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Texts to Art Songs and Choral Works by P. Warlock

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Peter Warlock (1894 - 1930) [pseudonym]

Philip Arnold Heseltine

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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.:

  • Candlelight: a cycle of nursery jingles
    • no. 1. How many miles to Babylon?
    • no. 2. I won't be my father's Jack
    • no. 3. Robin and Richard
    • no. 4. O my kitten
    • no. 5. Little Tommy Tucker
    • no. 6. There was an old man
    • no. 7. I had a little pony
    • no. 8. Little Jack Jingle
    • no. 9. There was a man of Thessaly
    • no. 10. Suky, you shall be my wife
    • no. 11. There was an old woman
    • no. 12. Arthur o' Bower
  • Lillygay
    • no. 1. The distracted maid (Text: Anonymous)
    • no. 2. Johnnie wi' the Tye (Text: Victor Neuberg)
    • no. 3. The shoemaker (Text: Anonymous)
    • no. 4. Burd Ellen and Young Tamlane
    • no. 5. Rantum Tantum (Text: Victor Neuberg)
  • Peterisms: first set
    • no. 1. Chopcherry (Text: George Peele) DUT
    • no. 2. A sad song (Text: Francis Beaumont; John Fletcher) DUT GER
    • no. 3. Rutterkin (Text: John Skelton)
  • Peterisms: second set
    • no. 1. Roister Doister (Text: Nicholas Udall)
    • no. 2. Spring (Text: Thomas Nashe) GER
    • no. 3. Lusty Juventus (Text: R. Wever, probably Richard Wever)
  • Saudades
    • no. 1. Along the stream (Text: Launcelot Alfred Cranmer-Byng after Li-Tai-Po)
    • no. 2. Take, o take those lips away (Text: Anonymous) CAT DUT DUT FIN FRE FRE GER GER GER POL
    • no. 3. Heraclitus (Text: William Johnson Cory after Callimachus)
  • Seven Songs of Summer
    • no. . Walking the Woods (Text: ? Bewe)
    • no. 1. The passionate shepherd (Text: Christopher Marlowe)
    • no. 2. The contented lover (Text: James Mabbe after Fernando de Rojas) ⊗
    • no. 3. Youth (Text: R. Wever, probably Richard Wever)
    • no. 4. The sweet o' the year (Text: William Shakespeare) CHI FRE GER
    • no. 5. Tom Tyler (Text: Anonymous)
    • no. 6. Eloré Lo (Text: 17th century)
    • no. 7. The droll lover (Text: 17th century)
  • Sociable Songs
    • no. 1. The Toper's Song
    • no. 2. One more river (Text: Anonymous)
  • The Curlew
    • no. 1. He reproves the curlew (Text: William Butler Yeats) FRE ITA
    • no. 2. The lover mourns for the loss of love (Text: William Butler Yeats) FRE ITA
    • no. 3. The cloths of heaven (Text: William Butler Yeats) FRE GER HUN
    • no. 5. The withering of the boughs (Text: William Butler Yeats) FRE
    • no. 6. He hears the cry of the sedge (Text: William Butler Yeats) FRE
  • Three Belloc Songs
    • no. 1. Ha'nacker Mill (Text: Hilaire Belloc)
    • no. 2. The Night (Text: Hilaire Belloc)
    • no. 3. My Own Country (Text: Hilaire Belloc)
  • Two Short Songs
    • no. 1. I held Love's head (Text: Robert Herrick)
    • no. 2. Thou gav'st me leave to kiss (Text: Robert Herrick)
  • Two Songs
    • no. 1. A lake and a fairy boat (Text: Thomas Hood)
    • no. 2. Music, when soft voices die (Text: Percy Bysshe Shelley) CZE FRE GER GER RUS
  • Two Songs of Arthur Symons
    • no. 1. A prayer to St. Anthony of Padua (Text: Arthur Symons)
    • no. 2. The sick heart (Text: Arthur Symons)
  • Two True Toper's Tunes to Troll with Trulls and Trollops in a Tavern
    • no. 1. Captain Stratton's Fancy (Text: John Masefield)
    • no. 2. Mr. Belloc's Fancy (Text: John Collings Squire, Sir)

