Texts to Art Songs and Choral Works by S. Coleridge-Taylor

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Song Cycles, Collections, Symphonies, etc.:

• A Tale of Old Japan
• no. 1. Yoichi Tenko, the painter (Text: Alfred Noyes)
• no. 2. Peonies, peonies crowned the May! (Text: Alfred Noyes)
• no. 3. So, in ber blue kimono (Text: Alfred Noyes)
• no. 4. Moon and flower and butterfly (Text: Alfred Noyes)
• no. 5. So, when the rich young merchant (Text: Alfred Noyes)
• no. 6. Peonies, peonies thronged the May (Text: Alfred Noyes)
• no. 7. Great Sawara, the painter (Text: Alfred Noyes)
• Five Fairy Ballads
• no. 1. Sweet baby butterfly (Text: Kathleen Mary Easmon)
• no. 2. Alone with mother (Text: Kathleen Mary Easmon)
• no. 3. Big Lady Moon (Text: Kathleen Mary Easmon)
• no. 4. The Stars (Text: Kathleen Mary Easmon)
• no. 5. Fairy Roses (Text: Kathleen Mary Easmon)
• In Memoriam: 3 Rhapsodies, op. 24
• no. 1. Earth fades! Heaven breaks on me (Text: Robert Browning)
• no. 2. Substitution (Text: Elizabeth Barrett Browning)
• no. 3. Weep not, beloved friends (Text: William Wordsworth after Gabriello Chiabrera) ⊗
• Little Songs for Little Folks, op. 19 no. 2, op. 19
• no. 1. Sea shells (Text: W. S. H.) [x]
• no. 2. A rest by the way (Text: W. S. H.) [x]
• no. 3. A battle in the snow (Text: W. S. H.) [x]
• no. 4. A parting wish (Text: W. S. H.) [x]
• no. 5. A sweet little doll (Text: Charles Kingsley)
• no. 6. Baby-land (Text: George Cooper) [x]
• Six American Lyrics, op. 45
• no. 1. O thou, mine other (Text: Ella Wheeler Wilcox)
• no. 2. O praise me not (Text: Ella Wheeler Wilcox)
• no. 3. Her Love (Text: Ella Wheeler Wilcox)
• no. 4. The dark eye has left us (Text: John Greenleaf Whittier)
• no. 5. O ship, that sailest (Text: Ella Wheeler Wilcox)
• no. 6. Beat, beat, drums (Text: Walt Whitman) FRE GER
• Six Sorrow Songs, op. 57
• no. 1. Oh what comes over the sea (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
• no. 2. When I am dead, my dearest (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti) GER GER GER GER ITA
• no. 3. Oh roses for the flush of youth (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
• no. 4. She sat and sang alway (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
• no. 5. Unmindful of the roses (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
• no. 6. Too late for love (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
• Songs from incidental music to The Forest of Wild Thyme, op. 74 no. 4, op. 74
• no. 1. Your heart's desire (Text: Alfred Noyes) [x]
• no. 2. Come in (Text: Alfred Noyes) [x]
• Songs from incidental music to Ulysses, op. 49
• no. 1. Great is he who fused the night (Text: Stephen Phillips) [x]
• no. 2. O set the sails (Text: Stephen Phillips) [x]
• Songs of Sun and Shade
• no. 1. You lay so still in the sunshine (Text: Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall)
• no. 2. Thou hast bewitched me, belovèd (Text: Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall)
• no. 3. The rainbow-child (Text: Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall)
• no. 4. Thou art risen, my beloved (Text: Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall)
• no. 5. This is the island of gardens (Text: Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall)
• Southern Love Songs, op. 12
