Texts to Art Songs and Choral Works by F. Delius

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Song Cycles, Collections, Symphonies, etc.:

• 2 Songs for Children, RTv. 29
• no. 1. Little birdie (Text: Alfred Tennyson, Lord) GER
• no. 2. The streamlet's slumber song (Text: May Morgan)
• 4 Lieder nach Gedichten von Friedrich Nietzsche
• no. 1. Der Wandrer und sein Schatten (Text: Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche)
• no. 2. Der Einsame (Text: Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche)
• no. 3. Der Wandrer (Text: Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche)
• no. 4. Nach neuen Meeren (Text: Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) ENG
• Five Danish Songs
• no. 1. Pagen hølt paa Taarnet sad (Text: Jens Peter Jacobsen) FRE GER GER
• no. 2. Vi lo jo før saa længe (Text: Holger Henrik Herholdt Drachmann)
• no. 3. To brune Øjne (Text: Hans Christian Andersen) ENG FRE GER ITA
• no. 4. Jeg hører i Natten (Text: Holger Henrik Herholdt Drachmann) ENG
• no. 4. I hear in the night (Text: Frederick Delius after Holger Henrik Herholdt Drachmann)
• no. 4. Ich hör' in der Nacht (Text: Jelka Rosen after Holger Henrik Herholdt Drachmann) [x] ENG
• no. 5. Far, hvor flyver Svanerne hen (Text: Ludvig Holstein) ENG ENG FRE GER
• Five Songs from the Norwegian
• no. 1. Søvnen (Text: Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson) ENG
• no. 1. Slumber song (Text: Anonymous after Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson)
• no. 2. Syng, syng (Text: Theodor Kjerulf) ENG
• no. 2. The nightingale (Text: W. Grist after Theodor Kjerulf)
• no. 3. Jeg reiste en deilig sommerkveld (Text: John Olaf Paulsen) ENG FRE GER GER GER
• no. 3. At fall of glowing summer day (Text: Anonymous after John Olaf Paulsen) FRE GER GER GER
• no. 4. Lengsel (Text: Theodor Kjerulf) ENG
• no. 4. Longing (Text: Anonymous after Theodor Kjerulf)
• no. 5. Ved Solnedgang (Text: Andreas Munch) ENG GER
• no. 5. Sunset (Text: Anonymous after Andreas Munch) GER
• Four Old English Lyrics
• no. 1. Spring, the sweet spring (Text: Thomas Nashe) GER
• no. 2. So white, so soft, so sweet is she (Text: Ben Jonson)
• no. 3. To daffodils (Text: Robert Herrick) CAT CHI DUT FIN GER
• no. 4. It was a lover and his lass (Text: William Shakespeare) FIN FRE GER GER GER
• Fünf Gesänge
• no. 1. Frühlingslied (Text: Jelka Rosen after Frederick Delius) ENG FRE
• no. 2. The nightingale has a lyre of gold (Text: William Ernest Henley) GER
• no. 2. Die Nachtigall (Text: Jelka Rosen after William Ernest Henley)
• no. 3. I-Brasîl (Text: William Sharp , as Fiona Macleod) GER
• no. 3. I-Brasîl (Text: Jelka Rosen after William Sharp)
• no. 4. Black Roses (Text: Frederick Delius after Ernst Josephson) FIN FRE GER GER
• no. 4. Schwarze Rosen (Text: Jelka Rosen after Frederick Delius) ENG ENG FIN FRE
• no. 5. Herbstlied (Text: Jelka Rosen after Paul Verlaine) [x] CAT CHI ENG ENG ENG ENG HUN HUN HUN ITA POL POL RUS
• no. 5. Chanson d'automne (Text: Paul Verlaine) CAT CHI ENG ENG ENG ENG GER GER GER GER GER GER HUN HUN HUN ITA POL POL RUS
• Maud
• no. 1. Come into the garden (Text: Alfred Tennyson, Lord)
• no. 2. Go not, happy day (Text: Alfred Tennyson, Lord) GER
• no. 4. I was walking a mile (Text: Alfred Tennyson, Lord)
• no. 5. Birds in the high hall garden (Text: Alfred Tennyson, Lord)
• no. 5. Rivulet crossing my ground (Text: Alfred Tennyson, Lord)
• Seven Danish Songs
• no. 1. Silken shoes (Text: Frederick Delius after Jens Peter Jacobsen) FRE GER GER GER
• no. 1. Seidenschuhe (Text: Jelka Rosen after Jens Peter Jacobsen) ENG FRE
