What’s New This Month?

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67 song texts, 167 settings, 110 placeholders, and 6 translations (with modifications to 249 texts and 217 settings) have been added as follows:

2025-11-07

Noch schöner mit jeder Stunde (Text: Friedrich Heinrich Oser)
Reiher flogen (Karol Maciej Szymanowski) (Text: Jan Śliwiński , as Hans Effenberger after Volkslieder )
Les blancs cygnes (Karol Maciej Szymanowski) (Text: Zofia Szymanowska after Volkslieder )
A total of 2 settings were added.
A total of 3 texts, translations, and placeholders were added.
A total of 5 texts were modified.
A total of 2 settings were modified.

2025-11-06

Ice Giant (Anonymous/Unidentified Artist) [x]
She Was The Ocean (Anonymous/Unidentified Artist) [x]
After Night Falls (Abigail Lui) *
All Along The Road (Anonymous/Unidentified Artist) (Text: William Carlos Williams)
Sandcastles (Abigail Lui) *
The Moon (Abigail Lui) [x]*
Lift Up Your Voice and Sing (Abigail Lui)
SALT (Anonymous/Unidentified Artist) (Text: Audrey Ormella) [x]*
Rosen (Mathilde von Kralik) (Text: Irene Zoepf)
Maiglöckchen (Mathilde von Kralik) (Text: Irene Zoepf)
A total of 10 settings were added.
A total of 10 texts, translations, and placeholders were added.
A total of 16 texts were modified.
A total of 17 settings were modified.

2025-11-05

The Ice Core Sample Says (Tansy Davies) (Text: Nick Drake) [x]*
Music began (Tansy Davies) (Text: John Peter Berger) *
In den storm (Marie-Antoinette Schussler-Brewaeys) [x]
The Green Children of Woolpit (Amy Bryce) (Text: Jimmy Andrex) [x]*
Mahnung (Amy Bryce) [x]
This Love (Tansy Davies) (Text: Nick Drake) *
A Strange Time and Place (Amy Bryce)
Destroying Beauty (Tansy Davies) (Text: John Clare)
I am a Bubble (Amy Bryce) (Text: George MacDonald)
Angelus (Diana Elizabeth Jane Burrell) [x]
Longtemps ce fut l'été (Diana Elizabeth Jane Burrell) (Text: Yves Bonnefoy) *
Beyond the Vale (Amy Bryce) (Text: Roland Bryce) [x]*
King shall Bright Ring give in Hall (Diana Elizabeth Jane Burrell) (Text: Anne Savage)
Lijnen (Helena Tulve) (Text: Roland Jooris) *
Lullaby (Tansy Davies) (Text: Nick Drake)
I who have spoken the world (Daniel Asia) (Text: Paul Pines) [x]*
But shall we leave it here (Daniel Asia) (Text: Paul Pines) [x]*
Meanwhile (Daniel Asia) (Text: Paul Pines) [x]*
Leonard Bernstein (Daniel Asia) (Text: Paul Pines) [x]*
Citizen Tom Paine (Daniel Asia) (Text: Paul Pines) [x]*
The idea is to throw out a net of words (Daniel Asia) (Text: Paul Pines) [x]*
How the rain comes—insistent and slow (Daniel Asia) (Text: Paul Pines) [x]*
There are details I’ve loved so much (Daniel Asia) (Text: Paul Pines) [x]*
Think of yourself as an idea (Daniel Asia) (Text: Paul Pines) [x]*
As a child my dreams (Daniel Asia) (Text: Paul Pines) [x]*
To say I’ve come back from the dead (Daniel Asia) (Text: Paul Pines) [x]*
On A Good Day (Daniel Asia) (Text: Paul Pines) *
If I Have Grown Hawk-like (Daniel Asia) (Text: Paul Pines) *
The Voice is Not the Word (Daniel Asia) (Text: Paul Pines) *
Rama's Dream (Daniel Asia) (Text: Paul Pines) *
Glyph/The Message (Daniel Asia) (Text: Paul Pines) [x]*
New Years, 1979, Ending the Decade (Daniel Asia) (Text: Paul Pines) [x]*
Reincarnation (Daniel Asia) (Text: Paul Pines) [x]*
Mein Bruder (Daniel Asia) (Text: Paul Pines) [x]*
My Egyptian Sister (Daniel Asia) (Text: Paul Pines) [x]*
Glyph/The Messenger (Daniel Asia) (Text: Paul Pines) [x]*
I walk out to the end (Daniel Asia) (Text: Paul Pines) [x]*
Dear Frank (Daniel Asia) (Text: Paul Pines) [x]*
A little girl (Daniel Asia) (Text: Paul Pines) [x]*
I’ll never understand (Daniel Asia) (Text: Paul Pines) [x]*
White pillars (Daniel Asia) (Text: Paul Pines) [x]*
if the (Daniel Asia) (Text: E. E. Cummings) [x]*
two old (Daniel Asia) (Text: E. E. Cummings) [x]*
blossoming are people (Daniel Asia) (Text: E. E. Cummings) [x]*
this (let’s remember) (Daniel Asia) (Text: E. E. Cummings) [x]*
swooning (Daniel Asia) (Text: E. E. Cummings) [x]*
if a cheerfulest (Daniel Asia) (Text: E. E. Cummings) [x]*
I'am asking (Daniel Asia) (Text: E. E. Cummings) [x]*
feather rain (Daniel Asia) (Text: E. E. Cummings) [x]*
hair your a brook (Daniel Asia) (Text: E. E. Cummings) [x]*
luminous tendril (Daniel Asia) (Text: E. E. Cummings) [x]*
quick i the death (Daniel Asia) (Text: E. E. Cummings) [x]*
My father's name was (Daniel Asia) (Text: Paul Pines) *
Yom Kippur (Daniel Asia) (Text: Paul Pines) *
Job longed for the grave (Daniel Asia) (Text: Paul Pines) *
Old medals, prayer shawls (Daniel Asia) (Text: Paul Pines) *
What do we know (Daniel Asia) (Text: Paul Pines) *
Le Cochon (Marcel Legay) (Text: Charles Monselet)
Sbohem a šáteček (Vítězslava Kaprálová) (Text: Vítězslav Nezval)
Ruce (Vítězslava Kaprálová) (Text: Jaroslav Seifert)
Čím je můj žal (Vítězslava Kaprálová) (Text: Jan Čarek)
Navždy (Vítězslava Kaprálová) (Text: Jan Čarek)
Jarní pouť (Vítězslava Kaprálová) (Text: Jaroslav Seifert) *
Bezvětří (Vítězslava Kaprálová) (Text: Jaroslav Seifert) *
Ukolébavka (Vítězslava Kaprálová) (Text: Jaroslav Seifert) *
Píseň na vrbovou píšťalku (Vítězslava Kaprálová) (Text: Jaroslav Seifert) *
Osiřelý (Vítězslava Kaprálová) (Text: R. Bojko)
A total of 71 settings were added.
A total of 67 texts, translations, and placeholders were added.
A total of 99 texts were modified.
A total of 86 settings were modified.

