Texts to Art Songs and Choral Works by A. Bliss

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Song Cycles, Collections, Symphonies, etc.:

• A knot of riddles
• no. 1. Fish in river (Text: Kevin John William Crossley-Holland)
• no. 2. Swallows (Text: Kevin John William Crossley-Holland)
• no. 3. An oyster (Text: Kevin John William Crossley-Holland)
• no. 4. A weather cock (Text: Kevin John William Crossley-Holland)
• no. 5. A bookworm (Text: Kevin John William Crossley-Holland)
• no. 6. A cross of wood (Text: Kevin John William Crossley-Holland)
• no. 7. Sun and moon (Text: Kevin John William Crossley-Holland)
• Angels of the mind
• no. 1. Worry about money (Text: Kathleen Raine) *
• no. 2. Lenten flowers (Text: Kathleen Raine) *
• no. 3. Harvest (Text: Kathleen Raine) *
• no. 4. Seed (Text: Kathleen Raine) *
• no. 5. In the beck (Text: Kathleen Raine) *
• no. 6. Storm (Text: Kathleen Raine) *
• no. 7. Nocturne (Text: Kathleen Raine) *
• Four songs
• no. 1. A Christmas carol (Text: Arthur Shearley Cripps)
• no. 2. Sea love (Text: Charlotte Mew)
• no. 3. Vocalise
• no. 4. The mad woman of Punnet's Town (Text: Leonard Alfred George Strong)
• Morning Heroes
• Spring offensive (Text: Wilfred Owen)
• By the bivouac's fitful flame (Text: Walt Whitman)
• Pastoral 'Lie strewn the white flocks', op. 46, F. 33
• no. 1. The shepherds' holyday (Text: Ben Jonson)
• no. 2. A hymn to Pan (Text: John Fletcher)
• no. 3. Pan's saraband
• no. 4. Pan and Echo – The naiads' music (Text: Robert Malise Bowyer Nichols)
• no. 5. The pigeon song (Text: Robert Malise Bowyer Nichols)
• no. 6. The song of the reapers (Text: Andrew Lang after Theocritus)
• no. 7. The shepherd's night-song (Text: Robert Malise Bowyer Nichols)
• Seven American Poems
• no. 1. Gone, gone again is summer (Text: Edna St. Vincent Millay)
• no. 2. Siege (Text: Edna St. Vincent Millay)
• no. 3. Feast (Text: Edna St. Vincent Millay)
• no. 4. Little elegy (Text: Elinor Wylie) GER
• no. 5. Rain comes down (Text: Edna St. Vincent Millay)
• no. 6. Fair Annet's song (Text: Elinor Wylie)
• no. 7. Being young and green (Text: Edna St. Vincent Millay)
• Shield of Faith, F. 52
• no. 1. The lord is risen (Text: William Dunbar) ENG
• no. 2. Interlude - Gloria in excelsis Deo (Text: Anonymous) [x]
• no. 3. Love (Text: George Herbert)
• no. 4. An Essay on Man (Text: Alexander Pope) [x]
• no. 5. O yet we trust (Text: Alfred Tennyson, Lord)
• no. 6. Little Gidding (Text: T. S. Eliot) [x]
• The ballads of the four seasons
• no. 1. Spring (Text: Shigeyoshi Obata after Li-Tai-Po)
• no. 2. Summer (Text: Shigeyoshi Obata after Li-Tai-Po)
• no. 3. Autumn (Text: Shigeyoshi Obata after Li-Tai-Po)
• no. 4. Winter (Text: Shigeyoshi Obata after Li-Tai-Po)
• The Beatitudes
• And death shall have no dominion (Text: Dylan Thomas)
• The Joyce Book [multi-composer] (Treize à la douzaine) FRE
• no. 1. Tilly, composed by Ernest John Moeran (Text: James Joyce) FRE GER
• no. 2. Watching the needleboats at San Saba, composed by Arnold Edward Trevor Bax, Sir (Text: James Joyce) FRE GER
• no. 3. A flower given to my daughter, composed by Albert Roussel (Text: James Joyce) FRE GER ITA
