Texts to Art Songs and Choral Works by J. Ireland

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Song Cycles, Collections, Symphonies, etc.:

• Eight songs for upper voices and piano
• no. 1. Full fathom five (Text: William Shakespeare) DUT FIN FRE FRE FRE GER GER IRI ITA ITA NOR SPA SWE
• no. 2. There is a garden in her face (Text: Thomas Campion) DUT
• no. 3. In praise of May (Text: Thomas Morley after Anonymous/Unidentified Artist) DUT SPA
• no. 4. In summer woods (Text: James Vila Blake) DUT
• no. 5. Aubade (Text: Sydney Thompson Dobell) DUT
• no. 6. Evening song (Text: James Vila Blake after Friedrich Rückert) DUT
• no. 7. The echoing green (Text: William Blake) DUT
• no. 8. May flowers (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti) DUT
• Five Poems by Thomas Hardy
• no. 1. Beckon to me to come (Text: Thomas Hardy)
• no. 2. In my sage moments (Text: Thomas Hardy)
• no. 3. It was what you bore with you, Woman (Text: Thomas Hardy)
• no. 4. The tragedy of that moment (Text: Thomas Hardy)
• no. 5. Dear, think not that they will forget you (Text: Thomas Hardy)
• Five XVI^th Century Poems
• no. 1. A thanksgiving (Text: William Cornish) FRE GER
• no. 2. All in a garden green (Text: Thomas Howell)
• no. 3. An aside
• no. 4. A report song (Text: Nicholas Breton)
• no. 5. The sweet season (Text: Richard Edwards)
• Man in his labour rejoiceth [cantata]
• no. 1. Power eternal, power unknown, uncreate (Text: Robert Seymour Bridges)
• no. 2. Gloom and the night are thine (Text: Robert Seymour Bridges)
• no. 3. In ways of beauty and peace (Text: Robert Seymour Bridges)
• no. 4. Man, born to toil, in his labour rejoiceth (Text: Robert Seymour Bridges)
• no. 5. Hark ! What spirit doth entreat (Text: Robert Seymour Bridges)
• no. 6. Sweet compassionate tears (Text: Robert Seymour Bridges)
• no. 7. Gird on thy sword, O man, thy strength endue (Text: Robert Seymour Bridges)
• Marigold
• no. 1. Youth's Spring-Tribute (Text: Dante Gabriel Rossetti)
• no. 2. Penumbra (Text: Dante Gabriel Rossetti)
• no. 3. Spleen (after Paul Verlaine) (Text: Ernest Christopher Dowson after Paul Verlaine) CAT GER GER
• Mother and Child
• no. 1. Newborn (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
• no. 2. The Only Child (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
• no. 3. Hope (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
• no. 4. Skylark and Nightingale (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
• no. 5. The Blind Boy (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
• no. 6. Baby (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
• no. 7. Death-parting (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
• no. 8. The Garland (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
• Songs of a Wayfarer
• no. 1. Memory (Text: William Blake)
• no. 2. When daffodils begin to peer (Text: William Shakespeare) CHI FRE GER
• no. 3. English May (Text: Dante Gabriel Rossetti)
• no. 4. I was not sorrowful (Spleen) (Text: Ernest Christopher Dowson) SPA
• no. 5. I will walk on the earth (Text: James Vila Blake)
• Songs Sacred and Profane
• no. 1. The advent (Text: Alice Christina Meynell , as A. C. Thompson)
• no. 2. Hymn for a child (Text: Sylvia Townsend Warner) *
• no. 3. My Fair (Text: Alice Christina Meynell , as A. C. Thompson)
• no. 4. The Salley Gardens (Text: William Butler Yeats) DUT FRE FRI FRI GER
• no. 5. The soldier's return (Text: Sylvia Townsend Warner) *
• no. 6. The scapegoat (Text: Sylvia Townsend Warner) *
• 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 Land of Lost Content
• no. 1. The lent lily (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
• no. 2. Ladslove (Text: Alfred Edward Housman) FRE HEB
• no. 3. Goal and wicket (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
• no. 4. The vain desire (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
• no. 5. The encounter (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
• no. 6. Epilogue (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
• Three Songs
• no. 1. The adoration (Text: Arthur Symons)
• no. 2. The rat (Text: Arthur Symons)
• no. 3. Rest (Text: Arthur Symons)
• Three Songs
• no. 1. Love and Friendship (Text: Emily Brontë)
• no. 2. Friendship in misfortune (Text: Anonymous)
• no. 3. The one hope (Text: Dante Gabriel Rossetti)
• Three Songs to Poems by Thomas Hardy
• no. 1. Summer schemes (Text: Thomas Hardy)
• no. 2. Her song (Text: Thomas Hardy)
• no. 3. Weathers (Text: Thomas Hardy)
• Two Songs
• no. 1. My true love hath my heart (Text: Philip Sidney, Sir) FRE GER
• no. 2. The trellis (Text: Aldous Huxley)
• Two Songs
• no. 1. Tryst (Text: Arthur Symons) CHI
• no. 2. During music (Text: Dante Gabriel Rossetti)
• Two Songs
• no. 1. The soldier (Text: Rupert Brooke)
• no. 2. Blow out, you bugles (Text: Rupert Brooke)
• Two Songs
• no. 1. Blind (Text: Eric Thirkell Cooper)
• no. 2. The cost (Text: Eric Thirkell Cooper)
• We'll to the woods no more
• no. 1. We'll to the Woods no more (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
• no. 2. In boyhood (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
• no. 3. Spring will not wait (Text: Alfred Edward Housman) CHI