• no. 1. My Love (Text: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow after Anonymous/Unidentified Artist) ⊗
• no. 2. Tears
• no. 3. Minguillo (Text: John Gibson Lockhart after Anonymous/Unidentified Artist) ⊗
• no. 4. If thou art sleeping (Text: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow after Gil Vicente) FRE GER GER
• no. 5. Oh!my lonely, lonely, lonely Pillow! (Text: George Gordon Noel Byron, Lord Byron) GER
• The Soul's Expression, op. 42
• no. 1. The Soul's Expression (Text: Elizabeth Barrett Browning)
• no. 2. Tears (Text: Elizabeth Barrett Browning)
• no. 3. Grief (Text: Elizabeth Barrett Browning)
• no. 4. Comfort (Text: Elizabeth Barrett Browning)
• Three Choral Ballads
• no. 1. Beside the ungathered rice he lay (Text: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) GER RUS SWE
• no. 2. She dwells by Great Kenhawa's side (Text: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) RUS
• no. 3. Loud he sang the Psalm of David (Text: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
• Three Song-Poems, op. 50
• no. 1. Dreaming for ever (Text: Thomas Moore)
• no. 2. The Young Indian Maid (Text: Thomas Moore)
• no. 3. Beauty and Song (Text: Thomas Moore)
• Three Songs of Heine
• no. 1. My pretty fishermaiden (Text: Elisabeth M. Lockwood after Heinrich Heine) [x] CAT DUT FIN FRE FRE GER GRE ITA ITA KOR LIT NOR POL POL POR RUS RUS RUS RUS RUS RUS RUS SPA UKR
• no. 2. Thy sapphire eyes (Text: Elisabeth M. Lockwood after Heinrich Heine) [x] FRE
• no. 3. I hear the flutes & fiddles (Text: Elisabeth M. Lockwood after Heinrich Heine) [x] CAT DUT DUT FIN FRE FRE GRE HEB ITA SPA
• Two Songs
• no. 1. A lovely little dream (Text: Sarojini Naidu)
• no. 2. A birthday (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
• Two Songs
• no. 1. My lady (Text: E. R. Stephenson) [x]
• no. 2. Love's Mirror (Text: Fritz Bennicke Hart)

All titles of vocal settings in Alphabetic order

• A battle in the snow, op. 19 no. 2c (in Little Songs for Little Folks, op. 19 no. 2) (Text: W. S. H.) [x]
• A birthday (in Two Songs) (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
• A blood-red ring, op. 37 (Six songs) no. 3 (Text: John Edward Logan , as Barry Dane)
• A corn-song (Text: Paul Laurence Dunbar)
• A dance of bygone days [x]
• Ah, sweet, thou little knowest (Text: Thomas Hood)
• Ah tell me gentle zephyr [x]
• A king there lived in Thule (Text: Stephen Phillips; Joseph Comyns Carr after Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) CAT CZE CZE DAN DUT FRE IRI ITA NOR POR SPA
• A lament (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
• All are sleeping, weary heart (Text: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow after Anonymous/Unidentified Artist) GER GER
• Alone with mother (in Five Fairy Ballads) (Text: Kathleen Mary Easmon)
• A lovely little dream (in Two Songs) (Text: Sarojini Naidu)
• An African Love Song, op. 17 (African Romances) no. 1 (Text: Paul Laurence Dunbar)
• An Explanation (Text: Walter Learned) FRE
• A parting wish, op. 19 no. 2d (in Little Songs for Little Folks, op. 19 no. 2) (Text: W. S. H.) [x]
• A prayer, op. 17 (African Romances) no. 2 (Text: Paul Laurence Dunbar)
• A rest by the way, op. 19 no. 2b (in Little Songs for Little Folks, op. 19 no. 2) (Text: W. S. H.) [x]
• A starry night, op. 17 (African Romances) no. 3 (Text: Paul Laurence Dunbar) CHI
