Texts to Art Songs and Choral Works by E. Maconchy
Legend:
The symbol [x] indicates a placeholder for a text that is not yet in the database.
The symbol ⊗ indicates a translation that is missing an original text.
A * indicates that a text cannot (yet?) be displayed on this site because of its copyright status.
Note: A language code in a blue rectangle like ENG indicates that a translation to that language is available.
A grey rectangle like FRE indicates a particular translation (usually one set to music) exists but isn't yet available.
Song Cycles, Collections, Symphonies, etc.:
- 3 Songs for Tracey Chadwell
- no. 1. In Memory of W.B. Yeats I (Text: W. H. Auden)
- no. 2. In Memory of W.B. Yeats II (Text: W. H. Auden)
- no. 3. It's No Go (Text: Louis MacNeice)
- Creatures
- no. 1. The hen and the carp (Text: Ian Serraillier)
- no. 2. The snail (Text: John Reeves) *
- no. 3. Rendez-vous with a beetle (Text: Emile Victor Rieu, CBE) *
- no. 4. Tiger! Tiger! (Text: William Blake) CAT CHI FRE GER GER RUS
- no. 4. Cat's funeral (Text: Emile Victor Rieu, CBE) *
- no. 6. The dove and the wren (Text: Volkslieder )
- no. 7. Cat! (Text: Eleanor Farjeon)
- Four Miniatures
- no. 1. Light the lamps up, lamplighter (Text: Eleanor Farjeon)
- no. 2. For snow (Text: Eleanor Farjeon)
- no. 3. The night will never stay (Text: Eleanor Farjeon)
- no. 4. For a mocking voice (Text: Eleanor Farjeon)
- Four Shakespeare Songs
- no. 1. O take those lips away (Text: Anonymous) CAT DUT DUT FIN FRE FRE GER GER GER POL
- no. 2. The wind and the rain (Text: William Shakespeare) CAT DAN FIN FRE GER NOR POL RUS SWE
- no. 3. Come away Death (Text: William Shakespeare) DUT DUT FIN FRE GER GER GER GER ITA NOR NOR POL SWE
- no. 3. King Stephen (Text: William Shakespeare after Volkslieder ) FRE RUS SPA
- Nocturnal
- no. 1. Come!
- no. 2. Will you come? (Text: Edward Thomas , as Edward Eastaway)
- no. 3. To the night (Text: Percy Bysshe Shelley) CZE GER HUN
- Sun, Moon and Stars
- no. 1. Sun, moon and stars (Text: Thomas Traherne)
- no. 2. The hill (Text: Thomas Traherne)
- no. 3. Solitude (Text: Thomas Traherne)
- no. 4. Clothed with the stars (Text: Thomas Traherne)
- The Garland: Variations on a Theme
- no. 1. The Garland (Text: William R. LeFanu after Anacreon) [x] ⊗*
- no. 2. Old and Young (Text: William R. LeFanu after Anacreon) [x] ⊗*
- no. 3. I Would I Were a Mirror (Text: William R. LeFanu after Anacreon) [x] ⊗*
- no. 4. No End to Love (Text: William R. LeFanu after Anacreon) [x] ⊗*
- Three Songs for Voice and Harp
- no. 1. A widow-bird sate mourning (Text: Percy Bysshe Shelley) CZE ITA RUS
- no. 2. So, we'll go no more a roving (Text: George Gordon Noel Byron, Lord Byron) FRE GER
- no. 3. The knot there's no untying (Text: Thomas Campbell)
- Two Epitaphs
- no. 1. Our life is nothing but a winter's day (Text: Francis Quarles)
- no. 2. As the tree falls (Text: Anonymous)
All titles of vocal settings in Alphabetic order
- A Hymne to Christ (Text: John Donne)
- A Hymn to God the Father (Text: John Donne)
- All the flowers (Text: Anonymous) [x]
- A meditation for his mistress (Text: Robert Herrick)
- As the tree falls (in Two Epitaphs) (Text: Anonymous)
- A widow-bird sate mourning (in Three Songs for Voice and Harp) (Text: Percy Bysshe Shelley) CZE ITA RUS
- Butterflies (Text: John Ray)
- Cat's funeral (in Creatures) (Text: Emile Victor Rieu, CBE) *
- Cat! (in Creatures) (Text: Eleanor Farjeon)
- Clothed with the stars (in Sun, Moon and Stars) (Text: Thomas Traherne)
- Come away Death (in Four Shakespeare Songs) (Text: William Shakespeare) DUT DUT FIN FRE GER GER GER GER ITA NOR NOR POL SWE
- Come! (in Nocturnal)
- For a mocking voice (in Four Miniatures) (Text: Eleanor Farjeon)
