Texts to Art Songs and Choral Works by A. Bliss

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Arthur Edward Drummond Bliss, Sir (1891 - 1975)

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A knot of riddles

no. 1. Fish in river (Text: Kevin John William Crossley-Holland)
no. 2. Swallows (Text: Kevin John William Crossley-Holland)
no. 3. An oyster (Text: Kevin John William Crossley-Holland)
no. 4. A weather cock (Text: Kevin John William Crossley-Holland)
no. 5. A bookworm (Text: Kevin John William Crossley-Holland)
no. 6. A cross of wood (Text: Kevin John William Crossley-Holland)
no. 7. Sun and moon (Text: Kevin John William Crossley-Holland)

Angels of the mind

no. 1. Worry about money (Text: Kathleen Raine) *
no. 2. Lenten flowers (Text: Kathleen Raine) *
no. 3. Harvest (Text: Kathleen Raine) *
no. 4. Seed (Text: Kathleen Raine) *
no. 5. In the beck (Text: Kathleen Raine) *
no. 6. Storm (Text: Kathleen Raine) *
no. 7. Nocturne (Text: Kathleen Raine) *

Four songs

no. 1. A Christmas carol (Text: Arthur Shearley Cripps)
no. 2. Sea love (Text: Charlotte Mew)
no. 3. Vocalise
no. 4. The mad woman of Punnet's Town (Text: Leonard Alfred George Strong)

Morning Heroes

Spring offensive (Text: Wilfred Owen)
By the bivouac's fitful flame (Text: Walt Whitman)

Pastoral 'Lie strewn the white flocks', op. 46, F. 33

no. 1. The shepherds' holyday (Text: Ben Jonson)
no. 2. A hymn to Pan (Text: John Fletcher)
no. 3. Pan's saraband
no. 4. Pan and Echo â The naiads' music (Text: Robert Malise Bowyer Nichols)
no. 5. The pigeon song (Text: Robert Malise Bowyer Nichols)
no. 6. The song of the reapers (Text: Andrew Lang after Theocritus) ⊗
no. 7. The shepherd's night-song (Text: Robert Malise Bowyer Nichols)

Seven American Poems

no. 1. Gone, gone again is summer (Text: Edna St. Vincent Millay)
no. 2. Siege (Text: Edna St. Vincent Millay)
no. 3. Feast (Text: Edna St. Vincent Millay)
no. 4. Little elegy (Text: Elinor Wylie) GER
no. 5. Rain comes down (Text: Edna St. Vincent Millay)
no. 6. Fair Annet's song (Text: Elinor Wylie)
no. 7. Being young and green (Text: Edna St. Vincent Millay)

Shield of Faith, F. 52

no. 1. The lord is risen (Text: William Dunbar) ENG
no. 2. Interlude - Gloria in excelsis Deo (Text: Anonymous) [x]
no. 3. Love (Text: George Herbert)
no. 4. An Essay on Man (Text: Alexander Pope) [x]
no. 5. O yet we trust (Text: Alfred Tennyson, Lord)
no. 6. Little Gidding (Text: T. S. Eliot) [x]

The ballads of the four seasons

no. 1. Spring (Text: Shigeyoshi Obata after Li-Tai-Po)
no. 2. Summer (Text: Shigeyoshi Obata after Li-Tai-Po)
no. 3. Autumn (Text: Shigeyoshi Obata after Li-Tai-Po)
no. 4. Winter (Text: Shigeyoshi Obata after Li-Tai-Po)

The Beatitudes

And death shall have no dominion (Text: Dylan Thomas)

