Texts to Art Songs and Choral Works by A. Somervell

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Song Cycles, Collections, Symphonies, etc.:

• A Broken Arc
• no. 1. Song (Text: Robert Browning)
• no. 2. Meeting at Night (Text: Robert Browning) GER
• no. 3. My star (Text: Robert Browning)
• no. 4. Song (Text: Robert Browning)
• no. 5. The Worst of It (Text: Robert Browning)
• no. 6. After (Text: Robert Browning)
• no. 7. From Easter-Day (Text: Robert Browning)
• no. 8. The year's at the spring (Text: Robert Browning) GER ITA
• Album of Seven Songs
• no. 1. The Mad Lover's Song (Text: Charles Dibdin) [x]
• no. 2. Three shadows (Text: Dante Gabriel Rossetti)
• no. 3. The Mother's Dream (Text: William Barnes) [x]
• no. 4. Young Sir Guyon (Text: Stopford Augustus Brooke) [x]
• no. 5. Lay a garland (Text: Francis Beaumont; John Fletcher) DUT GER
• no. 6. O Nanny wilt thou gang with me (Text: Volkslieder )
• no. 7. O my Queen (Text: Mark Collet) [x]
• A Shropshire Lad
• no. 1. Loveliest of trees (Text: Alfred Edward Housman) FRE HEB
• no. 2. When I was one-and-twenty (Text: Alfred Edward Housman) FRE GER HEB
• no. 3. There pass the careless people (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
• no. 4. In summertime on Bredon (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
• no. 5. The street sounds to the soldiers' tread (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
• no. 6. On the idle hill of summer (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
• no. 7. White in the moon the long road lies (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
• no. 8. Think no more, lad (Text: Alfred Edward Housman) FRE HEB
• no. 9. Into my heart an air that kills (Text: Alfred Edward Housman) ITA
• no. 10. The lads in their hundreds to Ludlow come in for the fair (Text: Alfred Edward Housman) FRE HEB
• Five Songs of Innocence (formerly Four Songs of Innocence)
• no. 1. The shepherd (Text: William Blake) CAT
• no. 2. The blossom (Text: William Blake)
• no. 4. The lamb (Text: William Blake) CAT GER GER RUS
• no. 4. Nurse's song (Text: William Blake)
• no. 5. Piping down the valleys wild (Text: William Blake) RUS
• James Lee's Wife
• no. 1. James Lee's wife speaks at the window (Text: Robert Browning) GER ITA
• no. 2. By the fireside (Text: Robert Browning)
• no. 3. In the doorway (Text: Robert Browning)
• no. 4. On the cliff (Text: Robert Browning)
• no. 5. Among the rocks (Text: Robert Browning)
• Love in Spring-Time
• no. 1. I cannot tell what you say (Text: Charles Kingsley)
• no. 2. Dainty little maiden (Text: Alfred Tennyson, Lord)
• no. 3. Young Love lies sleeping (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
• no. 4. Underneath the growing grass (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
• no. 5. O what comes over the sea (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
• no. 6. The Night Bird (Text: Charles Kingsley)
• no. 7. Spring is here (Text: Ethel Speare) [x]
• Cycle of Songs from Tennyson's Maud
• no. 1. I hate the dreadful hollow (Text: Alfred Tennyson, Lord)
• no. 2. A voice by the cedar tree (Text: Alfred Tennyson, Lord)
• no. 3. She came to the village church (Text: Alfred Tennyson, Lord)
• no. 4. O let the solid ground (Text: Alfred Tennyson, Lord)
• no. 5. Birds in the high hall garden (Text: Alfred Tennyson, Lord)
• no. 6. Maud has a garden (Text: Alfred Tennyson, Lord)
