Texts to Art Songs and Choral Works by G. Finzi

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Song Cycles, Collections, Symphonies, etc.:

• A Young Man's Exhortation, op. 14
• no. 1. A young man's exhortation (Text: Thomas Hardy) GER
• no. 2. Budmouth Dears (Text: Thomas Hardy)
• no. 2. Ditty (Text: Thomas Hardy)
• no. 4. Her temple (Text: Thomas Hardy)
• no. 5. The Comet at Yell'ham (Text: Thomas Hardy)
• no. 6. Shortening days (Text: Thomas Hardy)
• no. 7. The sigh (Text: Thomas Hardy)
• no. 8. Former beauties (Text: Thomas Hardy)
• no. 9. Transformations (Text: Thomas Hardy)
• no. 10. The dance continued (Text: Thomas Hardy)
• Before and After Summer, op. 16
• no. 1. Childhood among the ferns (Text: Thomas Hardy)
• no. 2. Before and after summer (Text: Thomas Hardy)
• no. 3. The self-unseeing (Text: Thomas Hardy)
• no. 4. Overlooking the river (Text: Thomas Hardy)
• no. 5. Channel firing (Text: Thomas Hardy)
• no. 6. In the mind's eye (Text: Thomas Hardy)
• no. 7. The too short time (Text: Thomas Hardy)
• no. 8. Epeisodia (Text: Thomas Hardy)
• no. 9. Amabel (Text: Thomas Hardy)
• no. 10. He abjures love (Text: Thomas Hardy)
• By Footpath and Stile, op. 2
• no. 1. Paying calls (Text: Thomas Hardy)
• no. 2. Where the picnic was (Text: Thomas Hardy)
• no. 3. The Oxen (Text: Thomas Hardy)
• no. 4. The master and the leaves (Text: Thomas Hardy)
• no. 5. Voices from things growing in a churchyard (Text: Thomas Hardy)
• no. 6. Exeunt omnes (Text: Thomas Hardy)
• Dies Natalis, op. 8
• no. 1. Intrada
• no. 2. Rhapsody (Text: Thomas Traherne)
• no. 3. The Rapture (Text: Thomas Traherne)
• no. 4. Wonder (Text: Thomas Traherne)
• no. 5. The Salutation (Text: Thomas Traherne)
• Earth and Air and Rain, op. 15
• no. 1. Summer schemes (Text: Thomas Hardy)
• no. 2. When I set out for Lyonnesse (Text: Thomas Hardy)
• no. 3. Waiting both (Text: Thomas Hardy) HUN
• no. 4. The phantom (Text: Thomas Hardy)
• no. 5. So I have fared (Text: Thomas Hardy)
• no. 6. Rollicum-Rorum (Text: Thomas Hardy)
• no. 7. To Lizbie Browne (Text: Thomas Hardy)
• no. 8. The clock of the years (Text: Thomas Hardy)
• no. 9. In a churchyard (Text: Thomas Hardy)
• no. 10. Proud songsters (Text: Thomas Hardy) FRE
• Four Songs from Love's Labours Lost, op. 28a
• no. 1. When daisies pied (Text: William Shakespeare) FIN FRE FRE GER GER GER NOR
• no. 2. When icicles hang by the wall (Text: William Shakespeare) FIN FRE GER RUS
• no. 3. If she be made of white and red (Text: William Shakespeare) FRE
• no. 4. False Concolinel
• Intimations of Immortality, op. 29
• no. 1. There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream (Text: William Wordsworth)
• no. 2. The Rainbow comes and goes (Text: William Wordsworth)
• no. 3. Now, while the birds thus sing a joyous song (Text: William Wordsworth)
• no. 4. Ye blessed Creatures, I have heard the call (Text: William Wordsworth)
• no. 5. Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting (Text: William Wordsworth)
• no. 6. Earth fills her lap with pleasures of her own (Text: William Wordsworth)
• no. 7. Behold the Child among his new-born blisses (Text: William Wordsworth)
• no. 8. Thou, whose exterior semblance doth belie (Text: William Wordsworth)
• no. 9. O joy! that in our embers (Text: William Wordsworth)
