Composer: Benjamin Britten (1913-1976)

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Song Cycles, Symphonies, etc.

8 Folk Song Arrangements

no. 1. Lord! I married me a wife (Text: Volkslieder (Folksongs)
no. 2. She's like the swallow (Text: Volkslieder (Folksongs)
no. 3. Lemady (Text: Volkslieder (Folksongs)
no. 4. Bonny at morn (Text: Volkslieder (Folksongs)
no. 5. Bugeilio'r Gwenith Gwyn (Text: Volkslieder (Folksongs) ENG
no. 6. Dafydd y Garreg Wen (Text: John Ceiriog Hughes) ENG
no. 7. The False Knight upon the road (Text: Volkslieder (Folksongs)
no. 8. Bird Scarer's song (Text: Volkslieder (Folksongs)

A Birthday Hansel, op. 92

no. 1. Birthday Song (Text: Robert Burns)
no. 2. My Early Walk (Text: Robert Burns)
no. 3. Wee Willie (Text: Robert Burns)
no. 4. My Hoggie (Text: Robert Burns)
no. 5. Afton Water (Text: Robert Burns) GER
no. 6. The Winter (Text: Robert Burns) GER
no. 7. Leezie Lindsay (Text: Robert Burns)

A Ceremony of Carols, op. 28

no. 1. Procession (Text: after Anonymous/Unidentified Artist) ENG LAT
no. 2. Wolcum Yole! (Text: 14^th century)
no. 3. There is no rose
no. 4b. Balulalow (Text: The brothers Wedderburn (James, John and Robert) after Martin Luther) ENG
no. 4a. That yongë child (Text: 14^th century)
no. 5. As dew in Aprille
no. 6. This little babe (Text: Robert Southwell)
no. 7. Interlude (Harp Solo)
no. 8. In freezing winter night (Text: Robert Southwell)
no. 9. Spring carol (Text: William Cornish)
no. 10. Deo gracias (Text: 15^th century)
no. 11. Recession (Text: after Anonymous/Unidentified Artist) ENG LAT

A Charm of Lullabies, op. 41

no. 1. A Cradle Song (Text: William Blake)
no. 2. The Highland Balou (Text: Robert Burns) ENG GER FRE
no. 3. Sephestia's Lullaby (Text: Robert Greene)
no. 4. A charm (Text: Thomas Randolph)
no. 5. The Nurse's Song (Text: John Phillip) ENG

Ballad of Heroes, op. 14

no. 1. Funeral march (Text: Randall Swingler) *
no. 2. Scherzo - Dance of Death (Text: W. H. (Wystan Hugh) Auden) *
no. 3. Recitative and Choral
no. 4. Epilog (Text: Randall Swingler) *

Cabaret Songs

no. 1. Tell me the truth about love (Text: W. H. (Wystan Hugh) Auden) *
no. 2. Funeral Blues (Text: W. H. (Wystan Hugh) Auden) *
no. 3. Johnny (Text: W. H. (Wystan Hugh) Auden) *
no. 4. Calypso (Text: W. H. (Wystan Hugh) Auden) *

`Ekho Po`eta, op. 76

no. 1. `Ekho (Text: Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin)
no. 2. Ja dumal, serdce pozabylo (Text: Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin)
no. 3. Angel (Text: Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin)
no. 4. Solovej i roza (Text: Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin)
no. 5. `Epigramma (Text: Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin)
no. 6. Stikhi, sochinennyje noch'ju vo vremja bessonnicy (Text: Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin)

Five Flower Songs

no. 1. To daffodils (Text: Robert Herrick)
no. 2. The succession of the four sweet months (Text: Robert Herrick) DUT
no. 3. Marsh flowers (Text: George Crabbe)
no. 4. The evening primrose (Text: John Clare)
no. 5. The Ballad of Green Broom DUT

