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Composer: Arthur Edward Drummond Bliss, Sir (1891-1975)

Alphabetic listing of musical settings [warning - not necessarily comprehensive]

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See Opus Order | Catalog Order

Song Cycles, Symphonies, etc.

A knot of riddles

no. 1. Fish in river (Text: Kevin John William Crossley-Holland)
no. 2. Swallows (Text: Kevin John William Crossley-Holland)
no. 3. An oyster (Text: Kevin John William Crossley-Holland)
no. 4. A weather cock (Text: Kevin John William Crossley-Holland)
no. 5. A bookworm (Text: Kevin John William Crossley-Holland)
no. 6. A cross of wood (Text: Kevin John William Crossley-Holland)
no. 7. Sun and moon (Text: Kevin John William Crossley-Holland)

Angels of the mind

no. 1. Worry about money (Text: Kathleen Raine) *
no. 2. Lenten flowers (Text: Kathleen Raine) *
no. 3. Harvest (Text: Kathleen Raine) *
no. 4. Seed (Text: Kathleen Raine) *
no. 5. In the beck (Text: Kathleen Raine) *
no. 6. Storm (Text: Kathleen Raine) *
no. 7. Nocturne (Text: Kathleen Raine) *

Four songs

no. ?. The mad woman of Punnet's Town (Text: Leonard Alfred George Strong)
no. 1. A christmas carol (Text: Arthur Shearley Cripps)
no. 2. Sea love (Text: Charlotte Mew)
no. 3. Vocalise

Morning Heroes

no. ?. Spring offensive (Text: Wilfred Owen)
no. ?. By the bivouac's fitful flame (Text: Walt Whitman)

Pastoral 'Lie strewn the white flocks' , op. 46, F. 33

no. 1. The shepherds' holyday (Text: Ben Jonson)
no. 2. A hymn to Pan (Text: John Fletcher)
no. 3. Pan's saraband
no. 4. Pan and Echo – The naiads' music (Text: Robert Malise Bowyer Nichols)
no. 5. The pigeon song (Text: Robert Malise Bowyer Nichols)
no. 6. The song of the reapers (Text: Andrew Lang after Theocritus)
no. 7. The shepherd's night-song (Text: Robert Malise Bowyer Nichols)

Seven American Poems

no. 1. Gone, gone again is summer (Text: Edna St. Vincent Millay) *
no. 2. Siege (Text: Edna St. Vincent Millay)
no. 3. Feast (Text: Edna St. Vincent Millay) *
no. 4. Little elegy (Text: Elinor Wylie) GER
no. 5. Rain comes down (Text: Edna St. Vincent Millay)
no. 6. Fair Annet's song (Text: Elinor Wylie) *
no. 7. Being young and green (Text: Edna St. Vincent Millay) *

Shield of Faith , F. 52

no. 1. The lord is risen (Text: William Dunbar) [x]
no. 2. Interlude - Gloria in excelsis Deo [x]
no. 3. Love (Text: George Herbert)
no. 4. An Essay on Man (Text: Alexander Pope) [x]
no. 5. O yet we trust (Text: Lord Alfred Tennyson)
no. 6. Little Gidding (Text: T. S. Eliot) [x]

The ballads of the four seasons

no. 1. Spring (Text: Shigeyoshi Obata after Li-Tai-Po) MDR CAN
no. 2. Summer (Text: Shigeyoshi Obata after Li-Tai-Po) MDR CAN
no. 3. Autumn (Text: Shigeyoshi Obata after Li-Tai-Po) MDR CAN
no. 4. Winter (Text: Shigeyoshi Obata after Li-Tai-Po) MDR CAN

The Beatitudes

no. ?. And death shall have no dominion (Text: Dylan Thomas) *

The Joyce Book [multi-composer] (Treize à la douzaine)

no. 1. Tilly (Text: James Joyce) FRE
no. 2. Watching the needleboats at San Saba (Text: James Joyce) FRE
no. 3. A flower given to my daughter (Text: James Joyce) ITA FRE
no. 4. She weeps over Rahoon (Text: James Joyce) FRE
no. 5. Tutto è sciolto (Text: James Joyce) FRE
no. 6. On the beach at Fontana (Text: James Joyce) FRE
no. 7. Simples (Text: James Joyce) FRE
no. 8. Flood (Text: James Joyce) FRE
no. 9. Nightpiece (Text: James Joyce) FRE
no. 10. Alone (Text: James Joyce) FRE
no. 11. A memory of the players in a mirror at midnight (Text: James Joyce) FRE
no. 12. Bahnhofstrasse (Text: James Joyce) FRE
no. 13. A Prayer (Text: James Joyce) FRE

