Texts to Art Songs and Choral Works by E. Diemer

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Song Cycles, Collections, Symphonies, etc.:

• A Feast for Christmas
• no. 1. The Christmas tree (Text: Anonymous after Peter Cornelius) [x] ITA
• no. 2. Blow, blow, thou winter wind (Text: William Shakespeare) CHI FIN FRE GER GER ITA ITA RUS SWE
• no. 3. On Christmas Eve (Text: Walter Scott, Sir)
• no. 4. Sweet dreams, form a shade (Text: William Blake)
• no. 5. Make we joy now in this feast (Text: Anonymous)
• A Miscellany of Love Songs
• no. 1. Strings in the earth and air (Text: James Joyce) FRE POL
• no. 2. Shall I compare thee to a summer's day (Text: William Shakespeare) DUT FIN FRE FRE GER ITA RUS RUS
• no. 3. Love me not for comely grace (Text: Anonymous)
• no. 4. Spring, the sweet spring (Text: Thomas Nashe) GER
• no. 5. Two Epigrams: Antiquary. Manliness. [multi-text setting] (Text: Donne)
• no. 6. Be music, night (Text: Kenneth Patchen) *
• no. 7. Do me that love (Text: Kenneth Patchen) [x]*
• no. 8. How instant joy (Text: Robert Penn Warren) [x]*
• no. 9. From Love: Two Vignettes. Titled Mediterranean Beach: Day after Storm (Text: Robert Penn Warren) [x]*
• California Madrigals
• no. 1. A fancy (Text: Ina Donna Coolbrith)
• no. 2. Tomorrow is too far away (Text: Ina Donna Coolbrith) [x]
• no. 3. Cupid kissed me (Text: Ina Donna Coolbrith)
• Four Chinese Love-Poems
• no. 1. People hide their love (Text: Arthur Waley after Emperor Wu of the Liang Dynasty) ⊗
• no. 2. Wind and rain (Text: Arthur Waley after Anonymous/Unidentified Artist) LAT
• no. 3. By the willows (Text: Arthur Waley after Anonymous/Unidentified Artist)
• no. 4. The mulberry on the lowland (Text: Arthur Waley after Anonymous/Unidentified Artist) ⊗
• Four Poems by Alice Meynell
• no. 1. Chimes (Text: Alice Christina Meynell)
• no. 2. Renouncement (Text: Alice Christina Meynell)
• no. 3. The roaring frost (Text: Alice Christina Meynell)
• no. 4. The fold (Text: Alice Christina Meynell)
• Four Songs
• no. 1. Strings in the earth and air (Text: James Joyce) FRE POL
• no. 2. The caller (Text: Dorothy Diemer Hendry) [x]*
• no. 3. One perfect rose (Text: Dorothy Parker) *
• no. 4. Comment (Text: Dorothy Parker) *
• Lute Songs on Renaissance Poetry
• no. 1. When to her lute Corinna sings (Text: Thomas Campion)
• no. 2. Blame not my lute (Text: Thomas Wyatt, Sir)
• no. 3. An odd conceit (Text: Nicholas Breton)
• no. 4. The lover complaineth the unkindness of his love (Text: Thomas Wyatt, Sir)
• More Madrigals
• no. 1. I know a bird (Text: Dorothy Diemer Hendry) [x]*
• no. 2. The persimmon tree (Text: Dorothy Diemer Hendry) [x]*
• no. 3. Show and tell (Text: Dorothy Diemer Hendry) [x]*
• Seven Limericks
• There was a young lady of Norway (Text: Edward Lear , as Derry Down Derry)
• There was an old man who when little (Text: Edward Lear)
• Seven Somewhat Silly Songs
• no. 1. A little lamb (Text: Anonymous) [x]
• no. 2. Samson Agonistes (Text: Ogden Nash) [x]*
• no. 3. Comment (Text: Dorothy Parker) *
• no. 4. The fly (Text: Ogden Nash) *
• no. 5. I'm nobody (Text: Emily Dickinson) FRE GER GER ITA
• no. 6. One perfect rose (Text: Dorothy Parker) *
• no. 7. Limericks (Text: Edward Lear) [x]
• Songs for the Earth
• no. 1. Nature is what we see (Text: Emily Dickinson) FRE GER
• no. 2. And this delightful Herb (Text: Edward Fitzgerald after Hakim Omar Khayyám) ⊗ FRE
• no. 3. I robbed the Woods (Text: Emily Dickinson) FRE
• no. 4. Experiment (Text: Dorothy Diemer Hendry) [x]*
• no. 5. And I saw another Brightness (Text: Anonymous after Hildegard von Bingen) [x] ⊗