• no. 10. Then sing, ye Birds, sing, sing a joyous song! (Text: William Wordsworth)
• no. 11. And O, ye Fountains, Meadows, Hills, and Groves (Text: William Wordsworth)
• I said to love, op. 19b
• no. 1. I need not go (Text: Thomas Hardy)
• no. 2. At Middle-Field Gate in February (Text: Thomas Hardy)
• no. 3. Two lips (Text: Thomas Hardy)
• no. 4. In five-score summers (Text: Thomas Hardy)
• no. 5. For Life I had never cared greatly (Text: Thomas Hardy)
• no. 6. I said to Love (Text: Thomas Hardy)
• Let Us Garlands Bring, op. 18
• no. 1. Come away, come away, death (Text: William Shakespeare) DUT DUT FIN FRE GER GER GER GER ITA NOR NOR POL SWE
• no. 2. Who is Silvia? (Text: William Shakespeare) DUT FIN FRE GER ITA SPA
• no. 3. Fear no more the heat o' the sun (Text: William Shakespeare) FIN FRE GER GER ITA SPA
• no. 4. O mistress mine (Text: William Shakespeare) FIN FRE GER GER GER IRI ITA NOR POL
• no. 5. It was a lover and his lass (Text: William Shakespeare) FIN FRE GER GER GER
• Oh fair to see, op. 13b
• no. 1. I say I'll seek her (Text: Thomas Hardy)
• no. 2. Oh, fair to see (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
• no. 3. As I lay in the early sun (Text: Edward Shanks)
• no. 4. Only the wanderer (Text: Ivor Gurney)
• no. 5. To joy (Text: Edmund Charles Blunden) *
• no. 6. Harvest (Text: Edmund Charles Blunden) *
• no. 7. Since we loved (Text: Robert Seymour Bridges)
• Requiem da Camera
• no. 1. Prelude
• no. 2. from 'August 1914' (Text: John Masefield)
• no. 3. Only a man harrowing clods (Text: Thomas Hardy) HUN
• no. 4. Lament (Text: Wilfrid Wilson Gibson)
• Seven Unaccompanied Part Songs, op. 17
• no. 1. I praise the tender flower (Text: Robert Seymour Bridges) DUT
• no. 2. I have loved flowers that fade (Text: Robert Seymour Bridges)
• no. 3. My spirit sang all day (Text: Robert Seymour Bridges) DUT
• no. 4. Clear and gentle stream (Text: Robert Seymour Bridges)
• no. 5. Nightingales (Text: Robert Seymour Bridges)
• no. 6. Haste on, my joys! (Text: Robert Seymour Bridges)
• no. 7. Wherefore to-night so full of care (Text: Robert Seymour Bridges)
• The Mound
• no. 1. The Night of the Dance (Text: Thomas Hardy)
• no. 2. The subalterns (Text: Thomas Hardy)
• no. 3. The Mound (Text: Thomas Hardy)
• Three Short Elegies, op. 5
• no. 1. Life a right shadow is (Text: William Drummond of Hawthornden) DUT
• no. 2. This world a hunting is (Text: William Drummond of Hawthornden)
• no. 3. This life, which seems so fair (Text: William Drummond of Hawthornden) GER
• Till Earth Outwears, op. 19a
• no. 1. Let me enjoy the Earth (Text: Thomas Hardy)
• no. 2. In years defaced (Text: Thomas Hardy)
• no. 3. The Market-Girl (Text: Thomas Hardy)
• no. 4. I look into my glass (Text: Thomas Hardy)
• no. 5. It never looks like summer (Text: Thomas Hardy)
• no. 6. At a lunar eclipse (Text: Thomas Hardy)
• no. 7. Life laughs onward (Text: Thomas Hardy)
• To a poet, op. 13a
• no. 1. To a poet a thousand years hence (Text: James Elroy Flecker)
• no. 2. On parent knees (Text: William Jones, Sir after Anonymous/Unidentified Artist)
• no. 3. Intrada (Text: Thomas Traherne)
• no. 4. The birthnight (Text: Walter De la Mare)
• no. 5. June on Castle Hill (Text: Frank Lawrence Lucas) *
