no. 8. Katharine (Text: Heinrich Heine) ENG ENG ENG FRE RUS RUS UKR
• no. 8. Katherine (Text: Kate Freiligrath Kroeker after Heinrich Heine) FRE RUS RUS UKR
• Four Songs from 'A Lute of Jade'
• no. 1. The waning moon (Text: Launcelot Alfred Cranmer-Byng after Confucius) [x] ⊗
• no. 2. The nightless [sic] tryst (Text: Launcelot Alfred Cranmer-Byng after Anonymous/Unidentified Artist) ⊗ GER
• no. 3. High o'er the hills (Text: Launcelot Alfred Cranmer-Byng after Wang-Seng-Yu) ⊗ GER
• no. 4. A King of Liang (Text: Launcelot Alfred Cranmer-Byng after Gao Shi) CZE
• Moods and Tenses (Phases in a Love Drama) - Cycle of Eight Songs
• no. 1. Rebellion (Text: Amelia Blandford Edwards)
• no. 2. Love's mandate (Text: Anonymous)
• no. 3. As the buds look up (Text: William Charles Scully)
• no. 4. Regret (Text: Frank Hyde)
• no. 5. Doubts (Text: Robert Bulwer-Lytton)
• no. 6. Resolve (Text: Frank Hyde)
• no. 7. Rapture (Text: Frank Hyde)
• no. 8. Love's victory (Text: Robert Seymour Bridges)
• Six Songs
• no. 1. Not quite alone (Text: John Hay, Col.) GER
• no. 2. Come not, when I am dead (Text: Alfred Tennyson, Lord) GER
• no. 3. Margaret (Text: William Hurrell Mallock)
• no. 4. Thy presence (Text: Frances Anne Kemble, née Butler) [x]
• no. 5. Prince Ivan's song (Text: Mary Mackay , as Marie Corelli)
• no. 6. Thy voice is heard thro' rolling drums (Text: Alfred Tennyson, Lord)
• Spring contrasts
• no. 1. The spring, my dear (Text: William Ernest Henley)
• no. 2. The Nightingale has a lyre of gold (Text: William Ernest Henley) GER
• Three Love Letters
• no. 1. A letter (Text: William Theodore Peters)
• no. 2. Sweet sorrow (Text: William Theodore Peters)
• no. 3. As cooling dew (Text: Georgeanne Hubi-Newcombe) [x]
• Three Songs
• no. 1. Whether we die or live (Text: George Meredith)
• no. 2. A cavalier's song (Text: William Motherwell)
• no. 3. A song of dawn (Text: ?, Mrs. F. Percy Cotton) [x]
• Two Christmas Songs
• no. 1. The star in the east (Text: William Theodore Peters) [x]
• no. 2. From heart to heart (Text: Robert Fuller Murray)
• Two Short Songs
• no. 1. Love and Grief -- Nature and Art (Text: William Theodore Peters)
• no. 2. The mountain and the star (Text: William Theodore Peters)
• Two Songs
• no. 1. Think on me, Dear (Text: Edwin Arnold)
• no. 2. Always together (Text: William Theodore Peters) [x]
• Two Songs
• no. 1. Since we parted (Text: Robert Bulwer-Lytton)
• no. 2. Absence (Text: Robert Bulwer-Lytton)
• Two Songs
• no. 1. Nocturne (Text: Charles William Cayzer, Sir) [x]
• no. 2. The sou-wester (Text: Charles William Cayzer, Sir)

All titles of vocal settings in Alphabetic order

• Absence (in Two Songs) (Text: Robert Bulwer-Lytton)
• A cavalier's song (in Three Songs) (Text: William Motherwell)
• Adieu! Love (Text: Anonymous) FRE
• Adoration (Text: Frances Ridley Havergal)
• After long years (Text: Frances Allitsen) [x]
• Afterward (Text: ?, Mrs. F. Percy Cotton , as Ellis Walton) [x]
• A King of Liang (in Four Songs from 'A Lute of Jade') (Text: Launcelot Alfred Cranmer-Byng after Gao Shi) CZE
• A letter (in Three Love Letters) (Text: William Theodore Peters)
• A lover's song (Text: W. J. Lancaster) [x]
• Always together (in Two Songs) (Text: William Theodore Peters) [x]
• A Moorish serenade (Text: Anonymous) [x]
• An old English love song (Text: Anonymous) [x]
• Answered (Text: ?, Mrs. F. Percy Cotton , as Ellis Walton) [x]
• Apart for evermore (Text: Saretta Green , as Caris Brooke)
• A pinetree standeth lonely (in Album of Eight Songs [later reissued as Eight Songs from Poems by Heine]) (Text: James Thomson after Heinrich Heine) CAT CHI DUT ESP FRE FRE FRE HEB ITA NOR NOR RUS RUS RUS RUS RUS UKR
