Texts to Art Songs and Choral Works by C. Gibbs

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Song Cycles, Collections, Symphonies, etc.:

• A voice in the dusk, op. 91
• no. 1. Spring (Text: John Irvine) [x]
• no. 2. In the faery hills (Text: John Irvine) [x]
• no. 3. The wind comes softly (Text: John Irvine) [x]
• no. 4. Moon magic (Text: John Irvine)
• Five Children's Songs From Peacock Pie
• no. 1. The barber's (Text: Walter De la Mare)
• no. 2. Miss T. (Text: Walter De la Mare)
• no. 3. Old Shellover (Text: Walter De la Mare)
• no. 4. Hide and seek (Text: Walter De la Mare)
• no. 5. Then (Text: Walter De la Mare)
• Five Songs
• no. 1. The stranger (Text: Walter De la Mare)
• no. 2. The linnet (Text: Walter De la Mare)
• no. 3. The mountains (Text: Walter De la Mare)
• no. 4. Love in the almond bough (Text: Walter De la Mare) [x]
• no. 5. The Bells (Text: Walter De la Mare)
• Four Songs from "Crossings: A Fairy Play", op. 20
• no. 1. Ann's Cradle Song (Text: Walter De la Mare)
• no. 2. Araby (Text: Walter De la Mare)
• no. 3. Beggar's song (Text: Walter De la Mare)
• no. 4. Candlestickmaker's song (Text: Walter De la Mare)
• Gray and gold
• no. 1. The miracle (Text: Helen Taylor)
• no. 2. The wind in your hair (Text: Helen Taylor)
• no. 3. Requiescat (Text: Helen Taylor)
• no. 4. I shall remember (Text: Helen Taylor)
• no. 5. April's hour (Text: Helen Taylor)
• Henry Brocken Song Cycle, op. 88
• no. 1. Lorelei's Song (Text: Walter De la Mare)
• no. 2. Jane Eyre's song (Text: Walter De la Mare)
• no. 3. The doctor's song (Text: Walter De la Mare)
• In a Dream's Beguiling
• Melmillo (Text: Walter De la Mare)
• King David (Text: Walter De la Mare) GER SPA
• The horn (Text: Walter De la Mare)
• The Changeling (Text: Walter De la Mare)
• Off the ground (Text: Walter De la Mare)
• The night song (Text: Walter De la Mare)
• Joan of Arc, op. 102
• no. 1. Revelation (Text: Walter Mordaunt Currie, Sir) [x]*
• no. 2. Victory (Text: Walter Mordaunt Currie, Sir) [x]
• no. 3. Crowning (Text: Walter Mordaunt Currie, Sir) [x]*
• no. 4. Defeat (Text: Walter Mordaunt Currie, Sir) [x]*
• no. 5. Mors Janua Vitae (Text: Walter Mordaunt Currie, Sir) [x]*
• Nursery Rhymes for Nursery Singers
• no. 1. I saw a little bird [x]
• no. 2. Who's above [x]
• no. 3. The fox [x]
• no. 4. I love little pussy [x]
• no. 5. I love sixpence [x]
• no. 6. Lullaby [x]
• Old wine in new bottles: four Restoration songs
• no. 1. When Arthur first in Court began (Text: Anonymous) [x]
• no. 2. Pious Celinda goes to prayers (Text: William Congreve) CAT GER
• no. 3. If music be the food of love (Text: Henry Heveningham, Colonel) CAT FRE GER ITA
• no. 4. 'Tis wine that inspires and quenches love's fires (Text: Roger Boyle) [x]
• Pastoral Suite
• Clock-a-clay (Text: John Clare)
• Peacock Pie
