Texts to Art Songs and Choral Works by E. Elgar

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Song Cycles, Collections, Symphonies, etc.:

• Cycle, op. 59
• no. 3. Oh, soft was the song (Text: Gilbert Parker)
• no. 5. Was it some Golden Star? (Text: Gilbert Parker)
• no. 6. Twilight (Text: Gilbert Parker)
• Five Part-songs from the Greek Anthology, op. 45
• no. 1. Yea, cast me from heights of the mountains to deeps of the ocean (Text: Alma Strettell after Anonymous/Unidentified Artist) ⊗
• no. 2. Whether I find thee bright with fair (Text: Andrew Lang after Anonymous/Unidentified Artist) ⊗
• no. 3. "After many a dusty mile" (Text: Edmund William Gosse after Anonymous/Unidentified Artist) ⊗
• no. 4. It's oh! to be a wild wind - when my lady's in the sun (Text: William Money Hardinge after Anonymous/Unidentified Artist) ⊗
• no. 5. Feasting I watch with westward-looking eye (Text: Richard Garnett after Marcus Argentarius) ⊗
• From the Bavarian Highlands, op. 27
• no. 1. The dance (Text: Caroline Alice Elgar, née Roberts)
• no. 2. False love (Text: Caroline Alice Elgar, née Roberts)
• no. 3. Lullaby (Text: Caroline Alice Elgar, née Roberts)
• no. 4. Aspiration (Text: Caroline Alice Elgar, née Roberts)
• no. 5. On the alm (Text: Caroline Alice Elgar, née Roberts)
• no. 6. The marksmen (Text: Caroline Alice Elgar, née Roberts)
• Grania and Diarmid, op. 42
• no. 3. There are seven that pull the thread (Text: William Butler Yeats)
• King Olaf, op. 30
• no. 1. Introduction (Text: Harry Arbuthnot Acworth)
• no. 3. King Olaf's Return (Text: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
• no. 4. Recitative (bass) (Text: Harry Arbuthnot Acworth)
• no. 5. The conversion (Text: Harry Arbuthnot Acworth)
• no. 6. Recitative (bass) (Text: Harry Arbuthnot Acworth)
• no. 7. Gudrun (Scene) (Text: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
• no. 8. Recitative (bass) (Text: Harry Arbuthnot Acworth)
• no. 9. The Wraith of Odin (Chorus: Ballad) (Text: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
• no. 10. Recitative (bass) (Text: Harry Arbuthnot Acworth)
• no. 11. Sigrid (Scene) (Text: Harry Arbuthnot Acworth after Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
• no. 12. Recitative (bass) (Text: Harry Arbuthnot Acworth)
• no. 13. Thyri (Chorus: Ballad) (Text: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
• no. 14. Duet (Text: Harry Arbuthnot Acworth)
• no. 15. Choral recitative (Text: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
• no. 16. The Death of Olaf (Text: Harry Arbuthnot Acworth)
• no. 17. Epilogue (Text: Harry Arbuthnot Acworth after Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) DUT
• Pageant of Empire
• no. 1. Shakespeare's Kingdom (Text: Alfred Noyes) FRE
• no. 2. The Islands (A Song of New Zealand) (Text: Alfred Noyes) [x]
• no. 3. The Blue Mountains (A Song of Australia) (Text: Alfred Noyes)
• no. 4. The Heart of Canada (Text: Alfred Noyes)
• no. 5. Sailing westward (Text: Alfred Noyes) [x]
• no. 6. Merchant adventurers (Text: Alfred Noyes) [x]
• no. 7. The Immortal Legions (Text: Alfred Noyes) [x]
• no. 8. A Song of Union (Text: Alfred Noyes) [x]
• Sea Pictures (Imatges del mar, translated by Salvador Pila) (Bilder vom Meer , translated by Bertram Kottmann), op. 37 CAT GER