• no. 1. Silkesko over gylden Læst (Text: Jens Peter Jacobsen) ENG FRE GER GER GER
• no. 2. Irmelin Rose (Text: Frederick Delius after Jens Peter Jacobsen) FRE GER GER
• no. 2. Irmelin Rose (Text: Jelka Rosen after Jens Peter Jacobsen) ENG ENG FRE
• no. 2. Irmelin Rose (Text: Jens Peter Jacobsen) ENG ENG FRE GER GER
• no. 3. Lyse Nætter (Text: Holger Henrik Herholdt Drachmann) ENG FRE GER
• no. 4. In the Seraglio Garden (Text: Frederick Delius after Jens Peter Jacobsen) FRE GER GER GER GER GER SWE
• no. 4. Im Garten des Serails (Text: Jelka Rosen after Jens Peter Jacobsen) ENG FRE SWE
• no. 4. I Seraillets Have (Text: Jens Peter Jacobsen) ENG FRE GER GER GER GER GER SWE
• no. 5. Wine roses (Text: Frederick Delius after Jens Peter Jacobsen)
• no. 5. Løft de klingre Glaspokaler (Text: Jens Peter Jacobsen) ENG
• no. 6. Through long, long years (Text: Anonymous after Jens Peter Jacobsen) FRE GER
• no. 6. Det bødes der for (Text: Jens Peter Jacobsen) ENG FRE GER
• no. 7. Let springtime come (Text: Frederick Delius after Jens Peter Jacobsen) FRE GER GER
• no. 7. Den Lenz lass kommen (Text: Jelka Rosen after Frederick Delius) ENG FRE
• no. 7. Lad Vaaren komme (Text: Jens Peter Jacobsen) ENG FRE GER
• Seven Songs from the Norwegian
• no. 1. Abendstimmung (Text: Franz von Holstein after Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson) ENG FRE
• no. 1. Twilight Fancies (Text: F. S. Copeland after Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson) FRE GER GER
• no. 2. Klein Venevil FRE
• no. 3. Verborg'ne Liebe (Text: Wilhelm Henzen after Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson) FIN FRE
• no. 4. Spielmann (Text: Ludwig Passarge after Henrik Ibsen)
• no. 5. Ein Vogelweise (Text: Ludwig Passarge after Henrik Ibsen) ⊗
• no. 6. Wiegenlied (Text: Ludwig Passarge after Henrik Ibsen) ENG ENG ENG ITA
• no. 7. Heimkehr (Text: G. Tischer after Aasmund Olavsson Vinje) ⊗
• Songs of Farewell
• no. 1. How sweet the silent backward tracings! (Text: Walt Whitman)
• no. 2. I stand as on some mighty eagle's beak (Text: Walt Whitman)
• no. 3. Passage to you! (Text: Walt Whitman)
• no. 4. Joy, shipmate, joy! (Text: Walt Whitman) CAT FRE
• no. 5. Now finalè to the shore (Text: Walt Whitman)
• Songs of Sunset
• no. 1. A song of the setting sun! (Text: Ernest Christopher Dowson)
• no. 2. Cease smiling, Dear! a little while be sad (Text: Ernest Christopher Dowson)
• no. 3. Pale amber sunlight falls across (Text: Ernest Christopher Dowson)
• no. 4. O Mors! (Text: Ernest Christopher Dowson)
• no. 5. Exile (Text: Ernest Christopher Dowson)
• no. 6. In spring (Text: Ernest Christopher Dowson)
• no. 7. I was not sorrowful, I could not weep (Text: Ernest Christopher Dowson) SPA
• no. 8. Vitae summa (Text: Ernest Christopher Dowson)
• Songs to poems by Paul Verlaine
• no. 1. Il pleure dans mon cœur (Text: Paul Verlaine) CAT DUT ENG ENG ENG ENG GER GER GER GER GER RUS SPA
• no. 2. Le ciel est, par-dessus le toit (Text: Paul Verlaine) CAT CHI CHI CZE ENG ENG ENG ENG ENG GER GER GER ITA RUS RUS SPA
• no. 3. La lune blanche (Text: Paul Verlaine) CAT CZE ENG ENG ENG ENG ENG FIN GER GER GER GER GER GER GRE HUN HUN HUN ITA RUS RUS RUS SPA SPA
• no. 4. Chanson d'automne (Text: Paul Verlaine) CAT CHI ENG ENG ENG ENG GER GER GER GER GER GER HUN HUN HUN ITA POL POL RUS
• Three Songs, the words by Shelley
• no. 1. Indian love song (Text: Percy Bysshe Shelley) CHI CZE FRE GER GER ITA
• no. 2. Love's philosophy (Text: Percy Bysshe Shelley) CZE FRE FRE GER POL RUS
• no. 3. To the Queen of my Heart (Text: Percy Bysshe Shelley; James Augustus St. John) DAN RUS