All titles of vocal settings in Alphabetic order

• A cradle song (Text: William Blake)
• Adam lay ybounden (Text: 15^th century) FRE GER
• A garrison churchyard (Text: Eric Thirkell Cooper)
• A laughing song (Text: William Blake) CHI RUS
• All in a garden green (in Five XVI^th Century Poems) (Text: Thomas Howell)
• Alpine song (Text: James Vila Blake after Volkslieder )
• An aside (in Five XVI^th Century Poems)
• Annabel Lee (Text: Edgar Allan Poe) FRE RUS
• A report song (in Five XVI^th Century Poems) (Text: Nicholas Breton)
• A song from o'er the hill (Text: Patrick Joseph O'Reilly)
• A Sylvan Rhapsody (Text: Harold Monro)
• At early dawn (Text: James Vila Blake after Johann Ludwig Uhland) CHI DUT FRE
• A thanksgiving (in Five XVI^th Century Poems) (Text: William Cornish) FRE GER
• Aubade (in Eight songs for upper voices and piano) (Text: Sydney Thompson Dobell) DUT
• Baby (in Mother and Child) (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
• Beckon to me to come (in Five Poems by Thomas Hardy) (Text: Thomas Hardy)
• Bed in summer (Text: Robert Louis Stevenson) ITA
• Bed in summer (Text: Robert Louis Stevenson) ITA
• Billee Bowline (Text: Frederick E. Weatherly) [x]
• Blind (in Two Songs) (Text: Eric Thirkell Cooper)
• Blow out, you bugles (in Two Songs) (Text: Rupert Brooke)
• Boys' names (Text: Eleanor Farjeon) [x]
• Child's song (Text: Thomas Moore) [x]
• Cupid (Text: William Blake)
• Dear, think not that they will forget you (in Five Poems by Thomas Hardy) (Text: Thomas Hardy)
• Death-parting (in Mother and Child) (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
• During music (in Two Songs) (Text: Dante Gabriel Rossetti)
• Earth's call (Text: Harold Monro)
• English May (in Songs of a Wayfarer) (Text: Dante Gabriel Rossetti)
• Epilogue (in The Land of Lost Content) (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
• Evening song (in Eight songs for upper voices and piano) (Text: James Vila Blake after Friedrich Rückert) DUT
• Fain would I change that note (Text: Anonymous)
• Friendship in misfortune (in Three Songs) (Text: Anonymous)
• Friendship in misfortune
• Full fathom five (in Eight songs for upper voices and piano) (Text: William Shakespeare) DUT FIN FRE FRE FRE GER GER IRI ITA ITA NOR SPA SWE
• Gird on thy sword, O man, thy strength endue (in Man in his labour rejoiceth) (Text: Robert Seymour Bridges)
• Gloom and the night are thine (in Man in his labour rejoiceth) (Text: Robert Seymour Bridges)
• Goal and wicket (in The Land of Lost Content) (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
• Great things (Text: Thomas Hardy)
• Hark ! What spirit doth entreat (in Man in his labour rejoiceth) (Text: Robert Seymour Bridges)
• Hawthorn Time (Text: Alfred Edward Housman) CHI
• Here's to the ships (Text: Patrick Joseph O'Reilly) [x]
• Her song (in Three Songs to Poems by Thomas Hardy) (Text: Thomas Hardy)
• Hope the Hornblower (Text: Henry Newbolt, Sir)
• Hope (in Mother and Child) (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
• Hymn for a child (in Songs Sacred and Profane) (Text: Sylvia Townsend Warner) *
• Hymn to Light (Text: James Vila Blake) [x]
• If there were dreams to sell (Text: Thomas Lovell Beddoes)
• If we must part (Text: Ernest Christopher Dowson)
• I have twelve oxen (Text: early 16^th century)
• In boyhood (in We'll to the woods no more) (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
• In my sage moments (in Five Poems by Thomas Hardy) (Text: Thomas Hardy)
• In praise of May (in Eight songs for upper voices and piano) (Text: Thomas Morley after Anonymous/Unidentified Artist) DUT SPA
• In summer woods (in Eight songs for upper voices and piano) (Text: James Vila Blake) DUT
• In ways of beauty and peace (in Man in his labour rejoiceth) (Text: Robert Seymour Bridges)
• It was what you bore with you, Woman (in Five Poems by Thomas Hardy) (Text: Thomas Hardy)
• I was not sorrowful (Spleen) (in Songs of a Wayfarer) (Text: Ernest Christopher Dowson) SPA
• I will walk on the earth (in Songs of a Wayfarer) (Text: James Vila Blake)
• Ladslove (in The Land of Lost Content) (Text: Alfred Edward Housman) FRE HEB
• Love and Friendship (in Three Songs) (Text: Emily Brontë)
• Love is a sickness full of woes (Text: Samuel Daniel; Thomas Maske) GER
• Love's window (Text: H. D. Banning) [x]
• Man, born to toil, in his labour rejoiceth (in Man in his labour rejoiceth) (Text: Robert Seymour Bridges)
• May flowers (in Eight songs for upper voices and piano) (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti) DUT