• no. 1. Sea slumber song (Text: Roden Berkeley Wriothesley Noel) CAT GER ITA
• no. 2. In Haven (Capri) (Text: Caroline Alice Elgar, née Roberts) CAT GER ITA
• no. 3. Sabbath Morning at Sea (Text: Elizabeth Barrett Browning) CAT GER GER ITA
• no. 4. Where corals lie (Text: Richard Garnett) CAT GER ITA
• no. 5. The swimmer (Text: Adam Lindsay Gordon) CAT GER ITA
• Seven Lieder of Edward Elgar
• no. 1. Like to the damask rose (Text: Simon Wastell) GER
• no. 1. Gleich wie der roten Rose Pracht (Text: Ed. Sachs after Simon Wastell)
• no. 2. Queen Mary's Song (Text: Alfred Tennyson, Lord) GER
• no. 2. Maria Stuart's Lied zur Laute (Text: Ed. Sachs after Alfred Tennyson, Lord)
• no. 3. A song of Autumn (Text: Adam Lindsay Gordon) GER
• no. 3. Herbstlied (Text: Ed. Sachs after Adam Lindsay Gordon)
• no. 4. The Poet's Life (Text: Sophie Jewett , as Ellen Burroughs) SPA
• no. 4. Dichterleben (Text: Ed. Sachs after Sophie Jewett) [x] SPA
• no. 5. Through the Long Days (Text: John Hay, Col.) GER
• no. 5. Tage und Jahre gehen (Text: Ed. Sachs after John Hay, Col.)
• no. 6. Rondel (Text: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow after Jean Froissart) GER
• no. 6. Rondel (Text: Ed. Sachs after Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) ENG
• no. 7. The shepherd's song (Text: Barry Eric Odell Pain) GER SPA
• no. 7. Des Schäfers Lied (Text: Ed. Sachs after Barry Eric Odell Pain) SPA
• The Fringes of the Fleet
• no. 1. The Lowestoft Boat (Text: Rudyard Kipling)
• no. 2. Fate's discourtesy (Text: Rudyard Kipling)
• no. 3. Submarines (Text: Rudyard Kipling)
• no. 4. The sweepers (Text: Rudyard Kipling)
• no. 5. Inside the bar (Text: Gilbert Parker)
• The Mill Wheel
• no. 1. Winter (Text: Caroline Alice Elgar, née Roberts) [x]
• no. 2. May (Text: Caroline Alice Elgar, née Roberts) [x]
• The Spirit of England
• no. 1. The Fourth of August (Text: Laurence Binyon)
• no. 2. To women (Text: Laurence Binyon)
• no. 3. For the Fallen (Text: Laurence Binyon)
• The Starlight Express, op. 78
• no. 1. To the children (Text: Algernon Blackwood)
• no. 2. The Blue-Eyes Fairy (Text: Algernon Blackwood)
• no. 3. The curfew song (Text: Algernon Blackwood)
• no. 4. The laugher (Text: Algernon Blackwood)
• no. 5. Come little winds (Text: Algernon Blackwood)
• no. 6. Tears and laughter (Text: Algernon Blackwood)
• no. 7. Dawn song (Text: Algernon Blackwood)
• no. 8. My old tunes (Text: Algernon Blackwood)
• no. 9. Dandelions, daffodils (Text: Algernon Blackwood)
• no. 10. Laugh a little ev'ry day (Text: Algernon Blackwood)
• no. 11. The dawn (Text: Algernon Blackwood)
• no. 12. Oh, think Beauty (Text: Algernon Blackwood)
• no. 13. Jane Anne and Cousin Henry (Organ Grinder) (Text: Algernon Blackwood)

All titles of vocal settings in Alphabetic order

• 1588 (Text: Caroline Alice Elgar, née Roberts) [x]
• A child asleep (Text: Elizabeth Barrett Browning)
• A Christmas greeting, op. 52 (Text: Caroline Alice Elgar, née Roberts)
• "After many a dusty mile", op. 45 no. 3 (in Five Part-songs from the Greek Anthology) (Text: Edmund William Gosse after Anonymous/Unidentified Artist) ⊗
• After, op. 31 (Two Songs) no. 1 (Text: Philip Bourke Marston)
• Always and Everywhere (Text: Frank H. Fortey after Zygmunt Krasiński)
• A phylactery (Text: John Hay, Col.)