All titles of vocal settings in Alphabetic order

• Abendstimmung (in Seven Songs from the Norwegian) (Text: Franz von Holstein after Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson) ENG FRE
• A late lark (Text: William Ernest Henley)
• An den Sonnenschein (Text: Robert Reinick) CAT DUT ENG FRE
• A song of the setting sun! (in Songs of Sunset) (Text: Ernest Christopher Dowson)
• At fall of glowing summer day (in Five Songs from the Norwegian) (Text: Anonymous after John Olaf Paulsen) FRE GER GER GER
• Aus deinen Augen fließen meine Lieder (Text: Dorothea Böttcher von Schwerin)
• Autumn (Text: Anonymous after Ludvig Holstein) FRE GER
• Avant que tu ne t'en ailles (Text: Paul Verlaine) CAT CHI CZE ENG
• Birds in the high hall garden (in Maud) (Text: Alfred Tennyson, Lord)
• Black Roses (in Fünf Gesänge) (Text: Frederick Delius after Ernst Josephson) FIN FRE GER GER
• Cease smiling, Dear! a little while be sad (in Songs of Sunset) (Text: Ernest Christopher Dowson)
• Chanson d'automne (in Songs to poems by Paul Verlaine) (Text: Paul Verlaine) CAT CHI ENG ENG ENG ENG GER GER GER GER GER GER HUN HUN HUN ITA POL POL RUS
• Chanson d'automne (in Fünf Gesänge) (Text: Paul Verlaine) CAT CHI ENG ENG ENG ENG GER GER GER GER GER GER HUN HUN HUN ITA POL POL RUS
• Chanson de Fortunio (Text: Louis Charles Alfred de Musset) ENG ENG RUS SWE
• Come into the garden (in Maud) (Text: Alfred Tennyson, Lord)
• Cynara (Text: Ernest Christopher Dowson)
• Das Veilchen (Text: Anonymous after Ludvig Holstein) ENG FRE
• Den Lenz lass kommen (in Seven Danish Songs) (Text: Jelka Rosen after Frederick Delius) ENG FRE
• Der Einsame (in 4 Lieder nach Gedichten von Friedrich Nietzsche) (Text: Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche)
• Der Fichtenbaum (Text: Heinrich Heine) CAT CHI DUT ENG ENG ENG ENG ENG ENG ENG ESP FRE FRE FRE HEB ITA NOR NOR RUS RUS RUS RUS RUS UKR
• Der Wandrer und sein Schatten (in 4 Lieder nach Gedichten von Friedrich Nietzsche) (Text: Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche)
• Der Wandrer (in 4 Lieder nach Gedichten von Friedrich Nietzsche) (Text: Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche)
• Det bødes der for (in Seven Danish Songs) (Text: Jens Peter Jacobsen) ENG FRE GER
• Die Nachtigall (in Fünf Gesänge) (Text: Jelka Rosen after William Ernest Henley)
• Ein schöner Stern geht auf in meiner Nacht (Text: Heinrich Heine) ENG ENG ENG FRE RUS RUS UKR
• Ein Vogelweise (in Seven Songs from the Norwegian) (Text: Ludwig Passarge after Henrik Ibsen) ⊗
• Exile (in Songs of Sunset) (Text: Ernest Christopher Dowson)
• Far, hvor flyver Svanerne hen (in Five Danish Songs) (Text: Ludvig Holstein) ENG ENG FRE GER
• Frühlingslied (in Fünf Gesänge) (Text: Jelka Rosen after Frederick Delius) ENG FRE
• Go not, happy day (in Maud) (Text: Alfred Tennyson, Lord) GER
• Heimkehr (in Seven Songs from the Norwegian) (Text: G. Tischer after Aasmund Olavsson Vinje) ⊗
• Herbstlied (in Fünf Gesänge) (Text: Jelka Rosen after Paul Verlaine) [x] CAT CHI ENG ENG ENG ENG HUN HUN HUN ITA POL POL RUS
• Herbst (Text: Anonymous after Ludvig Holstein) ENG ENG FRE
• Hör' ich das Liedchen klingen (Text: Heinrich Heine) CAT DUT DUT ENG ENG FIN FRE FRE FRE GRE HEB IRI ITA NOR RUS RUS RUS SPA
• How sweet the silent backward tracings! (in Songs of Farewell) (Text: Walt Whitman)
• I-Brasîl (in Fünf Gesänge) (Text: William Sharp , as Fiona Macleod) GER
• I-Brasîl (in Fünf Gesänge) (Text: Jelka Rosen after William Sharp)
• Ich hör' in der Nacht (in Five Danish Songs) (Text: Jelka Rosen after Holger Henrik Herholdt Drachmann) [x] ENG
