Texts to Art Songs and Choral Works by M. Besly

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(Edward) Maurice Besly (1888 - 1945)

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Charivaria

Afternoon on a hill (Text: Edna St. Vincent Millay)
To the Not Impossible Him (Text: Edna St. Vincent Millay)
Epitaph (Text: Edna St. Vincent Millay)
My candle burns at both ends (Text: Edna St. Vincent Millay) GER

Four more poems

Blossom of snow (Text: William Sharp , as Fiona Macleod)

Four poems

In the street of lost time (Text: Humbert Wolfe)

Four songs

The cat (Text: James Stephens) [x]

All titles of vocal settings in Opus order

Afternoon on a hill (Text: Edna St. Vincent Millay)
An epitaph (Text: Walter De la Mare)
Blossom of snow (Text: William Sharp , as Fiona Macleod)
Dainty little maiden (Text: Alfred Tennyson, Lord)
Dawn shall over Lethe break (Text: Hilaire Belloc)
Epitaph (Text: Edna St. Vincent Millay)
In Fountain Court (Text: Arthur Symons) CHI
In the street of lost time (Text: Humbert Wolfe)
My candle burns at both ends (Text: Edna St. Vincent Millay) GER
Sleep (Text: John Keats) CAT FRE GER NYN SPA
Some one (Text: Walter De la Mare)
Song of Proserpine (Text: Percy Bysshe Shelley) CZE
The angels are stooping, above your bed (Text: William Butler Yeats) ITA
The cat (Text: James Stephens) [x]
The mocking fairy (Text: Walter De la Mare)
The unexplorer (Text: Edna St. Vincent Millay)
To the Not Impossible Him (Text: Edna St. Vincent Millay)
Weathers (Text: Thomas Hardy)

op. 11.
op. 21.
op. 24.

Last update: 2025-06-04 21:00:12