• As the moon's soft splendor, op. 37 (Six songs) no. 5 (Text: Percy Bysshe Shelley) CHI CZE
• A summer idyll (Text: Hilda Hammond-Spencer) [x]
• A sweet little doll, op. 19 no. 2e (in Little Songs for Little Folks, op. 19 no. 2) (Text: Charles Kingsley)
• A vision (Text: Louise Alston Burleigh) [x]
• Baby-land, op. 19 no. 2f (in Little Songs for Little Folks, op. 19 no. 2) (Text: George Cooper) [x]
• Ballad, op. 17 (African Romances) no. 5 (Text: Paul Laurence Dunbar)
• Beat, beat, drums, op. 45 no. 6 (in Six American Lyrics) (Text: Walt Whitman) FRE GER
• Beauty and Song, op. 50 no. 3 (in Three Song-Poems) (Text: Thomas Moore)
• Beside the ungathered rice he lay, op. 54 no. 1 (in Three Choral Ballads) (Text: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) GER RUS SWE
• Big Lady Moon (in Five Fairy Ballads) (Text: Kathleen Mary Easmon)
• By the lone sea shore (Text: Charles Mackay)
• Candle-lightin' time (Text: Paul Laurence Dunbar)
• Canoe song, op. 37 (Six songs) no. 2 (Text: Isabella Valancy Crawford)
• Come in, op. 74 no. 4b (in Songs from incidental music to The Forest of Wild Thyme, op. 74 no. 4) (Text: Alfred Noyes) [x]
• Comfort, op. 42 no. 4 (in The Soul's Expression) (Text: Elizabeth Barrett Browning)
• Dawn, op. 17 (African Romances) no. 4 (Text: Paul Laurence Dunbar)
• Drake's drum (Text: Henry Newbolt, Sir)
• Dreaming for ever, op. 50 no. 1 (in Three Song-Poems) (Text: Thomas Moore)
• Earth fades! Heaven breaks on me, op. 24 no. 1 (in In Memoriam: 3 Rhapsodies) (Text: Robert Browning)
• Elëanore, op. 37 (Six songs) no. 6 (Text: Eric Mackay)
• Eulalie (Text: Alice Parsons)
• Fairy Roses (in Five Fairy Ballads) (Text: Kathleen Mary Easmon)
• Five and twenty Sailormen (Text: Greville E. Matheson)
• Genevieve (Text: Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
• Great is he who fused the night, op. 49 no. 1 (in Songs from incidental music to Ulysses) (Text: Stephen Phillips) [x]
• Great Sawara, the painter (in A Tale of Old Japan) (Text: Alfred Noyes)
• Grief, op. 42 no. 3 (in The Soul's Expression) (Text: Elizabeth Barrett Browning)
• Her Love, op. 45 no. 3 (in Six American Lyrics) (Text: Ella Wheeler Wilcox)
• How shall I woo thee, op. 17 (African Romances) no. 7 (Text: Paul Laurence Dunbar)
• How they so softly rest, op. 35 no. 2 (Text: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow after Ernst Stockmann) ⊗
• If I could love thee (Text: Louise Alston Burleigh) [x]
• If thou art sleeping, op. 12 no. 4 (in Southern Love Songs) (Text: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow after Gil Vicente) FRE GER GER
• I hear the flutes & fiddles (in Three Songs of Heine) (Text: Elisabeth M. Lockwood after Heinrich Heine) [x] CAT DUT DUT FIN FRE FRE GRE HEB ITA SPA
• Jessy, op. 29 (Three Songs) no. 3 (Text: Robert Burns) CZE
• Keep those eyes (Text: Thomas Moore)
• Kubla Khan (Text: Samuel Taylor Coleridge) FRI
• Land of the sun (Text: George Gordon Noel Byron, Lord Byron)
• Life and death (Text: Jessie Adelaide Middleton)
• Loud he sang the Psalm of David, op. 54 no. 3 (in Three Choral Ballads) (Text: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
• Loud sang the Spanish cavalier (Text: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) [x]
• Love's Mirror (in Two Songs) (Text: Fritz Bennicke Hart)
• Love's passing (Text: Louise Alston Burleigh) [x]
• Love's questionings (Text: Alice Parsons) [x]
