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Texts to Art Songs and Choral Works by D. Thomas

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David Evan Thomas (b. 1958)

Website: http://www.davidevanthomas.com/

(Also see this composer's texts set to music.)

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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.:

  • Blessings: Five Poems of James Wright
    • no. 1. Beginning (Text: James Wright) [x]*
    • no. 2. The jewel (Text: James Wright) [x]*
    • no. 3. This and that (Text: James Wright) [x]*
    • no. 4. A blessing (Text: James Wright) [x]*
    • no. 5. To a hostess saying Good Night (Text: James Wright) [x]*
  • By Heart
    • no. 2. Train tune (Text: Louise Bogan) [x]
    • no. 2. Musician (Text: Louise Bogan) [x]
    • no. 3. Roman fountain (Text: Louise Bogan) [x]
    • no. 4. M., singing (Text: Louise Bogan) [x]
    • no. 5. I saw Eternity (Text: Louise Bogan)
    • no. 6. Song for the Last Act (Text: Louise Bogan) [x]
  • Children of the Night
    • no. 1. Dear Friends (Text: Edwin Arlington Robinson)
    • no. 2. The Torrent (Text: Edwin Arlington Robinson)
    • no. 3. Reuben Bright (Text: Edwin Arlington Robinson)
    • no. 4. The Dark Hills (Text: Edwin Arlington Robinson) GER
    • no. 5. John Evereldown (Text: Edwin Arlington Robinson)
    • no. 6. The Pilot (Text: Edwin Arlington Robinson)
    • no. 7. L'Envoi (Text: Edwin Arlington Robinson)
  • Earthly Delights
    • no. 1. The ghosts (Text: Thomas Love Peacock)
    • no. 2. 'Tis the voice of the Lobster (Text: Charles Lutwidge Dodgson , as Lewis Carroll) FRE
    • no. 3. To a goose (Text: Robert Southey)
    • no. 4. If all the world were paper (Text: Anonymous)
  • Grace and Stir: Three Poems of A. D. Hope
    • no. 1. As well as they can (Text: A. D. Hope) [x]*
    • no. 2. With Thee conversing... (Text: A. D. Hope) [x]*
    • no. 3. The gateway (Text: A. D. Hope) [x]*
  • Green Thoughts in a Green Shade
    • no. 1. The Mower's Song (Text: Andrew Marvell)
    • no. 2. The Mower to the Glow-Worms (Text: Andrew Marvell)
    • no. 3. Wondrous life (Text: Andrew Marvell)
  • Heard in a Violent Ward
    • no. 1. In a Madhouse (Text: John Clare)
    • no. 2. There is a charm in solitude that cheers (Text: John Clare)
    • no. 3. Byron's Funeral (Text: John Clare)
    • no. 4. Enquiry (Text: John Clare)
    • no. 6. I am (Text: John Clare) GER
    • no. 7. Conclusion (Text: John Clare)
  • In the Country of Baseball