• no. 7. Go not, happy day (Text: Alfred Tennyson, Lord) GER
• no. 8. I have led her home (Text: Alfred Tennyson, Lord)
• no. 9. Come into the garden, Maud (Text: Alfred Tennyson, Lord)
• no. 10. The fault was mine (Text: Alfred Tennyson, Lord)
• no. 11. Dead, long dead (Text: Alfred Tennyson, Lord)
• no. 12. O that 'twere possible (Text: Alfred Tennyson, Lord)
• no. 13. My life has crept so long (Text: Alfred Tennyson, Lord)
• Six Songs by Robert Burns
• no. 1. Mary Morison (Text: Robert Burns) CZE FRE GER GER GER HUN
• no. 2. Of a' the airts (Text: Robert Burns) CZE DAN FRE GER GER GER
• no. 3. Behold the hour (Text: Robert Burns)
• no. 4. Go fetch to me a pint o' wine (Text: Robert Burns) GER
• no. 5. A red, red rose (Text: Robert Burns) CZE DAN FRE GER GER GER GER GRE HUN IRI RUS SWG
• no. 6. Out over the Forth (Text: Robert Burns) GER
• The Twins' Tune Book
• no. 1. My bed is a boat (Text: Robert Louis Stevenson) ITA
• no. 2. The Wind (Text: Robert Louis Stevenson) CHI
• no. 3. Dolly's Lullaby (Text: Arthur Somervell, Sir) [x]
• no. 4. Pirate story (Text: Robert Louis Stevenson)
• no. 5. Bed in summer (Text: Robert Louis Stevenson) ITA
• no. 6. Night (Text: William Blake)
• no. 7. Windy Nights (Text: Robert Louis Stevenson) FRE FRE GER
• no. 8. Where go the boats? (Text: Robert Louis Stevenson) ITA
• no. 9. My shadow (Text: Robert Louis Stevenson)
• no. 10. Donald (Text: Harry Wilson, Sir) [x]
• no. 11. How sweet is the shepherd's sweet lot! (Text: William Blake) CAT
• no. 12. Fairy song (Text: Thomas Hood)
• Three New Old Songs
• no. 1. To Lucasta, on going to the wars (Text: Richard Lovelace) GER
• no. 2. Orpheus with his lute (Text: John Fletcher) DUT FIN FRE GER GER GER SWE
• no. 3. O mistress mine (Text: William Shakespeare) FIN FRE GER GER GER IRI ITA NOR POL
• Three Songs with Piano
• no. 1. The Bargain (Text: Philip Sidney, Sir) FRE GER
• no. 2. Love's apology (Text: Anonymous)
• no. 3. Come to me in my dreams (Text: Matthew Arnold)
• Tuscan Cypress: Four Songs
• no. 1. Come away sorrow (Text: Mary Robinson) [x]
• no. 2. Let us forget (Text: Mary Robinson)
• no. 3. I love you more than words can say (Text: Mary Robinson) [x]
• no. 4. O love! O love! come over the sea (Text: Mary Robinson) [x]
• Wind Flowers
• no. 1. Twist me a crown of wind-flowers (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
• no. 2. High over the Breakers (Text: Sydney Thompson Dobell) [x]
• no. 3. The wind has such a rainy sound (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
• no. 4. Hope is like a harebell (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
• no. 5. Two doves on the self-same branch (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
• no. 6. Music, when soft voices die (Text: Percy Bysshe Shelley) CZE FRE GER GER RUS
• no. 7. When a mounting skylark sings (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
• no. 8. Going to bed (Text: Robert Louis Stevenson)
• no. 9. Windy Nights (Text: Robert Louis Stevenson) FRE FRE GER

All titles of vocal settings in Alphabetic order

• After (in A Broken Arc) (Text: Robert Browning)
• A Kingdom by the Sea (Text: Edgar Allan Poe) FRE RUS
• Among the rocks (in James Lee's Wife) (Text: Robert Browning)
• A Pretty Maid (Text: Harold Boulton, Sir)
• A red, red rose (in Six Songs by Robert Burns) (Text: Robert Burns) CZE DAN FRE GER GER GER GER GRE HUN IRI RUS SWG
• As thro' the land (Text: Alfred Tennyson, Lord) GER
