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Author: Helen Maude Francesca Bantock, née von Schweitzer (1868-1961)

Thanks are due to the Trustees of the Bantock Estate for permission to quote from the published work of Helena Bantock (née von Schweitzer).

Texts set to music [warning - not necessarily comprehensive]

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A lullaby - G. Bantock [x]
Ach, küss' mich noch und noch einmal (Text: after Helen Maude Francesca Bantock) [x]
G. Bantock: Die Rückkehr

An eastern love song - G. Bantock [x]
Blumenlied (Wie heisst die schönste Blume) - G. Bantock (Text: after Helen Maude Francesca Bantock) [x]
Bridal song (O fair, O lovely! As the sweet apple ) - G. Bantock
Bridal song - G. Bantock [x]
Butterfly song - G. Bantock GER [x]
By the Ganges - G. Bantock [x]
Das Lied der Nachtigall (O Vogel, der du singst zu unsrer Lust) - G. Bantock (Text: after Helen Maude Francesca Bantock) [x]
Daughter of Zeus GER GER
G. Bantock: Hymn to Aphrodite

Des Anführers Schlachtgesang (Schnell reiten wir durch die Nacht) - G. Bantock (Text: after Helen Maude Francesca Bantock) [x]
Die Begegnung (Sinnend standen sie am Brunnen ) - G. Bantock (Text: after Helen Maude Francesca Bantock) [x]
Die Rückkehr (Ach, küss' mich noch und noch einmal) - G. Bantock (Text: after Helen Maude Francesca Bantock) [x]
Dirge - G. Bantock [x]
Drinking song - G. Bantock [x]
Evening song (Evening, thou bringest all that bright morning scattered ) - G. Bantock ITA GER FRE
Evening, thou bringest all that bright morning scattered ITA GER FRE
G. Bantock: Evening song

Fächerlied (Hold den Fächer du schwingst) - G. Bantock (Text: after Helen Maude Francesca Bantock) [x]
Fan song - G. Bantock GER [x]
Festal song - G. Bantock [x]
Flower song - G. Bantock GER [x]
Forsaken - G. Bantock [x]
Fröhlich im Sonnenschein (Text: after Helen Maude Francesca Bantock) [x]
G. Bantock: Schmetterlingslied

Hold den Fächer du schwingst (Text: after Helen Maude Francesca Bantock) [x]
G. Bantock: Fächerlied

Hymn of the Gebare - G. Bantock [x]
Hymn to Aphrodite (Daughter of Zeus ) - G. Bantock GER GER
I loved thee once, Atthis, long ago (I loved thee once, Atthis, long ago ) - G. Bantock
I loved thee once, Atthis, long ago
G. Bantock: I loved thee once, Atthis, long ago

Im Tempel (Tief im Schatten des Altars) - G. Bantock (Text: after Helen Maude Francesca Bantock) [x]
In a dream, I spake (In a dream, I spake with the daughter of Cyprus ) - G. Bantock
In a dream, I spake with the daughter of Cyprus
G. Bantock: In a dream, I spake

In der Wüste (Regungslos, lautlos, wunderbar) - G. Bantock (Text: after Helen Maude Francesca Bantock) [x]
In the desert - G. Bantock GER [x]
In the garden - G. Bantock [x]
In the harem - G. Bantock [x]
In the palace - G. Bantock [x]
In the temple - G. Bantock GER [x]
In the village - G. Bantock [x]
In tyme of olde - G. Bantock [x]
Invocation to the Nile - G. Bantock [x]
Klage (Mein Aug' ist trüb') - G. Bantock (Text: after Helen Maude Francesca Bantock) [x]
Lament - G. Bantock GER [x]
Lament of Isis - G. Bantock [x]
Lied der Musumë (Sitzend auf weichem tatami) - G. Bantock (Text: after Helen Maude Francesca Bantock) [x]
Love song - G. Bantock [x]
Mein Aug' ist trüb' (Text: after Helen Maude Francesca Bantock) [x]
G. Bantock: Klage

Muse of the golden throne (Muse of the golden throne, O raise that strain ) - G. Bantock
Muse of the golden throne, O raise that strain
G. Bantock: Muse of the golden throne

O fair, O lovely! As the sweet apple
G. Bantock: Bridal song

O Vogel, der du singst zu unsrer Lust (Text: after Helen Maude Francesca Bantock) [x]
G. Bantock: Das Lied der Nachtigall

Peer of gods he seems (Peer of gods he seems, who sits in thy presence ) - G. Bantock
Peer of gods he seems, who sits in thy presence
G. Bantock: Peer of gods he seems

Prayer to Vishnu - G. Bantock [x]
Regungslos, lautlos, wunderbar (Text: after Helen Maude Francesca Bantock) [x]
G. Bantock: In der Wüste

Schmetterlingslied (Fröhlich im Sonnenschein) - G. Bantock (Text: after Helen Maude Francesca Bantock) [x]
Schnell reiten wir durch die Nacht (Text: after Helen Maude Francesca Bantock) [x]
G. Bantock: Des Anführers Schlachtgesang

Schwertlied (Tief aus der Erde Schoos) - G. Bantock (Text: after Helen Maude Francesca Bantock) [x]
Serenade - G. Bantock [x]
Sinnend standen sie am Brunnen (Text: after Helen Maude Francesca Bantock) [x]
G. Bantock: Die Begegnung

Sitzend auf weichem tatami (Text: after Helen Maude Francesca Bantock) [x]
G. Bantock: Lied der Musumë

Song of the bells - G. Bantock [x]
Song of the genie - G. Bantock [x]
Song of the sword - G. Bantock GER [x]
Stand face to face, friend (Stand face to face, friend.. ) - G. Bantock
Stand face to face, friend..
G. Bantock: Stand face to face, friend

The chieftain's battle-song - G. Bantock GER [x]
The Fakir's song - G. Bantock [x]
The fire-fly - G. Bantock [x]
The jester - G. Bantock [x]
The meeting - G. Bantock GER [x]
The moon has set (The moon has set, and the Pleiades ) - G. Bantock ITA GER FRE GER
The moon has set, and the Pleiades ITA GER FRE GER
G. Bantock: The moon has set

The Musumë's song - G. Bantock GER [x]
The Nautch girl - G. Bantock [x]
The nightingale's song - G. Bantock GER [x]
The pearl and the rose - G. Bantock [x]
The return - G. Bantock GER [x]
The Simurgh - G. Bantock [x]
The unutterable - G. Bantock [x]
Tief aus der Erde Schoos (Text: after Helen Maude Francesca Bantock) [x]
G. Bantock: Schwertlied

Tief im Schatten des Altars (Text: after Helen Maude Francesca Bantock) [x]
G. Bantock: Im Tempel

Tra-la-la-lie - G. Bantock [x]
Under the rose - G. Bantock [x]
War song - G. Bantock [x]
Wie heisst die schönste Blume (Text: after Helen Maude Francesca Bantock) [x]
G. Bantock: Blumenlied

Will-o'-the-wisp - G. Bantock [x]
Zál - G. Bantock [x]

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