Extant songs ordered by type

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Unaccompanied partsongs

1903	Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Op.5 [song] Shakespeare Sonnet 18 (pub 1609) [SATB] (1903†)	SATB
1905	Stars of a summer night Op.1 [song] Longfellow [SSAATTBB] (1905†)	SSAATTBB
1906	Come o’er the sea [song] Moore [SATB] (1906†)	SATB
	In a fairy boat [rondel] Weller [SSAA] (1906†)	SSAA
	Lullaby of an infant chief [song] Scott [SATB] (1906†)	SATB
	Soul star [song] Bantock (orig Philip Marston - lost) [SATB] (1906†)	SATB
	Tell me, thou soul of her I love Op.13d/1 [song] Thomson [SATB] (1906†)	SATB
1908	Fairies’ song [song] Cumberland (orig. Philip Marston - lost) [SSAA] (1908†)	SSAA
1910	Daybreak [song] Longfellow [SATB] (1910†)	SATB
?1910s/20s	Tell me, where is fancy bred [song] Shakespeare from The Merchant of Venice [SSAA] (?1910s/20s)	SSAA
1914	Clown’s song [song] Shakespeare from Twelfth night (c1600), Act 5, scene 1 ‘When that I was and a little tiny boy’ [partsong] (1914†)	partsong
	He was a rat [song] anon [SATB] (1914†)	SATB
	Legend of Altenahr [song] author unknown [male voices] (1914†)	male voices
	Meg Merrilies [song] Keats Old Meg she was a gypsy [male voices] (1914†)	male voices
	The owl [song] author unknown [female voices] (1914†)	female voices
	Sands of Dee [Sands o’ Dee] Kingsley [mixed voices] (1914†)	mixed voices
	Ye spotted snakes [song] Shakespeare [SSAA] (1914†)	SSAA
1915	O mistress mine [song] Shakespeare [partsong] (1915†)	partsong
1918	The phantom wooer [song] Beddoes [SATB] (1918†)	SATB
1919	Absence [song] anon [SSAA] (1919†)	SSAA
	Ah! County guy! [serenade] Scott [equal voices] (1919†)	equal voices
	Fear no more the heat of the sun [song] Shakespeare [SATB] (1919†)	SATB
	It was a lover and his lass [song] Shakespeare [SSA] (1919†)	SSA
	Under the greenwood tree [song] Shakespeare [SSA] (1919†)	SSA
1924	O happiness, celestial fair [choral canon] Hannah More [SATB] (1924†)	SATB
	Shall I then be spared? [choral canon] Hannah More [SATB] (1924†)	SATB
	Sweet solitude [choral canon] Hannah More [SATB] (1924†)	SATB
	Vital spark of heavenly flame [choral canon] Pope [SSAA] (1924†)	SSAA
1925	Blow, blow thou winter wind [song] Shakespeare from As You Like It [SATB] (1925†)	SATB
1937-44	Chorus [from Prometheus unbound Chorus from Act I] [song] Shelley [unaccompanied] (1937-44†)	unaccompanied

Accompanied partsongs

1914	And will he not come again? [song] Shakespeare [SSAA, piano] (1914†)	SSAA, piano
	The blossom in C major [song] Blake from Songs of Innocence and Experience [unison or solo, piano] (1914†)	unison or solo, piano
	A child’s prayer [song] Betham-Edwards [SA, piano] (1914†)	SA, piano
	The chimney sweeper in G major - E flat [song] Blake from Songs of Innocence and Experience [unison or solo, piano] (1914†) – 3´	unison or solo, piano – 3´
	The dream [song] Blake from Songs of Innocence and Experience [SSA, piano] (1914†)	SSA, piano
	The echoing green [song] Blake from Songs of Innocence and Experience [SSA, piano] (1914†)	SSA, piano
	The fly in C major [song] Blake from Songs of Innocence and Experience [unison or solo, piano] (1914†) – 1´	unison or solo, piano – 1´
	Goodbye to summer [song] Allingham [SA, piano] (1914†)	SA, piano
	Grace for a child in C major [‘… a two-part easy school song’ - HB] Herrick Noble numbers (1647) no 95 Another grace for a child [SA, piano] (1914†) – 1´	SA, piano – 1´
	If I had but two little wings [song] Coleridge [SA, piano] (1914†)	SA, piano
	Infant joy [song] Blake from Songs of Innocence and Experience [SSA, piano] (1914†)	SSA, piano
	The lamb [song] Blake from Songs of Innocence and Experience [SSA, piano] (1914†)	SSA, piano
	Laughing song [song] Blake from Songs of Innocence and Experience [SSA, piano] (1914†)	SSA, piano
	The little black boy in A minor - A major [song] Blake from Songs of Innocence and Experience [unison or solo, piano] (1914†) – 4´	unison or solo, piano – 4´
	The little boy found [song] Blake from Songs of Innocence and Experience [SA, piano] (1914†)	SA, piano
	The little boy lost [song] Blake from Songs of Innocence and Experience [SA, piano] (1914†)	SA, piano
	Little white lily [song] MacDonald [SSA, piano] (1914†)	SSA, piano
	The moon [song] Cumberland [SA, piano] (1914†)	SA, piano
	The mountain and the squirrel [song] Emerson Fable [unison or solo, piano] (1914†) for children – 2´	unison or solo, piano – 2´
	Pastoral: the shepherd [song] Blake from Songs of Innocence and Experience [SSA, piano] (1914†)	SSA, piano
	Piping down the valleys wild in C major [song] Blake from Songs of Innocence and Experience [unison or solo, piano] (1914†) – 2´	unison or solo, piano – 2´
	The river [song] Cumberland [SA, piano] (1914†)	SA, piano
	A song of willow [song] Shakespeare [SSA, piano] (1914†)	SSA, piano
	Spring – sound the flute [song] Blake [SA, piano] (1914†)	SA, piano
	Spring – sound the flute [song] Blake [SSA, piano] (1914†)	SSA, piano
	Summer has come, little children in D major [song] Cumberland [SA, piano] (1914†) – 2´	SA, piano – 2´
	Violets [song] Herrick [SSA, piano] (1914†)	SSA, piano
	What does little birdie say? [song] Tennyson from Sea dreams (1860) [unison or solo, piano] (1914†) – 1´	unison or solo, piano – 1´
1915	The fairy palace [song] Drayton [SSA, piano] (1915†)	SSA, piano
1919	Fair pledges of a fruitful tree [song] Herrick [SA, piano] (1919†)	SA, piano
	Pack clouds away [song] Heywood [SSA, piano] (1919†)	SSA, piano
	Spring, the sweet spring [song] Nash [SA, piano] (1919†)	SA, piano
	To daffodils [song] Herrick [SA, piano] (1919†)	SA, piano
1921	Full fathom five [song] Shakespeare [SSAA, piano] (1921†)	SSAA, piano
1925	Come away, death [song] Shakespeare [TbarB, piano] (1925†)	TbarB, piano
1937-44	Three semichoruses [from Prometheus unbound Act II scene 2] [song] Shelley [1,3 unacc; 2 acc fl, hp] (1937-44†) – 15´	1,3 unacc; 2 acc fl, hp – 15´