All titles of vocal settings in Alphabetic order

  • A Child's Song (Text: Thomas Moore)
  • Adam lay ybounden (Text: 15th century) FRE GER
  • After two years (Text: Richard Aldington )
  • A lake and a fairy boat (in Two Songs) (Text: Thomas Hood)
  • Along the stream (in Saudades) (Text: Launcelot Alfred Cranmer-Byng after Li-Tai-Po)
  • And wilt thou leave me thus? (Text: Thomas Wyatt, Sir)
  • A prayer to St. Anthony of Padua (in Two Songs of Arthur Symons) (Text: Arthur Symons)
  • Arthur o' Bower (in Candlelight: a cycle of nursery jingles)
  • A sad song (in Peterisms: first set) (Text: Francis Beaumont; John Fletcher) DUT GER
  • As dew in Aprylle (Text: Anonymous) ENG ENG ENG ENG FRE
  • As ever I saw (Text: 16th century)
  • Autumn's twilight (Text: Arthur Symons) CHI
  • Away to Twiver (Text: Anonymous)
  • Balulalow (Text: The brothers Wedderburn after Martin Luther) DUT FRE GER
  • Bethlehem Down (Text: Bruce Blunt) [x]
  • Break of day (Text: John Donne)
  • Bright is the ring of words (Text: Robert Louis Stevenson) CAT HUN ITA LIT
  • Burd Ellen and Young Tamlane (in Lillygay)
  • Captain Stratton's Fancy (in Two True Toper's Tunes to Troll with Trulls and Trollops in a Tavern) (Text: John Masefield)
  • Carillon, carilla (Text: Hilaire Belloc)
  • Chanson du Jour de Noël (Text: Clément Marot) ENG
  • Chopcherry (in Peterisms: first set) (Text: George Peele) DUT
  • Consider (Text: Ford Madox Ford)
  • Cradle Song (Text: John Phillip)
  • Dedication (Text: Philip Sidney, Sir)
  • Eloré Lo (in Seven Songs of Summer) (Text: 17th century)
  • Fair and true (Text: Nicholas Breton)
  • Good ale (Text: 15th century)
  • Ha'nacker Mill (in Three Belloc Songs) (Text: Hilaire Belloc)
  • He hears the cry of the sedge (in The Curlew) (Text: William Butler Yeats) FRE
  • Heraclitus (in Saudades) (Text: William Johnson Cory after Callimachus)
  • He reproves the curlew (in The Curlew) (Text: William Butler Yeats) FRE ITA
  • Hey troly loly lo (Text: 16th century)
  • How many miles to Babylon? (in Candlelight: a cycle of nursery jingles)
  • I asked a thief to steal me a peach (Text: William Blake)
  • I had a little pony (in Candlelight: a cycle of nursery jingles)
  • I Have a Garden (Text: Thomas Moore)
  • I held Love's head (in Two Short Songs) (Text: Robert Herrick)
  • In an arbour green (Text: R. Wever, probably Richard Wever)
  • I won't be my father's Jack (in Candlelight: a cycle of nursery jingles)
  • Jadis (Text: Ernest Christopher Dowson)
  • Jenny Gray
  • Jillian of Berry (Text: Anonymous)
  • Johnnie wi' the Tye (in Lillygay) (Text: Victor Neuberg)
  • Late summer (Text: Edward Shanks)
  • Little Jack Jingle (in Candlelight: a cycle of nursery jingles)
  • Little Tommy Tucker (in Candlelight: a cycle of nursery jingles)
  • Little Trotty Wagtail (Text: John Clare)
  • Love for Love
  • Lullaby (Text: Thomas Dekker)
  • Lusty Juventus (in Peterisms: second set) (Text: R. Wever, probably Richard Wever)
  • Maltworms, R. 48 (Text: William Stevenson, Sir)
  • Milkmaids (Text: James Smith, Dr.)
  • Mockery (Text: William Shakespeare) FIN FRE FRE GER GER GER NOR
  • Mourn no more (Text: John Fletcher)
  • Mr. Belloc's Fancy (in Two True Toper's Tunes to Troll with Trulls and Trollops in a Tavern) (Text: John Collings Squire, Sir)
  • Music, when soft voices die (in Two Songs) (Text: Percy Bysshe Shelley) CZE FRE GER GER RUS
  • My gostly fader (Text: Charles, Duc d'Orléans)
  • My Own Country (in Three Belloc Songs) (Text: Hilaire Belloc)
  • My sweet little darling (Text: 16th century)
  • O my kitten (in Candlelight: a cycle of nursery jingles)
  • One more river (in Sociable Songs) (Text: Anonymous)
  • Passing by (Text: Anonymous) GER GER
  • Passing by (Text: Anonymous) GER GER
