Texts to Art Songs and Choral Works by W. Davies

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Song Cycles, Collections, Symphonies, etc.:

• Ah! Gentle May I lay me down [cantata]
• no. 1. The Couch of Death (Text: William Blake)
• no. 2. Thel (Text: William Blake)
• A Merry Heart and Other Songs, op. 33
• no. 9. Nurse's song (Text: William Blake) CAT
• Five Songs from de la Motte Fouqué’s Sintram
• no. 1. Gabriele’s Liedlein (Text: Friedrich Heinrich Karl, Freiherr de La Motte-Fouqué) [x]
• no. 2. Rolf's Gebet über Sintram (Text: Friedrich Heinrich Karl, Freiherr de La Motte-Fouqué) [x]
• no. 3. Wiegand's Lieder: Schlummlied für Sintram (Text: Friedrich Heinrich Karl, Freiherr de La Motte-Fouqué) [x]
• no. 4. Wiegand's Warmengesang (Text: Friedrich Heinrich Karl, Freiherr de La Motte-Fouqué) [x]
• no. 5. Wiegand's Trostlied (Text: Friedrich Heinrich Karl, Freiherr de La Motte-Fouqué) ENG
• Four Songs
• no. 1. There is a Lady sweet and kind (Text: Anonymous) GER GER
• no. 2. Wander-thirst (Text: Gerald Gould)
• no. 3. A lift on the way (Text: Edwin Waugh) [x]
• no. 4. The Night-Watch (Text: Arthur Leslie Salmon) [x]
• Four Songs of Innocence, op. 4
• no. 1. The lamb (Text: William Blake) CAT GER GER RUS
• no. 2. A cradle song (Text: William Blake)
• no. 3. Infant Joy (Text: William Blake) RUS
• no. 4. The shepherd (Text: William Blake) CAT
• Kookoorookoo and other songs [multi-composer]
• Who has seen the wind?, composed by John Frederick Bridge (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
• Fly away, fly away over the sea, composed by (Henry) Walford Davies, Sir (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti) GER
• Growing in the vale, composed by Alfred Jethro Silver (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
• Hope is like a harebell trembling from its birth, composed by John Frederick Bridge (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
• The horses of the sea, composed by Charles Villiers Stanford, Sir (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
• If a pig wore a wig, composed by Walter Parratt (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
• Ferry me across the water, composed by Charles Villiers Stanford, Sir (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti) GER
• I dug and dug amongst the snow, composed by Walter Galpin Alcock (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
• If hope grew on a bush, composed by Thomas Frederick Dunhill (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
• Is the moon tired? she looks so pale, composed by Alexander Campbell MacKenzie, Sir (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
• Kookoorookoo, composed by Thomas Frederick Dunhill (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
• Lullaby, oh lullaby!, composed by (Henry) Walford Davies, Sir (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
• Mix a pancake, composed by Charles Wood (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
• A motherless soft lambkin, composed by Alexander Campbell MacKenzie, Sir (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
• Boats sail on the rivers, composed by Charles Wood (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
• Brown and furry, composed by Charles Hubert Hastings Parry, Sir (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
• The peacock has a score of eyes, composed by Charles Hubert Hastings Parry, Sir (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
