Texts to Art Songs and Choral Works by M. Lang

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Margaret Ruthven Lang (1867 - 1972)

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Song Cycles, Collections, Symphonies, etc.

Five Norman Songs, op. 19

no. 1. My turtle dove (Text: John Addington Symonds)
no. 2. In the greenwood (Text: John Addington Symonds)
no. 3. The grief of love (Text: John Addington Symonds)
no. 4. Before my lady's window gay (Text: John Addington Symonds)
no. 5. Desire (Text: John Addington Symonds)

More Nonsense Rhymes and Pictures

no. ?. The old man with a beard (Text: Edward Lear)
no. ?. The Old Man with a gong (Text: Edward Lear)
no. ?. The young lady whose eyes (Text: Edward Lear , as Derry Down Derry)
no. ?. The Young Lady of Parma (Text: Edward Lear)

Nonsense Rhymes and Pictures

no. ?. The man and the kettle (Text: Edward Lear)
no. ?. The Old Man in a tree (Text: Edward Lear) FIN
no. ?. The Old Person of Skye (Text: Edward Lear)
no. ?. The lady and the tiger (Text: Edward Lear; William Cosmo Monkhouse)
no. ?. The Old Lady of France (Text: Edward Lear) FIN
no. ?. Will nobody answer this bell (Text: Edward Lear)
no. ?. The Old Man of Dumbree (Text: Edward Lear)
no. ?. The dolorous man of Cape Horn (Text: Edward Lear)
no. ?. The old person of Cassel (Text: Edward Lear)
no. ?. The bird in the bush (Text: Edward Lear)
no. ?. The Old Person of Jodd (Text: Edward Lear)
no. ?. The Person of Filey (Text: Edward Lear)
no. ?. There was an Old Man who said, "Well!" (Text: Edward Lear)

The Night of the Star: A Christmas Cycle, op. 52

no. 1. The star of Bethlehem (Text: Denis A. McCarthy)
no. 2. The vision of Mary (Text: Denis A. McCarthy)
no. 3. St. Joseph's vigil (Text: Denis A. McCarthy)
no. 4. When Christ was born (Text: Denis A. McCarthy)

Three Songs of the East, op. 8

no. 1. Oriental Serenade (Text: Anonymous)
no. 2. Christmas Lullaby (Text: John Addington Symonds)
no. 3. A poet gazes at the moon (Text: Stuart Merrill after Judith Gautier) FRE

