Texts by A. Noyes set in Art Songs and Choral Works

Text Collections:

• Forty Singing Seamen and Other Poems
• The Elfin Artist and Other Poems
• The Enchanted Isle and Other Poems
• The Forest Of Wild Thyme: A Tale For Children Under Ninety

Texts set in art song or choral works (not necessarily comprehensive):

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Special notes: All titles and first lines are included in this index, including those used by composers.
Titles used by the text author appear in boldface. First lines appear in italics.
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.

• A slumber song of the Madonna (Sleep, little baby, I love thee) (from Forty Singing Seamen and Other Poems - Slumber Songs of the Madonna) - S. Barber, M. Head
• A Song of Union () - E. Elgar [x]
• Bacchus and the Pirates (Half a hundred terrible pig-tails, pirates famous in song and story) - M. Brough
• Because her heart is all too proud - E. Elgar
• Come, choose your road and away, my lad (from The Enchanted Isle and Other Poems) - M. Kern, R. Parfrey, J. West (The Call of the Spring)
• Come in () - S. Coleridge-Taylor [x]
• Cown down to Kew (There's a barrel-organ carolling across a golden street) - C. Deis
• Go down to Kew in lilac-time, in lilac-time, in lilac-time (The barrel-organ) - C. Deis, A. Foote, G. Peel, W. Steere, C. Willeby
• Go down to Kew in lilac time (There's a barrel-organ carolling across a golden street) - G. Peel
• Half a hundred terrible pig-tails, pirates famous in song and story - M. Brough (Bacchus and the Pirates)
• I lived in a cottage adown in the West - G. Peel (Song of the wooden-legged fiddler)
• Land of dead dreams (They are crammed and jammed in buses) - W. Mayer
• Lilac-time (There's a barrel-organ carolling across a golden street) - A. Foote, W. Steere, C. Willeby
• Merchant adventurers () - E. Elgar [x]
• Oh, many a lover (O, many a lover sighs) - B. Burrows
• O, many a lover sighs - B. Burrows (Song)
• O, once, by Cuckmere Haven (from The Elfin Artist and Other Poems) - E. Charles (The Sussex sailor)
• Over the Blue Mountains - E. Elgar
• Pilot, how far from home? (from The Enchanted Isle and Other Poems) - C. Seiler (The lights of home)
• Red o' the dawn () - S. Coleridge-Taylor [x]
• Sailing westward () - E. Elgar [x]
• Shakespeare's Kingdom (When Shakespeare came to London) - E. Elgar FRE
• Sleep, little baby, I love thee (from Forty Singing Seamen and Other Poems - Slumber Songs of the Madonna) - S. Barber, M. Head, J. Keel, C. Taylor
• Sleep little baby (Sleep, little baby, I love thee) (from Forty Singing Seamen and Other Poems - Slumber Songs of the Madonna) - C. Taylor
• Slumber Song of the Madonna (Sleep, little baby, I love thee) (from Forty Singing Seamen and Other Poems - Slumber Songs of the Madonna) - J. Keel
• Song of the wooden-legged fiddler (I lived in a cottage adown in the West) - G. Peel
• Song (O, many a lover sighs)
• Song (What is there hid in the heart of a rose) (from The Forest Of Wild Thyme: A Tale For Children Under Ninety)
• Song () - B. Burrows, R. Werther [x]
• The barrel-organ (There's a barrel-organ carolling across a golden street)
• The Blue Mountains (A Song of Australia) (Over the Blue Mountains) - E. Elgar
• The Call of Spring (Come, choose your road and away, my lad) (from The Enchanted Isle and Other Poems) - M. Kern
• The Call of the Spring (Come, choose your road and away, my lad) (from The Enchanted Isle and Other Poems) - R. Parfrey, J. West
• The heart of a rose (What is there hid in the heart of a rose) (from The Forest Of Wild Thyme: A Tale For Children Under Ninety) - J. Duke, E. Warren
• The Heart of Canada (Because her heart is all too proud) - E. Elgar
• The highwayman (The wind was a torrent of darkness among the gusty trees) (from Forty Singing Seamen and Other Poems) - M. Andrews, C. Gibbs, D. Taylor
• The Immortal Legions () - E. Elgar [x]
• The Islands (A Song of New Zealand) () - E. Elgar [x]
• The lights of home (Pilot, how far from home?) (from The Enchanted Isle and Other Poems) - C. Seiler
• There's a barrel-organ carolling across a golden street - C. Deis, A. Foote, G. Peel, W. Steere, C. Willeby (The barrel-organ)
• The Sussex sailor (O, once, by Cuckmere Haven) (from The Elfin Artist and Other Poems) - E. Charles
• The wind was a torrent of darkness among the gusty trees (from Forty Singing Seamen and Other Poems) - M. Andrews, C. Gibbs, D. Taylor (The highwayman)
• They are crammed and jammed in buses - W. Mayer
• Waiting () - S. Coleridge-Taylor [x]
• What is there hid in the heart of a rose (from The Forest Of Wild Thyme: A Tale For Children Under Ninety) - J. Duke, E. Warren (Song)
• When Shakespeare came to London FRE - E. Elgar (Shakespeare's Kingdom)
• Your heart's desire () - S. Coleridge-Taylor [x]

Last update: 2023-05-11 13:26:19