• Arabian Serenade (Text: Margery Harriet Lawrence)
• As I laye a-thynkynge (Text: Richard Harris Barham , as Thomas Ingoldsby)
• A soldier's song (Text: Charles Flavell Hayward)
• A song of Autumn (in Seven Lieder of Edward Elgar) (Text: Adam Lindsay Gordon) GER
• A Song of Flight, op. 31 (Two Songs) no. 2 (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
• A Song of Union (in Pageant of Empire) (Text: Alfred Noyes) [x]
• A spear, a sword (Text: Caroline Alice Elgar, née Roberts) [x]
• Aspiration, op. 27 no. 4 (in From the Bavarian Highlands) (Text: Caroline Alice Elgar, née Roberts)
• As torrents in summer (Text: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) DUT
• Ave verum corpus (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts) DUT ENG FIN FRE GER
• A war song (Text: Charles Flavell Hayward)
• Big Steamers (Text: Rudyard Kipling) CZE
• Callicles (Text: Matthew Arnold)
• Carillon, op. 75 (Text: Émile Cammaerts)
• Choral recitative, op. 30 no. 15 (in King Olaf) (Text: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
• Clapham Town End (Text: Volkslieder )
• Come, gentle night! (Text: Clifton Bingham)
• Come little winds, op. 78 no. 5 (in The Starlight Express) (Text: Algernon Blackwood)
• Dandelions, daffodils, op. 78 no. 9 (in The Starlight Express) (Text: Algernon Blackwood)
• Dawn song, op. 78 no. 7 (in The Starlight Express) (Text: Algernon Blackwood)
• Death on the hills, op. 72 (Text: Rosa Harriet Jeaffreson Newmarch after Apollon Nikolayevich Maykov)
• Deep in my soul, op. 53 no. 2 (Text: George Gordon Noel Byron, Lord Byron) FRE GER GER GER GER
• Des Schäfers Lied (in Seven Lieder of Edward Elgar) (Text: Ed. Sachs after Barry Eric Odell Pain) SPA
• Dichterleben (in Seven Lieder of Edward Elgar) (Text: Ed. Sachs after Sophie Jewett) [x] SPA
• Dry those fair, those crystal eyes (Text: Henry King)
• Duet, op. 30 no. 14 (in King Olaf) (Text: Harry Arbuthnot Acworth)
• Ecce Sacerdos Magnus (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts) ENG
• Epilogue, op. 30 no. 17 (in King Olaf) (Text: Harry Arbuthnot Acworth after Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) DUT
• Evening scene
• False love, op. 27 no. 2 (in From the Bavarian Highlands) (Text: Caroline Alice Elgar, née Roberts)
• Fate's discourtesy (in The Fringes of the Fleet) (Text: Rudyard Kipling)
• Fear not, o land (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts)
• Feasting I watch with westward-looking eye, op. 45 no. 5 (in Five Part-songs from the Greek Anthology) (Text: Richard Garnett after Marcus Argentarius) ⊗
• Fight for right (Text: William Morris)
• Fly, singing bird, fly, op. 26 no. 2 (Text: Caroline Alice Elgar, née Roberts)
• Follow the colours (Text: William de Courcy Stretton)
• For the Fallen (in The Spirit of England) (Text: Laurence Binyon)
