Texts by T. Beddoes set in Art Songs and Choral Works

Text Collections:

• Death's Jest Book or The Fool's Tragedy
• Song on the water
• The Bride's Tragedy
• The Improvisatore, in Three Fyttes, with Other Poems
• The Poems Posthumous and Collected of Thomas Lovell Beddoes
• The Works of Thomas Lovell Beddoes

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.
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A grey rectangle like FRE indicates a particular translation (usually one set to music) exists but isn't yet available.

• A beautiful night (How lovely is the heaven of this night) (from The Poems Posthumous and Collected of Thomas Lovell Beddoes)
• A ghost, that loved a lady fair (from The Poems Posthumous and Collected of Thomas Lovell Beddoes) - H. Brian, B. Holmes, W. Hurlstone (The Phantom-Wooer)
• Aho! Aho! Love's horn doth blow (A ho! A ho!) (from The Bride's Tragedy) - D. ApIvor
• A ho! A ho!/ Love's horn doth blow (from The Bride's Tragedy)
• A ho! A ho! (from The Bride's Tragedy) - D. ApIvor
• All night a wind of music (All night a wind of music) - L. Berkeley
• All night a wind of music - L. Berkeley (Fragment)
• Although my old ear (from Death's Jest Book or The Fool's Tragedy) - L. Walters
• As mad sexton's bell, tolling (from The Poems Posthumous and Collected of Thomas Lovell Beddoes) - C. Brown, P. Naylor (Song on the water)
• Choric measure (Strew not earth with empty stars) (from The Poems Posthumous and Collected of Thomas Lovell Beddoes - The Second Brother) - E. Boyce
• Dirge and Hymeneal (Woe! woe ! this is death's hour) (from The Poems Posthumous and Collected of Thomas Lovell Beddoes) - B. Elias, G. Holst
• Dirge (If thou wilt ease thine heart) (If thou wilt ease thine heart) (from Death's Jest Book or The Fool's Tragedy) - B. Holmes CAT
• Dirge (If thou wilt ease thine heart) (from Death's Jest Book or The Fool's Tragedy) - E. Boyce, S. Dodgson CAT
• Dream Pedlary (If there were dreams to sell) (from The Poems Posthumous and Collected of Thomas Lovell Beddoes) - J. Beeson, G. Broadhead, S. Brougham, C. Brumby, P. Buck, F. Candlyn, J. Coulthard, B. Dieren, C. Gibbs, W. Gwynn Williams, D. Haupt, F. Haworth, J. Herbage, B. Holmes, W. Lovelock, L. Lucas, C. Parry, H. Roberton, C. Taylor, H. Tily
• Fragment (All night a wind of music)
• Hither haste, and gently strew (from The Improvisatore, in Three Fyttes, with Other Poems) - M. Burtch (The song)
• Hither haste (Hither haste, and gently strew) (from The Improvisatore, in Three Fyttes, with Other Poems) - M. Burtch
• How lovely is the heaven of this night (from The Poems Posthumous and Collected of Thomas Lovell Beddoes) - H. Plessis (A beautiful night)
• How lovely is the heaven of this night (How lovely is the heaven of this night) (from The Poems Posthumous and Collected of Thomas Lovell Beddoes) - H. Plessis
• How many times do I love thee, dear? (How many times do I love thee, dear?) (from The Poems Posthumous and Collected of Thomas Lovell Beddoes - Torrismond) - D. ApIvor, J. Dunn, J. Edmunds, A. Foote, C. Gale, C. Spross, B. Woolf
• How many times do I love thee, dear? (from The Poems Posthumous and Collected of Thomas Lovell Beddoes - Torrismond) - D. ApIvor, M. Burtch, B. Crist, J. Dunn, J. Edmunds, A. Foote, C. Gale, W. Hurlstone, C. Spross, F. Ward, B. Woolf