• no. 6. Ode on the rejection of St. Cecilia (Text: George Granville Barker) *
• Two Songs
• no. 1. English Hills (Text: John Frederick Freeman)
• no. 2. Only the wanderer (Text: Ivor Gurney)
• Two Sonnets, op. 12
• no. 1. When I consider how my life is spent (Text: John Milton) GER HUN ITA
• no. 2. How soon hath Time (Text: John Milton)

All titles of vocal settings in Alphabetic order

• A Christmas poem, op. 39 [multi-text setting] (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts, Bridges)
• A cradle song (Text: Padraic Colum)
• Afterwards (Text: Thomas Hardy)
• A linnet in a gilded cage (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
• All this night, op. 33 (Text: William Austin)
• Amabel, op. 16 no. 9 (in Before and After Summer) (Text: Thomas Hardy)
• A merrymaking in question (Text: Thomas Hardy)
• And O, ye Fountains, Meadows, Hills, and Groves, op. 29 no. 11 (in Intimations of Immortality) (Text: William Wordsworth)
• As I lay in the early sun, op. 13b no. 3 (in Oh fair to see) (Text: Edward Shanks)
• At a lunar eclipse, op. 19a no. 6 (in Till Earth Outwears) (Text: Thomas Hardy)
• At Middle-Field Gate in February, op. 19b no. 2 (in I said to love) (Text: Thomas Hardy)
• At news of a woman's death (Text: Thomas Hardy)
• A young man's exhortation, op. 14 no. 1 (in A Young Man's Exhortation) (Text: Thomas Hardy) GER
• Before and after summer, op. 16 no. 2 (in Before and After Summer) (Text: Thomas Hardy)
• Behold the Child among his new-born blisses, op. 29 no. 7 (in Intimations of Immortality) (Text: William Wordsworth)
• Birds at Winter Nightfall (Text: Thomas Hardy)
• Boy Johnny (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
• Budmouth Dears, op. 14 no. 2 (in A Young Man's Exhortation) (Text: Thomas Hardy)
• By the earth's corpse (Text: Thomas Hardy)
• Channel firing, op. 16 no. 5 (in Before and After Summer) (Text: Thomas Hardy)
• Childhood among the ferns, op. 16 no. 1 (in Before and After Summer) (Text: Thomas Hardy)
• Clear and gentle stream, op. 17 no. 4 (in Seven Unaccompanied Part Songs) (Text: Robert Seymour Bridges)
• Come away, come away, death, op. 18 no. 1 (in Let Us Garlands Bring) (Text: William Shakespeare) DUT DUT FIN FRE GER GER GER GER ITA NOR NOR POL SWE
• Dancing on the hill-tops (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
• Days too short (Text: William Henry Davies)
• Dead in the cold (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
• Ditty, op. 14 no. 2 (in A Young Man's Exhortation) (Text: Thomas Hardy)
• During wind and rain (Text: Thomas Hardy)
• Earth fills her lap with pleasures of her own, op. 29 no. 6 (in Intimations of Immortality) (Text: William Wordsworth)
• English Hills (in Two Songs) (Text: John Frederick Freeman)
• Epeisodia, op. 16 no. 8 (in Before and After Summer) (Text: Thomas Hardy)
• Exeunt omnes, op. 2 no. 6 (in By Footpath and Stile) (Text: Thomas Hardy)
• False Concolinel, op. 28a no. 4 (in Four Songs from Love's Labours Lost)
• Farewell to Arms, op. 9 [multi-text setting] (Text: Peele, Knevet)
• Fear no more the heat o' the sun, op. 18 no. 3 (in Let Us Garlands Bring) (Text: William Shakespeare) FIN FRE GER GER ITA SPA
• Ferry me across the water (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti) GER
• For Life I had never cared greatly, op. 19b no. 5 (in I said to love) (Text: Thomas Hardy)