Solo songs

?1904-06	Sorrow song Op.6 [song] Samuel Daniel [alto or bar, pno] (?1904-06†)	alto or bar, pno
	The message Op.6 [song] Donne [alto or bar, pno] (?1904-06†)	alto or bar, pno
	Farewell Op.6 [song] Bishop Heber [alto or bar, pno] (?1904-06†)	alto or bar, pno
1906	Soliloquy upon a dead child [song] Cumberland [sop or ten, pno] (1906†)	sop or ten, pno
	Little sleeper [from Soliloquy upon a dead child] Op.13a [song] Hafiz trans Richard le Galliene [sop or ten, pno] (1906†) rev 1972	sop or ten, pno
	Day and night Op.13b [song] Cumberland [tenor, piano] (1906†)	tenor, piano
	When I lie ill Op.13b [song] Cumberland [tenor, piano] (1906†)	tenor, piano
	If I could speak Op.13b [song] Cumberland [tenor, piano] (1906†)	tenor, piano
	A faery song Op.13c [song] Yeats [mezzo, piano] (1906†)	mezzo, piano
1910	Why dost thou wound and break my heart? [song] Herrick [tenor, piano] (1910†)	tenor, piano
	The mad maid’s song [song] Herrick [mezzo, pno or orch] (1910†) orch score lost	mezzo, pno or orch
	The night piece [song] Herrick [tenor, pno or orch] (1910†) orch score lost	tenor, pno or orch
1914	The blossom in C major [song] Blake from Songs of Innocence and Experience [unison or solo, piano] (1914†)	unison or solo, piano
	The chimney sweeper in G major - E flat [song] Blake from Songs of Innocence and Experience [unison or solo, piano] (1914†) – 3´	unison or solo, piano – 3´
	The fly in C major [song] Blake from Songs of Innocence and Experience [unison or solo, piano] (1914†) – 1´	unison or solo, piano – 1´
	The little black boy in A minor - A major [song] Blake from Songs of Innocence and Experience [unison or solo, piano] (1914†) – 4´	unison or solo, piano – 4´
	The lost doll [song] Kingsley [voice, piano] (1914†)	voice, piano
	The mountain and the squirrel [song] Emerson Fable [unison or solo, piano] (1914†) for children – 2´	unison or solo, piano – 2´
	Piping down the valleys wild in C major [song] Blake from Songs of Innocence and Experience [unison or solo, piano] (1914†) – 2´	unison or solo, piano – 2´
	What does little birdie say? [song] Tennyson from Sea dreams (1860) [unison or solo, piano] (1914†) – 1´	unison or solo, piano – 1´
1918	Love is a merry game [song] Temple Keble [voice, piano] (1918†)	voice, piano
	On parting [song] Temple Keble [voice, piano] (1918†)	voice, piano
	When the sun goes down [song] Temple Keble [voice, piano] (1918†)	voice, piano
1918-19	The defiled sanctuary [song] Blake from posthumous Miscellaneous Poems and Fragments [medium voice, piano] (1918-19†)	medium voice, piano
	Lady Ellayne [song] Temple Keble [medium voice, piano] (1918-19†)	medium voice, piano
	Renunciation [song] Temple Keble [medium voice, piano] (1918-19†)	medium voice, piano
1919	The birds [song] Blake [alto or bar, pno] (1919†)	alto or bar, pno
	Care-charmer sleep [song] Samuel Daniel [voice, piano] (1919†)	voice, piano
	The land of dreams [song] Blake from posthumous Miscellaneous Poems and Fragments [voice, piano] (1919†)	voice, piano
	When icicles hang by the wall [song] Shakespeare from Love’s Labours Lost [voice, piano] (1919†)	voice, piano
1919-21	Take, O take those lips away [song] Shakespeare from Measure for Measure [voice, piano] (1919-21)	voice, piano
1920-21	The soul of steel [song] C. M. Masterman [voice, piano] (1920-21)	voice, piano
c.1922-23	Since love is dead [song] Bowles [voice, piano] (c.1922-23†)	voice, piano