Friday Afternoons, op. 7

no. 1. Begone, dull care! (Text: 17^th cent.)
no. 2. A tragic story (Text: William Makepeace Thackeray after Adelbert von Chamisso) ENG GER
no. 3. Cuckoo! (Text: Jane Taylor)
no. 4. Ee-oh!
no. 5. A New Year carol
no. 6. I mun be married on Sunday (Text: Nicholas Udall)
no. 7. There was a man of Newington
no. 8. Fishing song (Text: John Chalkhill)
no. 9. The useful plough
no. 10. Jazz-Man (Text: Eleanor Farjeon) *
no. 11. There was a monkey
no. 12. Old Abram Brown (Text: Volkslieder (Folksongs)

Les Illuminations, op. 18

no. 1. Fanfare (Text: Arthur Rimbaud) ENG
no. 2. Villes (Text: Arthur Rimbaud) ENG
no. 3b. Antique (Text: Arthur Rimbaud) ENG
no. 3a. Phrase (Text: Arthur Rimbaud) ENG
no. 4. Royauté (Text: Arthur Rimbaud) ENG
no. 5. Marine (Text: Arthur Rimbaud) ENG
no. 6. Interlude (Text: Arthur Rimbaud) ENG
no. 7. Being Beauteous (Text: Arthur Rimbaud) ENG GER
no. 8. Parade (Text: Arthur Rimbaud) ENG
no. 9. Départ (Text: Arthur Rimbaud) ENG

Nocturne for tenor solo, seven obligato instruments and string orchestra, op. 60

no. 1. On a poet's lips I slept (Text: Percy Bysshe Shelley)
no. 2. Below the thunders of the upper deep (Text: Lord Alfred Tennyson)
no. 3. Encinctured with a twine of leaves (Text: Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
no. 4. Midnight's bell goes ting, ting, ting (Text: Thomas Middleton)
no. 5. But that night when on my bed I lay (Text: William Wordsworth)
no. 6. She sleeps on soft, last breaths (Text: Wilfred Owen)
no. 7. What is more gentle than a wind in summer? (Text: John Keats)
no. 8. When most I wink, then do mine eyes best see (Text: William Shakespeare)

On This Island, op. 11

no. 1. Let the florid music praise! (Text: W. H. (Wystan Hugh) Auden) *
no. 2. Now the leaves are falling fast (Text: W. H. (Wystan Hugh) Auden) *
no. 3. Seascape (Text: W. H. (Wystan Hugh) Auden) *
no. 4. Nocturne (Text: W. H. (Wystan Hugh) Auden) *
no. 5. As it is, plenty (Text: W. H. (Wystan Hugh) Auden) *

Our Hunting Fathers, op. 8

no. 1. Prologue (Text: W. H. (Wystan Hugh) Auden) *
no. 2. Rats away
no. 3. Messalina
no. 4. Dance of Death (Hawking for the Partridge) (Text: Thomas Ravenscroft)
no. 5. Epilogue and Funeral March (Text: W. H. (Wystan Hugh) Auden) *

Quatre chansons françaises

no. 1. Nuits de juin (Text: Victor Marie Hugo) ENG
no. 2. Sagesse (Text: Paul Verlaine) ENG GER
no. 3. L'enfance (Text: Victor Marie Hugo) ENG
no. 4. Chanson d'automne (Text: Paul Verlaine) ENG GER

Sechs Hölderlin-Fragmente, op. 61

no. 1. Menschenbeifall (Text: Friedrich Hölderlin) ENG
no. 2. Die Heimat (Text: Friedrich Hölderlin) ENG
no. 3. Sokrates und Alcibiades (Text: Friedrich Hölderlin) ENG
no. 4. Die Jugend (Text: Friedrich Hölderlin) ENG
no. 5. Hälfte des Lebens (Text: Friedrich Hölderlin) RUS ENG
no. 6. Die Linien des Lebens (Text: Friedrich Hölderlin) ENG