• A pin has a head but has no hair, composed by Charles Harford Lloyd (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
• Sing me a song, composed by Walter Parratt (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
• What do the stars do?, composed by Donald Francis Tovey (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
• A rose has thorns as well as honey, composed by Charles Harford Lloyd (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
• A white hen sitting, composed by Percy Carter Buck, Sir (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
• Rosy maiden Winifred, composed by Walter Parratt (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
• The summer nights are short, composed by Charles Villiers Stanford, Sir (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti) GER
• The wind has such a rainy sound, composed by Charles Hubert Hastings Parry, Sir (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
• What is pink?, composed by Charles Wood (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
• Sacred Lullabies and Other Songs
• no. 6. Infant Joy (Text: William Blake) RUS
• Songs of Nature
• The bough of May (Text: T. E. Brown)
• The Clown's Songs in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, op. 13
• no. 1. O mistress mine (Text: William Shakespeare) FIN FRE GER GER GER IRI ITA NOR POL
• no. 2. Come away, come away, death (Text: William Shakespeare) DUT DUT FIN FRE GER GER GER GER ITA NOR NOR POL SWE
• no. 3. When that I was and a little tiny boy (Text: William Shakespeare) CAT DAN FIN FRE GER NOR POL RUS SWE
• The Long Journey, op. 25
• no. 1. Our birth is but a sleep (Text: William Wordsworth)
• no. 2. Infant Joy (Text: William Blake) RUS
• no. 3. When childher plays (Text: T. E. Brown)
• no. 4. Gaudeamus (Text: Margaret Louisa Woods)
• no. 5. Song of the road (Text: Henry Newbolt, Sir) [x]
• no. 6. Manhood (Text: Robert Browning)
• no. 7. Sweet content (Text: Thomas Dekker)
• no. 8. Turn back, my soul (Text: Henry Newbolt, Sir) [x]
• no. 9. Tap o' the hill (Text: T. E. Brown) [x]
• no. 10. Land ho, land! (Text: T. E. Brown) [x]
• no. 11. Never weather-beaten sail (Text: Thomas Campion)
• no. 12. Epilogue: Eternity (Text: Robert Herrick)
• Twenty-one songs
• no. . Lord, my heart's desire (Text: George Herbert) [x]
• no. 1. Arkendale (Text: Naomi Mary Gillman)
• no. 2. The birds (Text: Hilaire Belloc)
• no. 3. A dirge (Text: Webster) [x]
• no. 4. Follow your saint (Text: Thomas Campion)
• no. 5. He hears with gladdened heart the thunder (Text: Robert Louis Stevenson)
• no. 6. I love all beauteous things (Text: Robert Seymour Bridges)
• no. 7. In the highlands (Text: Robert Louis Stevenson)
• no. 8. It is not growing like a tree (Text: Ben Jonson) GER
• no. 9. My Joy, my Life, my Crown (Text: George Herbert)
• no. 11. Never weather‑beaten sail (Text: Thomas Campion)
• no. 12. Orpheus with his lute (Text: John Fletcher) DUT FIN FRE GER GER GER SWE
• no. 14. Peace waits among the hills (Text: Arthur Symons)
• no. 15. Requiem (Text: Robert Louis Stevenson) GER ITA
• no. 16. Nod (Text: Walter De la Mare) CAT
• no. 17. Song of the road (Text: Henry Newbolt, Sir) [x]
• no. 18. Sweet content (Text: Thomas Dekker)
• no. 19. Tune thy music to thy heart (Text: Thomas Campion)
• no. 20. Up in the morning early (Text: Robert Burns) FRE
• no. 21. The vagabond (Text: Robert Louis Stevenson) CAT ITA LIT
• no. 22. Our birth is but a sleep (Text: William Wordsworth)
• Two Love Songs, op. 10
• no. 1. Of a' the airts (Text: Robert Burns) CZE DAN FRE GER GER GER