• How many times do I love thee? (How many times do I love thee, dear?) (from The Poems Posthumous and Collected of Thomas Lovell Beddoes - Torrismond) - W. Hurlstone, F. Ward
• How many times (How many times do I love thee, dear?) (from The Poems Posthumous and Collected of Thomas Lovell Beddoes - Torrismond) - M. Burtch
• If there were dreams to sell (from The Poems Posthumous and Collected of Thomas Lovell Beddoes) - J. Beeson, R. Birch, M. Blower, G. Broadhead, S. Brougham, C. Brumby, P. Buck, F. Candlyn, J. Coulthard, B. Crist, B. Dieren, C. Gibbs, W. Gwynn Williams, D. Haupt, F. Haworth, J. Herbage, J. Hill, B. Holmes, J. Ireland, J. Jeffreys, W. Lovelock, L. Lucas, H. Morris, C. Parry, H. Roberton, C. Taylor, H. Tily (Dream-Pedlary)
• If there were dreams to sell (If there were dreams to sell) (from The Poems Posthumous and Collected of Thomas Lovell Beddoes) - M. Blower, B. Crist, J. Hill, J. Ireland, J. Jeffreys, H. Morris
• If there were dreams (If there were dreams to sell) (from The Poems Posthumous and Collected of Thomas Lovell Beddoes) - R. Birch
• If thou wilt ease thine heart of love (If thou wilt ease thine heart) (from Death's Jest Book or The Fool's Tragedy) - S. Lovatt CAT
• If thou wilt ease thine heart (If thou wilt ease thine heart) (from Death's Jest Book or The Fool's Tragedy) - G. Binkerd, B. Britten, M. Burtch, W. Busch CAT
• If thou wilt ease thine heart (from Death's Jest Book or The Fool's Tragedy) CAT - A. Allen, D. ApIvor, J. Beeson, G. Binkerd, E. Boyce, B. Britten, M. Burtch, W. Busch, S. Dodgson, K. Eggar, B. Holmes, S. Lovatt, C. Parry, R. Quilter, H. Walmisley
• If thou would'st ease thine heart (If thou wilt ease thine heart) (from Death's Jest Book or The Fool's Tragedy) - C. Parry, R. Quilter CAT
• If thou would'st ease thine heart (from Death's Jest Book or The Fool's Tragedy) CAT
• Love's chase () - H. Parker [x]
• Love's last messages (Merry, merry little stream) (from The Poems Posthumous and Collected of Thomas Lovell Beddoes)
• Mariner's song (To sea, to sea! The calm is o'er) (from Death's Jest Book or The Fool's Tragedy) - E. Bainton, P. Enfield
• Merry, merry little stream (from The Poems Posthumous and Collected of Thomas Lovell Beddoes) - W. Harris (Love's last messages)
• Old Adam, the Carrion Crow (Old Adam, the carrion crow) (from Death's Jest Book or The Fool's Tragedy) - K. Bissell, R. Fiske, B. Holmes, L. Walters
• Old Adam, the carrion crow (from Death's Jest Book or The Fool's Tragedy) - D. ApIvor, K. Bissell, S. Dodgson, R. Fiske, B. Holmes, L. Walters
• Serenade () - O. Sonneck [x]
• Sibylla's Scena (Merry, merry little stream) (from The Poems Posthumous and Collected of Thomas Lovell Beddoes) - W. Harris
• Song on the water (As mad sexton's bell, tolling) (from The Poems Posthumous and Collected of Thomas Lovell Beddoes) - C. Brown, P. Naylor
• Song: Translated from the German of Walther von der Vogelweide (Under the lime-tree, on the daisied ground) (from The Poems Posthumous and Collected of Thomas Lovell Beddoes) GER GER GER GER GER GER GER GER
• Song (If thou wilt ease thine heart) (from Death's Jest Book or The Fool's Tragedy) - J. Beeson CAT
• Song (We do lie beneath the grass) (from Death's Jest Book or The Fool's Tragedy) - J. Roberts
• Sorrow's lullaby (Who is the baby, that doth lie) (from The Bride's Tragedy) - P. Warlock
• Stanzas (The mighty thought of an old world) (from The Poems Posthumous and Collected of Thomas Lovell Beddoes)