All titles of vocal settings in Alphabetic order

A bed-time song, op. 6 (Three songs) no. 2 (Text: Lillian Dynevor Rice; Frederick News, MD.)
A garden is a lovesome thing, op. 50 (Four songs) no. 1 (Text: T. E. Brown)
Alastair MacAlastair (Text: Anonymous)
An even psalm, op. 46 (Three songs) no. 1 (Text: Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall)
An Irish mother's lullaby, op. 34 (Text: Mary Elizabeth Blake, née McGrath)
A poet gazes at the moon, op. 8 no. 3 (in Three Songs of the East) (Text: Stuart Merrill after Judith Gautier) FRE
April weather, op. 15 (Five songs for soprano or tenor) no. 3 (Text: Lizette Woodworth Reese)
Arcadie, op. 28 (Three songs) no. 2 (Text: Arthur Willis Colton)
Armida, op. 24 (Three arias for voice and orchestra) no. 2 (Text: Anonymous) [x]
A Song for Candlemas, op. 28 (Three songs) no. 1 (Text: Lizette Woodworth Reese)
A song of May, op. 32 (Two songs) no. 1 (Text: Lizette Woodworth Reese)
A spring song (Text: Charlotte Pendleton)
A thought, op. 37 (Six songs) no. 1 (Text: John Vance Cheney )
Ay de mi from the "Spanish Gypsy" (Text: Mary Ann Evans , as George Eliot)
Before my lady's window gay, op. 19 no. 4 (in Five Norman Songs) (Text: John Addington Symonds)
Betrayed, op. 9 (Four songs) no. 4 (Text: Lizette Woodworth Reese)
Boatman's hymn, op. 13 (Text: Samuel Ferguson, Sir after Volkslieder )
Bonnie Bessie Lee had a face fu o' smiles, op. 20 (Six Scotch Songs für 1 voice with Pianoforte) no. 1 (Text: Robert Nicoll)
Bonnie ran the burnie down, op. 25b (Text: Carolina Oliphant, Lady Nairne)
Chimes, op. 54 (Two songs) no. 2 (Text: Alice Christina Meynell, née Thompson)
Chinese song, op. 6 (Three songs) no. 1 (Text: Stuart Merrill after Judith Gautier) FRE FRE GER GER GER
Christmas Lullaby, op. 8 no. 2 (in Three Songs of the East) (Text: John Addington Symonds)
Collect for the Twenty-first Sunday after Trinity, op. 51 (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts)
Cradle song of the war, op. 55 (Text: N. S. D.)
Day is gone, op. 40 (Four songs) no. 2 (Text: John Vance Cheney )
Dear land of mine, op. 16 (Text: A. M. K. E. after Rudolph Baumbach)
Desire, op. 19 no. 5 (in Five Norman Songs) (Text: John Addington Symonds)
Eros (Text: Louise Chandler Moulton)
Evening , op. 39 (Songs for Lovers of Children) no. 5 (Text: Harriet Fairchild Blodgett)
Ghosts (Text: Richard Kendall Munkittrick)
Heliotrope, op. 9 (Four songs) no. 1 (Text: Frank Dempster Sherman)
Here's a health to ane I lo'e dear (Text: Robert Burns) CZE
I knew the flowers had dreamed of you (Text: John Banister Tabb)
In a garden (Text: Algernon Charles Swinburne)
In a meadow, op. 4 (Text: Anonymous) [x]
In Praespio , op. 56 (Text: Richard Lawson Gales)
In the greenwood, op. 19 no. 2 (in Five Norman Songs) (Text: John Addington Symonds)
In the night, op. 39 (Songs for Lovers of Children) no. 3 (Text: Harriet Fairchild Blodgett)
In the twilight (Text: H. Bowman)
Into my heart, op. 54 (Two songs) no. 1 (Text: Alfred Edward Housman) ITA
Irish love song, op. 22 (Text: Anonymous)
Jock o' Hazeldean, op. 20 (Six Scotch Songs für 1 voice with Pianoforte) no. 6 (Text: Walter Scott, Sir) GER
Just because, op. 39 (Songs for Lovers of Children) no. 2 (Text: Harriet Fairchild Blodgett)
King Olaf's lilies, op. 15 (Five songs for soprano or tenor) no. 1 (Text: Lizette Woodworth Reese)
Lament, op. 6 (Three songs) no. 3 (Text: S. Galler) ENG
