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Author: Thomas Hardy (1840-1928)
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 A baby watched a ford, whereto
B. Britten: Wagtail and Baby
A bygone occasion (That night, that night
) - R. Buckle
A Christmas Ghost-Story (South of the Line, inland from far Durban
) - J. Joubert
A church romance (She turned in the high pew, until her sight) - R. Field
A merrymaking in question (I will get a new string for my fiddle) - G. Finzi
A Night in November (I marked when the weather changed) - A. Downes
A sheep fair (The day arrives of the autumn fair) - N. Marshall [x] *
A Song of Lyonnesse (When I set out for Lyonnesse
) - R. Boughton
A Song of Weathers (This is the weather the cuckoo likes
) - H. Greenhill
A spot (In years defaced and lost
) G. Finzi, R. Buckle: In years defaced
A star looks down at me
* G. Finzi, C. Le Fleming, S. Shifrin: Waiting both
A thunderstorm in town (She wore a new terra cotta" dress) - G. Baxter
A time there was - as one may guess
B. Britten: Before life and after
A wife in London (She sits in the tawny vapour) - G. Baxter, J. Joubert
A Wife Waits (Will's at the dance in the Club-room below
) - A. Downes, F. Goossen, A. Hale, I. Spector
A winsome woman (There's no winsome woman) [x] * D. Healey: There's no winsome woman
A woman was playing J. Wallach: At the Piano
A yawning, sunned concave of purple R. Buckle: The sheep-boy
A young man's exhortation (Call off your eyes from care
) - G. Finzi
After Reading Psalms xxxix, xl., etc. (Simple was I and was young
) G. Finzi: So I have fared
After the Club Dance (Black'on frowns east on Maidon
) - A. Downes
After the Club-Dance (Black'on frowns east on Maidon
) - F. Goossen
After the Fair (The singers are gone from the Cornmarket-place
) - A. Downes, F. Goossen, A. Hale
Afterwards (When the Present has latched its postern behind my tremulous stay) - G. Finzi, C. Le Fleming
Alone (Winter is white on turf and tree) - R. Boughton
Amabel (I marked her ruined hues
) - G. Finzi
And are ye one of Hermitage F. Goossen, A. Hale: The inquiry
And the Spirit said
G. Finzi: The clock of the years
Around the house the flakes fly faster G. Finzi: Birds at Winter Nightfall
As I drive to the junction of lane and highway
A. Downes, R. Buckle: At Castle Boterel
At a lunar eclipse (Thy shadow, Earth, from Pole to Central Sea
) - G. Finzi
At Casterbridge Fair (Sing, Ballad-singer, raise a hearty tune
) A. Downes, L. Laitman, D. Waxman: The Ballad Singer
F. Goossen, A. Hale: The Ballad-Singer
A. Cooke: The Ballad-singer
At Castle Boterel (As I drive to the junction of lane and highway
) - A. Downes, R. Buckle
At day-close in November (The ten hours' light is abating
) - B. Britten
At last I put off love
G. Finzi: He abjures love
At last! In sight of home again A. Hale: Song of the soldiers' wives and sweethearts
At Middle-Field Gate in February (The bars are thick with drops that show
) - G. Finzi
At news of a woman's death (Not a line of her writing have I) - G. Finzi
At tea (The kettle descants in a cosy drone) - G. Bachlund, N. Maw, Z. Perry
At the Piano (A woman was playing) - J. Wallach
At the railway station, Upway (There is not much that I can do
) - B. Britten
Beckon to me to come (Beckon to me to come
) - J. Ireland *
Beckon to me to come
* J. Ireland: Beckon to me to come
Beeny Cliff (O the opal and the sapphire of that wandering western sea
) - R. Buckle
Before and after summer (Looking forward to the spring
) - G. Finzi
Before life and after (A time there was - as one may guess
) - B. Britten
Beneath a knap where flown
G. Finzi: Ditty
Bereft (In the black winter morning) I. Gurney: In the black winter morning
Between us Now (Between us now and here) - G. Holst
Between us now and here G. Holst: Between us Now
Birds at Winter Nightfall (Around the house the flakes fly faster) - G. Finzi
Black'on frowns east on Maidon
F. Goossen: After the Club-Dance
A. Downes: After the Club Dance
Bother Bulleys, let us sing A. Serrell: The Bullfinches
Boys Then and Now (More than one cuckoo?) [x] * D. Healey: More than one cuckoo
Breathe not, hid Heart: cease silently A. Brings: To an unborn pauper child
Budmouth Dears (When we lay where Budmouth Beach is
) - G. Finzi, H. Richardson, M. Shaw, B. Smith
Buonaparty (We be the King's men, hale and hearty) - R. Vaughan Williams
By her Aunt's Grave ("Sixpence a week," says the girl to her lover) - Z. Perry
By the century's deathbed (I leaned upon a coppice gate) R. Milford, R. Caviani: The darkling thrush
By the earth's corpse (O Lord, why grievest Thou?) - G. Finzi
Call off your eyes from care