• Gleich wie der roten Rose Pracht (in Seven Lieder of Edward Elgar) (Text: Ed. Sachs after Simon Wastell)
• Goodmorrow (Text: George Gascoigne)
• Go, song of mine, op. 57 (Text: Dante Gabriel Rossetti after Anonymous/Unidentified Artist)
• Gudrun (Scene), op. 30 no. 7 (in King Olaf) (Text: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
• Herbstlied (in Seven Lieder of Edward Elgar) (Text: Ed. Sachs after Adam Lindsay Gordon)
• How calmly the evening (Text: Thomas Toke Lynch)
• If she love me [x]
• In Haven (Capri), op. 37 no. 2 (in Sea Pictures) (Text: Caroline Alice Elgar, née Roberts) CAT GER ITA
• In Moonlight (Text: Percy Bysshe Shelley) CHI CZE
• Inside the bar (in The Fringes of the Fleet) (Text: Gilbert Parker)
• In the dawn, op. 41 (Two Songs) no. 1 (Text: Arthur Christopher Benson)
• Introduction, op. 30 no. 1 (in King Olaf) (Text: Harry Arbuthnot Acworth)
• Is she not passing fair? (Text: Louisa Stuart Costello after Charles, Duc d'Orléans)
• It isnae me (Text: Sally Holmes)
• It's oh! to be a wild wind - when my lady's in the sun, op. 45 no. 4 (in Five Part-songs from the Greek Anthology) (Text: William Money Hardinge after Anonymous/Unidentified Artist) ⊗
• Jane Anne and Cousin Henry (Organ Grinder), op. 78 no. 13 (in The Starlight Express) (Text: Algernon Blackwood)
• King Olaf's Return, op. 30 no. 3 (in King Olaf) (Text: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
• Land of Hope and Glory (Text: Arthur Christopher Benson)
• Laugh a little ev'ry day, op. 78 no. 10 (in The Starlight Express) (Text: Algernon Blackwood)
• Le drapeau belge, op. 79 (Text: Émile Cammaerts) [x]
• Like to the damask rose (in Seven Lieder of Edward Elgar) (Text: Simon Wastell) GER
• Love alone will stay (Text: Caroline Alice Elgar, née Roberts)
• Love's tempest, op. 73 no. 1 (Text: Rosa Harriet Jeaffreson Newmarch after Apollon Nikolayevich Maykov)
• Love, op. 18 no. 2 (Text: Arthur Maquarie)
• Lullaby, op. 27 no. 3 (in From the Bavarian Highlands) (Text: Caroline Alice Elgar, née Roberts)
• Marching song (Text: William de Courcy Stretton)
• Maria Stuart's Lied zur Laute (in Seven Lieder of Edward Elgar) (Text: Ed. Sachs after Alfred Tennyson, Lord)
• May (in The Mill Wheel) (Text: Caroline Alice Elgar, née Roberts) [x]
• Merchant adventurers (in Pageant of Empire) (Text: Alfred Noyes) [x]
• Modest and Fair (Text: Ben Jonson)
• Muleteer's serenade (Text: Peter Anthony Motteux after Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra)
• My love dwelt in a Northern land (Text: Andrew Lang) DUT
• My old tunes, op. 78 no. 8 (in The Starlight Express) (Text: Algernon Blackwood)
• O happy eyes, op. 18 no. 1 (Text: Caroline Alice Elgar, née Roberts)
• Oh, soft was the song, op. 59 no. 3 (in Cycle) (Text: Gilbert Parker)
• Oh, think Beauty, op. 78 no. 12 (in The Starlight Express) (Text: Algernon Blackwood)
