Texts to Art Songs and Choral Works by C. Wood

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Charles Wood (1866 - 1926)

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Five Songs for High Voice

no. 1. The splendour falls (Text: Alfred Tennyson, Lord) CAT FRE GER NYN SPA
no. 2. Ask me no more (Text: Alfred Tennyson, Lord)
no. 3. Fortune and her wheel (Text: Alfred Tennyson, Lord) DUT FRI
no. 4. At the mid hour of night (Text: Thomas Moore after Volkslieder ) FRE
no. 5. Echo (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti) GER

Four Songs

no. 1. An Ancient Love Song (Text: R. Wever, probably Richard Wever)
no. 2. Song (Text: John Suckling, Sir) GER
no. 3. Song (Text: Thomas, Lord Vaux)
no. 4. Song (Text: Thomas Wyatt, Sir)

Kikirikee [multi-composer]

no. ?. All the bells were ringing, composed by Charles Wood (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
no. ?. Angels at the foot, composed by Charles Wood (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
no. ?. Dancing on the hill-tops, composed by Craig Sellar Lang (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
no. ?. A diamond or a coal?, composed by Henry George Ley (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
no. ?. Eight o'clock, the postman's knock, composed by Herbert Norman Howells (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
no. ?. An emerald is as green as grass, composed by Charles Wood (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
no. ?. Hear what the mournful linnets say, composed by Emily Daymond (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
no. ?. Heartsease in my garden bed, composed by R. T. White (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
no. ?. Hopping frog, composed by Charles Macpherson (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
no. ?. I am a King, composed by Craig Sellar Lang (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
no. ?. I know a baby, composed by William Henry Harris, Sir (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
no. ?. If a mouse could fly, composed by Thomas Frederick Dunhill (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
no. ?. If all were rain, composed by Martin Akerman (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
no. ?. If I were a Queen, composed by Charles Macpherson (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
no. ?. If the sun could tell us half, composed by William Henry Harris, Sir (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
no. ?. Lie a-bed, sleepy head, composed by Charles Wood (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
no. ?. A linnet in a gilded cage, composed by Hilda M. Grieveson (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
no. ?. Love me, -- I love you, composed by Thomas Frederick Dunhill (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
no. ?. Margaret has a milking-pail, composed by George Dyson (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
no. ?. Mother shake the cherry-tree, composed by Herbert Norman Howells (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
no. ?. O wind, why do you never rest, composed by Martin Akerman (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
no. ?. Oh, fair to see, composed by John Francis Holcombe Read (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
no. ?. When a mounting skylark sings, composed by Edgar Leslie Bainton (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
no. ?. Pussy has a whiskered face, composed by Hubert S. Middleton (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
no. ?. Rushes in a watery place, composed by Alan Palmer (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
no. ?. The days are clear, composed by Herbert Norman Howells (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
no. ?. O wind, where have you been, composed by Emily Daymond (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
no. ?. There's snow on the fields, composed by Hilda M. Grieveson (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
no. ?. Three plum buns, composed by John Francis Holcombe Read (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
no. ?. Twist me a crown of wind-flowers, composed by Basil Harwood (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
no. ?. Wee wee husband, composed by Craig Sellar Lang (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
no. ?. When the cows come home, composed by Edgar Leslie Bainton (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
no. ?. Your brother has a falcon, composed by Dorothy Wauchope Stewart (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)

Kookoorookoo and other songs [multi-composer]