G. Finzi: A young man's exhortation
Carrey Clavel (You turn your back, you turn your back) - S. Bax, M. Sheldon
Change and chancefulness in my flowering youthtime G. Finzi: The Temporary the All
Channel firing (That night your great guns, unawares
) - G. Finzi, I. Heilner, L. Smit
Childhood among the ferns (I sat one sprinkling day upon the lea
) - G. Finzi *
Christmas Eve, and twelve of the clock
C. Gibbs, R. Vaughan Williams, B. Britten, L. Cochran, E. Dent, J. Elkus, R. Fleming, W. Pasfield, Peel, A. Rawsthorne, R. Williams, R. Winslow, G. Finzi: The Oxen
Close up the casement, draw the blind
R. Buckle, G. Binkerd: Shut out that moon
Coda (A Christmas Ghost-Story) (South of the Line, inland from far Durban
) - G. Baxter
Come not: yet Come! (In my sage moments I can say
) * J. Ireland: In my sage moments
Coomb-Firtrees say that Life is a moan G. Finzi: Yell'ham-Wood's story
Creak, little wood thing, creak
B. Britten: The little old table
De Profundis I (Wintertime nighs; but my bereavement-pain) - J. Douglas
De Profundis II (When the clouds' swoln bosoms echo back the shouts of the many and strong) - J. Douglas
Dear Lizbie Browne
G. Finzi, G. Bachlund: To Lizbie Browne
Dear, think not that they will forget you
G. Finzi: Her temple
J. Ireland: Dear, think not that they will forget you
Ditty (Beneath a knap where flown
) - G. Finzi
Drummer Hodge (They throw in Drummer Hodge, to rest
) - G. Baxter, J. Joubert, A. Hale
During wind and rain (They sing their dearest songs
) - R. Buckle, G. Finzi
Embarcation (Here, where Vespasian's legions struck the sands) - J. Joubert
Epeisodia (Past the hills that peep
) - G. Finzi
Everybody else, then, going G. Finzi: Exeunt omnes
Exeunt omnes (Everybody else, then, going) - G. Finzi
First or last (If grief come early) - M. Sheldon
For a moment pause
* R. Buckle, G. Finzi: The mound
For Life I had never cared greatly (For Life I have never cared greatly) - G. Finzi
For Life I had never cared greatly
G. Finzi: For Life I had never cared greatly
For Life I have never cared greatly (For Life I have never cared greatly) G. Finzi: For Life I had never cared greatly
For Life I have never cared greatly G. Finzi: For Life I had never cared greatly
Foreboding (If it's ever spring again
) - R. Boughton
Former beauties (These market-dames, mid-aged, with lips thin-drawn
) - A. Downes, G. Finzi, F. Goossen, A. Hale
Friends beyond (William Dewy, Tranter Reuben, Farmer Ledlow late at plough
) - H. Foss
Gallant's song (When the maiden leaves off teasing) [x] * M. Adeney: The gallant's song
God-forgotten (I towered far, and lo! I stood within) - G. Finzi
God's education (I saw him steal the light away
) - I. Heilner
Good Father! . . . It was eve in middle June I. Gurney: The peasant's confession
Great things (Sweet cyder is a great thing
) - J. Ireland, G. Finzi
Gruffly growled the wind on Toller downland broad and bare G. Holst: The homecoming
Had he and I but met G. Baxter, J. Joubert: The man he killed
Hap (If but some vengeful god would call to me) - H. Foss
He abjures love (At last I put off love
) - G. Finzi
He fears his good fortune (There was a glorious time) - G. Finzi
He often would ask us
B. Britten: The choirmaster's burial
Her definition (I lingered through the night to break of day
) - G. Binkerd
Her song (I sang that song on Sunday
) - J. Ireland, C. Le Fleming
Her temple (Dear, think not that they will forget you
) - G. Finzi
Dear, think not that they will forget you (Dear, think not that they will forget you
) - J. Ireland
Here is the ancient floor
G. Finzi, D. Stewart: The self-unseeing
Here, where Vespasian's legions struck the sands J. Joubert: Embarcation
Heredity (I am the family face) - R. Buckle
Horses abroad (Horses in horsecloths stand in a row) - P. Dickinson [x] *
Horses in horsecloths stand in a row [x] * P. Dickinson: Horses abroad
I am playing my oldest tunes, declared she B. Rawling: The old tunes
I am the family face R. Buckle: Heredity
I am the one (I am the one whom ringdoves see
) - G. Bachlund, G. Finzi *
I am the one whom ringdoves see
* G. Bachlund, G. Finzi: I am the one
I found her out there (I found her out there) - G. Finzi
I found her out there G. Finzi: I found her out there
I have seen her in gowns the brightest R. Buckle: The old gown
I idly cut a parsley stalk A. Butterworth: On a midsummer eve
I kissed them in fancy as I came
* G. Finzi: Two lips
I leaned upon a coppice gate R. Milford, R. Caviani: The darkling thrush
I lingered through the night to break of day
G. Binkerd: Her definition
I longed to love a full-boughed beech
SPA B. Moore: The Ivy-Wife