• no. 4. She weeps over Rahoon, composed by Herbert Hughes (Text: James Joyce) FRE GER
• no. 5. Tutto è sciolto, composed by John (Nicholson) Ireland (Text: James Joyce) FRE GER
• no. 6. On the beach at Fontana, composed by Roger Sessions (Text: James Joyce) CHI FRE GER
• no. 7. Simples, composed by Arthur Edward Drummond Bliss, Sir (Text: James Joyce) FRE GER
• no. 8. Flood, composed by Herbert Norman Howells (Text: James Joyce) FRE GER
• no. 9. Nightpiece, composed by George Antheil (Text: James Joyce) FRE GER
• no. 10. Alone, composed by Edgardo Carducci (Text: James Joyce) FRE GER
• no. 11. A memory of the players in a mirror at midnight, composed by (Aynsley) Eugene Goossens, Sir (Text: James Joyce) FRE
• no. 12. Bahnhofstrasse, composed by Charles Wilfred Orr (Text: James Joyce) FRE
• no. 13. A Prayer, composed by Bernard van Dieren (Text: James Joyce) FRE
• The Women of Yueh
• no. 1. She is a southern girl (Text: Shigeyoshi Obata after Li-Tai-Po)
• no. 2. Many a girl (Text: Shigeyoshi Obata after Li-Tai-Po)
• no. 3. She is gathering lotus buds (Text: Shigeyoshi Obata after Li-Tai-Po)
• no. 4. She, a Tung-yang girl (Text: Shigeyoshi Obata after Li-Tai-Po)
• no. 5. The water in the Mirror Lake (Text: Shigeyoshi Obata after Li-Tai-Po)
• The World is Charged with the Grandeur of God, op. 116, F. 36
• no. 1. The world is charged with the grandeur of God (Text: Gerard Manley Hopkins)
• no. 2. I have desired to go (Text: Gerard Manley Hopkins) GER
• no. 3. Look at the stars (Text: Gerard Manley Hopkins)
• Three Romantic Songs
• no. 1. The hare (Text: Walter De la Mare , as Walter Ramal)
• no. 2. Lovelocks (Text: Walter De la Mare , as Walter Ramal)
• no. 3. The buckle (Text: Walter De la Mare , as Walter Ramal)
• Three songs
• no. 1. Thunderstorms (Text: William Henry Davies)
• no. 2. This night (Text: William Henry Davies)
• no. 3. Leisure (Text: William Henry Davies) GER
• Three Songs for Girls' or Boys' Voices: nursery rhymes by Percy Bysshe Shelley and anonymous
• no. 2. A widow bird (Text: Percy Bysshe Shelley) CZE ITA RUS
• Two American Poems
• no. 1. Humoresque (Text: Edna St. Vincent Millay)
• no. 2. The return from town (Text: Edna St. Vincent Millay)
• Two love songs
• no. 1. Fair is my Love (Text: Edmund Spenser)
• no. 2. In praise of his Daphnis (Text: J. Wotton England, Sir)
• Two Nursery Rhymes
• no. 1. The ragwort (Text: Frances Cornford)
• no. 2. The dandelion (Text: Frances Cornford)

All titles of vocal settings in Alphabetic order

• A bookworm (in A knot of riddles) (Text: Kevin John William Crossley-Holland)
• A child's prayer (Text: Siegfried Lorraine Sassoon) FRE
• A Christmas carol (in Four songs) (Text: Arthur Shearley Cripps)
• A cross of wood (in A knot of riddles) (Text: Kevin John William Crossley-Holland)
• A hymn to Pan, op. 46 no. 2, F. 33 no. 2 (in Pastoral 'Lie strewn the white flocks') (Text: John Fletcher)
• And death shall have no dominion (in The Beatitudes) (Text: Dylan Thomas)
• An Essay on Man, F. 52 no. 4 (in Shield of Faith) (Text: Alexander Pope) [x]