• no. 6. Harvest moon -- The mockingbird sings in the night (Text: Mary Oliver) [x]*
• Songs of Reminiscence
• no. 1. Written by moonlight (Text: Dorothy Diemer Hendry) [x]*
• no. 2. Time (Text: Dorothy Diemer Hendry) [x]*
• no. 3. Hyacinths (Text: Dorothy Diemer Hendry) [x]*
• no. 4. To my love (Text: Dorothy Diemer Hendry) [x]*
• no. 5. Wonder (Text: Dorothy Diemer Hendry) [x]*
• Three Christmas Songs
• no. 1. Come all you faithful (Text: Volkslieder ) [x]
• no. 2. Awake were they only (Text: Volkslieder ) [x]
• no. 3. On Christmas night (Text: Volkslieder ) [x]
• Three Madrigals
• Take, o take those lips away (Text: Anonymous) CAT DUT DUT FIN FRE FRE GER GER GER POL
• O mistress mine, where are you roaming (Text: William Shakespeare) FIN FRE GER GER GER IRI ITA NOR POL
• Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more (Text: William Shakespeare) DUT DUT FIN FIN FRE FRE GER ITA ITA POL
• Three Mystic Songs for Soprano and Baritone
• no. 1. He is the sun (Text: Anonymous after Bible or other Sacred Texts) [x] ⊗
• no. 2. To the Great Self (Text: Anonymous after Bible or other Sacred Texts) [x] ⊗
• no. 3. God! There is no God but He (Text: Anonymous after Bible or other Sacred Texts) [x] ⊗
• Three Poems
• Celery (Text: Ogden Nash) *
• The centipede (Text: Ogden Nash) *
• Eels (Text: Ogden Nash) *
• Three Poems by Oscar Wilde
• no. 1. Under the rose-tree's dancing shade (Text: Oscar Wilde) HUN
• no. 2. Could we dig up this long-buried treasure (Text: Oscar Wilde)
• no. 3. Out of the mid-wood's twilight (Text: Oscar Wilde)
• Verses from the Rubáiyát
• no. 1. Come, fill the Cup, and in the fire of Spring (Text: Edward Fitzgerald after Hakim Omar Khayyám) ⊗ ITA
• no. 2. Here with a Loaf of Bread beneath the Bough (Text: Edward Fitzgerald after Hakim Omar Khayyám) ⊗ FRE FRE
• no. 3. Myself when young did eagerly frequent (Text: Edward Fitzgerald after Hakim Omar Khayyám) ⊗
• no. 4. With them the Seed of Wisdom did I sow (Text: Edward Fitzgerald after Hakim Omar Khayyám) ⊗
• no. 5. There was a Door to which I found no Key (Text: Edward Fitzgerald after Hakim Omar Khayyám) ⊗ FRE

All titles of vocal settings in Alphabetic order

• A fancy (in California Madrigals) (Text: Ina Donna Coolbrith)
• A little lamb (in Seven Somewhat Silly Songs) (Text: Anonymous) [x]
• And I saw another Brightness (in Songs for the Earth) (Text: Anonymous after Hildegard von Bingen) [x] ⊗
• And this delightful Herb (in Songs for the Earth) (Text: Edward Fitzgerald after Hakim Omar Khayyám) ⊗ FRE
• Anniversary Choruses [collection] (Text: Anonymous) [x]
• An odd conceit (in Lute Songs on Renaissance Poetry) (Text: Nicholas Breton)
• A piper (Text: Seumas O'Sullivan)
• A spring carol (Text: William Blake) GER
• At a solemn musick (Text: John Milton)
• Awake were they only (in Three Christmas Songs) (Text: Volkslieder ) [x]
• Away, delights (Text: John Fletcher)
• Away, delights (Text: John Fletcher)
• Before the paling of the stars (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
• Be music, night (in A Miscellany of Love Songs) (Text: Kenneth Patchen) *
• Blame not my lute (in Lute Songs on Renaissance Poetry) (Text: Thomas Wyatt, Sir)
• Blow, blow, thou winter wind (in A Feast for Christmas) (Text: William Shakespeare) CHI FIN FRE GER GER ITA ITA RUS SWE
• By the willows (in Four Chinese Love-Poems) (Text: Arthur Waley after Anonymous/Unidentified Artist)
• Celery (in Three Poems) (Text: Ogden Nash) *
• Chimes (in Four Poems by Alice Meynell) (Text: Alice Christina Meynell)
• Come all you faithful (in Three Christmas Songs) (Text: Volkslieder ) [x]
