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Author: Sir John Betjeman (1906-1984)

Text collections / compilations [warning - not necessarily comprehensive]

A Few Late Chrysanthemums
Continual Dew
High and Low
Mount Zion
New Bats in Old Belfries
Old Lights for New Chancels

Texts set to music [warning - not necessarily comprehensive]

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Calvinistic Evensong (The six bells stopped, and in the dark I heard) (from Continual Dew) [x] *
J. Beeson: Calvinistic Evening

A subaltern's love-song (Miss J. Hunter Dunne, Miss J. Hunter Dunn) (from New Bats in Old Belfries) [x] *
M. Horder, D. Swann: A subaltern's love-song

And is it true? - M. Horder [x] *
Bristol (Green upon the flooded Avon) (from New Bats in Old Belfries) - R. Warren [x] *
Calvinistic Evening (The six bells stopped, and in the dark I heard) (from Continual Dew) - J. Beeson [x] *
Caprice (I sat only two tables off from the one I was sacked at) (from High and Low) - M. Horder [x] *
From out the Queen's Highclife (from New Bats in Old Belfries) [x] *
D. Swann: Margate, 1940

Green upon the flooded Avon (from New Bats in Old Belfries) [x] *
R. Warren: Bristol

Hark, I hear the bells of Westgate (from Mount Zion) [x] *
M. Horder: Westgate-on-Sea

How to get on in society (Phone for the fish-knives, Norman) (from A Few Late Chrysanthemums) - M. Horder [x] *
Hymn (The church's restoration) (from Mount Zion) [x] *
M. Horder: The church's restoration

I sat only two tables off from the one I was sacked at (from High and Low) [x] *
M. Horder: Caprice

In Westminster Abbey (Let me take this glove off) (from Old Lights for New Chancels) [x] *
M. Horder: In Westminster Abbey

In the licorice fields of Pontefract (from A Few Late Chrysanthemums) [x] *
D. Swann: The licorice field of Pontefract

Let me take this glove off (from Old Lights for New Chancels) [x] *
M. Horder: In Westminster Abbey

Margate, 1940 (From out the Queen's Highclife) (from New Bats in Old Belfries) - D. Swann [x] *
Miss J. Hunter Dunne, Miss J. Hunter Dunn (from New Bats in Old Belfries) [x] *
M. Horder, D. Swann: A subaltern's love-song

Oh would I could subdue the flesh (from Old Lights for New Chancels) [x] *
J. Beeson, D. Swann: Senex

Phone for the fish-knives, Norman (from A Few Late Chrysanthemums) [x] *
M. Horder: How to get on in society

Senex (Oh would I could subdue the flesh) (from Old Lights for New Chancels) - J. Beeson, D. Swann [x] *
The church's restoration (The church's restoration) (from Mount Zion) - M. Horder [x] *
The church's restoration (from Mount Zion) [x] *
M. Horder: The church's restoration

The licorice field of Pontefract (In the licorice fields of Pontefract) (from A Few Late Chrysanthemums) [x] *
D. Swann: The licorice field of Pontefract

The six bells stopped, and in the dark I heard (from Continual Dew) [x] *
J. Beeson: Calvinistic Evening

Westgate-on-Sea (Hark, I hear the bells of Westgate) (from Mount Zion) [x] *
M. Horder: Westgate-on-Sea