I look into my glass (I look into my glass
) - G. Finzi, N. Maw
I look into my glass
G. Finzi, N. Maw: I look into my glass
I marked her ruined hues
G. Finzi: Amabel
I marked when the weather changed A. Downes: A Night in November
I need not go (I need not go
) - G. Finzi
I need not go
G. Finzi: I need not go
I pitched my day's leazings in Crimmercrock Lane
S. Bliss, H. Foss: The dark-eyed gentleman
I play my sweet old airs A. Downes: Lost Love
I rose and went to Rou'tor Town (I rose and went to Rou'tor Town) - R. Buckle
I rose and went to Rou'tor Town R. Buckle: I rose and went to Rou'tor Town
I rose up as my custom is (I rose up as my custom is) - I. Heilner
I rose up as my custom is I. Heilner: I rose up as my custom is
I said to Love (I said to Love
) - G. Finzi
I said to Love
G. Finzi: I said to Love
I sang that song on Sunday
J. Ireland, C. Le Fleming: Her song
I sat one sprinkling day upon the lea
* G. Finzi: Childhood among the ferns
I saw him steal the light away
I. Heilner: God's education
I say I'll seek her (I say I'll seek her side
) G. Finzi: I say I'll seek her
I say I'll seek her (I say I'll seek her side
) - G. Finzi
I say I'll seek her side
G. Finzi: I say I'll seek her
I scanned her picture, dreaming (I scanned her picture dreaming) - G. Holst NOR DUT RUS ENG ITA GER FRE SPA
I scanned her picture dreaming NOR DUT RUS ENG ITA GER FRE SPA G. Holst: I scanned her picture, dreaming
I think of the slope where the rabbits fed B. Naylor: The Background and the Figure
I towered far, and lo! I stood within G. Finzi: God-forgotten
I travel as a phantom now (I travel as a phantom now) - D. Bourgeois
I travel as a phantom now D. Bourgeois: I travel as a phantom now
I went by footpath and by stile G. Finzi: Paying calls
I will get a new string for my fiddle G. Finzi: A merrymaking in question
I would that folk forgot me quite J. Douglas: Tess
If but some vengeful god would call to me H. Foss: Hap
If grief come early M. Sheldon: First or last
If it's ever spring again (If it's ever spring again
) - R. Milford, C. Le Fleming
If it's ever spring again
R. Boughton: Foreboding
R. Milford, C. Le Fleming: If it's ever spring again
If you had known (If you had known
) - G. Baxter
If you had known
G. Baxter: If you had known
In a churchyard (It is sad that so many of worth
) - G. Finzi
In a solitude of the sea S. Shifrin: The convergence of the twain
In a whispering gallery (That whisper takes the voice) - G. Binkerd
In a wood (Pale beech and pine so blue) - G. Holst
In five-score summers (In five-score summers! All new eyes) - G. Finzi
In five-score summers! All new eyes G. Finzi: In five-score summers
In my sage moments (In my sage moments I can say
) - J. Ireland *
In my sage moments I can say
* J. Ireland: In my sage moments
In Tenebris (Wintertime nighs; but my bereavement-pain) - N. Maw
In the black winter morning (In the black winter morning) - I. Gurney
In the black winter morning I. Gurney: In the black winter morning
In the mind's eye (That was once her casement
) - G. Finzi
In the third-class seat sat the journeying boy
B. Britten: Midnight on the Great Western
In the wild October night-time (In the wild October night-time, when the wind raved round the land
) - B. Smith
In the wild October night-time, when the wind raved round the land
I. Gurney: The night of Trafalgar
B. Smith: In the wild October night-time
C. Scott: Trafalgar
In Time of 'The Breaking of Nations' (Only a man harrowing clods
) - G. Bachlund, L. Burritt, D. Healey, G. Slater
In Time of "The Breaking of Nations" (Only a man harrowing clods
) - J. Baber
In years defaced (In years defaced and lost
) - G. Finzi, R. Buckle
In years defaced and lost
G. Finzi, R. Buckle: In years defaced
Indulge no more may we
G. Finzi: The end of the episode
Inscriptions for a peal of eight bells (Thomas Tremble new-made me) - N. Marshall, N. Maw [x] *
It bends far over Yell'ham Plain
G. Finzi: The Comet at Yell'ham
It is a foolish thing, said I R. Milford: Tolerance
It is dark in the sky W. Grant: Looking across
It is sad that so many of worth
G. Finzi: In a churchyard
It never looks like summer (It never looks like summer here
) - G. Finzi
It never looks like summer here
G. Finzi: It never looks like summer
It was what you bore with you, Woman (It was what you bore with you, Woman
) - J. Ireland
It was what you bore with you, Woman
J. Ireland: It was what you bore with you, Woman
Its former green is blue and thin M. Head: The garden seat
Julie-Jane (Sing; how 'a would sing!) - A. Cooke
June leaves and autumn (Lush summer lit the trees to green
) - G. Finzi [x] *
Lalage's coming: where is she now, O?