The World is Charged with the Grandeur of God , op. 116, F. 36

no. 1. The world is charged with the grandeur of God (Text: Gerard Manley Hopkins)
no. 2. I have desired to go (Text: Gerard Manley Hopkins)
no. 3. Look at the stars (Text: Gerard Manley Hopkins)

Three Romantic Songs

no. 1. The hare (Text: Walter de la Mare)
no. 2. Lovelocks (Text: Walter de la Mare)
no. 3. The buckle (Text: Walter de la Mare)

Three songs

no. 1. Thunderstorms (Text: William Henry Davies)
no. 2. This night (Text: William Henry Davies)
no. 3. Leisure (Text: William Henry Davies) GER

Three Songs for Girls' or Boys' Voices: nursery rhymes by Percy Bysshe Shelley and anonymous

no. 2. A widow bird (Text: Percy Bysshe Shelley) ITA

Two American Poems

no. 1. Humoresque (Text: Edna St. Vincent Millay) *
no. 2. The return from town (Text: Edna St. Vincent Millay)

Two love songs

no. 1. Fair is my Love (Text: Edmund Spenser)
no. 2. In praise of his Daphnis (Text: Sir J. Wotton England) *

Two Nursery Rhymes

no. 1. The ragwort (Text: Frances Cornford)
no. 2. The dandelion (Text: Frances Cornford)