• On the alm, op. 27 no. 5 (in From the Bavarian Highlands) (Text: Caroline Alice Elgar, née Roberts)
• Over all this home-land of our fathers (Text: Laurence Binyon) [x]
• O wild West Wind, op. 53 no. 3 (Text: Percy Bysshe Shelley) HUN
• Owls, op. 53 no. 4 (Text: Edward Elgar, Sir) GER
• Ozymandias (Text: Percy Bysshe Shelley) CZE GER HUN ITA POL RUS
• Pleading, op. 48 no. 1 (Text: Arthur Leslie Salmon)
• Queen Alexandra's Memorial Ode (Text: John Masefield)
• Queen Mary's Song (in Seven Lieder of Edward Elgar) (Text: Alfred Tennyson, Lord) GER
• Recitative (bass), op. 30 no. 4 (in King Olaf) (Text: Harry Arbuthnot Acworth)
• Recitative (bass), op. 30 no. 6 (in King Olaf) (Text: Harry Arbuthnot Acworth)
• Recitative (bass), op. 30 no. 12 (in King Olaf) (Text: Harry Arbuthnot Acworth)
• Recitative (bass), op. 30 no. 8 (in King Olaf) (Text: Harry Arbuthnot Acworth)
• Recitative (bass), op. 30 no. 10 (in King Olaf) (Text: Harry Arbuthnot Acworth)
• Rondel, op. 16 (Three Songs) no. 3 (in Seven Lieder of Edward Elgar) (Text: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow after Jean Froissart) GER
• Rondel (Text: Algernon Charles Swinburne)
• Rondel (in Seven Lieder of Edward Elgar) (Text: Ed. Sachs after Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) ENG
• Sabbath Morning at Sea, op. 37 no. 3 (in Sea Pictures) (Text: Elizabeth Barrett Browning) CAT GER GER ITA
• Sailing westward (in Pageant of Empire) (Text: Alfred Noyes) [x]
• Sea slumber song , op. 37 no. 1 (in Sea Pictures) (Text: Roden Berkeley Wriothesley Noel) CAT GER ITA
• Serenade, op. 73 no. 2 (Text: Rosa Harriet Jeaffreson Newmarch after Nikolai Maksimovich Vilenkin) ⊗
• Shakespeare's Kingdom (in Pageant of Empire) (Text: Alfred Noyes) FRE
• Sigrid (Scene), op. 30 no. 11 (in King Olaf) (Text: Harry Arbuthnot Acworth after Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
• Spanish serenade, op. 23 (Text: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) CHI
• Speak, music, op. 41 (Two Songs) no. 2 (Text: Arthur Christopher Benson)
• Speak, my heart (Text: Arthur Christopher Benson)
• Still to be neat (Text: Ben Jonson) GER
• Submarines (in The Fringes of the Fleet) (Text: Rudyard Kipling)
• Tage und Jahre gehen (in Seven Lieder of Edward Elgar) (Text: Ed. Sachs after John Hay, Col.)
• Tarantella (Text: Hilaire Belloc)
• Tears and laughter, op. 78 no. 6 (in The Starlight Express) (Text: Algernon Blackwood)
• The black knight, op. 25 (Text: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow after Johann Ludwig Uhland) FRE
• The Blue-Eyes Fairy, op. 78 no. 2 (in The Starlight Express) (Text: Algernon Blackwood)
• The Blue Mountains (A Song of Australia) (in Pageant of Empire) (Text: Alfred Noyes)
• The brook (Text: Ellen Soule) [x]
• The chariots of the Lord (Text: John Brownlie, D.D.)