• The huntsmen (Text: Walter De la Mare)
• Songs of Childhood
• The sleeping beauty (Text: Walter De la Mare)
• Down-adown-derry (Text: Walter De la Mare)
• Reverie (Text: Walter De la Mare)
• Captain Lean (Text: Walter De la Mare)
• Songs of the Mad Sea Captain, op. 111
• no. 1. Hidden Treasure (Text: Bernard Davis Martin) *
• no. 2. Abel Wright (Text: Bernard Davis Martin) *
• no. 3. Toll the Bell (Text: Bernard Davis Martin) *
• no. 4. The Golden Ray (Text: Bernard Davis Martin) *
• Songs with Piano
• no. 1. As I lay in the early sun (Text: Edward Shanks)
• no. 2. The fields are full (Text: Edward Shanks)
• no. 3. For remembrance (Text: Edward Shanks)
• "There was..." (A Little Festival of Lear Limericks)
• There was an old man of the Isles (Text: Edward Lear , as Derry Down Derry)
• Homage (Text: Edward Lear)
• There was an Old Man with a gong (Text: Edward Lear)
• Three Lyrics by Christina Rossetti, op. 131
• no. 1. The Lamb and the Dove (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
• no. 2. A birthday (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
• no. 3. Gone were but the winter (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
• Two Old English Lyrics, op. 116
• no. 1. Chloris in the snow (Text: William Strode)
• no. 2. Amaryllis (Text: Thomas Campion) DUT FRI
• Two Pastorals
• no. 1. In the spring the runnels flow (Text: H. T. Wade-Grey) [x]
• no. 2. Upon the grass (Text: H. T. Wade-Grey) [x]
• Two Songs
• no. 1. Down in yonder meadow (Text: Volkslieder )
• no. 2. Lily bright and shine-a (Text: Volkslieder )
• Two Songs
• no. 1. The summer palace (Text: Benedict Ellis) [x]*
• no. 2. Summertime (Text: Benedict Ellis) [x]*
• Willow leaves, op. 126
• no. 1. To Yuan (Text: John Irvine) [x]
• no. 2. The dancing girl (Text: John Irvine) [x]
• no. 3. Meeting with friends (Text: John Irvine) [x]

All titles of vocal settings in Alphabetic order

• A--Apple Pie (Text: Walter De la Mare) [x]
• A ballad maker (Text: Padraic Colum)
• Abel Wright, op. 111 no. 2 (in Songs of the Mad Sea Captain) (Text: Bernard Davis Martin) *
• A birthday, op. 131 no. 2 (in Three Lyrics by Christina Rossetti) (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
• A greeting (Text: Anonymous) [x]
• Amaryllis, op. 116 no. 2 (in Two Old English Lyrics) (Text: Thomas Campion) DUT FRI
• Andy Battle (Text: Walter De la Mare)
• An English carol of the XIVth century (Text: Anonymous after Anonymous/Unidentified Artist) FRE
• Ann's Cradle Song, op. 20 no. 1 (in Four Songs from "Crossings: A Fairy Play") (Text: Walter De la Mare)
• April's hour (in Gray and gold) (Text: Helen Taylor)
• Araby, op. 20 no. 2 (in Four Songs from "Crossings: A Fairy Play") (Text: Walter De la Mare)
• Arrogant Poppies, op. 51 (Four Songs From Musical Play "Midsummer Madness") no. 2 (Text: Clifford Bax)