• Memory (in Songs of a Wayfarer) (Text: William Blake)
• My Fair (in Songs Sacred and Profane) (Text: Alice Christina Meynell , as A. C. Thompson)
• My true love hath my heart (in Two Songs) (Text: Philip Sidney, Sir) FRE GER
• Newborn (in Mother and Child) (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
• Nurse's song (Text: William Blake)
• O happy Land! (Text: William James Linton)
• Penumbra (in Marigold) (Text: Dante Gabriel Rossetti)
• Power eternal, power unknown, uncreate (in Man in his labour rejoiceth) (Text: Robert Seymour Bridges)
• Remember (Text: Mary Coleridge)
• Remember (Text: Mary Coleridge)
• Rest (in Three Songs) (Text: Arthur Symons)
• Santa Chiara (Text: Arthur Symons) GER
• Sea-Fever (Text: John Masefield)
• Skylark and Nightingale (in Mother and Child) (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
• Spleen (after Paul Verlaine) (in Marigold) (Text: Ernest Christopher Dowson after Paul Verlaine) CAT GER GER
• Spring sorrow (Text: Rupert Brooke)
• Spring will not wait (in We'll to the woods no more) (Text: Alfred Edward Housman) CHI
• Summer schemes (in Three Songs to Poems by Thomas Hardy) (Text: Thomas Hardy)
• Sunset Play (Text: William Blake)
• Sweet compassionate tears (in Man in his labour rejoiceth) (Text: Robert Seymour Bridges)
• The adoration (in Three Songs) (Text: Arthur Symons)
• The advent (in Songs Sacred and Profane) (Text: Alice Christina Meynell , as A. C. Thompson)
• The bell in the leaves (Text: Eleanor Farjeon) [x]
• The bells of San Marie (Text: John Masefield)
• The Blind Boy (in Mother and Child) (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
• The boy (Text: Eleanor Farjeon) [x]
• The cost (in Two Songs) (Text: Eric Thirkell Cooper)
• The darkened valley (Text: William Blake)
• The East Riding (Text: Eric Chilman) [x]
• The echoing green (in Eight songs for upper voices and piano) (Text: William Blake) DUT
• The encounter (in The Land of Lost Content) (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
• The ferry (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti) GER
• The frog and the crab (Text: early 16th century) [x]
• The Garland (in Mother and Child) (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
• The heart's desire (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
• The hills (Text: James Falconer Kirkup, FRSL) *
• The Holy Boy: a Carol of the Nativity (Text: Herbert S. Brown)
• The journey (Text: Ernest Blake)
• The lent lily (in The Land of Lost Content) (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
• The merry month of May (Text: Thomas Dekker)
• The one hope (in Three Songs) (Text: Dante Gabriel Rossetti)
• The Only Child (in Mother and Child) (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
• The rat (in Three Songs) (Text: Arthur Symons)
• There is a garden in her face (in Eight songs for upper voices and piano) (Text: Thomas Campion) DUT
• The sacred flame (Text: Mary Coleridge)
• The Salley Gardens (in Songs Sacred and Profane) (Text: William Butler Yeats) DUT FRE FRI FRI GER
• The scapegoat (in Songs Sacred and Profane) (Text: Sylvia Townsend Warner) *
• These things shall be (Text: John Addington Symonds)
• These things shall be! (Text: John Addington Symonds)
• The soldier's return (in Songs Sacred and Profane) (Text: Sylvia Townsend Warner) *
• The soldier (in Two Songs) (Text: Rupert Brooke)
• The sweet season (in Five XVI^th Century Poems) (Text: Richard Edwards)
• The three ravens (Text: Volkslieder ) DUT
• The tragedy of that moment (in Five Poems by Thomas Hardy) (Text: Thomas Hardy)
• The trellis (in Two Songs) (Text: Aldous Huxley)
• The vain desire (in The Land of Lost Content) (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
• Tryst (in Two Songs) (Text: Arthur Symons) CHI
• Tutto è sciolto (in The Joyce Book) (Text: James Joyce) FRE GER
• Vagabond (Text: John Masefield)
• Weathers (in Three Songs to Poems by Thomas Hardy) (Text: Thomas Hardy)
• We'll to the Woods no more (in We'll to the woods no more) (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
• What art thou thinking of? (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
• When daffodils begin to peer (in Songs of a Wayfarer) (Text: William Shakespeare) CHI FRE GER
• When I am dead, my dearest (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti) GER GER GER ITA
• When I am old (Text: Ernest Christopher Dowson)
• When lights go rolling round the sky (Text: James Vila Blake)
• Youth's Spring-Tribute (in Marigold) (Text: Dante Gabriel Rossetti)

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