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Extant songs by type
 

For further indexes: SONGS title page
All songs by type
Authors of all works' texts alphabetically

Solo songs
Unaccompanied partsongs
Accompanied partsongs


Solo songs
?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 Day and night  Cumberland
When I lie ill   Cumberland
If I could speak   Cumberland
tenor, piano
tenor, piano
tenor, piano
1906 Little sleeper  Hafiz trans Richard le Galliene (orig Soliloquy upon a dead child Cumberland;  rev 1972) soprano or tenor, piano
1906 A faery song  Yeats mezzo, 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
mezzo, pno
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
voice, piano
unison, piano
unison, piano
unison, piano
unison, piano
voice, piano
unison, piano
unison, piano
1918-19 Renunciation   Temple Keble
Lady Ellayne  Temple Keble
The defiled sanctuary  Blake
medium voice, piano
medium voice, piano
medium voice, piano
1918 When the sun goes down
On parting
Love is a merry game
1919 The land of dreams   Blake
The birds Blake
When icicles hang by the wall    Shakespeare
Care-charmer sleep  Samuel Daniel
voice, piano
voice, piano
voice, piano
voice, piano
1919-21 Take, O take those lips away  Shakespeare voice, piano
1920-21 The soul of steel   CM Masterman voice, piano
1922 Since love is dead  Bowles song 

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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
SATB
SATB
SATB
rondel, SSAA
SATB
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
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
Vital spark of heavenly flame   Pope

SATB
SATB
SATB
SATB
1925 Blow, blow thou winter wind  Shakespeare SATB

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Accompanied partsongs
1912 from Three Herrick pieces:
Requiem for the rose
The hag

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 Bethan-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 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
unison, piano
unison, piano
unison, piano
unison, piano
unison, piano
unison, piano
1915 The fairy palace   Drayton SSA, piano
1919 Pack clouds away   Heywood
Fair pledges of a fruitful tree  Herrick
To daffodils  Herrick
SSA, piano
SA, piano
SA, piano
1921 Full fathom five   Shakespeare SSAA, piano
1925 Come away, death  Shakespeare TbarB, piano

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