• As I lay in the early sun (in Songs with Piano) (Text: Edward Shanks)
• As Lucy went a-walking (Text: Walter De la Mare)
• A song of shadows, op. 15 (Three Songs) no. 3 (Text: Walter De la Mare)
• A song of soldiers (Text: Walter De la Mare)
• A-Tishoo (Text: Walter De la Mare)
• Before daybreak, op. 100 (Text: Gordon Bottomley) [x]
• Before sleeping [x]
• Beggar's song, op. 20 no. 3 (in Four Songs from "Crossings: A Fairy Play") (Text: Walter De la Mare)
• Bluebells, op. 17 (Two Songs, from "Songs of Childhood") no. 1 (Text: Walter De la Mare)
• Bunches of grapes, op. 17 (Two Songs, from "Songs of Childhood") no. 2 (Text: Walter De la Mare)
• By a Bier-Side (Text: John Masefield)
• Candlestickmaker's song, op. 20 no. 4 (in Four Songs from "Crossings: A Fairy Play") (Text: Walter De la Mare)
• Captain Lean (in Songs of Childhood) (Text: Walter De la Mare)
• Chloris in the snow, op. 116 no. 1 (in Two Old English Lyrics) (Text: William Strode)
• Clock-a-clay (in Pastoral Suite) (Text: John Clare)
• Covent Garden (Text: Eileen Carfrae)
• Cradle song (Text: William Blake) GER
• Crowning, op. 102 no. 3 (in Joan of Arc) (Text: Walter Mordaunt Currie, Sir) [x]*
• Dame Hickory (Text: Walter De la Mare)
• Danger (Text: Walter Mordaunt Currie, Sir) *
• Defeat, op. 102 no. 4 (in Joan of Arc) (Text: Walter Mordaunt Currie, Sir) [x]*
• Devotion (Text: Anonymous)
• Down-adown-derry (in Songs of Childhood) (Text: Walter De la Mare)
• Down in yonder meadow (in Two Songs) (Text: Volkslieder )
• Dream-Pedlary (Text: Thomas Lovell Beddoes)
• Dream-song (Text: Walter De la Mare) CHI
• Dusk (Text: Anonymous)
• Eeka, Neeka (Text: Walter De la Mare) [x]
• Evening in summer (Text: John Fletcher)
• Every little child (Text: W. H. Draper) [x]*
• February (Text: Walter Mordaunt Currie, Sir) [x]*
• Five Eyes (Text: Walter De la Mare)
• Five eyes, op. 15 (Three Songs) no. 2 (Text: Walter De la Mare)
• Fol dol do (Text: Walter De la Mare)
• For Music (Text: George Gordon Noel Byron, Lord Byron) CAT CZE DAN DUT FRE GER GER GER ITA RUS RUS
• For remembrance (in Songs with Piano) (Text: Edward Shanks)
• Fulfilment, op. 83 no. 3 (Text: Walter Mordaunt Currie, Sir) [x]*
• Gipsies (Text: Henry Howarth Bashford, Sir) [x]
• Gone is my love (Text: Edith Harrhy) [x]*
• Gone were but the winter, op. 131 no. 3 (in Three Lyrics by Christina Rossetti) (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
• Grace (Text: Walter De la Mare) [x]
• Grade A (Text: Cecil Armstrong Gibbs) [x]
• Hidden Treasure, op. 111 no. 1 (in Songs of the Mad Sea Captain) (Text: Bernard Davis Martin) *
• Hide and seek (in Five Children's Songs From Peacock Pie) (Text: Walter De la Mare)
• Homage (in "There was..." (A Little Festival of Lear Limericks)) (Text: Edward Lear)
• How can the heart forget her?