• A voice by the cedar tree (in Cycle of Songs from Tennyson's Maud) (Text: Alfred Tennyson, Lord)
• Bed in summer (in The Twins' Tune Book) (Text: Robert Louis Stevenson) ITA
• Behold the hour (in Six Songs by Robert Burns) (Text: Robert Burns)
• Birds in the high hall garden (in Cycle of Songs from Tennyson's Maud) (Text: Alfred Tennyson, Lord)
• By the fireside (in James Lee's Wife) (Text: Robert Browning)
• Charge of the Light Brigade (Text: Alfred Tennyson, Lord)
• Come away sorrow (in Tuscan Cypress: Four Songs) (Text: Mary Robinson) [x]
• Come into the garden, Maud (in Cycle of Songs from Tennyson's Maud) (Text: Alfred Tennyson, Lord)
• Come to me in my dreams (in Three Songs with Piano) (Text: Matthew Arnold)
• Crossing the Bar (Text: Alfred Tennyson, Lord) CHI
• Dainty little maiden (in Love in Spring-Time) (Text: Alfred Tennyson, Lord)
• Dead, long dead (in Cycle of Songs from Tennyson's Maud) (Text: Alfred Tennyson, Lord)
• Dolly's Lullaby (in The Twins' Tune Book) (Text: Arthur Somervell, Sir) [x]
• Donald (in The Twins' Tune Book) (Text: Harry Wilson, Sir) [x]
• Dreamiland (Text: Ethel Speare) [x]
• Evening shadows [x]
• Fairy song (in The Twins' Tune Book) (Text: Thomas Hood)
• Forget not yet (Text: Thomas Wyatt, Sir)
• From Easter-Day (in A Broken Arc) (Text: Robert Browning)
• Go fetch to me a pint o' wine (in Six Songs by Robert Burns) (Text: Robert Burns) GER
• Go, heart, unto the Lamp of Light: a gude and Godlie ballad (Text: The brothers Wedderburn ) [x]
• Going to bed (in Wind Flowers) (Text: Robert Louis Stevenson)
• Go not, happy day (in Cycle of Songs from Tennyson's Maud) (Text: Alfred Tennyson, Lord) GER
• High over the Breakers (in Wind Flowers) (Text: Sydney Thompson Dobell) [x]
• Home they brought her warrior dead (Text: Alfred Tennyson, Lord) GER
• Hope is like a harebell (in Wind Flowers) (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
• How sweet is the shepherd's sweet lot! (in The Twins' Tune Book) (Text: William Blake) CAT
• I cannot tell what you say (in Love in Spring-Time) (Text: Charles Kingsley)
• I hate the dreadful hollow (in Cycle of Songs from Tennyson's Maud) (Text: Alfred Tennyson, Lord)
• I have led her home (in Cycle of Songs from Tennyson's Maud) (Text: Alfred Tennyson, Lord)
• I love her (Text: Mark Collet) [x]
• I love you more than words can say (in Tuscan Cypress: Four Songs) (Text: Mary Robinson) [x]
• In summertime on Bredon (in A Shropshire Lad) (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
• In the doorway (in James Lee's Wife) (Text: Robert Browning)
• In the early dawning (Text: Ethel Speare) [x]
• Into my heart an air that kills (in A Shropshire Lad) (Text: Alfred Edward Housman) ITA
• James Lee's wife speaks at the window (in James Lee's Wife) (Text: Robert Browning) GER ITA
• Lay a garland (in Album of Seven Songs) (Text: Francis Beaumont; John Fletcher) DUT GER
• Let us forget (in Tuscan Cypress: Four Songs) (Text: Mary Robinson)
• Loveliest of trees (in A Shropshire Lad) (Text: Alfred Edward Housman) FRE HEB
• Love not me for comely grace (Text: Anonymous)
• Love's apology (in Three Songs with Piano) (Text: Anonymous)
• Love unto love (Text: K. Margeson) [x]
• Mary Morison (in Six Songs by Robert Burns) (Text: Robert Burns) CZE FRE GER GER GER HUN
• Maud has a garden (in Cycle of Songs from Tennyson's Maud) (Text: Alfred Tennyson, Lord)