• An oyster (in A knot of riddles) (Text: Kevin John William Crossley-Holland)
• At the window (Text: Alfred Tennyson, Lord)
• Autumn (in The ballads of the four seasons) (Text: Shigeyoshi Obata after Li-Tai-Po)
• Auvergnat (Text: Hilaire Belloc)
• A weather cock (in A knot of riddles) (Text: Kevin John William Crossley-Holland)
• A widow bird (in Three Songs for Girls' or Boys' Voices: nursery rhymes by Percy Bysshe Shelley and anonymous) (Text: Percy Bysshe Shelley) CZE ITA RUS
• Being young and green (in Seven American Poems) (Text: Edna St. Vincent Millay)
• Birthday song for a royal child (Text: Cecil Day Lewis) [x]*
• By the bivouac's fitful flame (in Morning Heroes) (Text: Walt Whitman)
• Elegiac sonnet (Text: Cecil Day Lewis) *
• Fair Annet's song (in Seven American Poems) (Text: Elinor Wylie)
• Fair is my Love (in Two love songs) (Text: Edmund Spenser)
• Feast (in Seven American Poems) (Text: Edna St. Vincent Millay)
• Fish in river (in A knot of riddles) (Text: Kevin John William Crossley-Holland)
• Flowers in the valley (Text: Volkslieder )
• Gone, gone again is summer (in Seven American Poems) (Text: Edna St. Vincent Millay)
• Harvest (in Angels of the mind) (Text: Kathleen Raine) *
• He is the way (Text: W. H. Auden) [x]
• Humoresque (in Two American Poems) (Text: Edna St. Vincent Millay)
• I have desired to go, op. 116 no. 2, F. 36 no. 2 (in The World is Charged with the Grandeur of God) (Text: Gerard Manley Hopkins) GER
• In praise of his Daphnis (in Two love songs) (Text: J. Wotton England, Sir)
• Interlude - Gloria in excelsis Deo, F. 52 no. 2 (in Shield of Faith) (Text: Anonymous) [x]
• In the beck (in Angels of the mind) (Text: Kathleen Raine) *
• Leisure (in Three songs) (Text: William Henry Davies) GER
• Lenten flowers (in Angels of the mind) (Text: Kathleen Raine) *
• Little elegy (in Seven American Poems) (Text: Elinor Wylie) GER
• Little Gidding, F. 52 no. 6 (in Shield of Faith) (Text: T. S. Eliot) [x]
• Look at the stars, op. 116 no. 3, F. 36 no. 3 (in The World is Charged with the Grandeur of God) (Text: Gerard Manley Hopkins)
• Lovelocks (in Three Romantic Songs) (Text: Walter De la Mare , as Walter Ramal)
• Love, F. 52 no. 3 (in Shield of Faith) (Text: George Herbert)
• Madame Noy (Text: E. H. W. Meyerstein) [x]
• Many a girl (in The Women of Yueh) (Text: Shigeyoshi Obata after Li-Tai-Po)
• Nocturne (in Angels of the mind) (Text: Kathleen Raine) *
• O yet we trust, F. 52 no. 5 (in Shield of Faith) (Text: Alfred Tennyson, Lord)
• Pan and Echo – The naiads' music, op. 46 no. 4, F. 33 no. 4 (in Pastoral 'Lie strewn the white flocks') (Text: Robert Malise Bowyer Nichols)
• Pan's saraband, op. 46 no. 3, F. 33 no. 3 (in Pastoral 'Lie strewn the white flocks')
• Rain comes down (in Seven American Poems) (Text: Edna St. Vincent Millay)
• Rhapsody
• Rich or poor (Text: William Henry Davies)
• River music 1967 (Text: Cecil Day Lewis) [x]*
• Rout [x]
• Sailing or flying (Text: Winifred Williams) [x]*
• Sea love (in Four songs) (Text: Charlotte Mew)
• Seed (in Angels of the mind) (Text: Kathleen Raine) *
• She, a Tung-yang girl (in The Women of Yueh) (Text: Shigeyoshi Obata after Li-Tai-Po)
