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Texts to Art Songs and Choral Works by W. Davies

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(Henry) Walford Davies, Sir (1869 - 1941)

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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: 15th 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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