R. Buckle, G. Finzi: Timing her
Last Love Word (This is the last; the very, very last) - A. Downes
Let me enjoy (Let me enjoy the earth no less
) - A. Cooke, I. Foster
Let me enjoy the Earth (Let me enjoy the earth no less
) - G. Finzi
Let me enjoy the earth no less
A. Cooke, I. Foster: Let me enjoy
G. Finzi: Let me enjoy the Earth
Life laughs onward (Rambling I looked for an old abode
) - G. Finzi
Lines to a movement in Mozart's E-Flat Symphony (Show me again the time) B. Naylor: Love lures life on
Little head against my shoulder
G. Finzi: The sigh
Looking across (It is dark in the sky) - W. Grant
Looking forward to the spring
G. Finzi: Before and after summer
Lost Love (I play my sweet old airs) - A. Downes
Love lures life on (Show me again the time) - B. Naylor
Lover to mistress (Beckon to me to come
) * J. Ireland: Beckon to me to come
Lush summer lit the trees to green
[x] * G. Finzi: June leaves and autumn
Lyonnesse (When I set out for Lyonnesse
) - C. Gibbs
Meet me again as at that time * R. Buckle: To Louisa in the lane
Men who march away (What of the faith and fire within us) - E. Lane
Middle-age enthusiasms (We passed where flag and flower) - G. Finzi
Midnight on the Great Western (In the third-class seat sat the journeying boy
) - B. Britten
More than one cuckoo (More than one cuckoo?) - D. Healey [x] *
More than one cuckoo? [x] * D. Healey: More than one cuckoo
My Love's gone a-fighting (My Love's gone a-fighting
) - G. Baxter
My Love's gone a-fighting
C. Speyer, B. Smith: My love's gone a-fighting
G. Baxter: My Love's gone a-fighting
My spirit will not haunt the mound (My spirit will not haunt the mound
) - D. Diamond
My spirit will not haunt the mound
D. Diamond: My spirit will not haunt the mound
My stick! he says, and turns in the lane Z. Perry: Outside the window
Neutral tones (We stood by a pond that winter day
) - R. Buckle, N. Maw
News for her mother (One mile more is where your door is) - G. Finzi
Night in the old home (When the wasting embers redden the chimney-breast) - H. Foss
Nine leaves a minute
* G. Finzi: The too short time
1967 (In five-score summers! All new eyes) G. Finzi: In five-score summers
No smoke spreads out of this chimney-pot I. Heilner: Starlings on the roof
Nobody took any notice of her as she stood on the causey kerb
G. Finzi, S. Bax, F. Goossen, A. Hale: The Market-Girl
Not a line of her writing have I G. Finzi: At news of a woman's death
O it was sad enough, weak enough, mad enough A. Hale: The going of the battery
O Life with the sad seared face H. Foss, N. Maw: To Life
O Lord, why grievest Thou? G. Finzi: By the earth's corpse
O my pretty pink frock R. Milford: The pink frock
O sweet sincerity! R. Milford: To sincerity
O the opal and the sapphire of that wandering western sea
R. Buckle: Beeny Cliff
On a discarded curl of hair (When your soft welcomings were said
) - G. Finzi
On a discovered curl of hair (When your soft welcomings were said
) G. Finzi: On a discarded curl of hair
On a midsummer eve (I idly cut a parsley stalk) - A. Butterworth
On the balcony (We shall see her no more) - R. Buckle
On the bridge (Sitting on the bridge) - S. Bax
Once at Swanage (The spray sprang up across the face of the moon) - R. Buckle
One mile more is where your door is G. Finzi: News for her mother
One without looks in tonight
S. Bliss: The fallow deer at the lonely house
Only a man harrowing clods (Only a man harrowing clods
) - G. Finzi
Only a man harrowing clods
R. Zupko: The Breaking of Nations
G. Bachlund, L. Burritt, D. Healey, G. Slater: In Time of 'The Breaking of Nations'
G. Finzi: Only a man harrowing clods
J. Baber: In Time of "The Breaking of Nations"