• Meeting at Night (in A Broken Arc) (Text: Robert Browning) GER
• Mine own country (Text: Katharine Tynan) [x]
• Music, when soft voices die (in Wind Flowers) (Text: Percy Bysshe Shelley) CZE FRE GER GER RUS
• My bed is a boat (in The Twins' Tune Book) (Text: Robert Louis Stevenson) ITA
• My life has crept so long (in Cycle of Songs from Tennyson's Maud) (Text: Alfred Tennyson, Lord)
• My shadow (in The Twins' Tune Book) (Text: Robert Louis Stevenson)
• My star (in A Broken Arc) (Text: Robert Browning)
• My true love hath my heart (Text: Philip Sidney, Sir)
• Night (in The Twins' Tune Book) (Text: William Blake)
• Nurse's song (in Five Songs of Innocence (formerly Four Songs of Innocence)) (Text: William Blake)
• Of a' the airts (in Six Songs by Robert Burns) (Text: Robert Burns) CZE DAN FRE GER GER GER
• O let the solid ground (in Cycle of Songs from Tennyson's Maud) (Text: Alfred Tennyson, Lord)
• O love! O love! come over the sea (in Tuscan Cypress: Four Songs) (Text: Mary Robinson) [x]
• O mistress mine (in Three New Old Songs) (Text: William Shakespeare) FIN FRE GER GER GER IRI ITA NOR POL
• O moonlight deep and tender (Text: James Russell Lowell) CHI
• O my Queen (in Album of Seven Songs) (Text: Mark Collet) [x]
• O Nanny wilt thou gang with me (in Album of Seven Songs) (Text: Volkslieder )
• On a summer morning (Text: Ethel Speare) [x]
• On the cliff (in James Lee's Wife) (Text: Robert Browning)
• On the idle hill of summer (in A Shropshire Lad) (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
• Orpheus with his lute (in Three New Old Songs) (Text: John Fletcher) DUT FIN FRE GER GER GER SWE
• O stay, sweet warbling woodlark, stay (Text: Robert Burns) CZE GER GER
• O Swallow, Swallow (Text: Alfred Tennyson, Lord)
• O that 'twere possible (in Cycle of Songs from Tennyson's Maud) (Text: Alfred Tennyson, Lord)
• Out over the Forth (in Six Songs by Robert Burns) (Text: Robert Burns) GER
• O were my Love yon lilac fair (Text: Robert Burns) CZE FRE GER GER GER GER SPA
• O what comes over the sea (in Love in Spring-Time) (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
• Peace (Text: Henry Vaughan) FRE
• Phyllis in the Hay (Text: Laurence Housman) [x]
• Piping down the valleys wild (in Five Songs of Innocence (formerly Four Songs of Innocence)) (Text: William Blake) RUS
• Pirate story (in The Twins' Tune Book) (Text: Robert Louis Stevenson)
• She came to the village church (in Cycle of Songs from Tennyson's Maud) (Text: Alfred Tennyson, Lord)
• Shepherd's cradle song [x]
• Shepherd's cradle song (Text: Anonymous after Volkslieder ) CAT DUT FRE
• Silent worship (Text: Anonymous) IRI
• Sleep baby sleep [x]
• Sleep Little Pigeon (Text: Eugene Field)
• Song (in A Broken Arc) (Text: Robert Browning)
• Song (in A Broken Arc) (Text: Robert Browning)
• Spring is here (in Love in Spring-Time) (Text: Ethel Speare) [x]
• Sweet and low (Text: Alfred Tennyson, Lord) GER GER GER
• Sweet Kate (Text: Anonymous)
• Take, o take those lips away (Text: Anonymous) CAT DUT DUT FIN FRE FRE GER GER GER POL
• Tears, idle tears (Text: Alfred Tennyson, Lord)
• The Bargain (in Three Songs with Piano) (Text: Philip Sidney, Sir) FRE GER
• The blossom (in Five Songs of Innocence (formerly Four Songs of Innocence)) (Text: William Blake)
• The fault was mine (in Cycle of Songs from Tennyson's Maud) (Text: Alfred Tennyson, Lord)
• The Forsaken Merman (Text: Matthew Arnold)