• Hypochondriacus (Text: Charles Lamb)
• If music be the food of love (in Old wine in new bottles: four Restoration songs) (Text: Henry Heveningham, Colonel) CAT FRE GER ITA
• I love little pussy (in Nursery Rhymes for Nursery Singers) [x]
• I love sixpence (in Nursery Rhymes for Nursery Singers) [x]
• Immortality (Text: Walter Mordaunt Currie, Sir) [x]*
• Impromptu (Text: Walter Mordaunt Currie, Sir) [x]*
• In the faery hills, op. 91 no. 2 (in A voice in the dusk) (Text: John Irvine) [x]
• In the highlands, op. 9 (Text: Robert Louis Stevenson)
• In the spring the runnels flow (in Two Pastorals) (Text: H. T. Wade-Grey) [x]
• In the woods in June (Text: Walter Mordaunt Currie, Sir) [x]*
• In youth is pleasure, op. 44 (Two Elizabethan Songs) no. 2 (Text: R. Wever, probably Richard Wever)
• I saw a little bird (in Nursery Rhymes for Nursery Singers) [x]
• I shall remember (in Gray and gold) (Text: Helen Taylor)
• Jane Eyre's song, op. 88 no. 2 (in Henry Brocken Song Cycle) (Text: Walter De la Mare)
• Jenny Jones (Text: Doris Rowley)
• John Mouldy, op. 30 (Two Songs) no. 1 (Text: Walter De la Mare)
• Juliet Anne (Text: Walter Mordaunt Currie, Sir) [x]*
• King David (in In a Dream's Beguiling) (Text: Walter De la Mare) GER SPA
• La belle dame sans merci (Text: John Keats , as Caviare) CZE GER HUN ITA RUS
• Lament for Robin Hood (Text: Anthony Munday)
• Lily bright and shine-a (in Two Songs) (Text: Volkslieder )
• Lorelei's Song, op. 88 no. 1 (in Henry Brocken Song Cycle) (Text: Walter De la Mare)
• Love in the almond bough, op. 19 (Two Songs) no. 1 (in Five Songs) (Text: Walter De la Mare) [x]
• Love is a sickness, op. 44 (Two Elizabethan Songs) no. 1 (Text: Samuel Daniel; Thomas Maske) GER
• Love's prisoner (Text: William Blake)
• Love's wisdom (Text: Walter Mordaunt Currie, Sir) [x]*
• Lullaby (Text: Walter De la Mare)
• Lullaby (in Nursery Rhymes for Nursery Singers) [x]
• Lullaby, op. 3 (Text: William Blake) GER
• Lyonnesse (Text: Thomas Hardy)
• Maritime invocation (Text: A. C. Boyd) [x]*
• Meeting with friends, op. 126 no. 3 (in Willow leaves) (Text: John Irvine) [x]
• Melmillo (in In a Dream's Beguiling) (Text: Walter De la Mare)
• Midnight (Text: Jeffery Lang)
• Miss T. (in Five Children's Songs From Peacock Pie) (Text: Walter De la Mare)
• Mistletoe (Text: Walter De la Mare) GER
• Moon magic, op. 91 no. 4 (in A voice in the dusk) (Text: John Irvine)
• Mors Janua Vitae, op. 102 no. 5 (in Joan of Arc) (Text: Walter Mordaunt Currie, Sir) [x]*
• Mother Carey (Text: Walter De la Mare) [x]
• Mummer's song (Text: Walter De la Mare)
• Neglected Moon!, op. 51 (Four Songs From Musical Play "Midsummer Madness") no. 1 (Text: Clifford Bax)
• Nightfall (Text: Harry Dawson)
• Night, op. 2 (Two Songs) no. 1 (Text: Percy Bysshe Shelley) CZE GER HUN
• Nod, op. 12 (Two Songs) no. 1 (Text: Walter De la Mare) CAT
• Off the ground (in In a Dream's Beguiling) (Text: Walter De la Mare)
• Oh, nightingale upon my tree (Text: Walter Mordaunt Currie, Sir) [x]*
• Old Shellover (in Five Children's Songs From Peacock Pie) (Text: Walter De la Mare)
• On Duncton Hill (Text: Gwen Grant) [x]*
• Padraic the Fidiler (Text: Padraic Gregory)
• Philomela, op. 13 (Text: Philip Sidney, Sir)
• Philomel (Text: Richard Barnfield) FRE