• no. 2. Mally (Text: Robert Burns) GER

All titles of vocal settings in Alphabetic order

• A cradle song, op. 4 no. 2 (in Four Songs of Innocence) (Text: William Blake)
• A dirge (in Twenty-one songs) (Text: Webster) [x]
• A lift on the way (in Four Songs) (Text: Edwin Waugh) [x]
• An uncouth love-song, op. 18 (Six Songs) no. 2 (Text: George Wither)
• A prayer for king and country (Text: John Masefield)
• Arkendale (in Twenty-one songs) (Text: Naomi Mary Gillman)
• Arm thee! Arm thee! (Text: Mary Coleridge)
• A Song of Innocence, op. 3 (Six Songs) no. 5 (Text: William Blake) CAT GER GER RUS
• Christ in the Universe (Text: Alice Christina Meynell)
• Come away, come away, death, op. 13 no. 2 (in The Clown's Songs in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night) (Text: William Shakespeare) DUT DUT FIN FRE GER GER GER GER ITA NOR NOR POL SWE
• Daybreak (Text: William Blake) RUS
• Dominus Illuminatio Mea (Text: Richard Doddridge Blackmore)
• England's Pleasant Land, op. 22 no. 3 (Text: William Blake) GER SPA
• Epilogue: Eternity, op. 25, Heft 2 no. 12 (in The Long Journey) (Text: Robert Herrick)
• Fear no more the heat o' the sun, op. 18 (Six Songs) no. 6 (Text: William Shakespeare) FIN FRE GER GER ITA SPA
• Fly away, fly away over the sea (in Kookoorookoo and other songs) (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti) GER
• Follow your saint (in Twenty-one songs) (Text: Thomas Campion)
• For a' That, op. 18 (Six Songs) no. 5 (Text: Robert Burns)
• Gabriele’s Liedlein (in Five Songs from de la Motte Fouqué’s Sintram) (Text: Friedrich Heinrich Karl, Freiherr de La Motte-Fouqué) [x]
• Gaudeamus, op. 25, Heft 1 no. 4 (in The Long Journey) (Text: Margaret Louisa Woods)
• Hame, op. 18 (Six Songs) no. 1 (Text: Allan Cunningham)
• Heaven's Gate, op. 47 (Text: William Blake)
• He hears with gladdened heart the thunder (in Twenty-one songs) (Text: Robert Louis Stevenson)
• Hymn Before Action, op. 3 (Six Songs) no. 3 (Text: Rudyard Kipling)
• I love all beauteous things (in Twenty-one songs) (Text: Robert Seymour Bridges)
• I love the jocund dance, op. 18 (Six Songs) no. 4 (Text: William Blake)
• Infant Joy, op. 25, Heft 1 no. 2 (in The Long Journey) (Text: William Blake) RUS
• Infant Joy, op. 28 no. 6 (in Sacred Lullabies and Other Songs) (Text: William Blake) RUS
• Infant Joy, op. 4 no. 3 (in Four Songs of Innocence) (Text: William Blake) RUS
• In the highlands (in Twenty-one songs) (Text: Robert Louis Stevenson)
• It is not growing like a tree (in Twenty-one songs) (Text: Ben Jonson) GER
• I vow to thee, my country (Text: Cecil Spring-Rice, Sir)
• Land ho, land!, op. 25, Heft 2 no. 10 (in The Long Journey) (Text: T. E. Brown) [x]
• Lord, my heart's desire (in Twenty-one songs) (Text: George Herbert) [x]
• Lullaby, oh lullaby! (in Kookoorookoo and other songs) (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
• Mally, op. 10 no. 2 (in Two Love Songs) (Text: Robert Burns) GER
• Manhood, op. 25, Heft 1 no. 6 (in The Long Journey) (Text: Robert Browning)
• My Joy, my Life, my Crown (in Twenty-one songs) (Text: George Herbert)
• Neighbours (Text: Rudyard Kipling)
• Never weather-beaten sail, op. 25, Heft 2 no. 11 (in The Long Journey) (Text: Thomas Campion)
• Never weather‑beaten sail (in Twenty-one songs) (Text: Thomas Campion)
• Nod (in Twenty-one songs) (Text: Walter De la Mare) CAT
• Nurse's song, op. 33 no. 9 (in A Merry Heart and Other Songs) (Text: William Blake) CAT