• Former beauties, op. 14 no. 8 (in A Young Man's Exhortation) (Text: Thomas Hardy)
• For St. Cecilia, op. 30 (Text: Edmund Charles Blunden) *
• from 'August 1914' (in Requiem da Camera) (Text: John Masefield)
• God-forgotten (Text: Thomas Hardy)
• God is gone up, op. 27 no. 2 (Text: Edward Taylor)
• Great things (Text: Thomas Hardy)
• Harvest, op. 13b no. 6 (in Oh fair to see) (Text: Edmund Charles Blunden) *
• Haste on, my joys!, op. 17 no. 6 (in Seven Unaccompanied Part Songs) (Text: Robert Seymour Bridges)
• He abjures love, op. 16 no. 10 (in Before and After Summer) (Text: Thomas Hardy)
• He fears his good fortune (Text: Thomas Hardy)
• Her temple, op. 14 no. 4 (in A Young Man's Exhortation) (Text: Thomas Hardy)
• How soon hath Time, op. 12 no. 2 (in Two Sonnets) (Text: John Milton)
• I am the one (Text: Thomas Hardy)
• I found her out there (Text: Thomas Hardy)
• If she be made of white and red, op. 28a no. 3 (in Four Songs from Love's Labours Lost) (Text: William Shakespeare) FRE
• I have loved flowers that fade, op. 17 no. 2 (in Seven Unaccompanied Part Songs) (Text: Robert Seymour Bridges)
• I look into my glass, op. 19a no. 4 (in Till Earth Outwears) (Text: Thomas Hardy)
• In a churchyard, op. 15 no. 9 (in Earth and Air and Rain) (Text: Thomas Hardy)
• I need not go, op. 19b no. 1 (in I said to love) (Text: Thomas Hardy)
• In five-score summers, op. 19b no. 4 (in I said to love) (Text: Thomas Hardy)
• In terra pax, op. 39 [multi-text setting] (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts, Bridges)
• In the mind's eye, op. 16 no. 6 (in Before and After Summer) (Text: Thomas Hardy)
• Intrada, op. 8 no. 1 (in Dies Natalis)
• Intrada, op. 13a no. 3 (in To a poet) (Text: Thomas Traherne)
• In years defaced, op. 19a no. 2 (in Till Earth Outwears) (Text: Thomas Hardy)
• I praise the tender flower, op. 17 no. 1 (in Seven Unaccompanied Part Songs) (Text: Robert Seymour Bridges) DUT
• I said to Love, op. 19b no. 6 (in I said to love) (Text: Thomas Hardy)
• I say I'll seek her, op. 13b no. 1 (in Oh fair to see) (Text: Thomas Hardy)
• It never looks like summer, op. 19a no. 5 (in Till Earth Outwears) (Text: Thomas Hardy)
• It was a lover and his lass, op. 18 no. 5 (in Let Us Garlands Bring) (Text: William Shakespeare) FIN FRE GER GER GER
• June leaves and autumn (Text: Thomas Hardy)
• June on Castle Hill, op. 13a no. 5 (in To a poet) (Text: Frank Lawrence Lucas) *
• Lament (in Requiem da Camera) (Text: Wilfrid Wilson Gibson)
• Let me enjoy the Earth, op. 19a no. 1 (in Till Earth Outwears) (Text: Thomas Hardy)
• Let us now praise famous men, op. 35 (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts) [x]
• Life a right shadow is, op. 5 no. 1 (in Three Short Elegies) (Text: William Drummond of Hawthornden) DUT
• Life laughs onward, op. 19a no. 7 (in Till Earth Outwears) (Text: Thomas Hardy)
• Lo, the full, final Sacrifice, op. 26
• Lullaby, oh lullaby! (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
• Margaret has a milking-pail (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
• Middle-age enthusiasms (Text: Thomas Hardy)
• My spirit sang all day, op. 17 no. 3 (in Seven Unaccompanied Part Songs) (Text: Robert Seymour Bridges) DUT
• News for her mother (Text: Thomas Hardy)
