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Author: Ernest Dowson (1867-1900)

Text collections / compilations [warning - not necessarily comprehensive]

Book of the Rhymers' Club
Decorations
In Praise of Solitude
The Pierrot of the Minute
Verses

Texts set to music [warning - not necessarily comprehensive]

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A coronal (Violets and leaves of vine ) (from Verses) - R. Quilter
A gift of silence (A gift of Silence, sweet! ) (from In Praise of Solitude) - C. Scott
A gift of Silence, sweet! (from In Praise of Solitude)
C. Scott: A gift of silence

A Land Of Silence (What land of Silence ) (from Verses) - R. Quilter
A last word (Let us go hence: the night is now at hand; ) - C. Scott, A. Hinton
"A little, passionately, not at all?"
P. Harrison: Villanelle of Marguerite's

A song of Arcady (Oh, I would live in a dairy) (from Verses) - C. Scott
A song of the setting sun!
F. Delius: A song of the setting sun!

A valediction (If we must part ) (from Verses) - C. Scott, M. Rose
A villanelle (I took her dainty eyes, as well ) - S. Lekberg
Ad domnulam suam (Little lady of my heart ! ) (from Book of the Rhymers' Club) - C. Scott
All that I had I brought (from Decorations)
C. Duncan: Exchanges

Amor umbratilis (A gift of Silence, sweet! ) (from In Praise of Solitude)
C. Scott: A gift of silence

And so I made a Villanelle (I took her dainty eyes, as well ) - C. Scott
April love (We have walked in Love's land a little way) (from Verses) - C. Scott, L. Ronald
Around were all the roses red (from Decorations - After Paul Verlaine) ITA GER NOR SRB
J. Ireland: Spleen (after Paul Verlaine)

Asleep - C. Scott [x]
Autumnal (Pale amber sunlight falls across ) (from Verses) - C. Scott
Beata solitudo (What land of Silence ) (from Verses) - P. Harrison, G. Peterkin
Beyond (Love's aftermath! I think the time is now ) (from Decorations)
C. Scott: Love's aftermath

By the sad waters of separation (from Verses)
F. Delius: Exile

Calm, sad, secure; behind high convent walls (from In Praise of Solitude)
E. Hill: Nuns of the Perpetual Adoration

Cease smiling, Dear! a little while be sad
F. Delius: Cease smiling, Dear! a little while be sad

Come hither, child, and rest (Come hither, child, and rest ) (from Book of the Rhymers' Club) - S. Lekberg
Come hither, child, and rest (from Book of the Rhymers' Club)
S. Lekberg: Come hither, child, and rest
H. Gerstle: Villanelle of sunset

Come not before me now, O visionary face GER
Cynara (Last night, ah, yesternight, betwixt her lips and mine ) - F. Delius, R. Jones, Q. Maganini
Dairy song (Oh, I would live in a dairy) (from Verses) - C. Scott
Dregs (The fire is out, and spent the warmth thereof ) (from Decorations) - E. Richardson
Envoy (They are not long, the weeping and the laughter ) (from Verses) - R. Jones, P. Pisk
Erewhile, before the world was old (from Decorations)
P. Warlock: Jadis

Erscheine jetzt nicht, traumverlornes Angesicht (from Zeitgenössische Dichter)
A. Schoenberg: Seraphita

Even now the fragrant darkness of her hair (from Verses)
F. Austin, C. Forsyth: Terre promise

Evening (Strange grows the river on the sunless evenings! ) - C. Scott
Exceeding sorrow consumeth my sad heart!
F. Delius: O Mors!