    • no. 1. Home (Text: 18th century)
    • no. 2. In the country of baseball (Text: Donald Hall) [x]*
    • no. 3. Pitches
    • no. 4. Fielding (Text: Donald Hall) [x]*
    • no. 5. Fathers and Sons (Text: Donald Hall) [x]*
  • In the Mad Moonlight: Four Poems of Louis Jenkins
    • no. 1. Oklahoma (Text: Louis Jenkins) *
    • no. 2. Water (Text: Louis Jenkins) *
    • no. 3. Chekhov and Heisenberg (Text: Louis Jenkins) *
    • no. 4. Hey Diddle Diddle (Text: Louis Jenkins) *
  • Lonely Hearts
    • no. 1. A simple wish (Text: Wendy Cope) [x]*
    • no. 2. The expense of spirits (Text: Wendy Cope) [x]*
    • no. 3. The uncertainty of the poet (Text: Wendy Cope) [x]*
    • no. 4. A serious person (Text: Wendy Cope) [x]*
    • no. 5. Reading scheme (Text: Wendy Cope) [x]*
    • no. 6. Advertisement (Text: Wendy Cope) [x]*
    • no. 7. Giving up smoking (Text: Wendy Cope) [x]*
    • no. 8. The reading (Text: Wendy Cope) [x]*
    • no. 9. The orange (Text: Wendy Cope) [x]*
  • Moonlight on a Midnight Stream
    • no. 4. A Ghost Story (Text: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
    • no. 7. Mutability (Text: Percy Bysshe Shelley) CZE ITA
    • no. 10. Valediction (Text: Percy Bysshe Shelley)
  • Petals fallen from the moon
    • no. 1. The kind moon (Text: Sara Teasdale)
    • no. 2. Full Moon (Santa Barbara) (Text: Sara Teasdale)
    • no. 3. Old tunes (Text: Sara Teasdale)
    • no. 4. At night (Text: Sara Teasdale)
    • no. 5. Moon's ending (Text: Sara Teasdale)
    • no. 6. The wine (Text: Sara Teasdale)
  • Songs of the Trobairitz
    • no. 1. I thrive on youth and joy (Text: Meg Bogen after Beatriz de Dia, Contessa) [x]*
    • no. 2. Of things I'd rather keep in silence I must sing (Text: Meg Bogen after Beatriz de Dia, Contessa) *
    • no. 3. God knows I should have had my fill of song (Text: Meg Bogen after Castelloza) [x]*
    • no. 4. Now we are come to the cold time (Text: Meg Bogen after Azalais de Porcairages) [x]*
    • no. 5. If you knew my mind, sweet handsome friend (Text: Meg Bogen after Anonymous/Unidentified Artist) [x]*
  • To Live in This World
    • no. 1. The swan (Text: Mary Oliver) [x]*
    • no. 2. Oh Tiger (Text: Mary Oliver) [x]*
    • no. 3. In Blackwater Woods (Text: Mary Oliver) *
  • While All the World Made Merry: 3 Poems by Charles Causley
    • no. 1. On the Thirteenth Day of Christmas (Text: Charles Causley, CBE) [x]*
    • no. 2. Innocent's song (Text: Charles Causley, CBE) [x]*
    • no. 3. Sailor's carol (Text: Charles Causley, CBE) [x]*