• Idyll
• I hear in the night (in Five Danish Songs) (Text: Frederick Delius after Holger Henrik Herholdt Drachmann)
• Il pleure dans mon cœur (in Songs to poems by Paul Verlaine) (Text: Paul Verlaine) CAT DUT ENG ENG ENG ENG GER GER GER GER GER RUS SPA
• Im Garten des Serails (in Seven Danish Songs) (Text: Jelka Rosen after Jens Peter Jacobsen) ENG FRE SWE
• Indian love song (in Three Songs, the words by Shelley) (Text: Percy Bysshe Shelley) CHI CZE FRE GER GER ITA
• In spring (in Songs of Sunset) (Text: Ernest Christopher Dowson)
• In the Seraglio Garden (in Seven Danish Songs) (Text: Frederick Delius after Jens Peter Jacobsen) FRE GER GER GER GER GER SWE
• Irmelin Rose (in Seven Danish Songs) (Text: Jens Peter Jacobsen) ENG ENG FRE GER GER
• Irmelin Rose (in Seven Danish Songs) (Text: Jelka Rosen after Jens Peter Jacobsen) ENG ENG FRE
• Irmelin Rose (in Seven Danish Songs) (Text: Frederick Delius after Jens Peter Jacobsen) FRE GER GER
• I Seraillets Have (in Seven Danish Songs) (Text: Jens Peter Jacobsen) ENG FRE GER GER GER GER GER SWE
• I stand as on some mighty eagle's beak (in Songs of Farewell) (Text: Walt Whitman)
• It was a lover and his lass (in Four Old English Lyrics) (Text: William Shakespeare) FIN FRE GER GER GER
• I was not sorrowful, I could not weep (in Songs of Sunset) (Text: Ernest Christopher Dowson) SPA
• I was walking a mile (in Maud) (Text: Alfred Tennyson, Lord)
• Jeg havde en nyskåren Seljefløyte (Text: Vilhelm Krag)
• Jeg hører i Natten (in Five Danish Songs) (Text: Holger Henrik Herholdt Drachmann) ENG
• Jeg reiste en deilig sommerkveld (in Five Songs from the Norwegian) (Text: John Olaf Paulsen) ENG FRE GER GER GER
• Joy, shipmate, joy! (in Songs of Farewell) (Text: Walt Whitman) CAT FRE
• Klein Venevil (in Seven Songs from the Norwegian) FRE
• Lad Vaaren komme (in Seven Danish Songs) (Text: Jens Peter Jacobsen) ENG FRE GER
• La lune blanche (in Songs to poems by Paul Verlaine) (Text: Paul Verlaine) CAT CZE ENG ENG ENG ENG ENG FIN GER GER GER GER GER GER GRE HUN HUN HUN ITA RUS RUS RUS SPA SPA
• Le ciel est, par-dessus le toit (in Songs to poems by Paul Verlaine) (Text: Paul Verlaine) CAT CHI CHI CZE ENG ENG ENG ENG ENG GER GER GER ITA RUS RUS SPA
• Lengsel (in Five Songs from the Norwegian) (Text: Theodor Kjerulf) ENG
• Let springtime come (in Seven Danish Songs) (Text: Frederick Delius after Jens Peter Jacobsen) FRE GER GER
• Little birdie, RTv. 29 no. 1 (in 2 Songs for Children) (Text: Alfred Tennyson, Lord) GER
• Løft de klingre Glaspokaler (in Seven Danish Songs) (Text: Jens Peter Jacobsen) ENG
• Longing (in Five Songs from the Norwegian) (Text: Anonymous after Theodor Kjerulf)
• Love's philosophy (in Three Songs, the words by Shelley) (Text: Percy Bysshe Shelley) CZE FRE FRE GER POL RUS
• Lyse Nætter (Text: Holger Henrik Herholdt Drachmann) ENG FRE GER
• Lyse Nætter (in Seven Danish Songs) (Text: Holger Henrik Herholdt Drachmann) ENG FRE GER
• Mit deinen blauen Augen (Text: Heinrich Heine) CAT DUT ENG FRE ITA JPN RUS SPA SWE
• Nach neuen Meeren (in 4 Lieder nach Gedichten von Friedrich Nietzsche) (Text: Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) ENG
• Noch ein Mal (Text: Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche)
• Now finalè to the shore (in Songs of Farewell) (Text: Walt Whitman)
• Nuages (Text: Jean Richepin) ENG
• O Mors! (in Songs of Sunset) (Text: Ernest Christopher Dowson)
• O schneller, mein Roß (Text: Emanuel von Geibel) CAT ENG FRE
• Pagen hølt paa Taarnet sad (in Five Danish Songs) (Text: Jens Peter Jacobsen) FRE GER GER