Exchanges (All that I had I brought) (from Decorations) - C. Duncan
Exile (By the sad waters of separation ) (from Verses) - F. Delius
Flos lunae (I would not alter thy cold eyes) (from In Praise of Solitude) - D. ApIvor
Grief (Tears fall within mine heart) (from Decorations - After Paul Verlaine) - R. Hageman RUS ITA GER RUS GER
I took her dainty eyes, as well
M. Roder: Villanelle
C. Scott: And so I made a Villanelle
S. Lekberg: A villanelle

I was not sorrowful (I was not sorrowful, I could not weep ) (from Verses) - K. Sorabji
I was not sorrowful (Spleen) (I was not sorrowful, I could not weep ) (from Verses) - J. Ireland
I was not sorrowful, I could not weep (from Verses)
K. Sorabji: I was not sorrowful
F. Delius: I was not sorrowful, I could not weep
J. Ireland: I was not sorrowful (Spleen)

I would not alter thy cold eyes (from In Praise of Solitude)
D. ApIvor: Flos lunae

If we must part (If we must part ) (from Verses) - J. Ireland, C. Scott
If we must part (from Verses)
J. Ireland: If we must part
C. Scott, M. Rose, C. Scott: A valediction

In spring (See how the trees and the osiers lithe ) (from Decorations) - R. Quilter, F. Delius
In tempore senectutis (When I am old )
J. Ireland: When I am old

In your mother's apple-orchard (from Verses)
C. Scott: Yvonne of Brittany

Into the lonely park all frozen fast (from Decorations - After Paul Verlaine) ITA GER
Jadis (Erewhile, before the world was old) (from Decorations) - P. Warlock
Last night, ah, yesternight (Last night, ah, yesternight, betwixt her lips and mine ) - C. Towsey
Last night, ah, yesternight, betwixt her lips and mine
F. Delius, R. Jones, Q. Maganini: Cynara
P. Harrison: Non suma qualis eram bonae sub regno Cynarae
C. Towsey: Last night, ah, yesternight

Let us go hence: the night is now at hand;
C. Scott, A. Hinton: A last word

Little lady of my heart (Little lady of my heart ! ) (from Book of the Rhymers' Club) - C. Scott
Little lady of my heart ! (from Book of the Rhymers' Club)
B. Treharne: Little lady of my heart!
C. Scott: Ad domnulam suam

Love heeds no more the sighing of the wind (from Book of the Rhymers' Club)
C. Forsyth: The garden of shadows

Love's aftermath (Love's aftermath! I think the time is now ) (from Decorations) - C. Scott
Love's aftermath! I think the time is now (from Decorations)
C. Scott: Love's aftermath

Meditation (They are not long, the weeping and the laughter ) (from Verses) - C. Scott
Moritura (A song of the setting sun! )
F. Delius: A song of the setting sun!

Non sum qualis eram bonae sub regno Cynarae (Last night, ah, yesternight, betwixt her lips and mine )
F. Delius, R. Jones, Q. Maganini: Cynara
P. Harrison: Non suma qualis eram bonae sub regno Cynarae
C. Towsey: Last night, ah, yesternight

Non suma qualis eram bonae sub regno Cynarae (Last night, ah, yesternight, betwixt her lips and mine ) - P. Harrison
Nuns of the Perpetual Adoration (Calm, sad, secure; behind high convent walls) (from In Praise of Solitude) - E. Hill
O Mors! (Exceeding sorrow consumeth my sad heart! ) - F. Delius
O Mors! Quam amara est memoria tua homini pacem habenti in substantiis suis (Exceeding sorrow consumeth my sad heart! )
F. Delius: O Mors!

Oh, I would live in a dairy (Oh, I would live in a dairy) (from Verses) - L. Collingwood
Oh, I would live in a dairy (from Verses)
L. Collingwood: Oh, I would live in a dairy
C. Scott, C. Scott: Dairy song
P. Harrison: Soli cantare periti Arcades

Pale amber sunlight falls across (from Verses)
F. Delius: Pale amber sunlight falls across
C. Scott: Autumnal

Passing dreams (They are not long, the weeping and the laughter ) (from Verses) - R. Quilter
Pierrot and the Moon Maiden (What is Love? ) (from The Pierrot of the Minute) - C. Scott
Retrospect - C. Scott [x]
See how the trees and the osiers lithe (from Decorations)
R. Quilter, F. Delius: In spring