Lied der Nebenbuhlerin (Text: Joseph Viktor von Scheffel) ENG
Love is everywhere, op. 40 (Four songs) no. 4 (Text: John Vance Cheney )
Love plumes his wings, op. 11 (Text: Louise Chandler Moulton)
Love plumes his wings, op. 2 (Text: Louise Chandler Moulton)
Love's fear, op. 20 (Six Scotch Songs für 1 voice with Pianoforte) no. 4 (Text: Robert Tannahill)
Lydia, op. 32 (Two songs) no. 2 (Text: Lizette Woodworth Reese)
Maggie away, op. 20 (Six Scotch Songs für 1 voice with Pianoforte) no. 3 (Text: James Hogg , as the Ettrick Shepherd)
Meg Merriles (Text: John Keats)
Mein theures Land, op. 16 (Text: Rudolph Baumbach) ENG
Menie, op. 20 (Six Scotch Songs für 1 voice with Pianoforte) no. 5 (Text: Robert Nicoll)
Merry Christmas, op. 39 (Songs for Lovers of Children) no. 1 (Text: Harriet Fairchild Blodgett)
Morning, op. 39 (Songs for Lovers of Children) no. 4 (Text: Harriet Fairchild Blodgett)
My ain dear Somebody, op. 20 (Six Scotch Songs für 1 voice with Pianoforte) no. 2 (Text: Robert Tannahill)
My garden, op. 28 (Three songs) no. 3 (Text: Philip Bourke Marston)
My Lady Jacqueminot (Text: Julie Mathilde Lippmann)
My true love lies asleep (Text: Lizette Woodworth Reese)
My turtle dove, op. 19 no. 1 (in Five Norman Songs) (Text: John Addington Symonds)
Nameless pain (Text: Thomas Bailey Aldrich)
Night, op. 7 (Three Songs of the Night) no. 1 (Text: Louise Chandler Moulton)
Northward, op. 37 (Six songs) no. 6 (Text: Henry Copley Greene)
Oh, Love, he went a-straying, op. 29 (Text: Lizette Woodworth Reese)
Oh what comes over the sea? (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
Ojala from the "Spanish Gyspy" (Text: Mary Ann Evans , as George Eliot)
On an April apple bough (Text: Anonymous)
Oriental Serenade, op. 8 no. 1 (in Three Songs of the East) (Text: Anonymous)
Orpheus, op. 38 (Four songs) no. 1 (Text: Annie Adams Fields)
Out of the night, op. 46 (Three songs) no. 3 (Text: Anonymous)
Out of the past, op. 37 (Six songs) no. 2 (Text: Anonymous)
Phoebusâ Denunciation of the Furies at his Delphian Shrine, op. 24 (Three arias for voice and orchestra) no. 3 (Text: Anonymous) [x]
Sappho's prayer to Aphrodite, op. 24 (Three arias for voice and orchestra) no. 1 (Text: Anonymous after Sappho) [x] FRE GER GER GER
Sleepy-man, op. 38 (Four songs) no. 2 (Text: Charles George Douglas Roberts)
Slumber song, op. 7 (Three Songs of the Night) no. 2 (Text: Anonymous)
Snowflakes, op. 50 (Four songs) no. 3 (Text: John Vance Cheney )
Sometimes , op. 46 (Three songs) no. 2 (Text: Thomas Samuel Jones, Jr.)
Somewhere, op. 40 (Four songs) no. 1 (Text: John Vance Cheney )
Song in the songless, op. 38 (Four songs) no. 4 (Text: George Meredith)
Song of the lilac, op. 41 (Text: Louise Imogen Guiney)
Song of the rival boatmaid (Text: Anonymous after Joseph Viktor von Scheffel)
Song of the Spanish Gypsies, op. 50 (Four songs) no. 2 (Text: Alma Strettell after Volkslieder )
Song of the three sisters (Text: Anonymous)
Spinning song (Text: Lizette Woodworth Reese)
Spinning song, op. 15 (Five songs for soprano or tenor) no. 5 (Text: Hannah Parker Kimball)
Spinning song, op. 9 (Four songs) no. 2 (Text: Frank Dempster Sherman) [x]
Spring, op. 47 (Text: Anonymous)
St. Joseph's vigil, op. 52 no. 3 (in The Night of the Star: A Christmas Cycle) (Text: Denis A. McCarthy)
Summer noon, op. 37 (Six songs) no. 4 (Text: John Vance Cheney )