2025-11-04

Risky (Linda Bouchard) (Text: Maurice Tourigny) [x]*
Kein Wort hat's gewagt (Franz Wilhelm Abt) (Text: Friedrich Heinrich Oser)
Wunder (Philipp Tietz) (Text: Friedrich Heinrich Oser)
What we have once enjoyed we can never lose (Mari Ésabel Valverde) (Text: Helen Adams Keller)
Unendliches Meer! (Franz Wilhelm Abt) (Text: Friedrich Heinrich Oser)
Forever (Linda Bouchard) (Text: Maurice Tourigny) [x]*
En la noche entraremos (Mari Ésabel Valverde) (Text: Pablo Neruda)
Wenn wir's uns gestehen (Franz Wilhelm Abt, Bernhard Bogler) (Text: Friedrich Heinrich Oser)
Puisque le fifre est malade (Marcel Legay) (Text: René Ponsard)
Jubelnde Lerchen singen den Frühling ein (Rudolf Löw-Burckhardt) (Text: Friedrich Heinrich Oser)
A total of 6 settings were added.
A total of 10 texts, translations, and placeholders were added.
A total of 13 texts were modified.
A total of 6 settings were modified.

2025-11-03

Ofríkiő græddi í okkur ljónshjarta (Karólína Eiríksdóttir) (Text: Sigurður Pálsson) *
In the Bubble Gum Jungle (Freya Waley-Cohen) (Text: Roxy Kleinman)
Mu tuba täis on väikeseid ingleid (Liis Jürgens) (Text: Hando Runnel) [x]
You envied the stars their height (Freya Waley-Cohen) (Text: Amy Katrina Blakemore)
Pep It Up (Isidora Žebeljan) [x]
Translation: The Girl Who Coughs ENG (after Jean Richepin: La Petite qui tousse (Les aiguilles des vents froids))
[No title] (Text: Bai Juyi) [x]
Leonce and Lena (Isidora Žebeljan) (Text: Anonymous after Georg Büchner)
Disfluencies (Aleksandra Vrebalov) (Text: Lucy Dhegrae) [x]*
Translation: Weep not ENG (after (Adolf) Hugo Göring: Wiedersehen (Weine nicht))
Happiness (Freya Waley-Cohen) (Text: Jack Underwood) *
Maríuljóð (María Huld Markan Sigfúsdóttir) (Text: Vilborg Dagbjartsdóttir) *
Once (Freya Waley-Cohen) (Text: Emily Berry) [x]*
Still Light (Freya Waley-Cohen) (Text: Shazea Quraishi) *
Ease (Freya Waley-Cohen) (Text: George X. Fu after Bai Juyi) ⊗
Lend us your Voice (Freya Waley-Cohen) [x]
Translation: The Hare and the Tortoise ENG (after Jean de La Fontaine: Le lièvre et la tortue (Rien ne sert de courir ; il faut partir à point))
An Avoidance (Freya Waley-Cohen) (Text: Jack Underwood) *
Translation: The summer dream was lovely! ENG (after Friedrich Heinrich Oser: Hold war der Sommertraum! (Hold war der Sommertraum!))
Zwei Frauen (Mathilde von Kralik) (Text: Richard von Kralik)
A total of 12 settings were added.
A total of 20 texts, translations, and placeholders were added.
A total of 35 texts were modified.
A total of 17 settings were modified.

2025-11-02

Heute rot -- morgen tot (Valentin Eduard Becker) (Text: Anonymous) [x]