The Joyce Book [multi-composer] (Treize à la douzaine) FRE

no. 1. Tilly, composed by Ernest John Moeran (Text: James Joyce) FRE GER
no. 2. Watching the needleboats at San Saba, composed by Arnold Edward Trevor Bax, Sir (Text: James Joyce) FRE GER
no. 3. A flower given to my daughter, composed by Albert Roussel (Text: James Joyce) FRE GER ITA
no. 4. She weeps over Rahoon, composed by Herbert Hughes (Text: James Joyce) FRE GER
no. 5. Tutto è sciolto, composed by John (Nicholson) Ireland (Text: James Joyce) FRE GER
no. 6. On the beach at Fontana, composed by Roger Sessions (Text: James Joyce) CHI FRE GER
no. 7. Simples, composed by Arthur Edward Drummond Bliss, Sir (Text: James Joyce) FRE GER
no. 8. Flood, composed by Herbert Norman Howells (Text: James Joyce) FRE GER
no. 9. Nightpiece, composed by George Antheil (Text: James Joyce) FRE GER
no. 10. Alone, composed by Edgardo Carducci (Text: James Joyce) FRE GER
no. 11. A memory of the players in a mirror at midnight, composed by (Aynsley) Eugene Goossens, Sir (Text: James Joyce) FRE
no. 12. Bahnhofstrasse, composed by Charles Wilfred Orr (Text: James Joyce) FRE
no. 13. A Prayer, composed by Bernard van Dieren (Text: James Joyce) FRE

The Women of Yueh

no. 1. She is a southern girl (Text: Shigeyoshi Obata after Li-Tai-Po) ⊗
no. 2. Many a girl (Text: Shigeyoshi Obata after Li-Tai-Po) ⊗
no. 3. She is gathering lotus buds (Text: Shigeyoshi Obata after Li-Tai-Po) ⊗
no. 4. She, a Tung-yang girl (Text: Shigeyoshi Obata after Li-Tai-Po) ⊗
no. 5. The water in the Mirror Lake (Text: Shigeyoshi Obata after Li-Tai-Po)

The World is Charged with the Grandeur of God, op. 116, F. 36

no. 1. The world is charged with the grandeur of God (Text: Gerard Manley Hopkins)
no. 2. I have desired to go (Text: Gerard Manley Hopkins) GER
no. 3. Look at the stars (Text: Gerard Manley Hopkins)

Three Romantic Songs

no. 1. The hare (Text: Walter De la Mare , as Walter Ramal)
no. 2. Lovelocks (Text: Walter De la Mare , as Walter Ramal)
no. 3. The buckle (Text: Walter De la Mare , as Walter Ramal)

Three songs

no. 1. Thunderstorms (Text: William Henry Davies)
no. 2. This night (Text: William Henry Davies)
no. 3. Leisure (Text: William Henry Davies) GER

Three Songs for Girls' or Boys' Voices: nursery rhymes by Percy Bysshe Shelley and anonymous

no. 2. A widow bird (Text: Percy Bysshe Shelley) CZE ITA RUS

Two American Poems

no. 1. Humoresque (Text: Edna St. Vincent Millay)
no. 2. The return from town (Text: Edna St. Vincent Millay)

Two love songs

no. 1. Fair is my Love (Text: Edmund Spenser)
no. 2. In praise of his Daphnis (Text: J. Wotton England, Sir)

Two Nursery Rhymes

no. 1. The ragwort (Text: Frances Darwin Cornford)
no. 2. The dandelion (Text: Frances Darwin Cornford)

