Texts to Art Songs and Choral Works by R. Samuel

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Song Cycles, Collections, Symphonies, etc.:

• A Swift Radiant Morning
• no. 1. Rooks (Text: Charles Hamilton Sorley) [x]
• Clytemnestra
• no. 1. The Chain of Flame (Text: Anonymous after Aeschylus) [x] ⊗
• Cwmdonkin Songs
• no. 1. For as long as forever is (Text: Dylan Thomas) [x]
• no. 2. The Clown in the Moon (Text: Dylan Thomas)
• no. 3. Mr Waldo's Song (Text: Dylan Thomas) [x]
• Earth Newborn
• no. 1. The Trumpet (Text: Edward Thomas , as Edward Eastaway)
• Jacobean Lyrics
• no. 1. I got me flowers (Text: George Herbert)
• Lovesongs and Observations
• no. 2. To make a prairie (Text: Emily Dickinson) FRE GER
• Moon and Birds
• no. 1. Blackbird (Text: Anne Stevenson) [x]*
• no. 2. The moon is distant (Text: Emily Dickinson)
• no. 3. Bird in hand (Text: Anne Stevenson) [x]*
• no. 4. On not being able to look at the moon (Text: Anne Stevenson) [x]*
• My Heart beside
• no. 2. Dear March (Text: Emily Dickinson) CAT FRE GER ITA
• no. 3. It's all I have to bring today (Text: Emily Dickinson) GER
• Nantcol Songs
• no. 1. The Wind, the Sun and the Moon (Text: Anne Stevenson) [x]*
• no. 2. A Perfect View (Text: Anne Stevenson) [x]*
• Opposites
• no. 1. Age and Youth (Text: Anonymous) FRE
• no. 2. Sun and Shadow (Text: Thomas Campion)
• Songs of Earth and Air
• no. 1. April Rise (Text: Laurence Edward Alan "Laurie" Lee) *
• Spring Diary
• no. 1. Arrival Dream (Text: Anne Stevenson) [x]*
• no. 2. Snow Squalls (Text: Anne Stevenson) [x]*
• no. 3. It Happens (Text: Anne Stevenson) [x]*
• no. 4. East Wind (Text: Anne Stevenson) [x]*
• Summer Songs
• no. 1. In Summer (Text: Denise Levertov) [x]*
• no. 2. A Dragonfly in the Sun (Text: Zulfikar Ghose) [x]*
• The Daughter's Letters
• no. 1. Marianne Chandler to her mother in New Orleans (Text: Anne Stevenson) [x]*
• The flowing Sand
• no. 1. what would I do (Text: Samuel Barclay Beckett) [x]*
• The Listening Eye
• no. 1. Morning (Text: Anne Stevenson) [x]*
• no. 2. Eros (Text: Anne Stevenson) [x]*
• no. 3. Gannets Diving (Text: Anne Stevenson) [x]*
• The Moon and I
• no. 1. Moonrise (Text: Anne Stevenson) [x]*
• no. 2. Philomela (Text: Tabitha Hayward) [x]*
• no. 3. The Moon (Text: Tabitha Hayward) [x]*
• no. 4. The Moon and I (Text: Tabitha Hayward) [x]*
• The White Amaryllis
• no. 1. Celebration (Text: Eleanore Marie Sarton , as May Sarton) [x]*
• The White Amaryllis
• no. 3. Before Dawn (Text: Eleanore Marie Sarton , as May Sarton) [x]*
• Three Songs
• no. 1. Take this kiss upon the brow! (Text: Edgar Allan Poe)
• Three Yeats Songs
• no. 1. Had I the Heavens' Embroidered Cloths (Text: William Butler Yeats) FRE GER HUN
• Trinity
• no. 1. Trinity at Low Tide (Text: Anne Stevenson) [x]*
• no. 2. Without Me (Text: Anne Stevenson) [x]*
• no. 3. Vertigo (Text: Anne Stevenson) [x]*
• Trois Chansons de François Villon
• no. 1. Ballade 1 (Text: François Villon) [x]
• Wildflower Songbook
• no. 1. Naming the Flowers (Text: Anne Stevenson) [x]*
• no. 2. Rosebay Ballad (Text: Anne Stevenson) [x]*
• no. 3. Digitalis (Text: Anne Stevenson) [x]*

