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Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)

Cordomi [pseudonym]

Text collections / compilations [warning - not necessarily comprehensive]

Christabel: Kubla Khan, A Vision; The Pains of Sleep
Recollections of Love
The Wanderings of Cain

Texts set to music [warning - not necessarily comprehensive]

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A blue rectangle containing a language code such as ENG indicates the presence of a translation to that language. A grey rectangle such as FRE indicates a particular translation (usually one set to music) exists but is missing.

A love dream (If I had but two little wings) - R. Löhr GER
Answer to a child's question (Do you ask what the birds say? The Sparrow, the Dove) - L. Lehrman
As when a mother doth explore (As when a mother doth explore ) (from Recollections of Love) - J. Gardner
As when a mother doth explore (from Recollections of Love)
J. Gardner: As when a mother doth explore

Cologne (In Köhln, a town of monks and bones)
L. Lehrman: Ode to the City of Cologne

Cradle hymn (Sleep, sweet babe! my cares beguiling ) - E. MacDowell FRE
Cradle song (Sleep, sweet babe! my cares beguiling ) - M. Blower FRE
Do you ask what the birds say? The Sparrow, the Dove
R. Bennett: The lark
L. Lehrman: Answer to a child's question

Dormi, Jesu (Sleep, sweet babe! my cares beguiling ) - F. Boott, I. Copley FRE
Dormi, Jesu (The Virgin's cradle hymn) (Sleep, sweet babe! my cares beguiling ) - A. MacKenzie FRE
Dream thoughts (If I had but two little wings) - F. Gostelow GER
Eight springs have flown (Eight springs have flown, since last I lay ) (from Recollections of Love) - J. Gardner
Eight springs have flown, since last I lay (from Recollections of Love)
J. Gardner: Eight springs have flown

Encinctured with a twine of leaves (Encinctured with a twine of leaves ) (from The Wanderings of Cain) - B. Britten FRE
Encinctured with a twine of leaves (from The Wanderings of Cain) FRE
B. Britten: Encinctured with a twine of leaves

Epigram (Sir, I admit your general rule ) - J. Wyttenbach GER
Epigrams (I ask'd my fair, one happy day )
C. Ide: Names

Has not, since then, Love's prompture deep (Has not, since then, Love's prompture deep) (from Recollections of Love) - J. Gardner
Has not, since then, Love's prompture deep (from Recollections of Love)
J. Gardner: Has not, since then, Love's prompture deep

How warm this woodland wild Recess (How warm this woodland wild Recess ! ) (from Recollections of Love) - J. Gardner
How warm this woodland wild Recess ! (from Recollections of Love)
J. Gardner: How warm this woodland wild Recess

I ask'd my fair, one happy day
C. Ide: Names

If I had but two little wings (If I had but two little wings) - E. Bainton, J. Barnett, H. Brian, F. Class, E. Fitzwilliam, E. Fogg, H. Foss, J. Glover, L. Hamand, E. Ingleby, G. Jones, L. Lehmann, G. Marston, L. Maurer, H. Middleton, C. Parry, H. Perabeau, C. Rootham, H. Smart GER
If I had but two little wings GER
R. Löhr: A love dream
F. Gostelow: Dream thoughts
F. Hart: If in my sleep to you I fly
E. Bainton, J. Barnett, H. Brian, F. Class, E. Fitzwilliam, E. Fogg, H. Foss, J. Glover, L. Hamand, E. Ingleby, G. Jones, L. Lehmann, G. Marston, L. Maurer, H. Middleton, C. Parry, H. Perabeau, C. Rootham, H. Smart: If I had but two little wings

If in my sleep to you I fly (If I had but two little wings) - F. Hart GER
In Köhln, a town of monks and bones
L. Lehrman: Ode to the City of Cologne

In Xanadu did Kubla Khan (from Christabel: Kubla Khan, A Vision; The Pains of Sleep)
G. Bantock, S. Coleridge-Taylor, C. Forsyth, F. Goossen, G. McKay, H. Perkins, H. Searle, P. Turok, J. Veale, P. Legge: Kubla Khan
B. Naylor: Kubla Khan or A Vision in a Dream