F. Austin: Though dynasties pass
Outside the window (My stick! he says, and turns in the lane) - Z. Perry
Overlooking the river (The swallows flew in the curves of an eight
) - G. Finzi
Overlooking the River Stour (The swallows flew in the curves of an eight
) G. Finzi: Overlooking the river
Pale beech and pine so blue G. Holst: In a wood
Past the hills that peep
G. Finzi: Epeisodia
Paying calls (I went by footpath and by stile) - G. Finzi
Poor wanderer, said the leaden sky G. Finzi: The subalterns
Portions of this yew
G. Finzi: Transformations
Proud songsters (The thrushes sing as the sun is going
) - B. Britten, G. Finzi *
Queer are the ways of a man I know
G. Finzi: The phantom
Quick march (When Lawyers strive to heal a breach
) - R. Boughton
Rain on the windows, creaking doors A. Downes: The Division
Rambling I looked for an old abode
G. Finzi: Life laughs onward
Regret not me (Regret not me
) - H. Richardson
Regret not me
G. Finzi: The dance continued
H. Richardson: Regret not me
Retty used to shake her head R. Buckle: Retty's Phases
Retty's Phases (Retty used to shake her head) - R. Buckle
Rollicum-Rorum (When Lawyers strive to heal a breach
) - G. Finzi
Rose-Ann (Why didn't you say you was promised, Rose-Ann?) - I. Foster, A. Hale, M. Sheldon
She sits in the tawny vapour G. Baxter, J. Joubert: A wife in London
She turned in the high pew, until her sight R. Field: A church romance
She wore a new terra cotta" dress G. Baxter: A thunderstorm in town
Shortening days (The first fire since the summer is lit, and is smoking into the room
) - G. Finzi *
Shortening days at the homestead (The first fire since the summer is lit, and is smoking into the room
) * G. Finzi: Shortening days
Show me again the time B. Naylor: Love lures life on
Shut out that moon (Close up the casement, draw the blind
) - R. Buckle, G. Binkerd
Simple was I and was young
G. Finzi: So I have fared
Sing, Ballad-singer, raise a hearty tune
A. Downes, L. Laitman, D. Waxman: The Ballad Singer
F. Goossen, A. Hale: The Ballad-Singer
A. Cooke: The Ballad-singer
Sing; how 'a would sing! A. Cooke: Julie-Jane
Sitting on the bridge (Sitting on the bridge) S. Bax: On the bridge
Sitting on the bridge S. Bax: On the bridge
"Sixpence a week," says the girl to her lover Z. Perry: By her Aunt's Grave
Slip back, Time! (Slip back, Time!) - R. Buckle
Slip back, Time! R. Buckle: Slip back, Time!
So I have fared (Simple was I and was young
) - G. Finzi
So various (You may have met a man -- quite young) - G. Finzi *
So zestfully canst thou sing? P. Dickinson: The Blinded Bird
Something Tapped (Something tapped on the pane of my room) - A. Downes, J. Wallach
Something tapped on the pane of my room A. Downes, J. Wallach: Something Tapped
Song from Heine (I scanned her picture dreaming) NOR DUT RUS ENG ITA GER FRE SPA G. Holst: I scanned her picture, dreaming
Song of the king's men (We be the King's men, hale and hearty) - T. Dunhill
Song of the soldiers' wives (At last! In sight of home again) A. Hale: Song of the soldiers' wives and sweethearts
Song of the soldiers' wives and sweethearts (At last! In sight of home again) - A. Hale
Song: The Night of Trafalgar (In the wild October night-time, when the wind raved round the land
) I. Gurney: The night of Trafalgar
B. Smith: In the wild October night-time
C. Scott: Trafalgar
South of the Line, from far Durban G. Baxter: Coda (A Christmas Ghost-Story)
J. Joubert: A Christmas Ghost-Story
South of the Line, inland from far Durban
G. Baxter: Coda (A Christmas Ghost-Story)
J. Joubert: A Christmas Ghost-Story
St. Launce's Revisited (Slip back, Time!) R. Buckle: Slip back, Time!