All titles of vocal settings in Alphabetic order

  • A blessing (in Blessings: Five Poems of James Wright) (Text: James Wright) [x]*
  • Advertisement (in Lonely Hearts) (Text: Wendy Cope) [x]*
  • A Ghost Story (in Moonlight on a Midnight Stream) (Text: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
  • An echoing song (Text: David Evan Thomas after Rainer Maria Rilke) * FRE
  • A serious person (in Lonely Hearts) (Text: Wendy Cope) [x]*
  • A simple wish (in Lonely Hearts) (Text: Wendy Cope) [x]*
  • A Song for Saint Cecilia's Day (Text: John Dryden) FRE GER SPA
  • As well as they can (in Grace and Stir: Three Poems of A. D. Hope) (Text: A. D. Hope) [x]*
  • At night (in Petals fallen from the moon) (Text: Sara Teasdale)
  • A wreath (Text: George Herbert)
  • Beginning (in Blessings: Five Poems of James Wright) (Text: James Wright) [x]*
  • Byron's Funeral (in Heard in a Violent Ward) (Text: John Clare)
  • Canticle of the Sun (Text: Anonymous after Francis of Assisi, Saint ) GER SPA
  • Chekhov and Heisenberg (in In the Mad Moonlight: Four Poems of Louis Jenkins) (Text: Louis Jenkins) *
  • Clarissa Graceful (Text: Alexander Pope)
  • Come to the Waters (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts)
  • Conclusion (in Heard in a Violent Ward) (Text: John Clare)
  • Dear Friends (in Children of the Night) (Text: Edwin Arlington Robinson)
  • Du bist die Ruh (Text: David Evan Thomas after Friedrich Rückert) CAT DUT DUT FRE FRI HEB IRI ITA POR SPA
  • Du bist die Zukunft (Text: Rainer Maria Rilke)
  • Ein Gebet (Text: Rainer Maria Rilke) FRE
  • Enquiry (in Heard in a Violent Ward) (Text: John Clare)
  • Esau Wood (Text: Volkslieder )
  • Fathers and Sons (in In the Country of Baseball) (Text: Donald Hall) [x]*
  • Fielding (in In the Country of Baseball) (Text: Donald Hall) [x]*
  • Forever Toward You (Text: David Evan Thomas after Rainer Maria Rilke) *
  • Full Moon (Santa Barbara) (in Petals fallen from the moon) (Text: Sara Teasdale)
  • Giving up smoking (in Lonely Hearts) (Text: Wendy Cope) [x]*
  • God knows I should have had my fill of song (in Songs of the Trobairitz) (Text: Meg Bogen after Castelloza) [x]*
  • Great Blue (Text: Carolyn Kizer) [x]*
  • Hey Diddle Diddle (in In the Mad Moonlight: Four Poems of Louis Jenkins) (Text: Louis Jenkins) *
  • Holy Spirit, bestowing Life (Text: Norma Gentile after Hildegard von Bingen) *
  • Home (in In the Country of Baseball) (Text: 18th century)
  • I am (in Heard in a Violent Ward) (Text: John Clare) GER
  • If all the world were paper (in Earthly Delights) (Text: Anonymous)
  • If you knew my mind, sweet handsome friend (in Songs of the Trobairitz) (Text: Meg Bogen after Anonymous/Unidentified Artist) [x]*
  • In a Madhouse (in Heard in a Violent Ward) (Text: John Clare)
  • In Blackwater Woods (in To Live in This World) (Text: Mary Oliver) *
  • Infant Joy (Text: William Blake) RUS
  • Innocent's song (in While All the World Made Merry: 3 Poems by Charles Causley) (Text: Charles Causley, CBE) [x]*
  • In the country of baseball (in In the Country of Baseball) (Text: Donald Hall) [x]*
  • I saw Eternity (in By Heart) (Text: Louise Bogan)
  • I thrive on youth and joy (in Songs of the Trobairitz) (Text: Meg Bogen after Beatriz de Dia, Contessa) [x]*
  • John Evereldown (in Children of the Night) (Text: Edwin Arlington Robinson)
  • Laughing song (Text: William Blake) CHI RUS
  • L'Envoi (in Children of the Night) (Text: Edwin Arlington Robinson)
  • Little boy lost (Text: William Blake)
  • Moon's ending (in Petals fallen from the moon) (Text: Sara Teasdale)
  • M., singing (in By Heart) (Text: Louise Bogan) [x]
  • Musician (in By Heart) (Text: Louise Bogan) [x]
  • Music Speaks (Text: Gordon Bottomley)
  • Mutability (in Moonlight on a Midnight Stream) (Text: Percy Bysshe Shelley) CZE ITA
