Texts by C. Lewis set in Art Songs and Choral Works

Text Collections:

• A Time to Dance and Other Poems
• From Feathers to Iron
• Pegasus and Other Poems
• Poems 1943-1947
• Poems in Wartime
• The Gate and Other Poems
• The Magnetic Mountain

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 carol (Melt the glass and leave the sticks) - E. Gregson [x] *
• Admit then and be glad (from A Time to Dance and Other Poems) [x] * - G. Bush (Poem for an anniversary)
• A fountain plays no more: those pure cascades (from Pegasus and Other Poems) * - A. Bliss (Elegiac sonnet)
• Beauty's end is in sight (Beauty's end is in sight) (from From Feathers to Iron) - B. Naylor [x] *
• Beauty's end is in sight (from From Feathers to Iron) [x] * - B. Naylor
• Birthday song for a royal child () - A. Bliss [x] *
• Come, live with me and be my love GER GER GER - E. Gregson (Come, live with me and be my love)
• Come live with me (Come, live with me and be my love) - E. Gregson GER GER GER
• Come out in the sun, for a man is born today! (from From Feathers to Iron) [x] * - A. Lewis
• Come out in the sun (Come out in the sun, for a man is born today!) (from From Feathers to Iron) - A. Lewis [x] *
• Earth has grain to grow (Admit then and be glad) (from A Time to Dance and Other Poems) - G. Bush [x] *
• Elegiac sonnet (A fountain plays no more: those pure cascades) (from Pegasus and Other Poems) - A. Bliss *
• Grant us untroubled rest (from The Gate and Other Poems) [x] * - D. Swann (Requiem for the Living)
• Hornpipe (Now the peak of summer's past, the sky is overcast) - F. Scott *
• In these our winter days (In these our winter days) (from The Magnetic Mountain) - D. Farquhar [x] *
• In these our winter days (from The Magnetic Mountain) [x] * - D. Farquhar
• Jig (That winter love spoke) (from Poems in Wartime) - N. Maw [x] *
• Lark, skylark, spilling your rubbed and round (from A Time to Dance and Other Poems) * - L. Berkeley, N. Lindsay, B. Naylor, P. Naylor, F. Stark (The ecstatic)
• Love and pity (Love without pity is a child's hand reaching) (from Pegasus and Other Poems) - H. Orland [x] *
• Love without pity is a child's hand reaching (from Pegasus and Other Poems) [x] * - H. Orland (Love and pity)
• Melt the glass and leave the sticks [x] * - E. Gregson
• Now she is like the white tree-rose (Now she is like the white tree-rose) (from From Feathers to Iron) - B. Naylor, P. Nisbet [x] *
• Now she is like the white tree-rose (from From Feathers to Iron) [x] * - B. Naylor, P. Nisbet
• Now the peak of summer's past, the sky is overcast * - F. Scott (Hornpipe)
• Now to be with you, elate, unshared (from The Magnetic Mountain) [x] *
• Poem for an anniversary (Admit then and be glad) (from A Time to Dance and Other Poems) [x] *
• Put out the lights now! (from Poems 1943-1947) [x] * - C. Effinger (The Christmas Tree)
• Requiem for the Living (Grant us untroubled rest) (from The Gate and Other Poems) - D. Swann [x] *
• Rest from loving and be living (Rest from loving and be living) (from From Feathers to Iron) - D. Farquhar, B. Naylor [x] *
• Rest from loving and be living (from From Feathers to Iron) [x] * - D. Farquhar, B. Naylor
• River music 1967 () - A. Bliss [x] *
• Song for a Festival () - G. Dyson [x] *
• Song of welcome () - A. Bliss [x] *
• That winter love spoke (from Poems in Wartime) [x] * - N. Maw (Jig)
• The Christmas Rose (What is the flower that blooms each year) (from The Gate and Other Poems) - A. Ridout [x] *
• The Christmas Tree (Put out the lights now!) (from Poems 1943-1947) - C. Effinger [x] *
• The ecstatic (Lark, skylark, spilling your rubbed and round) (from A Time to Dance and Other Poems) - L. Berkeley, N. Lindsay, B. Naylor, F. Stark *
• The enemy speaks () - A. Rawsthorne [x] *
• The lark (Lark, skylark, spilling your rubbed and round) (from A Time to Dance and Other Poems) - P. Naylor *
• Twenty weeks near past (Twenty weeks near past) (from From Feathers to Iron) - B. Naylor [x] *
• Twenty weeks near past (from From Feathers to Iron) [x] * - B. Naylor
• What is the flower that blooms each year (from The Gate and Other Poems) [x] * - A. Ridout (The Christmas Rose)

Last update: 2023-05-11 13:24:32