• The Gentle Maid (Text: Ethel Speare) [x]
• The Handy Man (Text: Harold Begbie) [x]
• The lads in their hundreds to Ludlow come in for the fair (in A Shropshire Lad) (Text: Alfred Edward Housman) FRE HEB
• The lamb (Text: William Blake) CAT GER GER RUS
• The lamb (in Five Songs of Innocence (formerly Four Songs of Innocence)) (Text: William Blake) CAT GER GER RUS
• The lovely lass of Inverness (Text: Robert Burns) CZE FRE GER GER GER ITA POL
• The Mad Lover's Song (in Album of Seven Songs) (Text: Charles Dibdin) [x]
• The Mother's Dream (in Album of Seven Songs) (Text: William Barnes) [x]
• The Night Bird (in Love in Spring-Time) (Text: Charles Kingsley)
• There pass the careless people (in A Shropshire Lad) (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
• The Sensible Lover (Text: Arthur Somervell, Sir) [x]
• The shepherd (in Five Songs of Innocence (formerly Four Songs of Innocence)) (Text: William Blake) CAT
• The Silent Voice (Text: Laurence Alma-Tadema) [x]
• The street sounds to the soldiers' tread (in A Shropshire Lad) (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
• The wind has such a rainy sound (in Wind Flowers) (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
• The Wind (in The Twins' Tune Book) (Text: Robert Louis Stevenson) CHI
• The Worst of It (in A Broken Arc) (Text: Robert Browning)
• The year's at the spring (in A Broken Arc) (Text: Robert Browning) GER ITA
• Thine am I, my faithful Fair (Text: Robert Burns) CZE GER
• Think no more, lad (in A Shropshire Lad) (Text: Alfred Edward Housman) FRE HEB
• Three shadows (in Album of Seven Songs) (Text: Dante Gabriel Rossetti)
• To Lucasta, on going to the wars (in Three New Old Songs) (Text: Richard Lovelace) GER
• Twist me a crown of wind-flowers (in Wind Flowers) (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
• Two doves on the self-same branch (in Wind Flowers) (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
• Underneath the growing grass (in Love in Spring-Time) (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
• Was it all a dream? (Text: Mark Collet) [x]
• Weep you no more, sad fountains (Text: 16^th century) FRE GER
• When a mounting skylark sings (in Wind Flowers) (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
• When I am dead (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti) GER GER GER GER ITA
• When I was one-and-twenty (in A Shropshire Lad) (Text: Alfred Edward Housman) FRE GER HEB
• When spring returns (Text: Arthur Somervell, Sir)
• When the morning sun is making sleep-enchain'd creation free (Text: Mark Collet) [x]
• Where go the boats? (in The Twins' Tune Book) (Text: Robert Louis Stevenson) ITA
• White in the moon the long road lies (in A Shropshire Lad) (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
• Why lingers my gaze? (Text: Felicia Dorothea Hemans)
• Will you come back home? (Text: Gilbert Parker)
• Windy Nights (in Wind Flowers) (Text: Robert Louis Stevenson) FRE FRE GER
• Windy Nights (in The Twins' Tune Book) (Text: Robert Louis Stevenson) FRE FRE GER
• Wynken, Blynken and Nod (Text: Eugene Field)
• Young Love lies sleeping (in Love in Spring-Time) (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
• Young Sir Guyon (in Album of Seven Songs) (Text: Stopford Augustus Brooke) [x]
• [No Title] (Text: John Ceiriog Hughes after Felicia Dorothea Hemans) [x]

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