• The conversion, op. 30 no. 5 (in King Olaf) (Text: Harry Arbuthnot Acworth)
• The curfew song, op. 78 no. 3 (in The Starlight Express) (Text: Algernon Blackwood)
• The dance, op. 27 no. 1 (in From the Bavarian Highlands) (Text: Caroline Alice Elgar, née Roberts)
• The dawn, op. 78 no. 11 (in The Starlight Express) (Text: Algernon Blackwood)
• The Death of Olaf, op. 30 no. 16 (in King Olaf) (Text: Harry Arbuthnot Acworth)
• The fountain, op. 71 no. 2 (Text: Henry Vaughan)
• The Fourth of August (in The Spirit of England) (Text: Laurence Binyon)
• The Heart of Canada (in Pageant of Empire) (Text: Alfred Noyes)
• The herald (Text: Alexander Smith)
• The Immortal Legions (in Pageant of Empire) (Text: Alfred Noyes) [x]
• The Islands (A Song of New Zealand) (in Pageant of Empire) (Text: Alfred Noyes) [x]
• The King's Way (Text: Caroline Alice Elgar, née Roberts)
• The language of flowers (Text: James Gates Percival)
• The laugher, op. 78 no. 4 (in The Starlight Express) (Text: Algernon Blackwood)
• The Lowestoft Boat (in The Fringes of the Fleet) (Text: Rudyard Kipling)
• The marksmen, op. 27 no. 6 (in From the Bavarian Highlands) (Text: Caroline Alice Elgar, née Roberts)
• The merry-go-round (Text: Florence C. Fox) [x]
• The music makers, op. 69 (Text: Arthur William Edgar O'Shaughnessy) GER
• The Pipes of Pan (Text: Adrian Ross)
• The Poet's Life (in Seven Lieder of Edward Elgar) (Text: Sophie Jewett , as Ellen Burroughs) SPA
• The prince of sleep (Text: Walter De la Mare) DUT GER
• The rapid stream (Text: Charles Mackay)
• There are seven that pull the thread, op. 42 no. 3 (in Grania and Diarmid) (Text: William Butler Yeats)
• There is sweet music, op. 53 no. 1 (Text: Alfred Tennyson, Lord)
• The reveille, op. 54 (Text: Bret Harte)
• The River, op. 60 (Two Songs) no. 2 (Text: Pietro d'Alba [likely a joke name])
• The self banished (Text: Edmund Waller)
• The shepherd's song, op. 16 (Three Songs) no. 1 (in Seven Lieder of Edward Elgar) (Text: Barry Eric Odell Pain) GER SPA
• The shower, op. 71 no. 1 (Text: Henry Vaughan)
• The snow, op. 26 no. 1 (Text: Caroline Alice Elgar, née Roberts) DUT
• The sweepers (in The Fringes of the Fleet) (Text: Rudyard Kipling)
• The swimmer, op. 37 no. 5 (in Sea Pictures) (Text: Adam Lindsay Gordon) CAT GER ITA
• The torch, op. 60 (Two Songs) no. 1 (Text: Pietro d'Alba [likely a joke name])
• The wanderer
• The wave (Text: Caroline Alice Elgar, née Roberts) [x]
• The wind at dawn (Text: Caroline Alice Elgar, née Roberts) DUT
• The woodland stream (Text: Charles Mackay)
• The Wraith of Odin (Chorus: Ballad), op. 30 no. 9 (in King Olaf) (Text: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
• They are at rest (Text: John Henry Newman)
• Through the Long Days, op. 16 (Three Songs) no. 2 (in Seven Lieder of Edward Elgar) (Text: John Hay, Col.) GER
• Thyri (Chorus: Ballad), op. 30 no. 13 (in King Olaf) (Text: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
• To the children, op. 78 no. 1 (in The Starlight Express) (Text: Algernon Blackwood)
• To women (in The Spirit of England) (Text: Laurence Binyon)
• Twilight, op. 59 no. 6 (in Cycle) (Text: Gilbert Parker)
• Une voix dans le désert, op. 77 (Text: Émile Cammaerts) ENG
• Was it some Golden Star?, op. 59 no. 5 (in Cycle) (Text: Gilbert Parker)
• Weary wind of the west (Text: T. E. Brown)
• When swallows fly (Text: Charles Mackay)
• Where corals lie, op. 37 no. 4 (in Sea Pictures) (Text: Richard Garnett) CAT GER ITA
• Whether I find thee bright with fair, op. 45 no. 2 (in Five Part-songs from the Greek Anthology) (Text: Andrew Lang after Anonymous/Unidentified Artist) ⊗
• Windlass song (Text: William Allingham)
• Winter (in The Mill Wheel) (Text: Caroline Alice Elgar, née Roberts) [x]
• XTC (Text: Edward Elgar, Sir)
• Yea, cast me from heights of the mountains to deeps of the ocean, op. 45 no. 1 (in Five Part-songs from the Greek Anthology) (Text: Alma Strettell after Anonymous/Unidentified Artist) ⊗
• Zut! Zut! Zut! (Text: Edward Elgar, Sir)

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