• Come, fill the Cup, and in the fire of Spring (in Verses from the Rubáiyát) (Text: Edward Fitzgerald after Hakim Omar Khayyám) ⊗ ITA
• Comment (in Seven Somewhat Silly Songs) (Text: Dorothy Parker) *
• Comment (in Four Songs) (Text: Dorothy Parker) *
• Could we dig up this long-buried treasure (in Three Poems by Oscar Wilde) (Text: Oscar Wilde)
• Cupid kissed me (in California Madrigals) (Text: Ina Donna Coolbrith)
• Do me that love (in A Miscellany of Love Songs) (Text: Kenneth Patchen) [x]*
• Eels (in Three Poems) (Text: Ogden Nash) *
• Experiment (in Songs for the Earth) (Text: Dorothy Diemer Hendry) [x]*
• Frisch gesungen (Text: Adelbert von Chamisso) ENG
• From Love: Two Vignettes. Titled Mediterranean Beach: Day after Storm (in A Miscellany of Love Songs) (Text: Robert Penn Warren) [x]*
• God! There is no God but He (in Three Mystic Songs for Soprano and Baritone) (Text: Anonymous after Bible or other Sacred Texts) [x] ⊗
• Harvest moon -- The mockingbird sings in the night (in Songs for the Earth) (Text: Mary Oliver) [x]*
• He is the sun (in Three Mystic Songs for Soprano and Baritone) (Text: Anonymous after Bible or other Sacred Texts) [x] ⊗
• Here with a Loaf of Bread beneath the Bough (in Verses from the Rubáiyát) (Text: Edward Fitzgerald after Hakim Omar Khayyám) ⊗ FRE FRE
• How instant joy (in A Miscellany of Love Songs) (Text: Robert Penn Warren) [x]*
• Hyacinths (in Songs of Reminiscence) (Text: Dorothy Diemer Hendry) [x]*
• I had forgotten April (Text: Nancy Byrd Turner) [x]*
• I know a bird (in More Madrigals) (Text: Dorothy Diemer Hendry) [x]*
• I'm nobody (in Seven Somewhat Silly Songs) (Text: Emily Dickinson) FRE GER GER ITA
• Indian flute (Text: Dorothy Diemer Hendry) [x]*
• Invocation (Text: Eleanore Marie Sarton , as May Sarton) [x]*
• I robbed the Woods (in Songs for the Earth) (Text: Emily Dickinson) FRE
• Is it a dream? (Text: Walt Whitman)
• I will sing of your steadfast love (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts after Bible or other Sacred Texts) FRE GER
• Laughing song (Text: William Blake) CHI RUS
• Limericks (in Seven Somewhat Silly Songs) (Text: Edward Lear) [x]
• Love me not for comely grace (in A Miscellany of Love Songs) (Text: Anonymous)
• Madrigals Three [collection] (Text: Anonymous) [x]
• Make we joy now in this feast (in A Feast for Christmas) (Text: Anonymous)
• Myself when young did eagerly frequent (in Verses from the Rubáiyát) (Text: Edward Fitzgerald after Hakim Omar Khayyám) ⊗
• Nature is what we see (in Songs for the Earth) (Text: Emily Dickinson) FRE GER
• October wind (Text: Dorothy Diemer Hendry) [x]*
• O mistress mine, where are you roaming (in Three Madrigals) (Text: William Shakespeare) FIN FRE GER GER GER IRI ITA NOR POL
• On Christmas Eve (in A Feast for Christmas) (Text: Walter Scott, Sir)
• On Christmas night (in Three Christmas Songs) (Text: Volkslieder ) [x]
• One perfect rose (in Four Songs) (Text: Dorothy Parker) *
• One perfect rose (in Seven Somewhat Silly Songs) (Text: Dorothy Parker) *
• On this Wedding Day (Text: Dorothy Diemer Hendry) [x]*
• O to make the most jubilant song (Text: Walt Whitman)
• Out of the mid-wood's twilight (in Three Poems by Oscar Wilde) (Text: Oscar Wilde)
• Peace (Text: Sara Teasdale)
• People hide their love (in Four Chinese Love-Poems) (Text: Arthur Waley after Emperor Wu of the Liang Dynasty) ⊗
• Realization (Text: Dorothy Diemer Hendry) [x]*
• Renouncement (in Four Poems by Alice Meynell) (Text: Alice Christina Meynell)
• Romance (Text: Robert Louis Stevenson) CAT GER ITA LIT
• Samson Agonistes (in Seven Somewhat Silly Songs) (Text: Ogden Nash) [x]*
• Scented blessing (Text: Dorothy Diemer Hendry) [x]*