• As cooling dew (in Three Love Letters) (Text: Georgeanne Hubi-Newcombe) [x]
• A song of dawn (in Three Songs) (Text: ?, Mrs. F. Percy Cotton) [x]
• A song of faithfulness (Text: Florence Hoare) [x]
• A song of farewell (Text: Edwin Arnold)
• A song of thanksgiving [multi-text setting] (Text: Thomson)
• A song of the four seasons (Text: Austin Dobson)
• As the buds look up (in Moods and Tenses (Phases in a Love Drama) - Cycle of Eight Songs) (Text: William Charles Scully)
• À ton cœur (Text: Victor Hugo) ENG
• Before we part (Text: ?, Mrs. F. Percy Cotton , as Ellis Walton)
• Be my star (Text: Frederick Langbridge)
• Break, diviner light! (Text: Alfred Tennyson, Lord)
• Britain's heroes (Text: James Arthur Edgerton) [x]
• Bygones (Text: ?, Mrs. F. Percy Cotton) [x]
• Cavalry song (Text: Edmund Clarence Stedman)
• Come not, when I am dead (in Six Songs) (Text: Alfred Tennyson, Lord) GER
• Dainty Clare Ballad (Text: Florence Hoare) [x]
• Dainty Clare (Text: Florence Hoare) [x]
• Der Fichtenbaum (in Album of Eight Songs [later reissued as Eight Songs from Poems by Heine]) (Text: Heinrich Heine) CAT CHI DUT ENG ENG ENG ENG ENG ENG ENG ESP FRE FRE FRE HEB ITA NOR NOR RUS RUS RUS RUS RUS UKR
• Der Tod, das ist die kühle Nacht (in Album of Eight Songs [later reissued as Eight Songs from Poems by Heine]) (Text: Heinrich Heine) CAT DUT ENG ENG ENG ENG ENG FIN FRE GRE HEB ITA LIT RUS RUS RUS SPA SPA
• Diamonds hast thou and pearls (in Album of Eight Songs [later reissued as Eight Songs from Poems by Heine]) (Text: George MacDonald after Heinrich Heine) FRE POR RUS RUS
• Die Botschaft (in Album of Eight Songs [later reissued as Eight Songs from Poems by Heine]) (Text: Heinrich Heine) ENG ENG FRE RUS RUS
• Doubts (in Moods and Tenses (Phases in a Love Drama) - Cycle of Eight Songs) (Text: Robert Bulwer-Lytton)
• Du hast Diamanten und Perlen (in Album of Eight Songs [later reissued as Eight Songs from Poems by Heine]) (Text: Heinrich Heine) ENG ENG ENG FRE POR RUS RUS
• Eastern serenade (Text: Dorothy Johnson) [x]
• England, my England! (Text: William Ernest Henley)
• England, Queen of the Seas (Text: Charles William Cayzer, Sir)
• False or true (Text: Clifton Bingham) [x]
• Fathoms deep may drift the snow (in Album of Eight Songs [later reissued as Eight Songs from Poems by Heine]) (Text: Theodore Martin, Sir, KCB KCVO after Heinrich Heine) FRE ITA RUS RUS SPA
• Forgetfulness (Text: Fred J. Vigay) [x]
• Forget thee! (Text: John Moultrie)
• Forward (Text: Edna Dean Proctor)
• From heart to heart (in Two Christmas Songs) (Text: Robert Fuller Murray)
• Give a man a horse he can ride (Text: James Thomson)
• Glory to God on high (Text: Robert Fuller Murray)
• Heini of Steir, the Meistersinger (Text: Anonymous after Joseph Viktor von Scheffel) [x]
• High o'er the hills (in Four Songs from 'A Lute of Jade') (Text: Launcelot Alfred Cranmer-Byng after Wang-Seng-Yu) ⊗ GER
• Hymn of trust (Text: Oliver Wendell Holmes)
• Ich weiss ein Röslein roth (Text: Kate Freiligrath Kroeker after Bayard Taylor) [x]
• I know a little rose (Text: Bayard Taylor)
• In our boat (Text: Dinah Maria Craik, née Mulock)
• In the sunshine (Text: Augusta Webster née Davies) [x]
• In times of old (Text: Thomas Love Peacock) [x]
• Katharine (in Album of Eight Songs [later reissued as Eight Songs from Poems by Heine]) (Text: Heinrich Heine) ENG ENG ENG FRE RUS RUS UKR
• Katherine (in Album of Eight Songs [later reissued as Eight Songs from Poems by Heine]) (Text: Kate Freiligrath Kroeker after Heinrich Heine) FRE RUS RUS UKR