• Pale amber sunlight falls across (in Songs of Sunset) (Text: Ernest Christopher Dowson)
• Passage to you! (in Songs of Farewell) (Text: Walt Whitman)
• Rivulet crossing my ground (in Maud) (Text: Alfred Tennyson, Lord)
• Sakuntala (Text: Edmund Lobedanz after Holger Henrik Herholdt Drachmann) [x] FRE
• Schwarze Rosen (in Fünf Gesänge) (Text: Jelka Rosen after Frederick Delius) ENG ENG FIN FRE
• Sea-Drift [multi-text setting] (Text: Whitman)
• Seidenschuhe (in Seven Danish Songs) (Text: Jelka Rosen after Jens Peter Jacobsen) ENG FRE
• Silken shoes (in Seven Danish Songs) (Text: Frederick Delius after Jens Peter Jacobsen) FRE GER GER GER
• Silkesko over gylden Læst (in Seven Danish Songs) (Text: Jens Peter Jacobsen) ENG FRE GER GER GER
• Skogen gir sussende, langsom beskjed (Text: Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson) CAT GER
• Slumber song (in Five Songs from the Norwegian) (Text: Anonymous after Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson)
• Sommer i Gurre (Text: Holger Henrik Herholdt Drachmann) ENG FRE
• Sommer Landschaft (Text: Jelka Rosen after Frederick Delius) ENG FRE
• Søvnen (in Five Songs from the Norwegian) (Text: Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson) ENG
• So white, so soft, so sweet is she (in Four Old English Lyrics) (Text: Ben Jonson)
• Spielmann (in Seven Songs from the Norwegian) (Text: Ludwig Passarge after Henrik Ibsen)
• Spring, the sweet spring (in Four Old English Lyrics) (Text: Thomas Nashe) GER
• Summer landscape (Text: Frederick Delius after Holger Henrik Herholdt Drachmann) FRE GER
• Summer nights (Text: Friedrich Christian Delius after Holger Henrik Herholdt Drachmann) FRE GER
• Sunset (in Five Songs from the Norwegian) (Text: Anonymous after Andreas Munch) GER
• Syng, syng (in Five Songs from the Norwegian) (Text: Theodor Kjerulf) ENG
• The nightingale has a lyre of gold (in Fünf Gesänge) (Text: William Ernest Henley) GER
• The nightingale (in Five Songs from the Norwegian) (Text: W. Grist after Theodor Kjerulf)
• The splendour falls on castle walls (Text: Alfred Tennyson, Lord) CAT FRE GER NYN SPA
• The streamlet's slumber song, RTv. 29 no. 2 (in 2 Songs for Children) (Text: May Morgan)
• The violet (Text: Anonymous after Ludvig Holstein) FRE GER
• Through long, long years (in Seven Danish Songs) (Text: Anonymous after Jens Peter Jacobsen) FRE GER
• To brune Øjne (in Five Danish Songs) (Text: Hans Christian Andersen) ENG FRE GER ITA
• To daffodils (in Four Old English Lyrics) (Text: Robert Herrick) CAT CHI DUT FIN GER
• To the Queen of my Heart (in Three Songs, the words by Shelley) (Text: Percy Bysshe Shelley; James Augustus St. John) DAN RUS
• Traum Rosen (Text: Heinitz) [x]
• Twilight Fancies (in Seven Songs from the Norwegian) (Text: F. S. Copeland after Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson) FRE GER GER
• Ved Solnedgang (in Five Songs from the Norwegian) (Text: Andreas Munch) ENG GER
• Verborg'ne Liebe (in Seven Songs from the Norwegian) (Text: Wilhelm Henzen after Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson) FIN FRE
• Vi lo jo før saa længe (in Five Danish Songs) (Text: Holger Henrik Herholdt Drachmann)
• Viol (Text: Ludvig Holstein) ENG FRE GER
• Vitae summa (in Songs of Sunset) (Text: Ernest Christopher Dowson)
• Wanderer's song (Text: Arthur Symons)
• Wiegenlied (in Seven Songs from the Norwegian) (Text: Ludwig Passarge after Henrik Ibsen) ENG ENG ENG ITA
• Wine roses (in Seven Danish Songs) (Text: Frederick Delius after Jens Peter Jacobsen)

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