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The songs by date
 

Further indexes: SONGS title page
Authors of all works' texts alphabetically


c1892
?1895-96
Canadian boat song   Tom Moore
I shot an arrow  Longfellow
Wanderer's night song  Goethe trans Morley
Today and tomorrow  Gunby Hadath
song  Gunby Hadath
lost
lost
lost
lost
lost
1903 Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?  Shakespeare SATB
?1904-06 Three songs:
Sorrow song  Samuel Daniel
The message  Donne
Farewell  Bishop Heber

alto or baritone, piano
alto or baritone, piano
alto or baritone, piano
1905 Stars of a summer night  Longfellow SSAATTBB
1906 Songs:
Day and night  Cumberland
When I lie ill   Cumberland
If I could speak   Cumberland

tenor, piano
tenor, piano
tenor, piano
1906 Soliloquy upon a dead child Cumberland
Little sleeper  Hafiz trans Richard le Galliene

tenor or soprano, piano
1906 A faery song  Yeats
Four dramatic poems
mezzo, piano
tenor, piano  lost
1906 Soul star Helen Bantock (orig Philip Marston - lost)
Lullaby of an infant chief  Scott
Come o'er the sea  Moore
In a fairy boat  Weller
Tell me, thou soul of her I love Thomson
Twilight  unknown
SATB
SATB
SATB
rondel, SSAA
SATB
lost
1908 Fairies' song  Cumberland (orig Philip Marston - lost) SSAA
3 Jan 1910
6 Jan 1910
Why dost thou wound and break my heart?  Herrick
The night piece
tenor, piano
tenor, pno or orch (orch score lost)
1910 Daybreak  Longfellow SATB
?1910 The mad maid's song   Herrick mezzo, pno or orch (orch score lost)
1912 Three Herrick pieces:
Go, happy rose
Requiem for the rose
The hag

SSAA, orchestra
SSAA, orchestra
SSAA, orchestra
1914 The blossom   Blake
The mountain and the squirrel  Emerson
The little black boy  Blake
The chimney sweeper  Blake
Piping down the valleys wild  Blake
The lost doll  Kingsley
What does little birdie say?  Tennyson
The fly  Blake
Robin redbreast
voice, piano
unison for children, piano
unison, piano
unison, piano
unison, piano
voice, piano
voice, piano
unison, piano
unison, piano  lost
1914 Grace for a child   Herrick
Ye spotted snakes  Shakespeare
He was a rat  anon
Summer has come, little children  Cumberland
Goodbye to summer  Allingham
The lamb  Blake
And will he not come again?  Shakespeare
The moon Cumberland
The river  Cumberland
The little boy lost Blake
The little boy found  Blake
If I had but two little wings  Coleridge
A song of willow  Shakespeare
The white lily  MacDonald
Violets  Herrick
Laughing song  Blake
Infant joy  Blake
Pastoral:  the shepherd  Blake
Spring - sound the flute  Blake
The dream  Blake
The echoing green Blake
A child's prayer  M Betham-Edwards
SA, piano
SSAA
SATB
SA, piano
SA
SSA, piano
SSAA, piano
SA, piano
SA, piano
SA, piano
SA, piano
SA, piano
SSA, piano
SSA, piano
SSA, piano
SSA, piano
SSA, piano
SSA, piano
SSA, piano also SA, piano
SSA, piano
SSA, piano
SA, piano
1914 The knight's leap
A gypsy song  Ben Jonson
Clown's song  Shakespeare
The legend of Altenahr
Marching along
The sweetest dream
The owl
Will you buy any rope?
Sympathy
Hie upon hielands  trad ballad
Sands of Dee  trad
Love's remorse
Meg Merrilees  Keats
The curate and the mulberry-tree
partsong lost
SSAA  lost
partsong lost
male voices  lost
partsong lost
partsong lost
female voices  lost
partsong lost
partsong lost
male voices lost
SATB  lost
partsong?  lost
men's voices  lost
partsong lost
1915 The fairy palace   Drayton
O mistress mine  Shakespeare
SSA, piano
partsong
1918 When the sun goes down:  Three songs:  Temple Keble
When the sun goes down
On parting
Love is a merry game
1918 The phantom wooer  Beddoes SATB
1918-19 Renunciation   Temple Keble
Lady Ellayne  Temple Keble
The defiled sanctuary  Blake
medium voice, piano
medium voice, piano
medium voice, piano
1919 The land of dreams   Blake
The birds Blake
When icicles hang by the wall    Shakespeare
Care-charmer sleep  Samuel Daniel
Ah!  County guy!  Scott
A wish
The poet's dream
On a poet's lips I slept Shelley
Music, when soft voices die  Shelley
Call for the robin redbreast  Webster
Sonnet:  my lute  Drummond
Hymn to Diana  Jonson
voice, piano
voice, piano
voice, piano
voice, piano
serenade for equal voices
2 voices, piano  lost
voice, piano  lost
song  lost
song  lost
song  lost
voice, piano  lost
voice, piano  lost
1919 Pack clouds away   Heywood
Absence  anon
Under the greenwood tree  Shakespeare
Spring, the sweet spring  Nash
It was a lover and his lass    Shakespeare
Fear no more the heat of the sun   Shakespeare
Mine be a cot beside the hill  Rogers
Fair pledges of a fruitful tree  Herrick
To daffodils  Herrick
SSA, piano
SSAA
SSA
SA
SSA
SATB
SA, piano  lost [see 1925]
SA, piano
SA, piano
1920-21 The soul of steel   CM Masterman voice, piano
1921 Full fathom five   Shakespeare SSAA, piano
c1922-23 Since love is dead   Bowles
I know, and you!  Bowles
Go, happy rose  Herrick
A proposal
The twilight house  Bowles
Stars of destiny
Where shadows flee
Far from thee  Taylor
song 
song  lost
voice, piano  lost
song  lost
song  lost
song  lost
song  lost
1924 Choral canons:
O happiness, celestial fair  Hannah More
Sweet solitude Hannah More
Shall I then be spared?   Hannah More

SATB
SATB
SATB
1925 Take, O take those lips away  Shakespeare
Vital spark of heavenly flame   Pope
voice, piano
SSAA
1925 Blow, blow thou winter wind  Shakespeare
Come away, death  Shakespeare
SATB
TbarB, piano
1926 At candlelight  Gunby Hadath
Without you  Gunby Hadath
Song of betrothal  Gunby Hadath
song  lost
song  lost
song  lost

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