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Texts to Art Songs and Choral Works by H. Burleigh

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Harry Thacker Burleigh (1866 - 1949)

(Also see this composer's texts set to music.)

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Note: A language code in a blue rectangle like ENG indicates that a translation to that language is available.
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 of Laurence Hope
    • no. 1. Worth while (Text: Adela Florence Nicolson , as Laurence Hope)
    • no. 2. The jungle flower (Text: Adela Florence Nicolson , as Laurence Hope)
    • no. 3. Kashmiri song (Text: Adela Florence Nicolson , as Laurence Hope)
    • no. 4. Among the fuchsias (Text: Adela Florence Nicolson , as Laurence Hope)
    • no. 5. Till I wake (Text: Adela Florence Nicolson , as Laurence Hope)
  • Passionale
    • no. 1. Her eyes twin pools (Text: James Weldon Johnson)
    • no. 2. Your lips are wine (Text: James Weldon Johnson)
    • no. 3. Your eyes so deep (Text: James Weldon Johnson)
    • no. 4. The Glory of the Day was in Her Face (Text: James Weldon Johnson)
  • Saracen Songs
    • no. 1. Almona ; Song of Hassan (Text: Frederick G. Bowles)
    • no. 2. O, night of dream and wonder; Almona's song (Text: Frederick G. Bowles)
    • no. 3. His helmet's blaze; Almona's song of Yussouf to Hassan (Text: Frederick G. Bowles)
    • no. 4. I hear his footsteps, music sweet; Almona's song of delight (Text: Frederick G. Bowles)
    • no. 5. Thou art weary; Almona's song to Yussouf (Text: Frederick G. Bowles)
    • no. 6. This is Nirvana; Yussouf's song to Almona (Text: Frederick G. Bowles)
    • no. 7. Ahmed's song of farewell (Text: Frederick G. Bowles)

All titles of vocal settings in Alphabetic order

  • A birthday song (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
  • Ahmed's song of farewell (in Saracen Songs) (Text: Frederick G. Bowles)
  • Almona ; Song of Hassan (in Saracen Songs) (Text: Frederick G. Bowles)
  • Among the fuchsias (in Five Songs of Laurence Hope) (Text: Adela Florence Nicolson , as Laurence Hope)
  • An ante-bellum sermon (Text: Paul Laurence Dunbar)
  • By the Pool at the Third Rosses (Text: Arthur Symons)
  • Deep river (Text: Volkslieder )
  • Ethiopia saluting the colors (Text: Walt Whitman)
  • Go down, Moses (Text: Volkslieder )
  • Heav'n, Heav'n (Text: Volkslieder )
  • He met her in the meadow (Text: Harry Thacker Burleigh)
  • Her eyes twin pools (in Passionale) (Text: James Weldon Johnson)
  • His helmet's blaze; Almona's song of Yussouf to Hassan (in Saracen Songs) (Text: Frederick G. Bowles)
  • I don't feel no-ways tired (Text: Volkslieder )
  • I hear his footsteps, music sweet; Almona's song of delight (in Saracen Songs) (Text: Frederick G. Bowles)
  • Il Giovane Guerriero (Text: Anonymous after James Weldon Johnson) [x]
  • In the Wood of Finvara (Text: Arthur Symons)
  • I want to die while you love me (Text: Georgia Douglas Johnson)
  • Jean (Text: Frank Lebby Stanton)
  • Kashmiri song (in Five Songs of Laurence Hope) (Text: Adela Florence Nicolson , as Laurence Hope)
  • Little David, Play on Your Harp (Text: Volkslieder )
  • Lovely, dark, and lonely one (Text: Langston Hughes)
  • Mother o' mine (Text: Rudyard Kipling) GER
  • Now sleeps the crimson petal (Text: Alfred Tennyson, Lord) CAT GER SPA
  • O, night of dream and wonder; Almona's song (in Saracen Songs) (Text: Frederick G. Bowles)
  • Sometimes I feel like a motherless child (Text: Volkslieder )
  • The Glory of the Day was in Her Face (in Passionale) (Text: James Weldon Johnson)
  • The grey wolf (Text: Arthur Symons)
  • The jungle flower (in Five Songs of Laurence Hope) (Text: Adela Florence Nicolson , as Laurence Hope)
  • The Spring My Dear is No Longer Spring (Text: William Ernest Henley)
  • The Young Warrior (Text: James Weldon Johnson)
  • This is Nirvana; Yussouf's song to Almona (in Saracen Songs) (Text: Frederick G. Bowles)
  • Thou art weary; Almona's song to Yussouf (in Saracen Songs) (Text: Frederick G. Bowles)
  • Tide (Text: Francis Bacon Paine)
  • Till I wake (in Five Songs of Laurence Hope) (Text: Adela Florence Nicolson , as Laurence Hope)
  • Waiting (Text: Martha Gilbert Dickinson Bianchi)
  • Worth while (in Five Songs of Laurence Hope) (Text: Adela Florence Nicolson , as Laurence Hope)
  • Your eyes so deep (in Passionale) (Text: James Weldon Johnson)
  • Your lips are wine (in Passionale) (Text: James Weldon Johnson)

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