• Shall I compare thee to a summer's day (in A Miscellany of Love Songs) (Text: William Shakespeare) DUT FIN FRE FRE GER ITA RUS RUS
• Should our breathing cease tomorrow (Text: Dorothy Diemer Hendry) [x]*
• Show and tell (in More Madrigals) (Text: Dorothy Diemer Hendry) [x]*
• Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more (in Three Madrigals) (Text: William Shakespeare) DUT DUT FIN FIN FRE FRE GER ITA ITA POL
• Sonnet 25 (Text: Dorothy Diemer Hendry) [x]*
• Spring, the sweet spring (in A Miscellany of Love Songs) (Text: Thomas Nashe) GER
• Strings in the earth and air (in Four Songs) (Text: James Joyce) FRE POL
• Strings in the earth and air (in A Miscellany of Love Songs) (Text: James Joyce) FRE POL
• Sweet dreams, form a shade (in A Feast for Christmas) (Text: William Blake)
• Take, o take those lips away (in Three Madrigals) (Text: Anonymous) CAT DUT DUT FIN FRE FRE GER GER GER POL
• The Bells [multi-text setting] (Text: Poe) FRE RUS
• The caller (in Four Songs) (Text: Dorothy Diemer Hendry) [x]*
• The centipede (in Three Poems) (Text: Ogden Nash) *
• The Christmas tree (in A Feast for Christmas) (Text: Anonymous after Peter Cornelius) [x] ITA
• The dark hills (Text: Edwin Arlington Robinson) GER
• The dogwood tree (Text: Dorothy Diemer Hendry) [x]
• The fly (in Seven Somewhat Silly Songs) (Text: Ogden Nash) *
• The fold (in Four Poems by Alice Meynell) (Text: Alice Christina Meynell)
• The lover complaineth the unkindness of his love (in Lute Songs on Renaissance Poetry) (Text: Thomas Wyatt, Sir)
• The mulberry on the lowland (in Four Chinese Love-Poems) (Text: Arthur Waley after Anonymous/Unidentified Artist) ⊗
• The night will never stay (Text: Eleanor Farjeon)
• The persimmon tree (in More Madrigals) (Text: Dorothy Diemer Hendry) [x]*
• There is a morn unseen (Text: Emily Dickinson) GER
• There was a Door to which I found no Key (in Verses from the Rubáiyát) (Text: Edward Fitzgerald after Hakim Omar Khayyám) ⊗ FRE
• There was an old man who when little (in Seven Limericks) (Text: Edward Lear)
• There was a young lady of Norway (in Seven Limericks) (Text: Edward Lear , as Derry Down Derry)
• The roaring frost (in Four Poems by Alice Meynell) (Text: Alice Christina Meynell)
• Time (in Songs of Reminiscence) (Text: Dorothy Diemer Hendry) [x]*
• To a gypsy (Text: Dorothy Diemer Hendry) [x]*
• To come so (Text: Mary Virginia Micka, Sister) [x]*
• To Him all glory give (Text: Dorothy Diemer Hendry) [x]
• Tomorrow is too far away (in California Madrigals) (Text: Ina Donna Coolbrith) [x]
• To my love (in Songs of Reminiscence) (Text: Dorothy Diemer Hendry) [x]*
• To the Great Self (in Three Mystic Songs for Soprano and Baritone) (Text: Anonymous after Bible or other Sacred Texts) [x] ⊗
• Two Epigrams: Antiquary. Manliness. [multi-text setting] (in A Miscellany of Love Songs) (Text: Donne)
• Under the rose-tree's dancing shade (in Three Poems by Oscar Wilde) (Text: Oscar Wilde) HUN
• Wedding song (Text: Dorothy Diemer Hendry) [x]*
• When to her lute Corinna sings (in Lute Songs on Renaissance Poetry) (Text: Thomas Campion)
• Wild nights! Wild nights! (Text: Emily Dickinson) CHI FRE GER GER ITA
• Wind and rain (in Four Chinese Love-Poems) (Text: Arthur Waley after Anonymous/Unidentified Artist) LAT
• With them the Seed of Wisdom did I sow (in Verses from the Rubáiyát) (Text: Edward Fitzgerald after Hakim Omar Khayyám) ⊗
• Wonder (in Songs of Reminiscence) (Text: Dorothy Diemer Hendry) [x]*
• Written by moonlight (in Songs of Reminiscence) (Text: Dorothy Diemer Hendry) [x]*

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