• Pious Celinda goes to prayers (in Old wine in new bottles: four Restoration songs) (Text: William Congreve) CAT GER
• Prayer before sleep (Text: L. E. Eeman) [x]*
• Proud Maisie (Text: Walter Scott, Sir)
• Quiet conscience
• Requiescat (in Gray and gold) (Text: Helen Taylor)
• Resting (Text: Gwen Grant) [x]*
• Rest in the Lord (Text: Edmund Beale Sargant) [x]
• Revelation, op. 102 no. 1 (in Joan of Arc) (Text: Walter Mordaunt Currie, Sir) [x]*
• Reverie (in Songs of Childhood) (Text: Walter De la Mare)
• Sailing homeward (Text: Arthur Waley after Chan Fang-Sheng)
• She's like the swallow (Text: Volkslieder ) [x]
• Silver, op. 30 (Two Songs) no. 2 (Text: Walter De la Mare) CAT FRE GER
• Sledburn Fair (Text: Anonymous) [x]
• Slow, horses, slow (Text: Thomas Westwood)
• Spring, op. 91 no. 1 (in A voice in the dusk) (Text: John Irvine) [x]
• Summer Night (Text: Margery Georgina Agrell, née Hitchcock)
• Summertime (in Two Songs) (Text: Benedict Ellis) [x]*
• Sussex ways (Text: Walter Mordaunt Currie, Sir) [x]*
• Sweet sounds, begone, op. 14 (Two Songs) no. 1 (Text: Walter De la Mare)
• Take heed, young heart (Text: Walter De la Mare)
• The Ballad of Semmerwater (Text: William Watson, Sir)
• The barber's (in Five Children's Songs From Peacock Pie) (Text: Walter De la Mare)
• The bees' song (Text: Walter De la Mare)
• The Bells, op. 14 (Two Songs) no. 2 (in Five Songs) (Text: Walter De la Mare)
• The birch tree (Text: Margery Georgina Agrell, née Hitchcock , as Georgina Mase) CHI
• The chains of love, op. 51 (Four Songs From Musical Play "Midsummer Madness") no. 3 (Text: Clifford Bax) [x]
• The Changeling (in In a Dream's Beguiling) (Text: Walter De la Mare)
• The cherry tree (Text: Margaret Rose Girdler , as Margaret Rose) [x]
• The dancing girl, op. 126 no. 2 (in Willow leaves) (Text: John Irvine) [x]
• The doctor's song, op. 88 no. 3 (in Henry Brocken Song Cycle) (Text: Walter De la Mare)
• The exile (Text: Walter De la Mare)
• The fields are full (in Songs with Piano) (Text: Edward Shanks)
• The flooded stream (Text: Margaret Cropper) *
• The fox (in Nursery Rhymes for Nursery Singers) [x]
• The galliass (Text: Walter De la Mare)
• The Golden Ray, op. 111 no. 4 (in Songs of the Mad Sea Captain) (Text: Bernard Davis Martin) *
• The goose (Text: Alfred Tennyson, Lord)
• The hawthorn tree (Text: Hilda Maude) [x]*
• The highwayman (Text: Alfred Noyes)
• The horn (in In a Dream's Beguiling) (Text: Walter De la Mare)
• The huntsmen (in Peacock Pie) (Text: Walter De la Mare)
• The Jumblies (Text: Edward Lear)
• The king's men (Text: Thomas Hardy)
• The Lady of Shalott [multi-text setting] (Text: Tennyson) FRE
• The Lamb and the Dove, op. 131 no. 1 (in Three Lyrics by Christina Rossetti) (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
• The light of other days (Text: Thomas Moore) CAT FRE GER GER
• The linnet, op. 21 (Two Songs) no. 1 (in Five Songs) (Text: Walter De la Mare)
• The Listeners (Text: Walter De la Mare)
• The little green orchard, op. 15 (Three Songs) no. 1 (Text: Walter De la Mare)
• The little salamander (Text: Walter De la Mare)
• The mad prince (Text: Walter De la Mare)
• The market (Text: James Stephens)
• The miracle (in Gray and gold) (Text: Helen Taylor)