• Nightingales, op. 17 no. 5 (in Seven Unaccompanied Part Songs) (Text: Robert Seymour Bridges)
• Now, while the birds thus sing a joyous song, op. 29 no. 3 (in Intimations of Immortality) (Text: William Wordsworth)
• O dear me! (Text: Walter De la Mare)
• Ode on the rejection of St. Cecilia, op. 13a no. 6 (in To a poet) (Text: George Granville Barker) *
• Oh, fair to see, op. 13b no. 2 (in Oh fair to see) (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
• O joy! that in our embers, op. 29 no. 9 (in Intimations of Immortality) (Text: William Wordsworth)
• O mistress mine, op. 18 no. 4 (in Let Us Garlands Bring) (Text: William Shakespeare) FIN FRE GER GER GER IRI ITA NOR POL
• On a discarded curl of hair (Text: Thomas Hardy)
• Only a man harrowing clods (in Requiem da Camera) (Text: Thomas Hardy) HUN
• Only the wanderer, op. 13b no. 4 (in Oh fair to see) (in Two Songs) (Text: Ivor Gurney)
• On parent knees, op. 13a no. 2 (in To a poet) (Text: William Jones, Sir after Anonymous/Unidentified Artist)
• Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting, op. 29 no. 5 (in Intimations of Immortality) (Text: William Wordsworth)
• Overlooking the river, op. 16 no. 4 (in Before and After Summer) (Text: Thomas Hardy)
• Paying calls, op. 2 no. 1 (in By Footpath and Stile) (Text: Thomas Hardy)
• Prelude (in Requiem da Camera)
• Proud songsters, op. 15 no. 10 (in Earth and Air and Rain) (Text: Thomas Hardy) FRE
• Rhapsody, op. 8 no. 2 (in Dies Natalis) (Text: Thomas Traherne)
• Rollicum-Rorum, op. 15 no. 6 (in Earth and Air and Rain) (Text: Thomas Hardy)
• Rondel (Text: Geoffrey Chaucer)
• Rosy maiden Winifred (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
• Shortening days, op. 14 no. 6 (in A Young Man's Exhortation) (Text: Thomas Hardy)
• Since we loved, op. 13b no. 7 (in Oh fair to see) (Text: Robert Seymour Bridges)
• So I have fared, op. 15 no. 5 (in Earth and Air and Rain) (Text: Thomas Hardy)
• So various (Text: Thomas Hardy)
• Summer schemes, op. 15 no. 1 (in Earth and Air and Rain) (Text: Thomas Hardy)
• Tall nettles (Text: Edward Thomas , as Edward Eastaway)
• The Battle (Text: William Henry Davies) [x]
• The birthnight, op. 13a no. 4 (in To a poet) (Text: Walter De la Mare)
• The clock of the years, op. 15 no. 8 (in Earth and Air and Rain) (Text: Thomas Hardy)
• The Comet at Yell'ham, op. 14 no. 5 (in A Young Man's Exhortation) (Text: Thomas Hardy)
• The Cupboard (Text: Robert Graves)
• The dance continued, op. 14 no. 10 (in A Young Man's Exhortation) (Text: Thomas Hardy)
• The end of the episode (Text: Thomas Hardy)
• The faithful swallow (Text: Thomas Hardy)
• The lily has a smooth stalk (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti) SPA
• The Market-Girl, op. 19a no. 3 (in Till Earth Outwears) (Text: Thomas Hardy)
• The master and the leaves, op. 2 no. 4 (in By Footpath and Stile) (Text: Thomas Hardy)
• The Mound (in The Mound) (Text: Thomas Hardy)
• The Night of the Dance (in The Mound) (Text: Thomas Hardy)
• Then sing, ye Birds, sing, sing a joyous song!, op. 29 no. 10 (in Intimations of Immortality) (Text: William Wordsworth)
• The Oxen, op. 2 no. 3 (in By Footpath and Stile) (Text: Thomas Hardy)
• The phantom, op. 15 no. 4 (in Earth and Air and Rain) (Text: Thomas Hardy)