Starlings on the roof (No smoke spreads out of this chimney-pot) - I. Heilner
Stretching eyes west G. Binkerd: The riddle
Summer schemes (When friendly summer calls again
) - G. Finzi, J. Ireland, A. Cooke
Sweet cyder is a great thing
J. Ireland, G. Finzi: Great things
Tess (I would that folk forgot me quite) - J. Douglas
Tess's Lament (I would that folk forgot me quite) J. Douglas: Tess
That moment (The tragedy of that moment
) * J. Ireland: The tragedy of that moment
That night, that night
R. Buckle: A bygone occasion
G. Binkerd: A Bygone Occasion
That night your great guns, unawares
G. Finzi, I. Heilner, L. Smit: Channel firing
That was once her casement
G. Finzi: In the mind's eye
I. Gurney: The phantom
That whisper takes the voice G. Binkerd: In a whispering gallery
The Background and the Figure (I think of the slope where the rabbits fed) - B. Naylor
The Ballad Singer (Sing, Ballad-singer, raise a hearty tune
) - A. Downes, L. Laitman, D. Waxman
The Ballad-singer (Sing, Ballad-singer, raise a hearty tune
) - A. Cooke
The bars are thick with drops that show
G. Finzi: At Middle-Field Gate in February
The battle (They come beset by riddling hail) - G. Baxter
The Best she Could (Nine leaves a minute
) * G. Finzi: The too short time
The Blinded Bird (So zestfully canst thou sing?) - P. Dickinson
The Breaking of Nations (Only a man harrowing clods
) - R. Zupko
The Bullfinches (Bother Bulleys, let us sing) - A. Serrell
The choirmaster's burial (He often would ask us
) - B. Britten
The clock of the years (And the Spirit said
) - G. Finzi
The cold moon hangs to the sky by its horn G. Finzi: The night of the dance
The Colour (What shall I bring you
) - R. Milford, C. Le Fleming, M. Sheldon
The comet at Yalbury or Yell'ham (It bends far over Yell'ham Plain
) G. Finzi: The Comet at Yell'ham
The Comet at Yell'ham (It bends far over Yell'ham Plain
) - G. Finzi
The convergence of the twain (In a solitude of the sea) - S. Shifrin
The curtains now are drawn (The curtains now are drawn) - A. Downes, R. Buckle
The curtains now are drawn A. Downes, R. Buckle: The curtains now are drawn
The dance continued (Regret not me
) - G. Finzi
The dark-eyed gentleman (I pitched my day's leazings in Crimmercrock Lane
) - S. Bliss, H. Foss
The darkling thrush (I leaned upon a coppice gate) - R. Milford, R. Caviani
The day arrives of the autumn fair [x] * N. Marshall: A sheep fair
The Dead Drummer (They throw in Drummer Hodge, to rest
) J. Edmunds: The Drummer
G. Baxter, J. Joubert, A. Hale: Drummer Hodge
The Division (Rain on the windows, creaking doors) - A. Downes
The Drummer (They throw in Drummer Hodge, to rest
) - J. Edmunds
The end of the episode (Indulge no more may we
) - G. Finzi
The faithful swallow (When summer shone) - G. Finzi, C. Kittleson [x] *
The fallow deer at the lonely house (One without looks in tonight
) - S. Bliss
The fiddler (The fiddler knows what's brewing
) - F. Austin, A. Cooke
The fiddler knows what's brewing
F. Austin, A. Cooke: The fiddler
The first fire since the summer is lit, and is smoking into the room
* G. Finzi: Shortening days
The gallant's song (When the maiden leaves off teasing) - M. Adeney [x] *
The garden seat (Its former green is blue and thin) - M. Head
The going of the battery (O it was sad enough, weak enough, mad enough) - A. Hale
The homecoming (Gruffly growled the wind on Toller downland broad and bare) - G. Holst
The inquiry (And are ye one of Hermitage) - F. Goossen, A. Hale
The Ivy-Wife (I longed to love a full-boughed beech
) - B. Moore SPA
The kettle descants in a cosy drone G. Bachlund, N. Maw, Z. Perry: At tea
The king's men (We be the King's men, hale and hearty) - I. Copley, C. Gibbs, H. Sarson, P. Wilkinson
The last performance (I am playing my oldest tunes, declared she) B. Rawling: The old tunes
The little old table (Creak, little wood thing, creak
) - B. Britten
The man he killed (Had he and I but met) - G. Baxter, J. Joubert
The Market-Girl (Nobody took any notice of her as she stood on the causey kerb
) - G. Finzi, S. Bax, F. Goossen, A. Hale
The master and the leaves (We are budding, Master, budding) - G. Finzi
The mound (For a moment pause
) - R. Buckle, G. Finzi *
The night of the dance (The cold moon hangs to the sky by its horn) - G. Finzi
The night of Trafalgar (In the wild October night-time, when the wind raved round the land
) - I. Gurney