Serenade for tenor, horn and strings, op. 31

no. 1. Pastoral (Text: Charles Cotton) NYN
no. 2. Nocturne (Text: Lord Alfred Tennyson) NYN
no. 3. Elegy (Text: William Blake) NYN RUS
no. 4. Dirge (Text: 15^th century) NYN
no. 5. Hymn (Text: Ben Jonson) NYN
no. 6. Sonnet (Text: John Keats) NYN

Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo, op. 22

no. 1. Sonetto XVI (Text: Michelangelo Buonarroti) ENG
no. 2. Sonetto XXXI (Text: Michelangelo Buonarroti) ENG
no. 3. Sonetto XXX (Text: Michelangelo Buonarroti) ENG GER
no. 4. Sonetto LV (Text: Michelangelo Buonarroti) ENG
no. 5. Sonetto XXXVIII (Text: Michelangelo Buonarroti) ENG
no. 6. Sonetto XXXII (Text: Michelangelo Buonarroti) ENG GER
no. 7. Sonetto XXIV (Text: Michelangelo Buonarroti) ENG

Songs and Proverbs of William Blake, op. 74

no. 1. Proverb I (Text: William Blake)
no. 2. London (Text: William Blake)
no. 3. Proverb II (Text: William Blake)
no. 4. The chimney sweeper (Text: William Blake)
no. 5. Proverb III (Text: William Blake)
no. 6. A poison tree (Text: William Blake)
no. 7. Proverb IV (Text: William Blake)
no. 8. The tyger (Text: William Blake) RUS GER
no. 9. Proverb V (Text: William Blake)
no. 10. The fly (Text: William Blake) RUS
no. 11. Proverb VI (Text: William Blake)
no. 12. Ah, Sun-flower (Text: William Blake)
no. 13. Proverb VII (Text: William Blake) GER
no. 14. Every Night and every Morn (Text: William Blake)

Spring Symphony, op. 44

no. 1. Shine out (Text: George Chapman)
no. 2. The merry cuckoo (Text: Edmund Spenser)
no. 3. Spring, the sweet spring (Text: Thomas Nashe) GER
no. 4a. The driving boy (Text: George Peele)
no. 4b. The driving boy (Text: John Clare after John Clare) ENG
no. 5. The morning star (Text: John Milton)
no. 6. Welcome, Maids of Honour (Text: Robert Herrick)
no. 7. Waters above (Text: Henry Vaughan)
no. 8. Out on the lawn I lie in bed (Text: W. H. (Wystan Hugh) Auden) *
no. 9. When will my May come (Text: Richard Barnfield)
no. 10. Fair and fair (Text: George Peele)
no. 11. Sound the Flute! (Text: William Blake)
no. 12a. Finale (Text: Francis Beaumont)
no. 12b. Finale ENG LAT

The Holy Sonnets of John Donne

no. 1. Oh my blacke Soule! (Text: John Donne)
no. 2. Batter my heart (Text: John Donne)
no. 3. Oh might those sighes and teares (Text: John Donne)
no. 4. Oh, to vex me (Text: John Donne)
no. 5. What if this present (Text: John Donne)
no. 5. Ich will meine Seele tauchen (Text: Heinrich Heine) DUT SWE SPA ENG ITA SLN FRE
no. 6. Since she whom I lov'd (Text: John Donne)
no. 7. At the round earth's imagined corners (Text: John Donne)
no. 8. Thou hast made me (Text: John Donne)
no. 9. Death be not proud (Text: John Donne) ITA

The Way to the Tomb

no. 1. Evening (Text: Ronald Duncan) *
no. 2. Morning (Text: Ronald Duncan) *
no. 3. Night (Text: Ronald Duncan) *

Tit for tat

no. 1. A song of enchantment (Text: Walter de la Mare)
no. 2. Autumn (Text: Walter de la Mare)
no. 3. Silver (Text: Walter de la Mare)
no. 4. Vigil (Text: Walter de la Mare)
no. 5. Tit for tat (Text: Walter de la Mare)

