Extant songs ordered by date

Shortcuts: • 1900- • 1910- • 1920- • 1930-

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1903	Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Op.5 Shakespeare Sonnet 18 (pub 1609) †	SATB
?1904-06	Sorrow song Op.6 Samuel Daniel †	alto or bar, pno
	The message Op.6 Donne †	alto or bar, pno
	Farewell Op.6 Bishop Heber †	alto or bar, pno
1905	Stars of a summer night Op.1 Longfellow †	SSAATTBB
1906	Soliloquy upon a dead child Cumberland †	sop or ten, pno
	Little sleeper [from Soliloquy upon a dead child] Op.13a Hafiz trans Richard le Galliene † rev 1972	sop or ten, pno
	Day and night Op.13b Cumberland †	tenor, piano
	When I lie ill Op.13b Cumberland †	tenor, piano
	If I could speak Op.13b Cumberland †	tenor, piano
	A faery song Op.13c Yeats †	mezzo, piano
	Come o’er the sea Moore †	SATB
	Lullaby of an infant chief Scott †	SATB
	Soul star Bantock (orig Philip Marston - lost) †	SATB
	In a fairy boat [rondel] Weller †	SSAA
	Tell me, thou soul of her I love Op.13d/1 Thomson †	SATB
1908	Fairies’ song Cumberland (orig. Philip Marston - lost) †	SSAA
1910	Why dost thou wound and break my heart? Herrick †	tenor, piano
	The mad maid’s song Herrick † orch score lost	mezzo, pno or orch
	The night piece Herrick † orch score lost	tenor, pno or orch
	Daybreak Longfellow †	SATB
?1910s/20s	Tell me, where is fancy bred Shakespeare from The Merchant of Venice	SSAA
1914	The owl author unknown †	female voices
	Legend of Altenahr author unknown †	male voices
	Meg Merrilies Keats Old Meg she was a gypsy †	male voices
	Sands of Dee [Sands o’ Dee] Kingsley †	mixed voices
	Clown’s song Shakespeare from Twelfth night (c1600), Act 5, scene 1 ‘When that I was and a little tiny boy’ †	partsong
	A child’s prayer Betham-Edwards †	SA, piano
	Goodbye to summer Allingham †	SA, piano
	Grace for a child in C major [‘… a two-part easy school song’ - HB] Herrick Noble numbers (1647) no 95 Another grace for a child †	SA, piano – 1´
	If I had but two little wings Coleridge †	SA, piano
	The little boy found Blake from Songs of Innocence and Experience †	SA, piano
	The little boy lost Blake from Songs of Innocence and Experience †	SA, piano
	The moon Cumberland †	SA, piano
	The river Cumberland †	SA, piano
	Spring – sound the flute Blake †	SA, piano
	Summer has come, little children in D major Cumberland †	SA, piano – 2´
	He was a rat anon †	SATB
	The dream Blake from Songs of Innocence and Experience †	SSA, piano
	The echoing green Blake from Songs of Innocence and Experience †	SSA, piano
	Infant joy Blake from Songs of Innocence and Experience †	SSA, piano
	The lamb Blake from Songs of Innocence and Experience †	SSA, piano
	Laughing song Blake from Songs of Innocence and Experience †	SSA, piano
	Little white lily MacDonald †	SSA, piano
	Pastoral: the shepherd Blake from Songs of Innocence and Experience †	SSA, piano
	A song of willow Shakespeare †	SSA, piano
	Spring – sound the flute Blake †	SSA, piano
	Violets Herrick †	SSA, piano
	Ye spotted snakes Shakespeare †	SSAA
	And will he not come again? Shakespeare †	SSAA, piano
	The blossom in C major Blake from Songs of Innocence and Experience †	unison or solo, piano
	The chimney sweeper in G major - E flat Blake from Songs of Innocence and Experience †	unison or solo, piano – 3´
	The fly in C major Blake from Songs of Innocence and Experience †	unison or solo, piano – 1´
	The little black boy in A minor - A major Blake from Songs of Innocence and Experience †	unison or solo, piano – 4´
	The mountain and the squirrel Emerson Fable † for children	unison or solo, piano – 2´
	Piping down the valleys wild in C major Blake from Songs of Innocence and Experience †	unison or solo, piano – 2´
	What does little birdie say? Tennyson from Sea dreams (1860) †	unison or solo, piano – 1´
	The lost doll Kingsley †	voice, piano
1915	The fairy palace Drayton †	SSA, piano
	O mistress mine Shakespeare †	partsong
1918	The phantom wooer Beddoes †	SATB
	Love is a merry game Temple Keble †	voice, piano
	On parting Temple Keble †	voice, piano
	When the sun goes down Temple Keble †	voice, piano
1918-19	The defiled sanctuary Blake from posthumous Miscellaneous Poems and Fragments †	medium voice, piano
	Lady Ellayne Temple Keble †	medium voice, piano
	Renunciation Temple Keble †	medium voice, piano
1919	The birds Blake †	alto or bar, pno
	Ah! County guy! [serenade] Scott †	equal voices
	Fair pledges of a fruitful tree Herrick †	SA, piano
	Spring, the sweet spring Nash †	SA, piano
	To daffodils Herrick †	SA, piano
	Fear no more the heat of the sun Shakespeare †	SATB
	It was a lover and his lass Shakespeare †	SSA
	Under the greenwood tree Shakespeare †	SSA
	Pack clouds away Heywood †	SSA, piano
	Absence anon †	SSAA
	Care-charmer sleep Samuel Daniel †	voice, piano
	The land of dreams Blake from posthumous Miscellaneous Poems and Fragments †	voice, piano
	When icicles hang by the wall Shakespeare from Love’s Labours Lost †	voice, piano
1919-21	Take, O take those lips away Shakespeare from Measure for Measure	voice, piano
1920-21	The soul of steel C. M. Masterman	voice, piano
1921	Full fathom five Shakespeare †	SSAA, piano
c.1922-23	Since love is dead Bowles †	voice, piano
1924	O happiness, celestial fair [choral canon] Hannah More †	SATB
	Shall I then be spared? [choral canon] Hannah More †	SATB
	Sweet solitude [choral canon] Hannah More †	SATB
	Vital spark of heavenly flame [choral canon] Pope †	SSAA
1925	Blow, blow thou winter wind Shakespeare from As You Like It †	SATB
	Come away, death Shakespeare †	TbarB, piano
1937-44	Chorus [from Prometheus unbound Chorus from Act I] Shelley †	unaccompanied
	Three semichoruses [from Prometheus unbound Act II scene 2] Shelley †	1,3 unacc; 2 acc fl, hp – 15´