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Extant songs by type
Authors of all works' texts alphabetically

Solo songs
Unaccompanied partsongs
Accompanied partsongs


Solo songs
c1892
?1895-96
Canadian boat song  
I shot an arrow  Longfellow
Wanderer's night song  Goethe trans Morley
Today and tomorrow  Gunby Hadath
song  Gunby Hadath
lost
lost
lost
lost
lost
?1904-06 Sorrow song  Samuel Daniel
The message  Donne
Farewell  Bishop Heber
alto or baritone, piano
alto or baritone, piano
alto or baritone, piano
1906 Soliloquy upon a dead child Cumberland
Little sleeper  Hafiz trans Richard le Galliene

soprano or tenor, piano
1906 A faery song  Yeats
Four dramatic poems
mezzo, piano
tenor, piano  lost
1906 Day and night  Cumberland
When I lie ill   Cumberland
If I could speak   Cumberland
tenor, piano
tenor, piano
tenor, piano
1910 Why dost thou wound and break my heart?  Herrick
The night piece  Herrick
The mad maid's song   Herrick
tenor, piano
tenor, pno or orch (orch score lost)
mezzo, pno or orch (orch score lost)
1914 The blossom  Blake
The mountain and the squirrel  Emerson
The little black boy  Blake
The chimney sweeper  Blake
Piping down the valleys wild  Blake
The lost doll  Kingsley
What does little birdie say?  Tennyson
The fly  Blake
Robin redbreast
voice, piano
voice, piano
voice, piano
voice, piano
voice, piano
voice, piano
voice, piano
voice, piano
unison, piano  lost
1918 When the sun goes down Temple Keble
On parting Temple Keble
Love is a merry game Temple Keble
1918-19 Renunciation   Temple Keble
Lady Ellayne  Temple Keble
The defiled sanctuary  Blake
medium voice, piano
medium voice, piano
medium voice, piano
1919 The land of dreams   Blake
The birds Blake
When icicles hang by the wall    Shakespeare
Care-charmer sleep  Samuel Daniel
The poet's dream
On a poet's lips I slept Shelley
Music when soft voices die  Shelley
Call for the robin redbreast  Webster
Sonnet:  my lute  Drummond
Hymn to Diana  Jonson
voice, piano
voice, piano
voice, piano
voice, piano
voice, piano  lost
song  lost
song  lost
song  lost
voice, piano  lost
voice, piano  lost
1919-21 Take, O take those lips away  Shakespeare voice, piano
1920-21 The soul of steel   CM Masterman voice, piano
c1922-23 Since love is dead   Bowles
I know, and you!  Bowles
Go, happy rose  Herrick
A proposal
The twilight house  Bowles
Stars of destiny
Where shadows flee
Far from thee  Taylor
song 
song  lost
voice, piano  lost
song  lost
song  lost
song  lost
song  lost
1926 At candlelight  Gunby Hadath
Without you  Gunby Hadath
Song of betrothal  Gunby Hadath
song  lost
song  lost
song  lost

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Unaccompanied partsongs
1903
1905
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?  Shakespeare
Stars of a summer night  Longfellow
SATB
SSAATTBB
1906 Soul star Helen Bantock (orig Philip Marston - lost)
Lullaby of an infant chief  Scott
Come o'er the sea  Moore
In a fairy boat  Weller
Tell me, thou soul of her I love Thomson
Twilight  unknown, poss Longfellow
SATB
SATB
SATB
rondel, SSAA
SATB
lost
1908 Fairies' song  Cumberland (orig Philip Marston - lost) SSAA
1910 Daybreak  Longfellow SATB
1914 Ye spotted snakes  Shakespeare
He was a rat  anon
Goodbye to summer  Allingham
SSAA
SATB
SA
1914 The knight's leap
A gypsy song  Ben Jonson
Clown's song  Shakespeare
The legend of Altenahr
Marching along
The sweetest dream
The owl
Will you buy any rope?
Sympathy
Hie upon hielands  trad ballad
The sands of Dee  Kingsley
Love's remorse
Meg Merrilies  Keats
The curate and the mulberry-tree
partsong lost
SSAA  lost
partsong lost
male voices  lost
partsong lost
partsong lost
female voices  lost
partsong lost
partsong lost
male voices lost
SATB  lost
partsong?  lost
men's voices  lost
partsong lost
1915 O mistress mine  Shakespeare partsong
1918 The phantom wooer  Beddoes SATB
1919 Ah!  County guy!  Scott serenade for equal voices
1919 Absence  anon
Under the greenwood tree  Shakespeare
Spring, the sweet spring  Nash
It was a lover and his lass    Shakespeare
Fear no more the heat of the sun   Shakespeare
SSAA
SSA
SA
SSA
SATB
1924 Choral canons:
O happiness, celestial fair  Hannah More
Sweet solitude Hannah More
Shall I then be spared?   Hannah More

SATB
SATB
SATB
1925 Blow, blow thou winter wind  Shakespeare
Vital spark of heavenly flame   Pope
SATB
SSAA

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Accompanied partsongs
1912 Three Herrick pieces:
Go, happy rose
Requiem for the rose
The hag

SSAA, piano  lost
SSAA, piano
SSAA, piano
1914 Grace for a child   Herrick
Summer has come, little children  Cumberland
The lamb  Blake
And will he not come again?  Shakespeare
The moon Cumberland
The river  Cumberland
The little boy lost Blake
The little boy found  Blake
If I had but two little wings  Coleridge
A song of willow  Shakespeare
The white lily  MacDonald
Violets  Herrick
Laughing song  Blake
Infant joy  Blake
Pastoral:  the shepherd  Blake
Spring - sound the flute  Blake
Spring - sound the flute  Blake

The dream  Blake
The echoing green Blake
A child's prayer  M Betham-Edwards
SA, piano
SA, piano
SSA, piano
SSAA, piano
SA, piano
SA, piano
SA, piano
SA, piano
SA, piano
SSA, piano
SSA, piano
SSA, piano
SSA, piano
SSA, piano
SSA, piano
SSA, piano
SA, piano
SSA, piano
SSA, piano
SA, piano
1914 The blossom Blake
The mountain and the squirrel  Emerson
The little black boy  Blake
The chimney sweeper  Blake
Piping down the valleys wild  Blake
What does little birdie say?  Tennyson
The fly  Blake
Robin redbreast
unison, piano
unison, piano
unison, piano
unison, piano
unison, piano
unison, piano
unison, piano
unison, piano  lost
1915 The fairy palace   Drayton SSA, piano
1919 A wish 2 voices, piano  lost
1919 Pack clouds away   Heywood
Mine be a cot beside the hill  Rogers
Fair pledges of a fruitful tree  Herrick
To daffodils  Herrick
SSA, piano
SA, piano  lost [see 1925]
SA, piano
SA, piano
1921 Full fathom five   Shakespeare SSAA, piano
1925 Come away, death  Shakespeare TbarB, piano

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