War Requiem, op. 66

no. 1. Requiem aeternam (Text: Wilfred Owen)
no. 2. Dies irae
no. 3. Offertorium (Text: Wilfred Owen)
no. 4. Sanctus (Text: Wilfred Owen)
no. 5. Agnus Dei (Text: Wilfred Owen)
no. 6. Libera me (Text: Wilfred Owen)

Winter words, op. 52

no. 1. At day-close in November (Text: Thomas Hardy)
no. 2. Midnight on the Great Western (Text: Thomas Hardy)
no. 3. Wagtail and Baby (Text: Thomas Hardy)
no. 4. The little old table (Text: Thomas Hardy)
no. 5. The choirmaster's burial (Text: Thomas Hardy)
no. 6. Proud songsters (Text: Thomas Hardy) *
no. 7. At the railway station, Upway (Text: Thomas Hardy)
no. 8. Before life and after (Text: Thomas Hardy)

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

A charm, op. 41 no. 4 (Text: Thomas Randolph)
A Cradle Song, op. 41 no. 1 (Text: William Blake)
A hymn on divine musick
A hymn to the virgin
A New Year carol, op. 7 no. 5
A poison tree, op. 74 no. 6 (Text: William Blake)
A song of enchantment (Text: Walter de la Mare)
A tragic story, op. 7 no. 2 (Text: William Makepeace Thackeray after Adelbert von Chamisso) ENG GER
Afton Water, op. 92 no. 5 (Text: Robert Burns) GER
Agnus Dei, op. 66 no. 5 (Text: Wilfred Owen)
Ah, Sun-flower, op. 74 no. 12 (Text: William Blake)
An evening hymn (Text: Dr. William Fuller, Lord-Bishop of Lincoln)
Angel, op. 76 no. 3 (Text: Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin)
Antique, op. 18 no. 3b (Text: Arthur Rimbaud) ENG
As dew in Aprille, op. 28 no. 5
As it is, plenty, op. 11 no. 5 (Text: W. H. (Wystan Hugh) Auden) *
At day-close in November, op. 52 no. 1 (Text: Thomas Hardy)
At the mid hour of night (Text: Volkslieder (Folksongs)
At the railway station, Upway, op. 52 no. 7 (Text: Thomas Hardy)
At the round earth's imagined corners, op. 35 no. 7 (Text: John Donne)
Autumn (Text: Walter de la Mare)
Avenging and bright (Text: Volkslieder (Folksongs)
Batter my heart, op. 35 no. 2 (Text: John Donne)
Before life and after, op. 52 no. 8 (Text: Thomas Hardy)
Begone, dull care!, op. 7 no. 1 (Text: 17^th cent.)
Being Beauteous, op. 18 no. 7 (Text: Arthur Rimbaud) ENG GER
Below the thunders of the upper deep, op. 60 no. 2 (Text: Lord Alfred Tennyson)
Beware! (Text: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow after Des Knaben Wunderhorn) ENG GER
Bird Scarer's song (Text: Volkslieder (Folksongs)
Birthday Song, op. 92 no. 1 (Text: Robert Burns)
Birthday song for Erwin (Text: Ronald Duncan) *
Bonny at morn (Text: Volkslieder (Folksongs)
Bugeilio'r Gwenith Gwyn (Text: Volkslieder (Folksongs) ENG
But that night when on my bed I lay, op. 60 no. 5 (Text: William Wordsworth)
Ca' the yowes (Text: Robert Burns)
Calypso (Text: W. H. (Wystan Hugh) Auden) *
Canticle I (My beloved is mine), op. 40 (Text: Francis Quarles)
Canticle II (Abraham and Isaac), op. 51
Canticle III (Still falls the Rain), op. 55 (Text: Edith Sitwell) *