Revelation (Sarah Lianne Lewis) (Text: JL Williams)
Translation: In vain does Dawn ENG (after Marceline Desbordes-Valmore: Le Soir (En vain l'Aurore))
Odysseus (Miranda Driessen) (Text: Antonius Otto Hermannus Tellegen , as Toon Tellegen) *
Mijn weg is recht, heel recht (Miranda Driessen) (Text: Antonius Otto Hermannus Tellegen , as Toon Tellegen) *
Ik herinner me een jongen (Miranda Driessen) (Text: Antonius Otto Hermannus Tellegen , as Toon Tellegen) *
Vöglein auf der Wiege (Sarah Lianne Lewis) (Text: Volkslieder )
We must (Miranda Driessen) (Text: Henry Charles Bukowski)
Clychau (Sarah Lianne Lewis) (Text: Volkslieder )
Réminiscence (Sarah Lianne Lewis) (Text: Albert-Paul Granier)
Heron (Sarah Lianne Lewis) (Text: JL Williams) *
Clericus et Nonna (Sarah Lianne Lewis) [x]
Þjóðlag úr Álfhamri (Jórunn Viðar) (Text: Guðmundur Böðvarsson) *
Morning Light (Monique Krüs) (Text: Xandra Knebel)
Meerwaarde (Mari-anne Hof) (Text: Tanja Helderman)
New Dreams for Old (Sarah Lianne Lewis) (Text: Cale Young Rice) [x]
Ik mocht kiezen (Miranda Driessen) (Text: Antonius Otto Hermannus Tellegen , as Toon Tellegen)
Ik trok een streep (Miranda Driessen) (Text: Antonius Otto Hermannus Tellegen , as Toon Tellegen) *
[No title] (Nino Janjgava) (Text: Jarji Pkhoveli) [x]
All my ships are white (Sarah Lianne Lewis) (Text: Virginia Woolf)
‘Ben je gelukkig geweest?’ (Miranda Driessen) (Text: Antonius Otto Hermannus Tellegen) *
[No title] (Miranda Driessen) (Text: Elfriede Jelinek) [x]*
Zondag (Miranda Driessen) (Text: Antonius Otto Hermannus Tellegen , as Toon Tellegen) *
Dawn (Sarah Lianne Lewis) (Text: JL Williams) [x]
Der Ritt zum Liebchen (Valentin Eduard Becker) (Text: Anonymous) [x]
[No title] (Sarah Lianne Lewis) (Text: Benjamin Morris) [x]
Das fidele Haus (Valentin Eduard Becker) (Text: Anonymous) [x]
Trinklied (Valentin Eduard Becker) (Text: Anonymous) [x]
Ein altes Lied (Valentin Eduard Becker) (Text: Anonymous) [x]
Der Schalk (Valentin Eduard Becker) (Text: Anonymous) [x]
Nach der Trauung (Valentin Eduard Becker) (Text: Anonymous) [x]
Ständchen (Valentin Eduard Becker) (Text: Anonymous) [x]
Lachlied (Valentin Eduard Becker) (Text: Anonymous) [x]
Maitag (Valentin Eduard Becker) (Text: Anonymous) [x]
Abschiedslied (Valentin Eduard Becker) (Text: Anonymous) [x]
Liebeskummer (Valentin Eduard Becker) (Text: Anonymous) [x]
Spottlied auf ein vornehm thuendes Mädchen (Valentin Eduard Becker) (Text: Anonymous) [x]
Une Âme (Claude Tricot) (Text: Marceline Desbordes-Valmore)
A total of 44 settings were added.
A total of 38 texts, translations, and placeholders were added.
A total of 45 texts were modified.
A total of 63 settings were modified.