All titles of vocal settings in Alphabetic order

• A Clearer Memory (Text: Anne Stevenson) [x]*
• A Clear Midnight (Text: Walt Whitman) CAT FRE GER GER
• A Dragonfly in the Sun (in Summer Songs) (Text: Zulfikar Ghose) [x]*
• Age and Youth (in Opposites ) (Text: Anonymous) FRE
• A Perfect View (in Nantcol Songs) (Text: Anne Stevenson) [x]*
• April Rise (in Songs of Earth and Air) (Text: Laurence Edward Alan "Laurie" Lee) *
• A River (Text: Anne Stevenson) [x]*
• Arrival Dream (in Spring Diary) (Text: Anne Stevenson) [x]*
• A Song for the Divine Miss C (Text: A. D. Hope) [x]*
• Ballade 1 (in Trois Chansons de François Villon) (Text: François Villon) [x]
• Before Dawn (in The White Amaryllis) (Text: Eleanore Marie Sarton , as May Sarton) [x]*
• Bird in hand (in Moon and Birds) (Text: Anne Stevenson) [x]*
• Blackbird (in Moon and Birds) (Text: Anne Stevenson) [x]*
• Celebration (in The White Amaryllis) (Text: Eleanore Marie Sarton , as May Sarton) [x]*
• Dear March (in My Heart beside) (Text: Emily Dickinson) CAT FRE GER ITA
• Dear Night (Text: Henry Vaughan) [x]
• Digitalis (in Wildflower Songbook) (Text: Anne Stevenson) [x]*
• East Wind (in Spring Diary) (Text: Anne Stevenson) [x]*
• Eros (in The Listening Eye) (Text: Anne Stevenson) [x]*
• For as long as forever is (in Cwmdonkin Songs) (Text: Dylan Thomas) [x]
• Gannets Diving (in The Listening Eye) (Text: Anne Stevenson) [x]*
• Had I the Heavens' Embroidered Cloths (in Three Yeats Songs) (Text: William Butler Yeats) FRE GER HUN
• I got me flowers (in Jacobean Lyrics) (Text: George Herbert)
• In Summer (in Summer Songs) (Text: Denise Levertov) [x]*
• In the Hall of Mirrors (Text: James Ingram Merrill) [x]*
• Intimations of Immortality (Text: William Wordsworth)
• Take this kiss upon the brow! (in Three Songs) (Text: Edgar Allan Poe)
• It Happens (in Spring Diary) (Text: Anne Stevenson) [x]*
• It's all I have to bring today (in My Heart beside) (Text: Emily Dickinson) GER
• Love bade me welcome (Text: George Herbert)
• Marianne Chandler to her mother in New Orleans (in The Daughter's Letters) (Text: Anne Stevenson) [x]*
• Moon over Maenefa (Text: Gerard Manley Hopkins) [x]
• Moonrise (in The Moon and I) (Text: Anne Stevenson) [x]*
• Morning (in The Listening Eye) (Text: Anne Stevenson) [x]*
• Mr Waldo's Song (in Cwmdonkin Songs) (Text: Dylan Thomas) [x]
• Naming the Flowers (in Wildflower Songbook) (Text: Anne Stevenson) [x]*
• On not being able to look at the moon (in Moon and Birds) (Text: Anne Stevenson) [x]*
• Orpheus (Text: Tabitha Hayward) [x]*
• O what can ail thee, knight-at-arms (Text: John Keats , as Caviare) CZE GER HUN ITA RUS
• Path (Text: Anne Stevenson) [x]*
• Philomela (in The Moon and I) (Text: Tabitha Hayward) [x]*
• Rooks (in A Swift Radiant Morning) (Text: Charles Hamilton Sorley) [x]
• Rosebay Ballad (in Wildflower Songbook) (Text: Anne Stevenson) [x]*
• Shape of Trees (Text: Anne Stevenson) [x]*
• Snow Squalls (in Spring Diary) (Text: Anne Stevenson) [x]*
• Sun and Shadow (in Opposites ) (Text: Thomas Campion)
• The Chain of Flame (in Clytemnestra) (Text: Anonymous after Aeschylus) [x] ⊗
• The Clown in the Moon (in Cwmdonkin Songs) (Text: Dylan Thomas)
• The Gaze
• The Gossamer Thread (Text: Walt Whitman)
• The Hare in the Moon (Text: Geoffrey Bownas; Anthony Simon Thwaite after Taigu Ryōkan) [x] ⊗*
• The Moon and I (in The Moon and I) (Text: Tabitha Hayward) [x]*
• The moon is distant (in Moon and Birds) (Text: Emily Dickinson)
• The Moon (in The Moon and I) (Text: Tabitha Hayward) [x]*
• The Trumpet (in Earth Newborn) (Text: Edward Thomas , as Edward Eastaway)
• The Wind, the Sun and the Moon (in Nantcol Songs) (Text: Anne Stevenson) [x]*
• The Witch's Manuscript (Text: Carol Rumens) [x]*
• To make a prairie (in Lovesongs and Observations) (Text: Emily Dickinson) FRE GER
• Trinity at Low Tide (in Trinity ) (Text: Anne Stevenson) [x]*
• Vertigo (in Trinity ) (Text: Anne Stevenson) [x]*
• what would I do (in The flowing Sand) (Text: Samuel Barclay Beckett) [x]*
• Without Me (in Trinity ) (Text: Anne Stevenson) [x]*

Last update: 2025-05-11 04:18:52