Seraphita (Come not before me now, O visionary face ) GER
Seraphita (Erscheine jetzt nicht, traumverlornes Angesicht) (from Zeitgenössische Dichter) - A. Schoenberg
Sleep! Cast thy canopy (from The Pierrot of the Minute)
G. Bantock: The moon maiden's song

Soli cantare periti Arcades (Oh, I would live in a dairy) (from Verses) - P. Harrison
Sorrow - C. Scott [x]
Spleen (I was not sorrowful, I could not weep ) (from Verses)
K. Sorabji: I was not sorrowful
F. Delius: I was not sorrowful, I could not weep
J. Ireland: I was not sorrowful (Spleen)

Spleen (after Paul Verlaine) (Around were all the roses red ) (from Decorations - After Paul Verlaine) - J. Ireland ITA GER NOR SRB
Strange grows the river on the sunless evenings!
C. Scott, C. Scott: Evening

Tears fall within mine heart (from Decorations - After Paul Verlaine) RUS ITA GER RUS GER
R. Hageman: Grief

Terre promise (Even now the fragrant darkness of her hair ) (from Verses) - F. Austin, C. Forsyth
The fire is out, and spent the warmth thereof (from Decorations)
D. Bedford: The golden wine is drunk
E. Richardson: Dregs

The garden of shadows (Love heeds no more the sighing of the wind ) (from Book of the Rhymers' Club) - C. Forsyth
The golden wine is drunk (The fire is out, and spent the warmth thereof ) (from Decorations) - D. Bedford
The moon maiden's song (Sleep! Cast thy canopy ) (from The Pierrot of the Minute) - G. Bantock
The sky is up above the roof (from Decorations - After Paul Verlaine) ITA GER CHI
The valley of silence (What land of Silence ) (from Verses) - C. Scott
There comes an end to summer (There comes an end to summer) - C. Scott
There comes an end to summer
C. Scott: There comes an end to summer

They are not long (They are not long, the weeping and the laughter ) (from Verses) - E. Hill, B. Pentland, H. Wells, P. Glanville-Hicks
They are not long, the weeping and the laughter (from Verses)
C. Forsyth: Within a dream
P. Harrison: Vitae summa brevis spem nos vetat incohare longam
R. Jones, P. Pisk: Envoy
C. Scott: Meditation
F. Delius: Vitae summa
R. Quilter: Passing dreams
E. Hill, B. Pentland, H. Wells, P. Glanville-Hicks: They are not long

To his mistress (There comes an end to summer)
C. Scott: There comes an end to summer

Vesperal (Strange grows the river on the sunless evenings! ) - C. Scott
Villanelle (I took her dainty eyes, as well ) - M. Roder
Villanelle - C. Scott [x]
Villanelle of his lady's treasures (I took her dainty eyes, as well )
M. Roder: Villanelle
C. Scott: And so I made a Villanelle
S. Lekberg: A villanelle

Villanelle of Marguerite's ("A little, passionately, not at all?" ) - P. Harrison
Villanelle of sunset (Come hither, child, and rest ) (from Book of the Rhymers' Club) - H. Gerstle
Villanelle of the Poet's Road (Wine and woman and song) (from Decorations) - C. Scott
Violets and leaves of vine (from Verses)
R. Quilter: A coronal

Vitae summa (They are not long, the weeping and the laughter ) (from Verses) - F. Delius
Vitae summa brevis spem nos vetat incohare longam (They are not long, the weeping and the laughter ) (from Verses) - P. Harrison
We have walked in Love's land a little way (from Verses)
C. Scott, L. Ronald: April love

What is Love? (from The Pierrot of the Minute)
C. Scott: Pierrot and the Moon Maiden

What land of Silence (from Verses)
R. Quilter: A Land Of Silence
P. Harrison, G. Peterkin: Beata solitudo
C. Scott: The valley of silence

When I am old (When I am old ) - J. Ireland
When I am old
J. Ireland: When I am old

Wine and woman and song (from Decorations)
C. Scott: Villanelle of the Poet's Road

Within a dream (They are not long, the weeping and the laughter ) (from Verses) - C. Forsyth
Yvonne of Brittany (In your mother's apple-orchard) (from Verses) - C. Scott

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