All titles of vocal settings in our database, in alphabetic order

A bookworm (in A knot of riddles) (Text: Kevin John William Crossley-Holland)
A child's prayer (Text: Siegfried Lorraine Sassoon)
A christmas carol (in Four songs) (Text: Arthur Shearley Cripps)
A cross of wood (in A knot of riddles) (Text: Kevin John William Crossley-Holland)
A hymn to Pan, op. 46 no. 2, F. 33 no. 2 (in Pastoral 'Lie strewn the white flocks') (Text: John Fletcher)
A weather cock (in A knot of riddles) (Text: Kevin John William Crossley-Holland)
A widow bird (in Three Songs for Girls' or Boys' Voices: nursery rhymes by Percy Bysshe Shelley and anonymous) (Text: Percy Bysshe Shelley) ITA
An Essay on Man, F. 52 no. 4 (in Shield of Faith) (Text: Alexander Pope) [x]
An oyster (in A knot of riddles) (Text: Kevin John William Crossley-Holland)
And death shall have no dominion (in The Beatitudes) (Text: Dylan Thomas) *
At the window (Text: Lord Alfred Tennyson)
Autumn (in The ballads of the four seasons) (Text: Shigeyoshi Obata after Li-Tai-Po) MDR CAN
Auvergnat (Text: Hilaire Belloc)
Being young and green (in Seven American Poems) (Text: Edna St. Vincent Millay) *
Birthday song for a royal child (Text: Cecil Day Lewis) [x]*
By the bivouac's fitful flame (in Morning Heroes) (Text: Walt Whitman)
Elegiac sonnet (Text: Cecil Day Lewis) *
Fair Annet's song (in Seven American Poems) (Text: Elinor Wylie) *
Fair is my Love (in Two love songs) (Text: Edmund Spenser)
Feast (in Seven American Poems) (Text: Edna St. Vincent Millay) *
Fish in river (in A knot of riddles) (Text: Kevin John William Crossley-Holland)
Flowers in the valley (Text: Volkslieder )
Gone, gone again is summer (in Seven American Poems) (Text: Edna St. Vincent Millay) *
Harvest (in Angels of the mind) (Text: Kathleen Raine) *
He is the way (Text: W. H. Auden) [x]*
Humoresque (in Two American Poems) (Text: Edna St. Vincent Millay) *
I have desired to go, op. 116 no. 2, F. 36 no. 2 (in The World is Charged with the Grandeur of God) (Text: Gerard Manley Hopkins)
In praise of his Daphnis (in Two love songs) (Text: Sir J. Wotton England) *
In the beck (in Angels of the mind) (Text: Kathleen Raine) *
Interlude - Gloria in excelsis Deo, F. 52 no. 2 (in Shield of Faith) [x]
Leisure (in Three songs) (Text: William Henry Davies) GER
Lenten flowers (in Angels of the mind) (Text: Kathleen Raine) *
Little elegy (in Seven American Poems) (Text: Elinor Wylie) GER
Little Gidding, F. 52 no. 6 (in Shield of Faith) (Text: T. S. Eliot) [x]
Look at the stars, op. 116 no. 3, F. 36 no. 3 (in The World is Charged with the Grandeur of God) (Text: Gerard Manley Hopkins)
Love, F. 52 no. 3 (in Shield of Faith) (Text: George Herbert)
Lovelocks (in Three Romantic Songs) (Text: Walter de la Mare)
Madame Noy (Text: E. H. W. Meyerstein) [x]
Nocturne (in Angels of the mind) (Text: Kathleen Raine) *
O yet we trust, F. 52 no. 5 (in Shield of Faith) (Text: Lord Alfred Tennyson)
Pan and Echo – The naiads' music, op. 46 no. 4, F. 33 no. 4 (in Pastoral 'Lie strewn the white flocks') (Text: Robert Malise Bowyer Nichols)
Pan's saraband, op. 46 no. 3, F. 33 no. 3 (in Pastoral 'Lie strewn the white flocks')
Rain comes down (in Seven American Poems) (Text: Edna St. Vincent Millay)
Rhapsody [x]
Rich or poor (Text: William Henry Davies)
River music 1967 (Text: Cecil Day Lewis) [x]*
Rout [x]
Sea love (in Four songs) (Text: Charlotte Mew)
Seed (in Angels of the mind) (Text: Kathleen Raine) *
Siege (in Seven American Poems) (Text: Edna St. Vincent Millay)
Simples (in The Joyce Book) (Text: James Joyce) FRE
Song of welcome (Text: Cecil Day Lewis) [x]*
Spring (in The ballads of the four seasons) (Text: Shigeyoshi Obata after Li-Tai-Po) MDR CAN
Spring offensive (in Morning Heroes) (Text: Wilfred Owen)
Storm (in Angels of the mind) (Text: Kathleen Raine) *
Summer (in The ballads of the four seasons) (Text: Shigeyoshi Obata after Li-Tai-Po) MDR CAN
Sun and moon (in A knot of riddles) (Text: Kevin John William Crossley-Holland)
Swallows (in A knot of riddles) (Text: Kevin John William Crossley-Holland)
The buckle (in Three Romantic Songs) (Text: Walter de la Mare)
The dandelion (in Two Nursery Rhymes) (Text: Frances Cornford)
The dark-eyed gentleman (Text: Thomas Hardy)
The fallow deer at the lonely house (Text: Thomas Hardy)
The hammers, F. 173 (Text: Ralph Hodgson)
The hare (in Three Romantic Songs) (Text: Walter de la Mare)
The lord is risen, F. 52 no. 1 (in Shield of Faith) (Text: William Dunbar) [x]
The mad woman of Punnet's Town (in Four songs) (Text: Leonard Alfred George Strong)
The pigeon song, op. 46 no. 5, F. 33 no. 5 (in Pastoral 'Lie strewn the white flocks') (Text: Robert Malise Bowyer Nichols)
The ragwort (in Two Nursery Rhymes) (Text: Frances Cornford)
The return from town (in Two American Poems) (Text: Edna St. Vincent Millay)
The shepherds' holyday, op. 46 no. 1, F. 33 no. 1 (in Pastoral 'Lie strewn the white flocks') (Text: Ben Jonson)
The shepherd's night-song, op. 46 no. 7, F. 33 no. 7 (in Pastoral 'Lie strewn the white flocks') (Text: Robert Malise Bowyer Nichols)
The song of the reapers, op. 46 no. 6, F. 33 no. 6 (in Pastoral 'Lie strewn the white flocks') (Text: Andrew Lang after Theocritus)
The Tempest Overture, Interludes and Incidental Music (Text: William Shakespeare)
The tramps (Text: Robert Service)
The world is charged with the grandeur of God, op. 116 no. 1, F. 36 no. 1 (in The World is Charged with the Grandeur of God) (Text: Gerard Manley Hopkins)
This night (in Three songs) (Text: William Henry Davies)
Three jolly gentlemen (Text: Walter de la Mare)
Thunderstorms (in Three songs) (Text: William Henry Davies)
'Tis time, I think, by Wenlock town (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
Vocalise [vocalise] (in Four songs)
When I was one-and-twenty (Text: Alfred Edward Housman) GER
Winter (in The ballads of the four seasons) (Text: Shigeyoshi Obata after Li-Tai-Po) MDR CAN
Worry about money (in Angels of the mind) (Text: Kathleen Raine) *

[x] indicates a placeholder for a text that is not yet in the database
* indicates that a text cannot (yet?) be displayed on this site because of its copyright status.