no. ?. Who has seen the wind?, composed by John Frederick Bridge (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
no. ?. Fly away, fly away over the sea, composed by (Henry) Walford Davies, Sir (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti) GER
no. ?. Growing in the vale, composed by Alfred Jethro Silver (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
no. ?. Hope is like a harebell trembling from its birth, composed by John Frederick Bridge (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
no. ?. The horses of the sea, composed by Charles Villiers Stanford, Sir (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
no. ?. If a pig wore a wig, composed by Walter Parratt (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
no. ?. Ferry me across the water, composed by Charles Villiers Stanford, Sir (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti) GER
no. ?. I dug and dug amongst the snow, composed by Walter Galpin Alcock (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
no. ?. If hope grew on a bush, composed by Thomas Frederick Dunhill (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
no. ?. Is the moon tired? she looks so pale, composed by Alexander Campbell MacKenzie, Sir (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
no. ?. Kookoorookoo, composed by Thomas Frederick Dunhill (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
no. ?. Lullaby, oh lullaby!, composed by (Henry) Walford Davies, Sir (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
no. ?. Mix a pancake, composed by Charles Wood (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
no. ?. A motherless soft lambkin, composed by Alexander Campbell MacKenzie, Sir (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
no. ?. Boats sail on the rivers, composed by Charles Wood (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
no. ?. Brown and furry, composed by Charles Hubert Hastings Parry, Sir (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
no. ?. The peacock has a score of eyes, composed by Charles Hubert Hastings Parry, Sir (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
no. ?. A pin has a head but has no hair, composed by Charles Harford Lloyd (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
no. ?. Sing me a song, composed by Walter Parratt (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
no. ?. What do the stars do?, composed by Donald Francis Tovey (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
no. ?. A rose has thorns as well as honey, composed by Charles Harford Lloyd (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
no. ?. A white hen sitting, composed by Percy Carter Buck, Sir (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
no. ?. Rosy maiden Winifred, composed by Walter Parratt (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
no. ?. The summer nights are short, composed by Charles Villiers Stanford, Sir (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti) GER
no. ?. The wind has such a rainy sound, composed by Charles Hubert Hastings Parry, Sir (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
no. ?. What is pink?, composed by Charles Wood (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)

Ten Songs for Low Voice

no. 1. Shall I forget? (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
no. 2. Denny's Daughter (Text: Agnes Shakespeare Higginson , as Moira O'Neill)
no. 3. The Sailor Man (Text: Agnes Shakespeare Higginson , as Moira O'Neill)
no. 4. Birds (Text: Agnes Shakespeare Higginson , as Moira O'Neill)
no. 5. At Sea (Text: Agnes Shakespeare Higginson , as Moira O'Neill)
no. 6. Darest thou now, O Soul (Text: Walt Whitman) FRE GER
no. 7. The Rover (Text: Walter Scott, Sir)
no. 8. The Dead at Clonmacnois (Text: Thomas William Rolleston after Aongus Ó Giolláin)
no. 9. Cyclops' Song (Text: Thomas Dekker)
no. 10. Goldthred's Song (Text: Walter Scott, Sir)