The bird in the bush, op. 42 no. ? (in Nonsense Rhymes and Pictures) (Text: Edward Lear)
The bird, op. 40 (Four songs) no. 3 (Text: Charles Kingsley)
The dead ship, op. 15 (Five songs for soprano or tenor) no. 2 (Text: Lizette Woodworth Reese)
The dolorous man of Cape Horn, op. 42 no. ? (in Nonsense Rhymes and Pictures) (Text: Edward Lear)
The garden of roses, op. 15 (Five songs for soprano or tenor) no. 4 (Text: Francis Marion Crawford)
The grief of love, op. 19 no. 3 (in Five Norman Songs) (Text: John Addington Symonds)
The harbor of dreams, op. 7 (Three Songs of the Night) no. 3 (Text: Frank Dempster Sherman)
The hawthorn tree, op. 25 (Text: Nathan Haskell Dole)
The heavenly Noel, op. 57 (Text: Richard Lawson Gales)
The hills o' Skye, op. 37 (Six songs) no. 3 (Text: William McLennan)
The Jumblies, op. 5 (Text: Edward Lear)
The king is dead, op. 27 (Text: Mary Robinson , as Madame Darmesteter)
The lady and the tiger, op. 42 no. ? (in Nonsense Rhymes and Pictures) (Text: Edward Lear; William Cosmo Monkhouse)
The lonely rose, op. 43 (Text: Philip Bourke Marston)
The man and the kettle, op. 42 no. ? (in Nonsense Rhymes and Pictures) (Text: Edward Lear)
The Old Lady of France (in Nonsense Rhymes and Pictures) (Text: Edward Lear) FIN
The Old Man in a tree (in Nonsense Rhymes and Pictures) (Text: Edward Lear) FIN
The Old Man of Dumbree (in Nonsense Rhymes and Pictures) (Text: Edward Lear)
The old man with a beard (in More Nonsense Rhymes and Pictures) (Text: Edward Lear)
The Old Man with a gong (in More Nonsense Rhymes and Pictures) (Text: Edward Lear)
The old person of Cassel (in Nonsense Rhymes and Pictures) (Text: Edward Lear)
The Old Person of Jodd (in Nonsense Rhymes and Pictures) (Text: Edward Lear)
The Old Person of Skye, op. 42 no. ? (in Nonsense Rhymes and Pictures) (Text: Edward Lear)
The Person of Filey, op. 42 no. ? (in Nonsense Rhymes and Pictures) (Text: Edward Lear)
There was an Old Man who said, "Well!" (in Nonsense Rhymes and Pictures) (Text: Edward Lear)
There would I be, op. 50 (Four songs) no. 4 (Text: John Vance Cheney )
The sandman, op. 39 (Songs for Lovers of Children) no. 6 (Text: Harriet Fairchild Blodgett)
The sky ship, op. 9 (Four songs) no. 3 (Text: Frank Dempster Sherman)
The span o' life, op. 38 (Four songs) no. 3 (Text: William McLennan)
The star of Bethlehem, op. 52 no. 1 (in The Night of the Star: A Christmas Cycle) (Text: Denis A. McCarthy)
The vision of Mary, op. 52 no. 2 (in The Night of the Star: A Christmas Cycle) (Text: Denis A. McCarthy)
The wild-brier (Text: John Vance Cheney )
The Young Lady of Parma (in More Nonsense Rhymes and Pictures) (Text: Edward Lear)
The young lady whose eyes (in More Nonsense Rhymes and Pictures) (Text: Edward Lear , as Derry Down Derry)
Three ships, op. 39 (Songs for Lovers of Children) no. 8 (Text: Harriet Fairchild Blodgett)
To-morrow, op. 39 (Songs for Lovers of Children) no. 7 (Text: Harriet Fairchild Blodgett)
To the Fringed Gentian (Text: William Cullen Bryant)
Tryste Noel, op. 37 (Six songs) no. 5 (Text: Louise Imogen Guiney)
When Christ was born, op. 52 no. 4 (in The Night of the Star: A Christmas Cycle) (Text: Denis A. McCarthy)
White butterflies (Text: Algernon Charles Swinburne)
Will nobody answer this bell, op. 42 no. ? (in Nonsense Rhymes and Pictures) (Text: Edward Lear)

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