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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Song Cycles, Collections, Symphonies, etc.:

Candlelight: a cycle of nursery jingles

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: 17^th 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: 15^th 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: 16^th 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: 17^th century)
Fair and true (Text: Nicholas Breton)
Good ale (Text: 15^th 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: 16^th 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: 16^th 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: 15^th cent.)
Piggésnie (Text: 16^th 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) CAT 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: 15^th century)
The Bayly Berith the Bell Away (Text: 15^th 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 16^th century)
Tyrley Tyrlow (Text: 16^th 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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