All titles of vocal settings in Alphabetic order

Alas, So Long! (Text: Dante Gabriel Rossetti)
All the bells were ringing (in Kikirikee) (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
Among the heather (Text: William Allingham)
An Ancient Love Song (in Four Songs) (Text: R. Wever, probably Richard Wever)
An emerald is as green as grass (in Kikirikee) (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
Angels at the foot (in Kikirikee) (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
Ask me no more (in Five Songs for High Voice) (Text: Alfred Tennyson, Lord)
As o'er her loom (Text: Thomas Moore after Sappho) FRE GER GER RUS
A Summer's Wish (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
At Sea (in Ten Songs for Low Voice) (Text: Agnes Shakespeare Higginson , as Moira O'Neill)
At the mid hour of night (in Five Songs for High Voice) (Text: Thomas Moore after Volkslieder ) FRE
Birds (in Ten Songs for Low Voice) (Text: Agnes Shakespeare Higginson , as Moira O'Neill)
Boats sail on the rivers (in Kookoorookoo and other songs) (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
Boys (Text: Winifred Mary Letts) [x]*
Bright are the skies above me (Text: Benjamin Disraeli)
By the bivouac's fitful flame (Text: Walt Whitman)
Cyclops' Song (in Ten Songs for Low Voice) (Text: Thomas Dekker)
Darest thou now, O Soul (in Ten Songs for Low Voice) (Text: Walt Whitman) FRE GER
Denny's Daughter (in Ten Songs for Low Voice) (Text: Agnes Shakespeare Higginson , as Moira O'Neill)
Dirge for two veterans (Text: Walt Whitman) FRE
Echo (in Five Songs for High Voice) (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti) GER
Eden spirits (Text: Elizabeth Barrett Browning)
Ethiopia saluting the colors (Text: Walt Whitman)
Fineen the Rover (Text: Robert Dwyer Joyce) [x]
Fortune and her wheel (in Five Songs for High Voice) (Text: Alfred Tennyson, Lord) DUT FRI
Full fathom five (Text: William Shakespeare) DUT FIN FRE FRE FRE GER GER IRI ITA ITA NOR SPA SWE
God of our Fathers (Text: Rudyard Kipling)
Goldthred's Song (in Ten Songs for Low Voice) (Text: Walter Scott, Sir)
Had I a cave (Text: Robert Burns) CZE FRE
Holy Thursday (Text: William Blake)
Home to Glenties (Text: Patrick Macgill) [x]
I was wishful he'd stay (Text: Alfred Perceval Graves) [x]
Lament of an Irish Mother (Text: Felicia Dorothea Hemans) [x]
Lie a-bed, sleepy head (in Kikirikee) (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
Life's memories (Text: V. Nisbet) [x]
Little Billee (Text: William Makepeace Thackeray)
Mix a pancake (in Kookoorookoo and other songs) (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
Music: An Ode (Text: Algernon Charles Swinburne)
My dove (Text: John Keats)
Never weather-beaten sail (Text: Thomas Campion)
Nights of music (Text: Thomas Moore)
O Captain! my Captain! (Text: Walt Whitman) GER
Oh skylark, for thy wing! (Text: Felicia Dorothea Hemans)
O Lord that seest from yon starry height (Text: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow after Francisco de Aldana)
One morning in May (Text: Alfred Perceval Graves) [x]
On the Camp Hill, Hastings (Text: Thomas Campbell) [x]
Resignation (Text: Adelaide Anne Procter) [x]
Roll up the map of europe (Text: W. L. Hutchinson) [x]
See the dawn (Text: Thomas Moore)
Shall I forget? (in Ten Songs for Low Voice) (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
Song of Thekla (Text: Samuel Taylor Coleridge after Friedrich von Schiller) CAT DAN DUT FRE FRE RUS
Song (in Four Songs) (Text: Thomas, Lord Vaux)
Song (in Four Songs) (Text: Thomas Wyatt, Sir)
Song (in Four Songs) (Text: John Suckling, Sir) GER
The Ballad of Dundee (Text: William Edmondstoune Aytoun)
The blossom (Text: William Blake)
The Dead at Clonmacnois (in Ten Songs for Low Voice) (Text: Thomas William Rolleston after Aongus Ó Giolláin)
The Death of Clanronald (Text: Felicia Dorothea Hemans) [x]
The dream of home (Text: Thomas Moore) GER
The Hour and the Ghost (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
The lamb (Text: William Blake) CAT GER GER RUS
The Maid of Neidpath (Text: Walter Scott, Sir)
The Munsters at Mons (Text: Alfred Perceval Graves) [x]
The Outlaw of Loch Lene (Text: Jeremiah Joseph Callanan after Volkslieder ) [x]
The Potato Song (Text: Alfred Perceval Graves) [x]
There be none of Beauty's daughters (Text: George Gordon Noel Byron, Lord Byron) CZE DAN DUT FRE GER GER GER ITA RUS RUS
There comes a new moon (Text: Charles Dickens)
The ride of the witch (The hag) (Text: Robert Herrick) DUT
The Rover (in Ten Songs for Low Voice) (Text: Walter Scott, Sir)
The Sailor Man (in Ten Songs for Low Voice) (Text: Agnes Shakespeare Higginson , as Moira O'Neill)
The solitary reaper (Text: William Wordsworth) CZE
The splendour falls (in Five Songs for High Voice) (Text: Alfred Tennyson, Lord) CAT FRE GER NYN SPA
The starlings (Text: Charles Kingsley)
The trees in England (Text: Walter De la Mare)
The whispering waves (Text: Percy Bysshe Shelley) CZE ITA RUS
The Windflower (Text: Harold Boulton, Sir)
They are all gone into the world of light! (Text: Henry Vaughan)
Tim, an Irish Terrier (Text: Winifred Mary Letts) [x]
To welcome in the year (Text: William Blake) GER
Up-Hill (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
What is pink? (in Kookoorookoo and other songs) (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
Youth and Age (Text: Samuel Taylor Coleridge)

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