• Of a' the airts, op. 10 no. 1 (in Two Love Songs) (Text: Robert Burns) CZE DAN FRE GER GER GER
• O mistress mine, op. 13 no. 1 (in The Clown's Songs in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night) (Text: William Shakespeare) FIN FRE GER GER GER IRI ITA NOR POL
• Orpheus with his lute (in Twenty-one songs) (Text: John Fletcher) DUT FIN FRE GER GER GER SWE
• Our birth is but a sleep (in Twenty-one songs) (Text: William Wordsworth)
• Our birth is but a sleep, op. 25, Heft 1 no. 1 (in The Long Journey) (Text: William Wordsworth)
• Our Lady of the Snows, op. 3 (Six Songs) no. 4 (Text: Rudyard Kipling)
• Peace waits among the hills (in Twenty-one songs) (Text: Arthur Symons)
• Prospice, op. 6 (Text: Robert Browning)
• Requiem (in Twenty-one songs) (Text: Robert Louis Stevenson) GER ITA
• Rolf's Gebet über Sintram (in Five Songs from de la Motte Fouqué’s Sintram) (Text: Friedrich Heinrich Karl, Freiherr de La Motte-Fouqué) [x]
• Song of the road (in Twenty-one songs) (Text: Henry Newbolt, Sir) [x]
• Song of the road, op. 25, Heft 1 no. 5 (in The Long Journey) (Text: Henry Newbolt, Sir) [x]
• Sweet content (in Twenty-one songs) (Text: Thomas Dekker)
• Sweet content, op. 25, Heft 2 no. 7 (in The Long Journey) (Text: Thomas Dekker)
• Tap o' the hill, op. 25, Heft 2 no. 9 (in The Long Journey) (Text: T. E. Brown) [x]
• The birds (in Twenty-one songs) (Text: Hilaire Belloc)
• The bough of May (in Songs of Nature) (Text: T. E. Brown)
• The Couch of Death (in Ah! Gentle May I lay me down) (Text: William Blake)
• The cross, op. 28 (Text: John Donne)
• The Farewell, op. 3 (Six Songs) no. 1 (Text: Robert Burns) CZE DAN FRE GER GER GER GER GRE HUN IRI RUS SWG
• The lamb, op. 4 no. 1 (in Four Songs of Innocence) (Text: William Blake) CAT GER GER RUS
• The Lawlands o' Holland, op. 3 (Six Songs) no. 6 [x]
• Thel (in Ah! Gentle May I lay me down) (Text: William Blake)
• The Night-Watch (in Four Songs) (Text: Arthur Leslie Salmon) [x]
• There is a Lady sweet and kind (in Four Songs) (Text: Anonymous) GER GER
• The Seal's Lullaby (Text: Rudyard Kipling) FRE
• The shepherd (Text: William Blake) CAT
• The shepherd, op. 4 no. 4 (in Four Songs of Innocence) (Text: William Blake) CAT
• The vagabond (in Twenty-one songs) (Text: Robert Louis Stevenson) CAT ITA LIT
• This ae nighte, op. 18 (Six Songs) no. 3 (Text: 15^th century) CAT FRE NYN SPA
• Tune thy music to thy heart (in Twenty-one songs) (Text: Thomas Campion)
• Turn back, my soul, op. 25, Heft 2 no. 8 (in The Long Journey) (Text: Henry Newbolt, Sir) [x]
• Up in the morning early (in Twenty-one songs) (Text: Robert Burns) FRE
• Wander-thirst (in Four Songs) (Text: Gerald Gould)
• When childher plays (Text: T. E. Brown)
• When childher plays, op. 25, Heft 1 no. 3 (in The Long Journey) (Text: T. E. Brown)
• When that I was and a little tiny boy, op. 13 no. 3 (in The Clown's Songs in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night) (Text: William Shakespeare) CAT DAN FIN FRE GER NOR POL RUS SWE
• Wiegand's Lieder: Schlummlied für Sintram (in Five Songs from de la Motte Fouqué’s Sintram) (Text: Friedrich Heinrich Karl, Freiherr de La Motte-Fouqué) [x]
• Wiegand's Trostlied (in Five Songs from de la Motte Fouqué’s Sintram) (Text: Friedrich Heinrich Karl, Freiherr de La Motte-Fouqué) ENG
• Wiegand's Warmengesang (in Five Songs from de la Motte Fouqué’s Sintram) (Text: Friedrich Heinrich Karl, Freiherr de La Motte-Fouqué) [x]
• Ye Jacobites by name, op. 3 (Six Songs) no. 2 (Text: Robert Burns)

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