• King and slave (Text: Adelaide Anne Procter)
• King Duncan's daughters (in Album of Eight Songs [later reissued as Eight Songs from Poems by Heine]) (Text: Kate Freiligrath Kroeker after Heinrich Heine) FRE RUS RUS
• Lady! In this night of June (Text: Alfred Austin)
• Lift thy heart (Text: Frederick G. Bowles)
• Like a garden after rain (Text: Alfred Austin)
• Like as the hart desireth (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts after Bible or other Sacred Texts) GER
• Like violets pale (Text: James Thomson)
• L'intérieur (Text: Maurice Maeterlinck)
• Love and Grief -- Nature and Art (in Two Short Songs) (Text: William Theodore Peters)
• Love in spring time (Text: Lewis Morris) [x]
• Love's despair (Text: George Sigerson after Diarmad O'Curnain) ⊗
• Love's mandate (in Moods and Tenses (Phases in a Love Drama) - Cycle of Eight Songs) (Text: Anonymous)
• Love's victory (in Moods and Tenses (Phases in a Love Drama) - Cycle of Eight Songs) (Text: Robert Seymour Bridges)
• Love, we must part! (Text: Frances Allitsen) [x]
• Mabel's Song (Text: Algernon Charles Swinburne)
• Mag da draußen Schnee sich türmen (in Album of Eight Songs [later reissued as Eight Songs from Poems by Heine]) (Text: Heinrich Heine) ENG ENG ENG ENG FRE ITA RUS RUS SPA
• Magnificat (Text: Arthur Leslie Salmon) [x]
• Margaret (in Six Songs) (Text: William Hurrell Mallock)
• Marjorie (Text: W. Eltringham Kendall) [x]
• Mary Hamilton (Text: George John Whyte-Melville)
• My bonny curl (Text: Amélie Rives)
• My laddie (Text: Amélie Rives)
• My lady sleeps (Text: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) CHI
• My lady's pleasure (Text: Edward Frederick Lockton , as Edward Teschemacher) [x]
• My life and thine (Text: Constance Sutcliffe)
• Nocturne (in Two Songs) (Text: Charles William Cayzer, Sir) [x]
• Not quite alone (in Six Songs) (Text: John Hay, Col.) GER
• O give me all thy heart (Text: ?, Mrs. F. Percy Cotton) [x]
• Oh Death, it is the cold, cold night (in Album of Eight Songs [later reissued as Eight Songs from Poems by Heine]) (Text: Theodore Martin, Sir, KCB KCVO after Heinrich Heine) CAT DUT FIN FRE GRE HEB ITA LIT RUS RUS RUS SPA SPA
• O hemlock tree (Text: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow after Anonymous/Unidentified Artist) ⊗
• Oh! for a burst of song (Text: Frances Ridley Havergal)
• Old clock on the stairs (Text: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
• One or two (Text: Will Carleton) [x]
• On the river (Text: James Thomson) [x]
• Over the bridge (Text: James Thomson) [x]
• Praise thou the lord, o my soul (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts) [x]
• Prince Ivan's song (in Six Songs) (Text: Mary Mackay , as Marie Corelli)
• Psalm 41 (42) (Text: Martin Luther after Bible or other Sacred Texts) ENG ENG ENG ENG
• Rapture (in Moods and Tenses (Phases in a Love Drama) - Cycle of Eight Songs) (Text: Frank Hyde)
• Rebellion (in Moods and Tenses (Phases in a Love Drama) - Cycle of Eight Songs) (Text: Amelia Blandford Edwards)
• Regret (in Moods and Tenses (Phases in a Love Drama) - Cycle of Eight Songs) (Text: Frank Hyde)
• Resolve (in Moods and Tenses (Phases in a Love Drama) - Cycle of Eight Songs) (Text: Frank Hyde)
• Sacred song (Text: Robert Fuller Murray)
• Saphire sind die Augen dein (in Album of Eight Songs [later reissued as Eight Songs from Poems by Heine]) (Text: Heinrich Heine) ENG ENG ENG FRE
• Seit die Liebste war entfernt (in Album of Eight Songs [later reissued as Eight Songs from Poems by Heine]) (Text: Heinrich Heine) ENG ENG FRE FRE
