Song Compositions
Between 1911 and 1930.
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- 4 – Instrumental
Title | Writer | Year |
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The Wind from the West | Ella Young | 1911 |
A Lake and a Fairy Boat | Thomas Hood | 1911 |
Music, when soft voices die | Shelley | 1911 [2 versions] |
The Everlasting Voices | W. B. Yeats | 1915 |
The Lover mourns for the Loss of Love | W. B. Yeats | 1916 [rev. 1920] |
Saudades (x3) | ||
- Along the Stream | Li Po | 1917 |
- Take, o Take those lips away | Shakespeare | 1916-17 |
- Heracleitus | Callimachus | 1917 |
The Water Lily | Robert Nichols | 1916-17 |
I asked a thief to steal me a peach | William Blake | 1917 [2 versions] |
Bright is the ring of words | R. L. Stevenson | 1918 |
To the Memory of a Great Singer | R. L. Stevenson | 1918 [rev. 1922] |
Take, o take those lips away (2nd setting) | Shakespeare | 1918 |
As ever I saw | Anon 16th c. | 1918 |
Lullaby | Thomas Dekker | 1918 |
My gostly fader | Charles Duc d'Orléans | 1918 |
The bayley berith the bell away | Anon 15th c. | 1918 |
Whenas the rye reach to the chin | George Peele | 1918 |
Balulalow | Martin Luther | 1919 |
The Cloths of Heaven | W. B. Yeats | 1919 |
Dedication | Philip Sydney | 1919 |
Love for Love | Anon 16th c. | 1919 |
A Love Song | Skipwith Cannell | 1919 |
Mourn no Moe | John Fletcher | 1919 |
My sweet little darling | Anon 16th c. | 1919 |
Romance | R. L. Stevenson | 1919 |
Sweet Content | Thomas Dekker | 1919 |
There is a Lady | Anon 17th c. | 1919 |
Play Acting | Anon | 1920 |
Captain Stratton's Fancy | John Masefield | 1921 |
Mr Belloc's Fancy | J. C. Squire | 1921 [2 versions] |
Late Summer | Edward Shanks | 1921 |
Good Ale | Anon 15th c. | 1922 |
Hey troly loly lo | Anon 16th c. | 1922 |
The Bachelor | Anon 15th c. | 1922 |
Piggesnie | Anon 16th c. | 1922 |
Little Trotty Wagtail | John Clare | 1922 |
The Singer | Edward Shanks | 1922 |
Adam lay ybounden | Anon 15th c. | 1922 |
Rest sweet nymphs | Anon 16th c. | 1922 |
Sleep | John Fletcher | 1922 |
Tyrley Tyrlow | Anon 16th c. | 1922 |
Lillygay (x5) | ||
- The Distracted Maid | Anon | 1922 |
- Johnny wi' the Tye | Anon | 1922 |
- The Shoemaker | Anon | 1922 |
- Burd Ellen and Young Tamlane | Anon | 1922 |
- Rantum Tantum | Victor B. Neuburg | 1922 |
Peterisms, set I (x3) | ||
- Chopcherry | George Peele | 1922 |
- A Sad Song | John Fletcher | 1922 |
- Rutterkin | J. Skelton | 1922 |
Peterisms, set II (x3) | ||
- Roister Doister | Nicholas Udall | 1922 |
- Spring | Thomas Nashe | 1922 |
- Lusty Juventus | Robert Wever | 1922 |
In an arbour green | Robert Wever | 1922 |
Autumn Twilight | Arthur Symons | 1922 |
Milkmaids | James Smith | 1923 |
Candlelight (12 nursery rhymes) | ||
- How many miles to Babylon? | Anon | 1923 |
- I won't be my father's Jack | Anon | 1923 |
- Robin and Richard | Anon | 1923 |
- O my kitten | Anon | 1923 |
- Little Tommy Tucker | Anon | 1923 |
- There was an old man | Anon | 1923 |
- I had a little pony | Anon | 1923 |
- Little Jack Jingle | Anon | 1923 |
- There was a Man of Thessaly | Anon | 1923 |
- Suky, you shall be my wife | Anon | 1923 |
- There was an old woman | Anon | 1923 |
- Arthur O'Bower | Anon | 1923 |
Jenny Gray | Anon | 1923 |
2 Short Songs | ||
- I held love's head | Robert Herrick | 1923 |
- Thou gav'st me leave to kiss | Robert Herrick | 1923 |
Consider | Ford Madox Ford | 1923 |
Twelve Oxen | Anon | 1924 |
The Toper's Song | Anon | 1924 |
Sweet-and-twenty | Shakespeare | 1924 |
Peter Warlock's Fancy | Anon | 1924 |
Yarmouth Fair | Hal Collins | 1924 |
I have a garden | Thomas Moore | 1924 [1910, rev.] |
Chanson du jour de Noël | Clément Marot | 1925 |
One more river | Anon | 1925 |
Pretty Ring Time | Shakespeare | 1925 |
2 Songs (x2) | ||
- A Prayer to St Anthony | Arthur Symons | 1925 |
- The Sick Heart | Arthur Symons | 1925 |
The Countryman | John Chalkhill | 1926 |
Maltworms (jointly composed with E. J. Moeran) | William Stevenson | 1926 |
The Birds | Hilaire Belloc | 1926 |
Robin Goodfellow | Anon | 1926 |
Jillian of Berry | Francis Beaumont | 1926 |
Away to Twiver | Anon | 1926 |
Fair and True | Nicholas Breton | 1926 |
3 Belloc Songs (x3) | ||
- Ha'nacker Mill | Hilaire Belloc | 1927 |
- The Night | Hilaire Belloc | 1927 |
- My Own Country | Hilaire Belloc | 1927 |
The First Mercy | Bruce Blunt | 1927 |
The Lover's Maze | Anon | 1927 |
Cradle Song | John Phillip | 1927 |
Sigh no more ladies | Shakespeare | 1927 |
Walking the Woods | Anon | 1927 |
Mockery | Shakespeare | 1927 |
The Jolly Shepherd | Anon | 1927 |
What Cheer? Good Cheer! | Anon | 1927 |
Where Riches is Everlastingly | Anon | 1927 |
Queen Anne | Anon | 1928 |
Passing by | Anon | 1928 |
Seven Songs of Summer (x7) | ||
- The Passionate Shepherd | Christopher Marlowe | 1928 |
- The Contented Lover | James Mabbe | 1928 |
- Youth | Robert Wever | 1928 |
- The Sweet o' the Year | Shakespeare | 1928 |
- Tom Tyler | Anon | 1928 |
- Eloré Lo | Anon | 1928 |
- The Droll Lover | Anon | 1928 |
And wilt thou leave me thus? | Thomas Wyatt | 1928 |
The Cricketers of Hambledon | Bruce Blunt | 1928 |
Fill the Cup, Philip | Anon | 1928 |
Carillon, Carilla | Hilaire Belloc | 1929 |
The Five Lesser Joys of Mary | D.L. Kelleher | 1929 |
The Frostbound Wood | Bruce Blunt | 1929 |
After Two Years | Richard Aldington | 1930 |
The Fox | Bruce Blunt | 1930 |
Bethlehem Down | Bruce Blunt | 1930 |
Title | Writer | Year |
Abbreviations
Eng Hn: English Horn, Fl: Flute, Orch: Orchestra, Org: Organ, Pf: Pianoforte, SATB: Soprano / Alto / Tenor / Bass, Str Orch: String Orchestra, Str Qt: String Quartet