  • Peter Warlock's Fancy (Text: 15th cent.)
  • Piggésnie (Text: 16th century)
  • Play-acting
  • Pretty ring time (Text: William Shakespeare) FIN FRE GER GER GER
  • Queen Anne
  • Rantum Tantum (in Lillygay) (Text: Victor Neuberg)
  • Rest, sweet nymphs (Text: Anonymous)
  • Robin and Richard (in Candlelight: a cycle of nursery jingles)
  • Robin Goodfellow (Text: Anonymous)
  • Roister Doister (in Peterisms: second set) (Text: Nicholas Udall)
  • Romance (Text: Robert Louis Stevenson) CAT GER ITA LIT
  • Rutterkin (in Peterisms: first set) (Text: John Skelton)
  • Sigh no more, ladies (Text: William Shakespeare) DUT DUT FIN FIN FRE FRE GER ITA ITA POL
  • Sleep (Text: John Fletcher) FRE GER SPA
  • Sorrow's lullaby (Text: Thomas Lovell Beddoes)
  • Spring (in Peterisms: second set) (Text: Thomas Nashe) GER
  • Suky, you shall be my wife (in Candlelight: a cycle of nursery jingles)
  • Sweet-and-Twenty (Text: William Shakespeare) FIN FRE GER GER GER IRI ITA NOR POL
  • Sweet content (Text: Thomas Dekker)
  • Take, o take those lips away (in Saudades) (Text: Anonymous) CAT DUT DUT FIN FRE FRE GER GER GER POL
  • Take, o take those lips away (Text: Anonymous) CAT DUT DUT FIN FRE FRE GER GER GER POL
  • The bachelor (Text: 15th century)
  • The Bayly Berith the Bell Away (Text: 15th century)
  • The birds (Text: Hilaire Belloc)
  • The cloths of heaven (in The Curlew) (Text: William Butler Yeats) FRE GER HUN
  • The contented lover (in Seven Songs of Summer) (Text: James Mabbe after Fernando de Rojas) ⊗
  • The Countryman (Text: John Chalkhill)
  • The distracted maid (in Lillygay) (Text: Anonymous)
  • The droll lover (in Seven Songs of Summer) (Text: 17th century)
  • The everlasting voices (Text: William Butler Yeats)
  • The first mercy (Text: Bruce Blunt)
  • The fox (Text: Bruce Blunt)
  • The Frostbound Wood (Text: Bruce Blunt)
  • The lover mourns for the loss of love (in The Curlew) (Text: William Butler Yeats) FRE ITA
  • The lover mourns for the loss of love (Text: William Butler Yeats) FRE ITA
  • The Lover's Maze (Text: Thomas Campion)
  • The Magpie (Text: Harry Hunter)
  • The Night (in Three Belloc Songs) (Text: Hilaire Belloc)
  • The passionate shepherd (in Seven Songs of Summer) (Text: Christopher Marlowe)
  • There is a lady sweet and kind (Text: Anonymous) GER GER
  • There was a man of Thessaly (in Candlelight: a cycle of nursery jingles)
  • There was an old man (in Candlelight: a cycle of nursery jingles)
  • There was an old woman (in Candlelight: a cycle of nursery jingles)
  • The shoemaker (in Lillygay) (Text: Anonymous)
  • The sick heart (in Two Songs of Arthur Symons) (Text: Arthur Symons)
  • The singer (Text: Edward Shanks)
  • The spring of the year (Text: Allan Cunningham)
  • The sweet o' the year (in Seven Songs of Summer) (Text: William Shakespeare) CHI FRE GER
  • The Toper's Song (in Sociable Songs)
  • The water lily (Text: Robert Malise Bowyer Nichols)
  • The Wind from the West (Text: Ella Young)
  • The withering of the boughs (in The Curlew) (Text: William Butler Yeats) FRE
  • Thou gav'st me leave to kiss (in Two Short Songs) (Text: Robert Herrick)
  • Tom Tyler (in Seven Songs of Summer) (Text: Anonymous)
  • To the memory of a great singer (Text: Robert Louis Stevenson) CAT HUN ITA LIT
  • Twelve Oxen (Text: early 16th century)
  • Tyrley Tyrlow (Text: 16th century)
  • Walking the Woods (in Seven Songs of Summer) (Text: ? Bewe)
  • Whenas the rye (Text: George Peele) DUT
  • Willow, willow
  • Wine comes in at the mouth (Text: William Butler Yeats) FRE IRI
  • Yarmouth Fair (Text: Hal Collins)
  • Youth (in Seven Songs of Summer) (Text: R. Wever, probably Richard Wever)

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