• Severed song (Text: Hal) [x]
• Since my love now loves me not (in Album of Eight Songs [later reissued as Eight Songs from Poems by Heine]) (Text: Franklin Johnson after Heinrich Heine) FRE FRE
• Since we parted (in Two Songs) (Text: Robert Bulwer-Lytton)
• Sing me to rest (Text: Harold Whitaker) [x]
• Song of the gun (Text: J. E. MacManus) [x]
• Sons of the city (Text: Bernard Malcolm Ramsay) [x]
• Soul's dedication (Text: William Akerman) [x]
• Stars of the summer night (Text: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) CHI
• Sunset and dawn (Text: Frances Ridley Havergal)
• Sweet sorrow (in Three Love Letters) (Text: William Theodore Peters)
• Tell her, sweet thrush! (Text: Charles William Cayzer, Sir , as C. Whitworth Wynne)
• Thanksgiving for Victory (Text: G. W.) [x]
• The boys who will not return (Text: James Arthur Edgerton) [x]
• The Colleen Rue (The Red-haired Girl) (Text: Katharine Tynan)
• The Colleen Rue (Text: Katharine Tynan)
• The Hidden Grief (Text: Richard Harris Barham , as Thomas Ingoldsby)
• The Lord is my light (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts after Bible or other Sacred Texts) GER
• The lover's wish (Text: V. after Victor Hugo)
• The loyalty of love (Text: Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton)
• The lute player (Text: William Watson, Sir)
• The mountain and the star (in Two Short Songs) (Text: William Theodore Peters)
• The Nightingale has a lyre of gold (in Spring contrasts) (Text: William Ernest Henley) GER
• The nightless [sic] tryst (in Four Songs from 'A Lute of Jade') (Text: Launcelot Alfred Cranmer-Byng after Anonymous/Unidentified Artist) ⊗ GER
• The norseman's song (Text: M. Ingle Ball) [x]
• There be none of Beauty's daughters (Text: George Gordon Noel Byron, Lord Byron) CAT CZE DAN DUT FRE GER GER GER ITA RUS RUS
• There's a land [multi-text setting] (Text: Sibly, Mackay)
• The Scottish pipers (Text: Bernard Malcolm Ramsay)
• The sou-wester (in Two Songs) (Text: Charles William Cayzer, Sir)
• The sovereignty of God (Text: Frances Ridley Havergal)
• The spring, my dear (in Spring contrasts) (Text: William Ernest Henley)
• The star in the east (in Two Christmas Songs) (Text: William Theodore Peters) [x]
• The stars are with the voyager (Text: Thomas Hood)
• The stars of June (Text: Frederick E. Weatherly) [x]
• The waning moon (in Four Songs from 'A Lute of Jade') (Text: Launcelot Alfred Cranmer-Byng after Confucius) [x] ⊗
• The Wayfarer (Text: John Masefield) [x]
• The wayside seat (Text: ?, Mrs. F. Percy Cotton , as Ellis Walton)
• Think on me, Dear (in Two Songs) (Text: Edwin Arnold)
• Thy presence (in Six Songs) (Text: Frances Anne Kemble, née Butler) [x]
• Thy voice is heard thro' rolling drums (in Six Songs) (Text: Alfred Tennyson, Lord)
• True love (Text: Frances Allitsen) [x]
• Two sapphires those dear eyes of thine (in Album of Eight Songs [later reissued as Eight Songs from Poems by Heine]) (Text: Alma Strettell after Heinrich Heine) FRE
• Unto thy heart (Text: Ernest Oswald Coe after Victor Hugo)
• Warning (Text: Anonymous after Hermann von Lingg) [x] ⊗
• When the boys come home (Text: John Hay, Col.)
• When we two parted (Text: George Gordon Noel Byron, Lord Byron) CHI FRE
• Whether we die or live (in Three Songs) (Text: George Meredith)
• Who would not captive be? (Text: MacKenzie MacBride )
• Wilt thou take me for thy slave (Text: William Scawen Blunt)
• Youth (Text: Edward Frederick Lockton , as Edward Teschemacher after Anonymous/Unidentified Artist) ⊗

Last update: 2025-07-10 04:27:43