All titles of vocal settings in Opus order

A bookworm (Text: Kevin John William Crossley-Holland)
A child's prayer (Text: Siegfried Lorraine Sassoon) FRE
A Christmas carol (Text: Arthur Shearley Cripps)
A cross of wood (Text: Kevin John William Crossley-Holland)
And death shall have no dominion (Text: Dylan Thomas)
An Essay on Man, F. 52 no. 4 (Text: Alexander Pope) [x]
An oyster (Text: Kevin John William Crossley-Holland)
At the window (Text: Alfred Tennyson, Lord)
Autumn (Text: Shigeyoshi Obata after Li-Tai-Po)
Auvergnat (Text: Hilaire Belloc)
A weather cock (Text: Kevin John William Crossley-Holland)
A widow bird (Text: Percy Bysshe Shelley) CZE ITA RUS
Being young and green (Text: Edna St. Vincent Millay)
Birthday song for a royal child (Text: Cecil Day Lewis) [x]*
By the bivouac's fitful flame (Text: Walt Whitman)
Elegiac sonnet (Text: Cecil Day Lewis) *
Fair Annet's song (Text: Elinor Wylie)
Fair is my Love (Text: Edmund Spenser)
Feast (Text: Edna St. Vincent Millay)
Fish in river (Text: Kevin John William Crossley-Holland)
Flowers in the valley (Text: Volkslieder )
Gone, gone again is summer (Text: Edna St. Vincent Millay)
Harvest (Text: Kathleen Raine) *
He is the way (Text: W. H. Auden) [x]
Humoresque (Text: Edna St. Vincent Millay)
In praise of his Daphnis (Text: J. Wotton England, Sir)
Interlude - Gloria in excelsis Deo, F. 52 no. 2 (Text: Anonymous) [x]
In the beck (Text: Kathleen Raine) *
Leisure (Text: William Henry Davies) GER
Lenten flowers (Text: Kathleen Raine) *
Little elegy (Text: Elinor Wylie) GER
Little Gidding, F. 52 no. 6 (Text: T. S. Eliot) [x]
Lovelocks (Text: Walter De la Mare , as Walter Ramal)
Love, F. 52 no. 3 (Text: George Herbert)
Madame Noy (Text: E. H. W. Meyerstein) [x]
Many a girl (Text: Shigeyoshi Obata after Li-Tai-Po) ⊗
Nocturne (Text: Kathleen Raine) *
O yet we trust, F. 52 no. 5 (Text: Alfred Tennyson, Lord)
Rain comes down (Text: Edna St. Vincent Millay)
Rhapsody
Rich or poor (Text: William Henry Davies)
River music 1967 (Text: Cecil Day Lewis) [x]*
Rout [x]
Sailing or flying (Text: Winifred Williams) [x]*
Sea love (Text: Charlotte Mew)
Seed (Text: Kathleen Raine) *
She, a Tung-yang girl (Text: Shigeyoshi Obata after Li-Tai-Po) ⊗
She is a southern girl (Text: Shigeyoshi Obata after Li-Tai-Po) ⊗
She is gathering lotus buds (Text: Shigeyoshi Obata after Li-Tai-Po) ⊗
Siege (Text: Edna St. Vincent Millay)
Simples (Text: James Joyce) FRE GER
Song of welcome (Text: Cecil Day Lewis) [x]*
Spring offensive (Text: Wilfred Owen)
Spring (Text: Shigeyoshi Obata after Li-Tai-Po)
Storm (Text: Kathleen Raine) *
Summer (Text: Shigeyoshi Obata after Li-Tai-Po)
Sun and moon (Text: Kevin John William Crossley-Holland)
Swallows (Text: Kevin John William Crossley-Holland)
The buckle (Text: Walter De la Mare , as Walter Ramal)
The dandelion (Text: Frances Darwin Cornford)
The dark-eyed gentleman (Text: Thomas Hardy)
The Enchantress (Text: Henry Reed after Theocritus) [x] ⊗*
The fallow deer at the lonely house (Text: Thomas Hardy)
The hammers, F. 173 (Text: Ralph Hodgson)
The hare (Text: Walter De la Mare , as Walter Ramal)
The lord is risen, F. 52 no. 1 (Text: William Dunbar) ENG
The mad woman of Punnet's Town (Text: Leonard Alfred George Strong)
The ragwort (Text: Frances Darwin Cornford)
The return from town (Text: Edna St. Vincent Millay)
The Tempest Overture, Interludes and Incidental Music (Text: William Shakespeare)
The tramps (Text: Robert Service)
The water in the Mirror Lake (Text: Shigeyoshi Obata after Li-Tai-Po)
This night (Text: William Henry Davies)
Three jolly gentlemen (Text: Walter De la Mare)
Thunderstorms (Text: William Henry Davies)
'Tis time, I think, by Wenlock town (Text: Alfred Edward Housman) CHI
Tulips (Text: Winifred Williams) [x]*
Vocalise
Wenlock Edge (Text: Alfred Edward Housman) CHI
When I was one-and-twenty (Text: Alfred Edward Housman) FRE GER HEB
Winter (Text: Shigeyoshi Obata after Li-Tai-Po)
Worry about money (Text: Kathleen Raine) *

op. 46. Pastoral 'Lie strewn the white flocks'
op. 116. The World is Charged with the Grandeur of God

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