• The mountains, op. 19 (Two Songs) no. 2 (in Five Songs) (Text: Walter De la Mare)
• The nightingale, op. 13 (Text: Philip Sidney, Sir)
• The night song (in In a Dream's Beguiling) (Text: Walter De la Mare)
• Then (in Five Children's Songs From Peacock Pie) (Text: Walter De la Mare)
• The old house (Text: Gray Hayward Kirkus) [x]*
• The old soldier (Text: Walter De la Mare)
• The orchard sings to the child (Text: Margaret Cropper) *
• The Oxen (Text: Thomas Hardy)
• The poet's song (Text: Alfred Tennyson, Lord)
• The rainy day, op. 4 (Text: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) FRE GER GER SPA
• There be none of Beauty's daughters (Text: George Gordon Noel Byron, Lord Byron) CAT CZE DAN DUT FRE GER GER GER ITA RUS RUS
• The rejected lover, op. 51 (Four Songs From Musical Play "Midsummer Madness") no. 4 (Text: Clifford Bax)
• There was an old man of the Isles (in "There was..." (A Little Festival of Lear Limericks)) (Text: Edward Lear , as Derry Down Derry)
• There was an Old Man with a gong (in "There was..." (A Little Festival of Lear Limericks)) (Text: Edward Lear)
• The ride-by-nights (Text: Walter De la Mare)
• The scarecrow, op. 12 (Two Songs) no. 2 (Text: Walter De la Mare)
• The ship of Rio (Text: Walter De la Mare) CAT
• The silver penny (Text: Walter De la Mare)
• The sleeping beauty (in Songs of Childhood) (Text: Walter De la Mare)
• The sleeping beauty (Text: Walter De la Mare)
• The splendour falls (Text: Alfred Tennyson, Lord) CAT FRE GER NYN SPA
• The stranger, op. 21 (Two Songs) no. 2 (in Five Songs) (Text: Walter De la Mare)
• The summer palace (in Two Songs) (Text: Benedict Ellis) [x]*
• The sunken garden (Text: Walter De la Mare)
• The Tiger-Lily (Text: Dorothy Pleydell-Bouverie)
• The Wanderer (Text: Walter De la Mare)
• The wind comes softly, op. 91 no. 3 (in A voice in the dusk) (Text: John Irvine) [x]
• The wind in your hair (in Gray and gold) (Text: Helen Taylor)
• The witch (Text: Walter Mordaunt Currie, Sir) [x]*
• Three men of Gotham (Text: Thomas Love Peacock)
• Tiger, tiger (Text: William Blake) CAT CHI FRE GER GER RUS
• 'Tis wine that inspires and quenches love's fires (in Old wine in new bottles: four Restoration songs) (Text: Roger Boyle) [x]
• Titania (Text: Walter Mordaunt Currie, Sir) *
• To Anise (Text: Nathaniel Downes) [x]
• Toll the Bell, op. 111 no. 3 (in Songs of the Mad Sea Captain) (Text: Bernard Davis Martin) *
• Tom o' Bedlam (Text: Anonymous)
• To one who passed whistling through the night (Text: Margery Georgina Agrell, née Hitchcock)
• To Yuan, op. 126 no. 1 (in Willow leaves) (Text: John Irvine) [x]
• Upon the grass (in Two Pastorals) (Text: H. T. Wade-Grey) [x]
• Victory, op. 102 no. 2 (in Joan of Arc) (Text: Walter Mordaunt Currie, Sir) [x]
• When Arthur first in Court began (in Old wine in new bottles: four Restoration songs) (Text: Anonymous) [x]
• When I was one-and-twenty (Text: Alfred Edward Housman) FRE GER HEB
• When the lamp is shattered, op. 2 (Two Songs) no. 2 (Text: Percy Bysshe Shelley) CZE
• Where (Text: Walter De la Mare) [x]
• White (Text: Walter De la Mare) [x]
• Who's above (in Nursery Rhymes for Nursery Singers) [x]
• Why do I love? (Text: Ephelia)
• Why? (Text: Walter De la Mare)

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