- For snow (in Four Miniatures) (Text: Eleanor Farjeon)
- Harp Song of the Dane Women (Text: Rudyard Kipling)
- Have you seen but a bright lily grow? (Text: Ben Jonson)
- Héloïse and Abelard [cantata] (Text: Anonymous) [x]
- How Samson bore away the Gates of Gaza (Text: Vachel Lindsay)
- I made another song (Text: Robert Seymour Bridges)
- Impetuous heart, be still (Text: William Butler Yeats) FRE
- In Fountain Court (Text: Arthur Symons) CHI
- In Memory of W.B. Yeats I (in 3 Songs for Tracey Chadwell) (Text: W. H. Auden)
- In Memory of W.B. Yeats II (in 3 Songs for Tracey Chadwell) (Text: W. H. Auden)
- It's No Go (in 3 Songs for Tracey Chadwell) (Text: Louis MacNeice)
- I Would I Were a Mirror (in The Garland: Variations on a Theme) (Text: William R. LeFanu after Anacreon) [x] ⊗*
- King Stephen (in Four Shakespeare Songs) (Text: William Shakespeare after Volkslieder ) FRE RUS SPA
- Light the lamps up, lamplighter (in Four Miniatures) (Text: Eleanor Farjeon)
- Martin said to this man (Text: Anonymous) [x]
- My sweet sweeting (Text: Anonymous) [x]
- No End to Love (in The Garland: Variations on a Theme) (Text: William R. LeFanu after Anacreon) [x] ⊗*
- Old and Young (in The Garland: Variations on a Theme) (Text: William R. LeFanu after Anacreon) [x] ⊗*
- O mistress mine (Text: William Shakespeare) FIN FRE GER GER GER IRI ITA NOR POL
- On Stephenses day (Text: Anonymous)
- Ophelia's song (Text: Anonymous after Walter Raleigh, Sir) FRE GER GER GER GER ITA POL
- O take those lips away (in Four Shakespeare Songs) (Text: Anonymous) CAT DUT DUT FIN FRE FRE GER GER GER POL
- Our life is nothing but a winter's day (in Two Epitaphs) (Text: Francis Quarles)
- Peace (Text: Gerard Manley Hopkins)
- Prayer before birth (Text: Louis MacNeice)
- Propheta mendax (Text: Anonymous) ENG
- Rendez-vous with a beetle (in Creatures) (Text: Emile Victor Rieu, CBE) *
- Sailor's song of the two balconies (Text: Sheila Wingfield) [x]*
- Sirens' song (Text: William Browne, of Tavistock)
- Sleep brings no joy to me (Text: Emily Brontë)
- Solitude (in Sun, Moon and Stars) (Text: Thomas Traherne)
- So, we'll go no more a roving (in Three Songs for Voice and Harp) (Text: George Gordon Noel Byron, Lord Byron) FRE GER
- Still falls the rain (Text: Edith Sitwell)
- Sun, moon and stars (in Sun, Moon and Stars) (Text: Thomas Traherne)
- The Arab (Text: George Meredith)
- The bellman (Text: Robert Herrick)
- The call (Text: Anonymous) [x]
- The Cloths of Heaven (Text: William Butler Yeats) FRE GER HUN
- The disillusion (Text: Sheila Wingfield) [x]*
- The dove and the wren (in Creatures) (Text: Volkslieder )
- The exequy (Text: Henry King)
- The Garland (in The Garland: Variations on a Theme) (Text: William R. LeFanu after Anacreon) [x] ⊗*
- The hen and the carp (in Creatures) (Text: Ian Serraillier)
- The hill (in Sun, Moon and Stars) (Text: Thomas Traherne)
- The knot there's no untying (in Three Songs for Voice and Harp) (Text: Thomas Campbell)
- The night will never stay (in Four Miniatures) (Text: Eleanor Farjeon)
- There is a lady sweet and kind (Text: Anonymous) GER GER
- There is no rose (Text: 15th-century) FRE GER
- The snail (in Creatures) (Text: John Reeves) *
- The sun rising (Text: John Donne)
- The thrush (Text: John Keats)
- The wind and the rain (in Four Shakespeare Songs) (Text: William Shakespeare) CAT DAN FIN FRE GER NOR POL RUS SWE
- The Winkle Woman (Text: Sigerson Clifford) [x]*
- The woodspurge (Text: Dante Gabriel Rossetti)
- Tiger! Tiger! (in Creatures) (Text: William Blake) CAT CHI FRE GER GER RUS
- To the night (in Nocturnal) (Text: Percy Bysshe Shelley) CZE GER HUN
- Will you come? (in Nocturnal) (Text: Edward Thomas , as Edward Eastaway)
Last update: 2025-06-05 04:23:51