It is an ancient Mariner
J. Corigliano: The Ancient Mariner

Kubla Khan (In Xanadu did Kubla Khan) (from Christabel: Kubla Khan, A Vision; The Pains of Sleep) - G. Bantock, S. Coleridge-Taylor, C. Forsyth, F. Goossen, G. McKay, H. Perkins, H. Searle, P. Turok, J. Veale, P. Legge
Kubla Khan or A Vision in a Dream (In Xanadu did Kubla Khan) (from Christabel: Kubla Khan, A Vision; The Pains of Sleep) - B. Naylor
Lullaby (Sleep, sweet babe! my cares beguiling ) - H. Hayes, R. Rogers FRE
Names (I ask'd my fair, one happy day ) - C. Ide
No voice as yet had made the air (No voice as yet had made the air ) (from Recollections of Love) - J. Gardner
No voice as yet had made the air (from Recollections of Love)
J. Gardner: No voice as yet had made the air

Ode to the City of Cologne (In Köhln, a town of monks and bones) - L. Lehrman
Sir, I admit your general rule GER
J. Wyttenbach: Epigram

Sleep, sweet babe (Sleep, sweet babe! my cares beguiling ) - E. Dunham, K. Meek FRE
Sleep, sweet babe! my cares beguiling FRE
S. Tuttle, C. Williams: Dormi, Jesu!
E. MacDowell: Cradle hymn
H. Hayes, R. Rogers: Lullaby
M. Blower: Cradle song
R. Vaughan Williams: The Virgin's cradle song
F. Boott, I. Copley: Dormi, Jesu
R. Arnatt, S. Beck, F. Durrant, J. Howard, C. Macpherson, E. Rubbra, J. Tatton: The Virgin's cradle hymn
E. Dunham, K. Meek: Sleep, sweet babe
A. MacKenzie: Dormi, Jesu (The Virgin's cradle hymn)

Something childish, but very natural (If I had but two little wings) GER
R. Löhr: A love dream
F. Gostelow: Dream thoughts
F. Hart: If in my sleep to you I fly
E. Bainton, J. Barnett, H. Brian, F. Class, E. Fitzwilliam, E. Fogg, H. Foss, J. Glover, L. Hamand, E. Ingleby, G. Jones, L. Lehmann, G. Marston, L. Maurer, H. Middleton, C. Parry, H. Perabeau, C. Rootham, H. Smart: If I had but two little wings

The Ancient Mariner (It is an ancient Mariner ) - J. Corigliano
The lark (Do you ask what the birds say? The Sparrow, the Dove) - R. Bennett
The Virgin's cradle hymn (Sleep, sweet babe! my cares beguiling ) - R. Arnatt, S. Beck, F. Durrant, J. Howard, C. Macpherson, E. Rubbra, J. Tatton FRE
The Virgin's cradle song (Sleep, sweet babe! my cares beguiling ) - R. Vaughan Williams FRE
The Virgin's Cradle-Hymn Copied from a print of the Virgin in a Roman Catholic village in Germany (Sleep, sweet babe! my cares beguiling ) FRE
S. Tuttle, C. Williams: Dormi, Jesu!
E. MacDowell: Cradle hymn
H. Hayes, R. Rogers: Lullaby
M. Blower: Cradle song
R. Vaughan Williams: The Virgin's cradle song
F. Boott, I. Copley: Dormi, Jesu
R. Arnatt, S. Beck, F. Durrant, J. Howard, C. Macpherson, E. Rubbra, J. Tatton: The Virgin's cradle hymn
E. Dunham, K. Meek: Sleep, sweet babe
A. MacKenzie: Dormi, Jesu (The Virgin's cradle hymn)

Wär ich ein Vögelein (Wär ich ein Vögelein) - A. Todt (Text: after Samuel Taylor Coleridge) [x]
Wär ich ein Vögelein (Text: after Samuel Taylor Coleridge) [x]
A. Todt: Wär ich ein Vögelein

What if... (What if you slept? ) - L. Hoiby
What if you slept?
L. Hoiby: What if...

You stood before me like a thought (You stood before me like a thought) (from Recollections of Love) - J. Gardner
You stood before me like a thought (from Recollections of Love)
J. Gardner: You stood before me like a thought

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