Canticle IV (The Journey of the Magi), op. 86 (Text: T. S. (Thomas Stearns) Eliot) *
Canticle V (The Death of Saint Narcissus), op. 89 (Text: T. S. (Thomas Stearns) Eliot) *
Chanson d'automne (Text: Paul Verlaine) ENG GER
Chorale after an Old French Carol (Text: W. H. (Wystan Hugh) Auden after Anonymous/Unidentified Artist) [x]* ENG
Come you not from Newcastle? (Text: Volkslieder (Folksongs)
Cradle song (Text: Louis MacNeice) *
Cuckoo!, op. 7 no. 3 (Text: Jane Taylor)
Dafydd y Garreg Wen (Text: John Ceiriog Hughes) ENG
Dance of Death (Hawking for the Partridge), op. 8 no. 4 (Text: Thomas Ravenscroft)
Dans les bois (Text: Gérard de Nerval) ENG
Dear Harp of my Country! (Text: Volkslieder (Folksongs)
Death be not proud, op. 35 no. 9 (Text: John Donne) ITA
Deo gracias, op. 28 no. 10 (Text: 15^th century)
Départ, op. 18 no. 9 (Text: Arthur Rimbaud) ENG
Die Heimat, op. 61 no. 2 (Text: Friedrich Hölderlin) ENG
Die Jugend, op. 61 no. 4 (Text: Friedrich Hölderlin) ENG
Die Linien des Lebens, op. 61 no. 6 (Text: Friedrich Hölderlin) ENG
Dies irae [multi-text setting]
Dirge, op. 31 no. 4 (Text: 15^th century) NYN
Down by the Sally Gardens (Text: William Butler Yeats)
Early one morning (Text: Volkslieder (Folksongs)
Ee-oh!, op. 7 no. 4
Eho! Eho! (Text: Volkslieder (Folksongs) ENG
`Ekho, op. 76 no. 1 (Text: Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin)
Elegy, op. 31 no. 3 (Text: William Blake) NYN RUS
Encinctured with a twine of leaves, op. 60 no. 3 (Text: Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
`Epigramma, op. 76 no. 5 (Text: Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin)
Epilog, op. 14 no. 4 (Text: Randall Swingler) *
Epilogue and Funeral March, op. 8 no. 5 (Text: W. H. (Wystan Hugh) Auden) *
Evening (Text: Ronald Duncan) *
Every Night and every Morn, op. 74 no. 14 (Text: William Blake)
Fair and fair, op. 44 no. 10 (Text: George Peele)
Fancy (Text: William Shakespeare)
Fanfare, op. 18 no. 1 (Text: Arthur Rimbaud) ENG
Festival Cantata (Text: Christopher Smart)
Fileuse (Text: Volkslieder (Folksongs) ENG
Finale, op. 44 no. 12a (Text: Francis Beaumont)
Finale, op. 44 no. 12b ENG LAT
Fishing song, op. 7 no. 8 (Text: John Chalkhill)
Funeral Blues (Text: W. H. (Wystan Hugh) Auden) *
Funeral march, op. 14 no. 1 (Text: Randall Swingler) *
Hälfte des Lebens, op. 61 no. 5 (Text: Friedrich Hölderlin) RUS ENG
How sweet the answer (Text: Thomas Moore)
Hymn, op. 31 no. 5 (Text: Ben Jonson) NYN
Hymn to St Cecilia (Text: W. H. (Wystan Hugh) Auden) *
I have sinned (Text: Bishop Jeremiah Taylor)
I mun be married on Sunday, op. 7 no. 6 (Text: Nicholas Udall)
If thou wilt ease thine heart (Text: Thomas Lovell Beddoes)
Il est quelqu'un sur terre (Text: Volkslieder (Folksongs) ENG
In freezing winter night, op. 28 no. 8 (Text: Robert Southwell)
In the black dismal dungeon of despair (Text: Dr. William Fuller, Lord-Bishop of Lincoln)