2025-11-01

Anatomy of a Jar (Cecilia Arditto) [x]
Winterwende (Margriet Verbeek) (Text: Ida Gardina Margaretha Gerhardt) [x]*
Lune mellifluente aux lèvres des déments (Rósa Lind) (Text: Wilhelm Albert Włodzimierz Apolinary Kostrowicki , as Guillaume Apollinaire)
L'univers (Rósa Lind) (Text: Wilhelm Albert Włodzimierz Apolinary Kostrowicki , as Guillaume Apollinaire)
Automne (Sonja Beets) (Text: Jules Breton)
Over Zee (Amba Klapwĳk)
I've met someone there (Sara Zamboni)
Ijs (Anne La Berge) (Text: Anne La Berge)
Scheurlucht (Gerda Geertens) (Text: René de Clercq)
Regen na droogte (Margriet Verbeek)
There is One Thing (Rita Hijmans) (Text: Juliet Marillier) [x]
De zwarte kat (Margriet Verbeek) (Text: Ida Gardina Margaretha Gerhardt) [x]*
Toujours (Rósa Lind) (Text: Wilhelm Albert Włodzimierz Apolinary Kostrowicki , as Guillaume Apollinaire)
Haiku (Miranda Driessen) (Text: Roel Houwink)
Wat ik wil (Corrie van Binsbergen) (Text: Antonius Otto Hermannus Tellegen , as Toon Tellegen)
God gheve hen allen die Minne begheren (Sylvia Maessen) (Text: Hadewijch)
[No title] (Margriet Verbeek) (Text: Ida Gardina Margaretha Gerhardt) [x]*
Translation: The Hen with Golden Eggs ENG (after Jean de La Fontaine: La Poule aux oeufs d'or (L'avarice perd tout en voulant tout gagner))
Propositio XV (Hanna Kulenty) (Text: Baruch de Spinoza)
Propositio XIV (Hanna Kulenty) (Text: Baruch de Spinoza)
Propositio XIII (Hanna Kulenty) (Text: Baruch de Spinoza)
Propositio XII (Hanna Kulenty) (Text: Baruch de Spinoza)
Propositio XI (Hanna Kulenty) (Text: Baruch de Spinoza)
Propositio X (Hanna Kulenty) (Text: Baruch de Spinoza)
Propositio IX (Hanna Kulenty) (Text: Baruch de Spinoza)
Propositio VII (Hanna Kulenty) (Text: Baruch de Spinoza)
Propositio VI (Hanna Kulenty) (Text: Baruch de Spinoza)
Propositio V (Hanna Kulenty) (Text: Baruch de Spinoza)
Propositio IV (Hanna Kulenty) (Text: Baruch de Spinoza)
Propositio III (Hanna Kulenty) (Text: Baruch de Spinoza)
Propositio II (Hanna Kulenty) (Text: Baruch de Spinoza)
Propositio I (Hanna Kulenty) (Text: Baruch de Spinoza)
Comitat: Nun zu guter Letzt (Felix Mendelssohn) (Text: August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben) [x]
Lied für die Deutschen in Lyon (Felix Mendelssohn) (Text: Heinrich Wilhelm Stolze) [x]
Vökuró (Jórunn Viðar) (Text: Jakobína Sigurðardóttir) *
A total of 22 settings were added.
A total of 35 texts, translations, and placeholders were added.
A total of 36 texts were modified.
A total of 26 settings were modified.

What’s New This Month?

(Or see what was new in previous months.)

67 song texts, 167 settings, 110 placeholders, and 6 translations (with modifications to 249 texts and 217 settings) have been added as follows:

See what was new in previous months.