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Texts to Art Songs and Choral Works by J. Beeson

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Jack Hamilton Beeson (b. 1921)

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A grey rectangle like FRE indicates a particular translation (usually one set to music) exists but isn't yet available.

Song Cycles, Collections, Symphonies, etc.:

  • Five Songs
    • no. 1. On a spiritual fever (Text: Francis Quarles) FRE
    • no. 2. A good night
    • no. 3. On the World (Text: Francis Quarles)
    • no. 4. Epigram (Text: Francis Quarles)
    • no. 5. On Death (Text: Francis Quarles)
  • From a Watchtower
    • no. 1. Mutability (Text: William Wordsworth)
    • no. 2. Ballad: O What Is That Sound? (Text: W. H. Auden)
    • no. 3. Heaven-Haven (Text: Gerard Manley Hopkins) GER
    • no. 4. Ballad: O where are you going? (Text: W. H. Auden)
    • no. 5. The Listeners (Text: Walter De la Mare)
  • Six Lyrics
    • no. 1. Dream-Pedlary (Text: Thomas Lovell Beddoes)
    • no. 2. Song (Text: Thomas Lovell Beddoes) CAT
    • no. 3. Who sighs that all dies? (Text: Herman Melville)
    • no. 4. The moon (Text: Percy Bysshe Shelley) CZE
    • no. 5. Time (Text: Jasper Mayne)
    • no. 6. The conclusion (Text: Walter Raleigh, Sir) GER
  • Three Blake Songs
    • no. 1. I laid me down upon a bank (Text: William Blake)
    • no. 2. Never seek to tell thy love (Text: William Blake)
    • no. 3. I asked a thief (Text: William Blake)
  • Three love songs
    • Crazy Jane on God (Text: William Butler Yeats)
    • Her anxiety (Text: William Butler Yeats)
    • Crazy Jane reproved (Text: William Butler Yeats)
  • Two Millay Sonnets
    • no. 1. I shall forget you presently (Text: Edna St. Vincent Millay) GER
    • no. 2. What lips my lips have kissed (Text: Edna St. Vincent Millay) FRI GER
  • Two Songs
    • Calvinistic Evening (Text: John Betjeman, Sir) [x]*
    • Senex (Text: John Betjeman, Sir) [x]*

All titles of vocal settings in Alphabetic order

  • Against Idleness and Mischief and in Praise of Labor (Text: Isaac Watts)
  • A good night (in Five Songs)
  • A tale told by Mary's lamb (Text: Peter Robert Edwin Viereck) [x]*
  • Ballad: O What Is That Sound? (in From a Watchtower) (Text: W. H. Auden)
  • Ballad: O where are you going? (in From a Watchtower) (Text: W. H. Auden)
  • Big crash out West (Text: Peter Robert Edwin Viereck) [x]*
  • Calvinistic Evening (in Two Songs) (Text: John Betjeman, Sir) [x]*
  • Cat! (Text: John Keats)
  • Cowboy song (Text: Charles Causley, CBE) [x]*
  • Crazy Jane on God (in Three love songs) (Text: William Butler Yeats)
  • Crazy Jane reproved (in Three love songs) (Text: William Butler Yeats)
  • Death by Owl-Eyes (Text: Richard Hughes)
  • Dream-Pedlary (in Six Lyrics) (Text: Thomas Lovell Beddoes)
  • Eldorado (Text: Edgar Allan Poe) FRE GER
  • Epigram (in Five Songs) (Text: Francis Quarles)
  • Fire, fire, quench desire (Text: George Peele)
  • Heaven-Haven (in From a Watchtower) (Text: Gerard Manley Hopkins) GER
  • Her anxiety (in Three love songs) (Text: William Butler Yeats)
  • I asked a thief (in Three Blake Songs) (Text: William Blake)
  • I laid me down upon a bank (in Three Blake Songs) (Text: William Blake)
  • Indiana Homecoming (Text: Abraham Lincoln)
  • In the Public Gardens (Text: John Betjeman, Sir) [x]*
  • I shall forget you presently (in Two Millay Sonnets) (Text: Edna St. Vincent Millay) GER
  • Lullaby (Text: William Butler Yeats)
  • Mutability (in From a Watchtower) (Text: William Wordsworth)
  • Never seek to tell thy love (in Three Blake Songs) (Text: William Blake)
  • On a spiritual fever (in Five Songs) (Text: Francis Quarles) FRE
  • On Death (in Five Songs) (Text: Francis Quarles)
  • On the World (in Five Songs) (Text: Francis Quarles)
  • Senex (in Two Songs) (Text: John Betjeman, Sir) [x]*
  • Song (in Six Lyrics) (Text: Thomas Lovell Beddoes) CAT
  • The conclusion (in Six Lyrics) (Text: Walter Raleigh, Sir) GER
  • The Listeners (in From a Watchtower) (Text: Walter De la Mare)
  • The moon (in Six Lyrics) (Text: Percy Bysshe Shelley) CZE
  • The You should have done it Blues (Text: Peter Robert Edwin Viereck) *
  • Time (in Six Lyrics) (Text: Jasper Mayne)
  • To a sinister potato (Text: Peter Robert Edwin Viereck) [x]*
  • What lips my lips have kissed (in Two Millay Sonnets) (Text: Edna St. Vincent Millay) FRI GER
  • Who sighs that all dies? (in Six Lyrics) (Text: Herman Melville)

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