Interlude, op. 18 no. 6 (Text: Arthur Rimbaud) ENG
Interlude (Harp Solo), op. 28 no. 7
Ja dumal, serdce pozabylo, op. 76 no. 2 (Text: Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin)
Jazz-Man, op. 7 no. 10 (Text: Eleanor Farjeon) *
Johnny (Text: W. H. (Wystan Hugh) Auden) *
Jubilate Deo (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts after Bible or other Sacred Texts) DUT ENG LAT GER
La belle est au jardin d'amour (Text: Volkslieder (Folksongs) ENG
La noël passée (Text: Volkslieder (Folksongs) ENG
Le roi s'en va-t'en chasse (Text: Volkslieder (Folksongs) ENG
Leezie Lindsay, op. 92 no. 7 (Text: Robert Burns)
Lemady (Text: Volkslieder (Folksongs)
L'enfance (Text: Victor Marie Hugo) ENG
Let the dreadful engines (Text: Thomas d'Urfey)
Let the florid music praise!, op. 11 no. 1 (Text: W. H. (Wystan Hugh) Auden) *
Libera me, op. 66 no. 6 (Text: Wilfred Owen)
Little Sir William (Text: Volkslieder (Folksongs)
London, op. 74 no. 2 (Text: William Blake)
Lord! I married me a wife (Text: Volkslieder (Folksongs)
Marine, op. 18 no. 5 (Text: Arthur Rimbaud) ENG
Marsh flowers (Text: George Crabbe)
Master Kilby (Text: Volkslieder (Folksongs)
Menschenbeifall, op. 61 no. 1 (Text: Friedrich Hölderlin) ENG
Messalina, op. 8 no. 3
Midnight on the Great Western, op. 52 no. 2 (Text: Thomas Hardy)
Midnight's bell goes ting, ting, ting, op. 60 no. 4 (Text: Thomas Middleton)
Morning (Text: Ronald Duncan) *
My Early Walk, op. 92 no. 2 (Text: Robert Burns)
My Hoggie, op. 92 no. 4 (Text: Robert Burns)
Night (Text: Ronald Duncan) *
Nocturne, op. 11 no. 4 (Text: W. H. (Wystan Hugh) Auden) *
Nocturne, op. 31 no. 2 (Text: Lord Alfred Tennyson) NYN
Not even summer yet (Text: Peter Burra) *
Now the leaves are falling fast, op. 11 no. 2 (Text: W. H. (Wystan Hugh) Auden) *
Nuits de juin (Text: Victor Marie Hugo) ENG
O can ye sew cushions? (Text: Volkslieder (Folksongs)
Balulalow, op. 28 no. 4b (Text: The brothers Wedderburn (James, John and Robert) after Martin Luther) ENG
O Waly, Waly (Text: Volkslieder (Folksongs)
Offertorium, op. 66 no. 3 (Text: Wilfred Owen)
Oft in the stilly night (Text: Thomas Moore) GER
Oh might those sighes and teares, op. 35 no. 3 (Text: John Donne)
Oh my blacke Soule!, op. 35 no. 1 (Text: John Donne)
Oh, to vex me, op. 35 no. 4 (Text: John Donne)
Old Abram Brown, op. 7 no. 12 (Text: Volkslieder (Folksongs)
Oliver Cromwell (Text: Volkslieder (Folksongs)
On a poet's lips I slept, op. 60 no. 1 (Text: Percy Bysshe Shelley)
Out on the lawn I lie in bed, op. 44 no. 8 (Text: W. H. (Wystan Hugh) Auden) *
Parade, op. 18 no. 8 (Text: Arthur Rimbaud) ENG
Pastoral, op. 31 no. 1 (Text: Charles Cotton) NYN
Phrase, op. 18 no. 3a (Text: Arthur Rimbaud) ENG
Procession, op. 28 no. 1 (Text: after Anonymous/Unidentified Artist) ENG LAT
Prologue, op. 8 no. 1 (Text: W. H. (Wystan Hugh) Auden) *
Proud songsters, op. 52 no. 6 (Text: Thomas Hardy) *