The old gown (I have seen her in gowns the brightest) - R. Buckle
The old tunes (I am playing my oldest tunes, declared she) - B. Rawling
The Oxen (Christmas Eve, and twelve of the clock
) - C. Gibbs, R. Vaughan Williams, B. Britten, L. Cochran, E. Dent, J. Elkus, R. Fleming, W. Pasfield, Peel, A. Rawsthorne, R. Williams, R. Winslow, G. Finzi
The peasant's confession (Good Father! . . . It was eve in middle June) - I. Gurney
The phantom (That was once her casement
) - I. Gurney
The phantom (Queer are the ways of a man I know
) - G. Finzi
The phantom horsewoman (Queer are the ways of a man I know
) G. Finzi: The phantom
The pink frock (O my pretty pink frock) - R. Milford
The protean maiden (This single girl is two girls) [x] * D. Healey: This single girl is two girls
The riddle (Stretching eyes west) - G. Binkerd
The robin (When up aloft I fly and fly) - K. Leighton
The seasons of her year (Winter is white on turf and tree) - C. Kittleson
The self-unseeing (Here is the ancient floor
) - G. Finzi, D. Stewart
The sergeant's song (When Lawyers strive to heal a breach
) - H. Foss, G. Holst, F. Keel
The sheep-boy (A yawning, sunned concave of purple) - R. Buckle
The sigh (Little head against my shoulder
) - G. Finzi
The singers are gone from the Cornmarket-place
A. Downes, F. Goossen, A. Hale: After the Fair
The sleep-worker (When wilt thou wake, O Mother, wake and see) - H. Foss
The song of the soldiers (What of the faith and fire within us) - F. Parish
The spray sprang up across the face of the moon R. Buckle: Once at Swanage
The subalterns (Poor wanderer, said the leaden sky) - G. Finzi
The swallows flew in the curves of an eight
G. Finzi: Overlooking the river
The Temporary the All (Change and chancefulness in my flowering youthtime) - G. Finzi
The ten hours' light is abating
A. Cooke: At Day-Close in November
B. Britten: At day-close in November
The thrushes sing as the sun is going
* B. Britten, G. Finzi: Proud songsters
The too short time (Nine leaves a minute
) - G. Finzi *
The tragedy of that moment (The tragedy of that moment
) - J. Ireland *
The tragedy of that moment
* J. Ireland: The tragedy of that moment
The voice (Woman much missed, how you call to me, call to me) - J. Wallach
The voice of the thorn (When the thorn on the down) - I. Foster
The Walk (You did not walk with me) - A. Downes
The weather the cuckoo likes (This is the weather the cuckoo likes
) - P. Crossley-Holland
The years have gathered grayly R. Buckle: Thine for ever!
There is not much that I can do
B. Britten: At the railway station, Upway
There was a glorious time G. Finzi: He fears his good fortune
There's no winsome woman (There's no winsome woman) - D. Healey [x] *
There's no winsome woman [x] * D. Healey: There's no winsome woman
These flowers are I, poor Fanny Hurd G. Finzi: Voices from things growing in a churchyard
These market-dames, mid-aged, with lips thin-drawn
A. Downes, G. Finzi, F. Goossen, A. Hale: Former beauties
They come beset by riddling hail G. Baxter: The battle
They sing their dearest songs
R. Buckle, G. Finzi: During wind and rain
They throw in Drummer Hodge, to rest
J. Edmunds: The Drummer
G. Baxter, J. Joubert, A. Hale: Drummer Hodge
Thine for ever! (The years have gathered grayly) - R. Buckle
This is the last; the very, very last A. Downes: Last Love Word
This is the weather the cuckoo likes (This is the weather the cuckoo likes
) - D. Healey
This is the weather the cuckoo likes
P. Crossley-Holland: The weather the cuckoo likes
D. Healey: This is the weather the cuckoo likes
J. Ireland, Besly, J. Brown, J. Butt, G. Finzi, R. Fiske, N. Gilbert, M. Head, R. Holmes, C. Kittleson, C. Le Fleming, W. Lovelock, R. Milford, S. Parry, A. Pritchard, D. Stone, E. Thiman, A. Thompson, J. Westrup, R. Zupko: Weathers
H. Greenhill: A Song of Weathers
This single girl is two girls (This single girl is two girls) - D. Healey [x] *
This single girl is two girls [x] * D. Healey: This single girl is two girls
Thomas Tremble new-made me [x] * N. Marshall, N. Maw: Inscriptions for a peal of eight bells
Though dynasties pass (Only a man harrowing clods
) - F. Austin
Thoughts of Phena at news of her death (Not a line of her writing have I) G. Finzi: At news of a woman's death
Thy shadow, Earth, from Pole to Central Sea
G. Finzi: At a lunar eclipse
Timing her (Lalage's coming: where is she now, O?