  • Now we are come to the cold time (in Songs of the Trobairitz) (Text: Meg Bogen after Azalais de Porcairages) [x]*
  • Of things I'd rather keep in silence I must sing (in Songs of the Trobairitz) (Text: Meg Bogen after Beatriz de Dia, Contessa) *
  • Oh Tiger (in To Live in This World) (Text: Mary Oliver) [x]*
  • Oklahoma (in In the Mad Moonlight: Four Poems of Louis Jenkins) (Text: Louis Jenkins) *
  • Old tunes (in Petals fallen from the moon) (Text: Sara Teasdale)
  • On another's sorrow (Text: William Blake)
  • On the Thirteenth Day of Christmas (in While All the World Made Merry: 3 Poems by Charles Causley) (Text: Charles Causley, CBE) [x]*
  • O, Waly Waly (Text: Volkslieder ) CAT FRE ITA
  • Piping down the valleys wild (Text: William Blake) RUS
  • Pitches (in In the Country of Baseball)
  • Reading scheme (in Lonely Hearts) (Text: Wendy Cope) [x]*
  • Reuben Bright (in Children of the Night) (Text: Edwin Arlington Robinson)
  • Roman fountain (in By Heart) (Text: Louise Bogan) [x]
  • Sailor's carol (in While All the World Made Merry: 3 Poems by Charles Causley) (Text: Charles Causley, CBE) [x]*
  • Song for the Last Act (in By Heart) (Text: Louise Bogan) [x]
  • Sweet dreams, form a shade (Text: William Blake)
  • The Dark Hills (in Children of the Night) (Text: Edwin Arlington Robinson) GER
  • The dawning (Text: George Herbert)
  • The divine image (Text: William Blake) GER RUS
  • The expense of spirits (in Lonely Hearts) (Text: Wendy Cope) [x]*
  • The fly (Text: William Blake) CAT FRE RUS
  • The gateway (in Grace and Stir: Three Poems of A. D. Hope) (Text: A. D. Hope) [x]*
  • The ghosts (in Earthly Delights) (Text: Thomas Love Peacock)
  • The jewel (in Blessings: Five Poems of James Wright) (Text: James Wright) [x]*
  • The kind moon (in Petals fallen from the moon) (Text: Sara Teasdale)
  • The King of Love (Text: Henry Williams Baker, Sir) FRE
  • The lamb (Text: William Blake) CAT GER GER RUS
  • The Mower's Song (in Green Thoughts in a Green Shade) (Text: Andrew Marvell)
  • The Mower to the Glow-Worms (in Green Thoughts in a Green Shade) (Text: Andrew Marvell)
  • The orange (in Lonely Hearts) (Text: Wendy Cope) [x]*
  • The Pilot (in Children of the Night) (Text: Edwin Arlington Robinson)
  • The reading (in Lonely Hearts) (Text: Wendy Cope) [x]*
  • There is a charm in solitude that cheers (in Heard in a Violent Ward) (Text: John Clare)
  • The swan (in To Live in This World) (Text: Mary Oliver) [x]*
  • The Torrent (in Children of the Night) (Text: Edwin Arlington Robinson)
  • The uncertainty of the poet (in Lonely Hearts) (Text: Wendy Cope) [x]*
  • The wine (in Petals fallen from the moon) (Text: Sara Teasdale)
  • The wings of the morning (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts after Bible or other Sacred Texts) GER
  • This and that (in Blessings: Five Poems of James Wright) (Text: James Wright) [x]*
  • 'Tis the voice of the Lobster (in Earthly Delights) (Text: Charles Lutwidge Dodgson , as Lewis Carroll) FRE
  • To a goose (in Earthly Delights) (Text: Robert Southey)
  • To a hostess saying Good Night (in Blessings: Five Poems of James Wright) (Text: James Wright) [x]*
  • Train tune (in By Heart) (Text: Louise Bogan) [x]
  • Two Spirituals [multi-text setting] (Text: Volkslieder (Folksongs))
  • Valediction (in Moonlight on a Midnight Stream) (Text: Percy Bysshe Shelley)
  • Water (in In the Mad Moonlight: Four Poems of Louis Jenkins) (Text: Louis Jenkins) *
  • We Will (Text: Masha Devidtovna after Anton Pavlovich Chekhov) *
  • When thou, my music, music play'st (Text: William Shakespeare) FRE GER ITA
  • With a glorious eye (Text: John Clare)
  • With Thee conversing... (in Grace and Stir: Three Poems of A. D. Hope) (Text: A. D. Hope) [x]*
  • Wondrous life (in Green Thoughts in a Green Shade) (Text: Andrew Marvell)

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