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Author: Mary Coleridge (1861-1907)

Text collections / compilations [warning - not necessarily comprehensive]

Poems

Texts set to music [warning - not necessarily comprehensive]

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A fairy town (While the sun was going down ) (from Poems) - C. Parry
A green eye -- and a red -- in the dark (from Poems)
C. Stanford: The train

All around was dumb and still (from Poems)
C. Rootham: Over the hills

Arm thee! Arm thee! (Arm thee! Arm thee! Forth upon the road! ) (from Poems) - W. Davies
Arm thee! Arm thee! Forth upon the road! (from Poems)
W. Davies: Arm thee! Arm thee!

Armida's garden (I have been there before thee, O my love ) (from Poems) - C. Parry
Chillingham (from Poems - Chillingham) - C. Stanford [x]
Chillingham I or II (?) (from Poems - Chillingham) [x]
C. Stanford: Chillingham

Come back to me my swallow (Come back to me my swallow ) (from Poems)
C. Stanford: The swallow

Come back to me my swallow (from Poems)
C. Stanford: The swallow

Country roads are yellow and brown (from Poems)
H. Greenhill: Street lanterns

Egypt's might is tumbled down (Egypt's might is tumbled down ) (from Poems) - C. Le Fleming
Egypt's might is tumbled down (from Poems)
C. Le Fleming: Egypt's might is tumbled down

Farewell, my joy (Farewell, my joy! For other hearts the Spring) (from Poems) - C. Stanford
Farewell, my joy! For other hearts the Spring (from Poems)
C. Stanford: Farewell, my joy

Gibberish (Many a flower have I seen blossom) (from Poems)
B. Thomson: The flower-bird

Grant me but a day, love (from Poems)
C. Stanford: Larghetto

Guy's Cliffe at night (Heavily plumed the stately elm-tree hung) (from Poems) - C. Rootham
Hail and farewell (Farewell, my joy! For other hearts the Spring) (from Poems)
C. Stanford: Farewell, my joy

Heavily plumed the stately elm-tree hung (from Poems)
C. Rootham: Guy's Cliffe at night

Hush (She sleeps so lightly, that in trembling fear ) (from Poems)
F. Bridge: Where she lies asleep

I called you, fiery spirits, and ye came! (from Poems)
C. Rootham: Imagination

I have been there before thee, O my love (from Poems)
C. Parry: Armida's garden

I have walked a great while over the snow (from Poems)
C. Stanford: The witch

Imagination (I called you, fiery spirits, and ye came!) (from Poems) - C. Rootham
In London Town (It was a bird of Paradise) (from Poems) - C. Rootham
In the little red house by the river (from Poems)
C. Stanford: Wilderspin

It was a bird of Paradise (from Poems)
C. Rootham: In London Town

Larghetto (Grant me but a day, love) (from Poems) - C. Stanford
Lines to a tree (Thou art the sun, and the wind, and the driving shower) (from Poems)
C. Stanford: To a tree

L'oiseau bleu (The lake lay blue below the hill ) (from Poems) - W. Busch GER FRE
Love went a-riding (Love went a-riding over the earth ) (from Poems) - F. Bridge
Love went a-riding over the earth (from Poems)
F. Bridge: Love went a-riding

Many a flower have I seen blossom (from Poems)
B. Thomson: The flower-bird

Master and Guest (There came a man across the moor) (from Poems)
C. Stanford: The guest

Mother of God! no lady thou (from Poems)
F. Hart: The Song of Mary

My heart in thine (Thy hand in mine, and through the world we two will go ) (from Poems) - C. Stanford
Night is fallen (Night is fallen within, without) (from Poems) - A. Garlick
Night is fallen within, without (from Poems)
A. Garlick: Night is fallen

Not yet (Time brought me many another friend ) (from Poems)
J. Ireland: Remember

O the high valley, the little low hill (from Poems - Chillingham)
R. Quilter: The valley and the hill

On such a day (Some hang above the tombs ) (from Poems)
J. Ireland: Remember

Our Lady (Mother of God! no lady thou) (from Poems)
F. Hart: The Song of Mary

Over the hills (All around was dumb and still) (from Poems) - C. Rootham
"Over the hills and far away" (All around was dumb and still) (from Poems)
C. Rootham: Over the hills

Plighted (from Poems) - C. Stanford [x]
Remember (Some hang above the tombs ) (from Poems) - J. Ireland
Remember (Time brought me many another friend ) (from Poems) - J. Ireland
She sleeps so lightly, that in trembling fear (from Poems)
F. Bridge: Where she lies asleep