• She is a southern girl (in The Women of Yueh) (Text: Shigeyoshi Obata after Li-Tai-Po)
• She is gathering lotus buds (in The Women of Yueh) (Text: Shigeyoshi Obata after Li-Tai-Po)
• Siege (in Seven American Poems) (Text: Edna St. Vincent Millay)
• Simples (in The Joyce Book) (Text: James Joyce) FRE GER
• Song of welcome (Text: Cecil Day Lewis) [x]*
• Spring offensive (in Morning Heroes) (Text: Wilfred Owen)
• Spring (in The ballads of the four seasons) (Text: Shigeyoshi Obata after Li-Tai-Po)
• Storm (in Angels of the mind) (Text: Kathleen Raine) *
• Summer (in The ballads of the four seasons) (Text: Shigeyoshi Obata after Li-Tai-Po)
• Sun and moon (in A knot of riddles) (Text: Kevin John William Crossley-Holland)
• Swallows (in A knot of riddles) (Text: Kevin John William Crossley-Holland)
• The buckle (in Three Romantic Songs) (Text: Walter De la Mare , as Walter Ramal)
• The dandelion (in Two Nursery Rhymes) (Text: Frances Cornford)
• The dark-eyed gentleman (Text: Thomas Hardy)
• The Enchantress (Text: Henry Reed after Theocritus) [x]*
• The fallow deer at the lonely house (Text: Thomas Hardy)
• The hammers, F. 173 (Text: Ralph Hodgson)
• The hare (in Three Romantic Songs) (Text: Walter De la Mare , as Walter Ramal)
• The lord is risen, F. 52 no. 1 (in Shield of Faith) (Text: William Dunbar) ENG
• The mad woman of Punnet's Town (in Four songs) (Text: Leonard Alfred George Strong)
• The pigeon song , op. 46 no. 5, F. 33 no. 5 (in Pastoral 'Lie strewn the white flocks') (Text: Robert Malise Bowyer Nichols)
• The ragwort (in Two Nursery Rhymes) (Text: Frances Cornford)
• The return from town (in Two American Poems) (Text: Edna St. Vincent Millay)
• The shepherds' holyday, op. 46 no. 1, F. 33 no. 1 (in Pastoral 'Lie strewn the white flocks') (Text: Ben Jonson)
• The shepherd's night-song, op. 46 no. 7, F. 33 no. 7 (in Pastoral 'Lie strewn the white flocks') (Text: Robert Malise Bowyer Nichols)
• The song of the reapers, op. 46 no. 6, F. 33 no. 6 (in Pastoral 'Lie strewn the white flocks') (Text: Andrew Lang after Theocritus)
• The Tempest Overture, Interludes and Incidental Music (Text: William Shakespeare)
• The tramps (Text: Robert Service)
• The water in the Mirror Lake (in The Women of Yueh) (Text: Shigeyoshi Obata after Li-Tai-Po)
• The world is charged with the grandeur of God, op. 116 no. 1, F. 36 no. 1 (in The World is Charged with the Grandeur of God) (Text: Gerard Manley Hopkins)
• This night (in Three songs) (Text: William Henry Davies)
• Three jolly gentlemen (Text: Walter De la Mare)
• Thunderstorms (in Three songs) (Text: William Henry Davies)
• 'Tis time, I think, by Wenlock town (Text: Alfred Edward Housman) CHI
• Tulips (Text: Winifred Williams) [x]*
• Vocalise (in Four songs)
• Wenlock Edge (Text: Alfred Edward Housman) CHI
• When I was one-and-twenty (Text: Alfred Edward Housman) FRE GER HEB
• Winter (in The ballads of the four seasons) (Text: Shigeyoshi Obata after Li-Tai-Po)
• Worry about money (in Angels of the mind) (Text: Kathleen Raine) *

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