Proverb I, op. 74 no. 1 (Text: William Blake)
Proverb II, op. 74 no. 3 (Text: William Blake)
Proverb III, op. 74 no. 5 (Text: William Blake)
Proverb IV, op. 74 no. 7 (Text: William Blake)
Proverb V, op. 74 no. 9 (Text: William Blake)
Proverb VI, op. 74 no. 11 (Text: William Blake)
Proverb VII, op. 74 no. 13 (Text: William Blake) GER
Quand j'étais chez mon père (Text: Volkslieder (Folksongs) ENG
Rats away, op. 8 no. 2
Recession, op. 28 no. 11 (Text: after Anonymous/Unidentified Artist) ENG LAT
Recitative and Choral [multi-text setting]
Rejoice in the Lamb (Text: Christopher Smart)
Requiem aeternam, op. 66 no. 1 (Text: Wilfred Owen)
Rich and rare (Text: Thomas Moore) FRE
Royauté, op. 18 no. 4 (Text: Arthur Rimbaud) ENG
Sagesse (Text: Paul Verlaine) ENG GER
Sail on, sail on (Text: Thomas Moore)
Sailor-Boy (Text: Volkslieder (Folksongs)
Sally in our alley (Text: Henry Carey) GER
Sanctus, op. 66 no. 4 (Text: Wilfred Owen)
Scherzo - Dance of Death, op. 14 no. 2 (Text: W. H. (Wystan Hugh) Auden) *
Seascape, op. 11 no. 3 (Text: W. H. (Wystan Hugh) Auden) *
Sephestia's Lullaby, op. 41 no. 3 (Text: Robert Greene)
She sleeps on soft, last breaths, op. 60 no. 6 (Text: Wilfred Owen)
She's like the swallow (Text: Volkslieder (Folksongs)
Shine out, op. 44 no. 1 (Text: George Chapman)
Silver (Text: Walter de la Mare)
Since she whom I lov'd, op. 35 no. 6 (Text: John Donne)
Sokrates und Alcibiades, op. 61 no. 3 (Text: Friedrich Hölderlin) ENG
Solovej i roza, op. 76 no. 4 (Text: Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin)
Sonetto XVI, op. 22 no. 1 (Text: Michelangelo Buonarroti) ENG
Sonetto XXIV, op. 22 no. 7 (Text: Michelangelo Buonarroti) ENG
Sonetto XXX, op. 22 no. 3 (Text: Michelangelo Buonarroti) ENG GER
Sonetto XXXI, op. 22 no. 2 (Text: Michelangelo Buonarroti) ENG
Sonetto XXXII, op. 22 no. 6 (Text: Michelangelo Buonarroti) ENG GER
Sonetto XXXVIII, op. 22 no. 5 (Text: Michelangelo Buonarroti) ENG
Sonetto LV, op. 22 no. 4 (Text: Michelangelo Buonarroti) ENG
Sonnet, op. 31 no. 6 (Text: John Keats) NYN
Sound the Flute!, op. 44 no. 11 (Text: William Blake)
Spring carol, op. 28 no. 9 (Text: William Cornish)
Spring, the sweet spring, op. 44 no. 3 (Text: Thomas Nashe) GER
Stikhi, sochinennyje noch'ju vo vremja bessonnicy, op. 76 no. 6 (Text: Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin)
Sweet Polly Oliver (Text: Volkslieder (Folksongs)
Sweet was the song
Tell me the truth about love (Text: W. H. (Wystan Hugh) Auden) *
That yongë child, op. 28 no. 4a (Text: 14^th century)
The ash grove (Text: Volkslieder (Folksongs)
The Ballad of Green Broom DUT
The birds (Text: Hilaire Belloc)
The bonny Earl o' Moray (Text: Volkslieder (Folksongs) GER
The brisk young widow (Text: Volkslieder (Folksongs)
The chimney sweeper, op. 74 no. 4 (Text: William Blake)
The choirmaster's burial, op. 52 no. 5 (Text: Thomas Hardy)
The driving boy, op. 44 no. 4a (Text: George Peele)