• Low-breathing winds (Text: William Charles Berwick Sayers) [x]
• Lucy, op. 29 (Three Songs) no. 1 (Text: William Wordsworth)
• Mary, op. 29 (Three Songs) no. 2 (Text: William Wordsworth)
• Minguillo, op. 12 no. 3 (in Southern Love Songs) (Text: John Gibson Lockhart after Anonymous/Unidentified Artist) ⊗
• Moon and flower and butterfly (in A Tale of Old Japan) (Text: Alfred Noyes)
• My Algonquin (Text: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) DUT GER
• My lady (in Two Songs) (Text: E. R. Stephenson) [x]
• My Love, op. 12 no. 1 (in Southern Love Songs) (Text: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow after Anonymous/Unidentified Artist) ⊗
• My pretty fishermaiden (in Three Songs of Heine) (Text: Elisabeth M. Lockwood after Heinrich Heine) [x] CAT DUT FIN FRE FRE GER GRE ITA ITA KOR LIT NOR POL POL POR RUS RUS RUS RUS RUS RUS RUS SPA UKR
• Nourmahal's Song (Text: Thomas Moore)
• Oh!my lonely, lonely, lonely Pillow!, op. 12 no. 5 (in Southern Love Songs) (Text: George Gordon Noel Byron, Lord Byron) GER
• Oh roses for the flush of youth, op. 57 no. 3 (in Six Sorrow Songs) (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
• Oh what comes over the sea, op. 57 no. 1 (in Six Sorrow Songs) (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
• O mistress mine (Text: William Shakespeare) FIN FRE GER GER GER IRI ITA NOR POL
• Once only (Text: Robert Louis Stevenson)
• O praise me not, op. 45 no. 2 (in Six American Lyrics) (Text: Ella Wheeler Wilcox)
• O set the sails, op. 49 no. 2 (in Songs from incidental music to Ulysses) (Text: Stephen Phillips) [x]
• O ship, that sailest, op. 45 no. 5 (in Six American Lyrics) (Text: Ella Wheeler Wilcox)
• O thou, mine other, op. 45 no. 1 (in Six American Lyrics) (Text: Ella Wheeler Wilcox)
• Our idyll (Text: Adrian Ross) [x]
• Over the hills, op. 17 (African Romances) no. 6 (Text: Paul Laurence Dunbar)
• Peonies, peonies crowned the May! (in A Tale of Old Japan) (Text: Alfred Noyes)
• Peonies, peonies thronged the May (in A Tale of Old Japan) (Text: Alfred Noyes)
• Red o' the dawn, op. 81 (Two Songs) no. 2 (Text: Alfred Noyes) [x]
• Seadrift (Text: Thomas Bailey Aldrich)
• Sea shells, op. 19 no. 2a (in Little Songs for Little Folks, op. 19 no. 2) (Text: W. S. H.) [x]
• She dwells by Great Kenhawa's side, op. 54 no. 2 (in Three Choral Ballads) (Text: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) RUS
• She rested by the Broken Brook (Text: Robert Louis Stevenson)
• She sat and sang alway, op. 57 no. 4 (in Six Sorrow Songs) (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
• Sleep, sleep, O King, op. 47 no. 1 (Text: Stephen Phillips) [x]
• So, in ber blue kimono (in A Tale of Old Japan) (Text: Alfred Noyes)
• Solitude (Text: George Gordon Noel Byron, Lord Byron)
• Song of Proserpine (Text: Percy Bysshe Shelley) CZE
• Song of the Nubian Girl (Text: Thomas Moore)
• Sons of the sea (Text: Sarojini Naidu)
• So, when the rich young merchant (in A Tale of Old Japan) (Text: Alfred Noyes)
• Substitution, op. 24 no. 2 (in In Memoriam: 3 Rhapsodies) (Text: Elizabeth Barrett Browning)
• Summer is gone (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti) GER
• Sweet baby butterfly (in Five Fairy Ballads) (Text: Kathleen Mary Easmon)
• Sweet evenings come and go, love, op. 37 (Six songs) no. 4 (Text: Mary Ann Evans , as George Eliot)