Some hang above the tombs (from Poems)
J. Ireland: Remember

Some showed me Life as 'twere a royal game (from Poems)
C. Parry: Three aspects

Song (Thy hand in mine, and through the world we two will go ) (from Poems)
C. Stanford: My heart in thine
J. Ireland: The sacred flame
F. Bridge: Thy hand in mine

St. Andrew's (While the sun was going down ) (from Poems) - C. Rootham
Street lanterns (Country roads are yellow and brown) (from Poems) - H. Greenhill
The blue bird (The lake lay blue below the hill ) (from Poems) - C. Stanford GER FRE
The contents of an ink-bottle (Well of blackness, all defiling) (from Poems)
C. Stanford: The inkbottle

The deserted house (There's no smoke in the chimney) (from Poems) - H. Sykes
The flower-bird (Many a flower have I seen blossom) (from Poems) - B. Thomson
The guest (There came a man across the moor) (from Poems) - C. Stanford
The haven (Where the gray bushes by the gray sea grow) (from Poems) - C. Stanford
The inkbottle (Well of blackness, all defiling) (from Poems) - C. Stanford
The lake lay blue below the hill (from Poems) GER FRE
C. Stanford: The blue bird
W. Busch: L'oiseau bleu

The maiden (Who was this that came by the way ) (from Poems) - C. Parry
The sacred flame (Thy hand in mine, and through the world we two will go ) (from Poems) - J. Ireland
The Song of Mary (Mother of God! no lady thou) (from Poems) - F. Hart
The swallow (Come back to me my swallow ) (from Poems) - C. Stanford
The train (A green eye -- and a red -- in the dark) (from Poems) - C. Stanford
The valley and the hill (O the high valley, the little low hill ) (from Poems - Chillingham) - R. Quilter
The witch (I have walked a great while over the snow) (from Poems) - C. Stanford
The witches' wood (There was a wood, a witches' wood ) (from Poems) - C. Parry
There (There, in that other world, what waits for me? ) (from Poems) - C. Parry
There came a man across the moor (from Poems)
C. Stanford: The guest

There, in that other world, what waits for me? (from Poems)
C. Parry: There

There was a wood, a witches' wood (from Poems)
C. Parry: The witches' wood

There's no smoke in the chimney (from Poems)
H. Sykes: The deserted house

Thou art the sun, and the wind, and the driving shower (from Poems)
C. Stanford: To a tree

Three aspects (Some showed me Life as 'twere a royal game ) (from Poems) - C. Parry
Through the sunny garden (Through the sunny garden ) (from Poems - Chillingham) - R. Quilter
Through the sunny garden (from Poems - Chillingham)
R. Quilter: Through the sunny garden

Thy hand in mine (Thy hand in mine, and through the world we two will go ) (from Poems) - F. Bridge
Thy hand in mine, and through the world we two will go (from Poems)
C. Stanford: My heart in thine
J. Ireland: The sacred flame
F. Bridge: Thy hand in mine

Thy hand in mine, thy hand in mine (from Poems)
C. Stanford: My heart in thine
J. Ireland: The sacred flame
F. Bridge: Thy hand in mine

Time brought me many another friend (from Poems)
J. Ireland: Remember

To a tree (Thou art the sun, and the wind, and the driving shower) (from Poems) - C. Stanford
Unwelcome (We were young, we were merry, we were very very wise) (from Poems) - C. Rootham
Veneta (Wind and waters ring the bells) (from Poems) - C. Stanford
We never said farewell (We never said farewell, nor even looked ) (from Poems) - N. Rorem
We never said farewell, nor even looked (from Poems)
N. Rorem: We never said farewell

We were young, we were merry, we were very very wise (from Poems)
C. Rootham: Unwelcome

Well of blackness, all defiling (from Poems)
C. Stanford: The inkbottle

When Mary thro' the garden went (When Mary thro' the garden went ) (from Poems) - C. Stanford, P. Judd GER
When Mary thro' the garden went (from Poems) GER
C. Stanford, P. Judd: When Mary thro' the garden went

Where she lies asleep (She sleeps so lightly, that in trembling fear ) (from Poems) - F. Bridge
Where the gray bushes by the gray sea grow (from Poems)
C. Stanford: The haven

Whether I live (Whether I live, or whether I die ) (from Poems) - C. Parry
Whether I live, or whether I die (from Poems)
C. Parry: Whether I live

While the sun was going down (from Poems)
C. Rootham: St. Andrew's
C. Parry: A fairy town

Who was this that came by the way (from Poems)
C. Parry: The maiden

Wilderspin (In the little red house by the river) (from Poems) - C. Stanford
Wind and waters ring the bells (from Poems)
C. Stanford: Veneta

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