The driving boy, op. 44 no. 4b (Text: John Clare after John Clare) ENG
The evening primrose (Text: John Clare)
The False Knight upon the road (Text: Volkslieder (Folksongs)
The fly, op. 74 no. 10 (Text: William Blake) RUS
The foggy, foggy dew (Text: Volkslieder (Folksongs)
The Highland Balou, op. 41 no. 2 (Text: Robert Burns) ENG GER FRE
The king goes hunting (Text: Iris Rogers after Volkslieder (Folksongs) ENG FRE
The last rose of summer (Text: Thomas Moore) GER
The Lincolnshire poacher (Text: Volkslieder (Folksongs)
The little old table, op. 52 no. 4 (Text: Thomas Hardy)
The merry cuckoo, op. 44 no. 2 (Text: Edmund Spenser)
The Miller of Dee (Text: Volkslieder (Folksongs)
The Minstrel Boy (Text: Thomas Moore)
The morning star, op. 44 no. 5 (Text: John Milton)
The Nurse's Song, op. 41 no. 5 (Text: John Phillip) ENG
The Oxen (Text: Thomas Hardy)
The ploughboy (Text: Volkslieder (Folksongs)
The rainbow (Text: Walter de la Mare)
The red cockatoo (Text: Arthur Waley after Bai Juyi) ENG
The Riddle Song (Text: Volkslieder (Folksongs)
The ride-by-nights (Text: Walter de la Mare)
The ship of Rio (Text: Walter de la Mare)
The shooting of his dear (Text: Volkslieder (Folksongs)
The sight entrancing (Text: Volkslieder (Folksongs)
The soldier and the sailor (Text: Volkslieder (Folksongs)
The succession of the four sweet months (Text: Robert Herrick) DUT
The trees they grow so high (Text: Volkslieder (Folksongs)
The tyger, op. 74 no. 8 (Text: William Blake) RUS GER
The useful plough, op. 7 no. 9
The Winter, op. 92 no. 6 (Text: Robert Burns) GER
There is no rose, op. 28 no. 3
There was a man of Newington, op. 7 no. 7
There was a monkey, op. 7 no. 11
There's none to soothe (Text: Volkslieder (Folksongs)
This little babe, op. 28 no. 6 (Text: Robert Southwell)
Thou hast made me, op. 35 no. 8 (Text: John Donne)
Tit for tat (Text: Walter de la Mare)
To daffodils (Text: Robert Herrick)
Tom Bowling (Text: Charles Dibdin)
Um Mitternacht (Text: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) ENG
Vigil (Text: Walter de la Mare)
Villes, op. 18 no. 2 (Text: Arthur Rimbaud) ENG
Voici le printemps (Text: Volkslieder (Folksongs) ENG
Wagtail and Baby, op. 52 no. 3 (Text: Thomas Hardy)
Waters above, op. 44 no. 7 (Text: Henry Vaughan)
Wee Willie, op. 92 no. 3 (Text: Robert Burns)
Welcome, Maids of Honour, op. 44 no. 6 (Text: Robert Herrick)
What if this present, op. 35 no. 5 (Text: John Donne)
What is more gentle than a wind in summer?, op. 60 no. 7 (Text: John Keats)
When most I wink, then do mine eyes best see, op. 60 no. 8 (Text: William Shakespeare)
When will my May come, op. 44 no. 9 (Text: Richard Barnfield)
When you're feeling like expressing your affection (Text: W. H. (Wystan Hugh) Auden) *
Wild with passion (Text: Thomas Lovell Beddoes)
Wolcum Yole!, op. 28 no. 2 (Text: 14^th century)

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