) - R. Buckle, G. Finzi
To an unborn pauper child (Breathe not, hid Heart: cease silently) - A. Brings
To Carrey Clavel (You turn your back, you turn your back) S. Bax, M. Sheldon: Carrey Clavel
To Life (O Life with the sad seared face) - H. Foss, N. Maw
To Lizbie Browne (Dear Lizbie Browne
) - G. Finzi, G. Bachlund
To Louisa in the lane (Meet me again as at that time) - R. Buckle *
To sincerity (O sweet sincerity!) - R. Milford
To the moon (What have you looked at, Moon) - Fulton
Tolerance (It is a foolish thing, said I) - R. Milford
Trafalgar (In the wild October night-time, when the wind raved round the land
) - C. Scott
Transformations (Portions of this yew
) - G. Finzi
Two lips (I kissed them in fancy as I came
) - G. Finzi *
Under the waterfall (Whenever I plunge my arm, like this) - R. Buckle
Valenciennes (We trenched, we trumpeted and drummed) - B. Smith
Voices from things growing in a churchyard (These flowers are I, poor Fanny Hurd) - G. Finzi
Wagtail and Baby (A baby watched a ford, whereto
) - B. Britten
Waiting both (A star looks down at me
) - G. Finzi, C. Le Fleming, S. Shifrin *
We are budding, Master, budding G. Finzi: The master and the leaves
We be the King's men, hale and hearty R. Vaughan Williams: Buonaparty
T. Dunhill: Song of the king's men
I. Copley, C. Gibbs, H. Sarson, P. Wilkinson: The king's men
We passed where flag and flower G. Finzi: Middle-age enthusiasms
We shall see her no more R. Buckle: On the balcony
We stood by a pond that winter day
R. Buckle, N. Maw: Neutral tones
We trenched, we trumpeted and drummed B. Smith: Valenciennes
Weathers (This is the weather the cuckoo likes
) - J. Ireland, Besly, J. Brown, J. Butt, G. Finzi, R. Fiske, N. Gilbert, M. Head, R. Holmes, C. Kittleson, C. Le Fleming, W. Lovelock, R. Milford, S. Parry, A. Pritchard, D. Stone, E. Thiman, A. Thompson, J. Westrup, R. Zupko
What have you looked at, Moon Fulton: To the moon
What of the faith and fire within us E. Lane: Men who march away
F. Parish: The song of the soldiers
What shall I bring you
R. Milford, C. Le Fleming, M. Sheldon: The Colour
What's there to tell of the world [x] * S. Shifrin: What's there to tell?
What's there to tell? (What's there to tell of the world) - S. Shifrin [x] *
When friendly summer calls again
G. Finzi, J. Ireland, A. Cooke: Summer schemes
When I set out for Lyonnesse (When I set out for Lyonnesse
) - G. Finzi, F. Austin, J. Duke, S. Harrison, F. Hart, I. Heilner, C. Le Fleming, T. McCourt, K. O'Brien, C. Speyer, L. Walters
When I set out for Lyonnesse
C. Gibbs: Lyonnesse
R. Boughton: A Song of Lyonnesse
G. Finzi, F. Austin, J. Duke, S. Harrison, F. Hart, I. Heilner, C. Le Fleming, T. McCourt, K. O'Brien, C. Speyer, L. Walters: When I set out for Lyonnesse
When Lawyers strive to heal a breach
H. Foss, G. Holst, F. Keel: The sergeant's song
G. Finzi: Rollicum-Rorum
B. Smith: Rollicum-rorum
R. Boughton: Quick march
When summer shone [x] * G. Finzi, C. Kittleson: The faithful swallow
When the clouds' swoln bosoms echo back the shouts of the many and strong J. Douglas: De Profundis II
When the maiden leaves off teasing [x] * M. Adeney: The gallant's song
When the Present has latched its postern behind my tremulous stay G. Finzi, C. Le Fleming: Afterwards
When the thorn on the down I. Foster: The voice of the thorn
When the wasting embers redden the chimney-breast H. Foss: Night in the old home
When up aloft I fly and fly K. Leighton: The robin
When we lay where Budmouth Beach is
G. Finzi, H. Richardson, M. Shaw, B. Smith: Budmouth Dears
When wilt thou wake, O Mother, wake and see H. Foss: The sleep-worker
When you shall see me (When you shall see me in the toils of Time) - G. Binkerd
When you shall see me in the toils of Time G. Binkerd: When you shall see me
When your soft welcomings were said
G. Finzi: On a discarded curl of hair
Whenever I plunge my arm, like this R. Buckle: Under the waterfall
Where the picnic was (Where we made the fire
) - A. Downes, G. Finzi
Where we made the fire
A. Downes, G. Finzi: Where the picnic was
While drawing in a churchyard (It is sad that so many of worth
) G. Finzi: In a churchyard
Why didn't you say you was promised, Rose-Ann? I. Foster, A. Hale, M. Sheldon: Rose-Ann
William Dewy, Tranter Reuben, Farmer Ledlow late at plough
H. Foss: Friends beyond
Will's at the dance in the Club-room below
A. Downes, F. Goossen, A. Hale, I. Spector: A Wife Waits
Winter is white on turf and tree C. Kittleson: The seasons of her year
R. Boughton: Alone
Wintertime nighs; but my bereavement-pain J. Douglas: De Profundis I
N. Maw: In Tenebris
Without, not within her (It was what you bore with you, Woman
) J. Ireland: It was what you bore with you, Woman
Woman much missed, how you call to me, call to me J. Wallach: The voice
Yell'ham-Wood's story (Coomb-Firtrees say that Life is a moan) - G. Finzi
You did not walk with me A. Downes: The Walk
You may have met a man -- quite young * G. Finzi: So various
You turn your back, you turn your back S. Bax, M. Sheldon: Carrey Clavel
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