• The Preparative (Text: Thomas Traherne) [x]
• The Rainbow comes and goes, op. 29 no. 2 (in Intimations of Immortality) (Text: William Wordsworth)
• The Rapture, op. 8 no. 3 (in Dies Natalis) (Text: Thomas Traherne)
• The Reed Player (Text: William Sharp , as Fiona Macleod)
• There's snow on the fields (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
• There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream, op. 29 no. 1 (in Intimations of Immortality) (Text: William Wordsworth)
• The Salley Gardens (Text: William Butler Yeats) CAT DUT FRE FRI FRI GER
• The Salutation, op. 8 no. 5 (in Dies Natalis) (Text: Thomas Traherne)
• The self-unseeing, op. 16 no. 3 (in Before and After Summer) (Text: Thomas Hardy)
• The sigh, op. 14 no. 7 (in A Young Man's Exhortation) (Text: Thomas Hardy)
• The subalterns (in The Mound) (Text: Thomas Hardy)
• The Temporary the All (Text: Thomas Hardy)
• The terrible robber men (Text: Padraic Colum)
• The too short time, op. 16 no. 7 (in Before and After Summer) (Text: Thomas Hardy)
• The Twilit Waters (Text: William Sharp , as Fiona Macleod)
• This life, which seems so fair, op. 5 no. 3 (in Three Short Elegies) (Text: William Drummond of Hawthornden) GER
• This world a hunting is, op. 5 no. 2 (in Three Short Elegies) (Text: William Drummond of Hawthornden)
• Thou didst delight my eyes (Text: Robert Seymour Bridges)
• Thou, whose exterior semblance doth belie, op. 29 no. 8 (in Intimations of Immortality) (Text: William Wordsworth)
• Timing her (Text: Thomas Hardy)
• To a poet a thousand years hence, op. 13a no. 1 (in To a poet) (Text: James Elroy Flecker)
• To joy, op. 13b no. 5 (in Oh fair to see) (Text: Edmund Charles Blunden) *
• To Lizbie Browne, op. 15 no. 7 (in Earth and Air and Rain) (Text: Thomas Hardy)
• Transformations, op. 14 no. 9 (in A Young Man's Exhortation) (Text: Thomas Hardy)
• Two lips, op. 19b no. 3 (in I said to love) (Text: Thomas Hardy)
• Voices from things growing in a churchyard, op. 2 no. 5 (in By Footpath and Stile) (Text: Thomas Hardy)
• Waiting both, op. 15 no. 3 (in Earth and Air and Rain) (Text: Thomas Hardy) HUN
• Weathers (Text: Thomas Hardy)
• When daisies pied, op. 28a no. 1 (in Four Songs from Love's Labours Lost) (Text: William Shakespeare) FIN FRE FRE GER GER GER NOR
• When icicles hang by the wall, op. 28a no. 2 (in Four Songs from Love's Labours Lost) (Text: William Shakespeare) FIN FRE GER RUS
• When I consider how my life is spent, op. 12 no. 1 (in Two Sonnets) (Text: John Milton) GER HUN ITA
• When I set out for Lyonnesse, op. 15 no. 2 (in Earth and Air and Rain) (Text: Thomas Hardy)
• Wherefore to-night so full of care, op. 17 no. 7 (in Seven Unaccompanied Part Songs) (Text: Robert Seymour Bridges)
• Where the picnic was, op. 2 no. 2 (in By Footpath and Stile) (Text: Thomas Hardy)
• White-flowering days, op. 37 (Text: Edmund Charles Blunden) *
• Who is Silvia?, op. 18 no. 2 (in Let Us Garlands Bring) (Text: William Shakespeare) DUT FIN FRE GER ITA SPA
• Wonder, op. 8 no. 4 (in Dies Natalis) (Text: Thomas Traherne)
• Ye blessed Creatures, I have heard the call, op. 29 no. 4 (in Intimations of Immortality) (Text: William Wordsworth)
• Yell'ham-Wood's story (Text: Thomas Hardy)

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