• Tears, op. 42 no. 2 (in The Soul's Expression) (Text: Elizabeth Barrett Browning)
• Tears, op. 12 no. 2 (in Southern Love Songs)
• Tell, O tell me (Text: Edmund Clarence Stedman)
• The Arrow and the Song (Text: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) GER
• The blind girl of Castèl-Cuillè, op. 43 (Text: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow after Jacques Boé) ⊗
• The Broken Oar (Text: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
• The dark eye has left us, op. 45 no. 4 (in Six American Lyrics) (Text: John Greenleaf Whittier)
• The Delaware's Farewell [x]
• The Easter morn (Text: Arthur Chapman) [x]
• The gift-rose (Text: Frederic Peterson) DUT FRE GER
• The guest (Text: Robert Herrick) [x]
• The links o' love (Text: Greville E. Matheson) [x]
• The oasis (Text: Adrian Ross) [x]
• The Quadroon Girl, op. 54 no. 4 (Text: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) RUS
• The rainbow-child (in Songs of Sun and Shade) (Text: Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall)
• The Shoshone's Adieu (Text: Brice Fennell)
• The Soul's Expression, op. 42 no. 1 (in The Soul's Expression) (Text: Elizabeth Barrett Browning)
• The Stars (in Five Fairy Ballads) (Text: Kathleen Mary Easmon)
• The three ravens (Text: Volkslieder ) DUT
• The vengeance [x]
• The violet bank (Text: ? Darling?) [x]
• The Willow Song, op. 79 (Text: William Shakespeare after Volkslieder ) FRE GER GER GER GER RUS
• The Young Indian Maid, op. 50 no. 2 (in Three Song-Poems) (Text: Thomas Moore)
• This is the island of gardens (in Songs of Sun and Shade) (Text: Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall)
• Thou art risen, my beloved (in Songs of Sun and Shade) (Text: Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall)
• Thou art (Text: M. Tulloch) [x]
• Thou hast bewitched me, belovèd (in Songs of Sun and Shade) (Text: Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall)
• Thy sapphire eyes (in Three Songs of Heine) (Text: Elisabeth M. Lockwood after Heinrich Heine) [x] FRE
• Too late for love, op. 57 no. 6 (in Six Sorrow Songs) (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
• Unmindful of the roses, op. 57 no. 5 (in Six Sorrow Songs) (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
• Until (Text: Frank Dempster Sherman) [x]
• Viking song (Text: David McKee Wright) [x]
• Waiting, op. 81 (Two Songs) no. 1 (Text: Alfred Noyes) [x]
• Weep not, beloved friends, op. 24 no. 3 (in In Memoriam: 3 Rhapsodies) (Text: William Wordsworth after Gabriello Chiabrera) ⊗
• We watched her breathing through the night (Text: Thomas Hood) RUS
• What can lambkins do (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
• When I am dead, my dearest, op. 57 no. 2 (in Six Sorrow Songs) (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti) GER GER GER GER ITA
• Why does azure deck the sky? (Text: Thomas Moore)
• Yoichi Tenko, the painter (in A Tale of Old Japan) (Text: Alfred Noyes)
• You lay so still in the sunshine (in Songs of Sun and Shade) (Text: Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall)
• You'll love me yet, op. 37 (Six songs) no. 1 (Text: Robert Browning)
• Your heart's desire, op. 74 no. 4a (in Songs from incidental music to The Forest of Wild Thyme, op. 74 no. 4) (Text: Alfred Noyes) [x]
• Zara's Earrings, op. 7 (Text: John Gibson Lockhart)

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