• Strew not earth with empty stars (from The Poems Posthumous and Collected of Thomas Lovell Beddoes - The Second Brother) - E. Boyce
• Tandaradei (Under the lime-tree, on the daisied ground) (from The Poems Posthumous and Collected of Thomas Lovell Beddoes) - S. Dodgson GER GER GER GER GER GER GER GER
• Tell me (How many times do I love thee, dear?) (from The Poems Posthumous and Collected of Thomas Lovell Beddoes - Torrismond) - B. Crist
• The carrion crow (Old Adam, the carrion crow) (from Death's Jest Book or The Fool's Tragedy) - D. ApIvor
• The heart's ease (If thou wilt ease thine heart) (from Death's Jest Book or The Fool's Tragedy) - D. ApIvor CAT
• The mighty thought of an old world (from The Poems Posthumous and Collected of Thomas Lovell Beddoes) - L. Berkeley (Stanzas)
• The mighty thoughts of an old world (from The Poems Posthumous and Collected of Thomas Lovell Beddoes) (Stanzas) - L. Berkeley
• The mighty thoughts of an old world (The mighty thought of an old world) (from The Poems Posthumous and Collected of Thomas Lovell Beddoes) - L. Berkeley
• Then sleep, dear, sleep (If thou wilt ease thine heart) (from Death's Jest Book or The Fool's Tragedy) - H. Walmisley CAT
• The old crow of Cairo (Old Adam, the carrion crow) (from Death's Jest Book or The Fool's Tragedy) - S. Dodgson
• The Phantom-Wooer (A ghost, that loved a lady fair) (from The Poems Posthumous and Collected of Thomas Lovell Beddoes) - H. Brian, B. Holmes, W. Hurlstone
• The song (Hither haste, and gently strew) (from The Improvisatore, in Three Fyttes, with Other Poems)
• The swallow leaves her nest (The swallow leaves her nest) (from Death's Jest Book or The Fool's Tragedy) - G. Holst
• The swallow leaves her nest (from Death's Jest Book or The Fool's Tragedy) - G. Holst
• To sea, to sea! the calm is o'er (To sea, to sea! The calm is o'er) (from Death's Jest Book or The Fool's Tragedy) - D. ApIvor
• To sea, to sea! The calm is o'er (from Death's Jest Book or The Fool's Tragedy) - D. ApIvor, E. Bainton, G. Broadhead, P. Enfield, S. Fraser, H. McCleery, M. Shaw, E. Thiman
• To sea! To sea! (To sea, to sea! The calm is o'er) (from Death's Jest Book or The Fool's Tragedy) - E. Thiman
• To sea! (To sea, to sea! The calm is o'er) (from Death's Jest Book or The Fool's Tragedy) - G. Broadhead, S. Fraser, H. McCleery, M. Shaw
• Under the lime-tree, on the daisied ground (from The Poems Posthumous and Collected of Thomas Lovell Beddoes) GER GER GER GER GER GER GER GER - S. Dodgson (Song: Translated from the German of Walther von der Vogelweide)
• Unwelcome visitors (Although my old ear) (from Death's Jest Book or The Fool's Tragedy) - L. Walters
• We do lie beneath the grass (from Death's Jest Book or The Fool's Tragedy) - J. Roberts
• Who is the baby, that doth lie (from The Bride's Tragedy) - P. Warlock
• Wild with passion, sorrow beladen (from Song on the water) CAT GER - B. Britten
• Wild with passion (Wild with passion, sorrow beladen) (from Song on the water) - B. Britten CAT GER
• Woe! woe ! this is death's hour (from The Poems Posthumous and Collected of Thomas Lovell Beddoes) - B. Elias, G. Holst (Dirge and Hymeneal)
• Wolfram's dirge (If thou wilt ease thine heart) (from Death's Jest Book or The Fool's Tragedy) - A. Allen, K. Eggar CAT

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