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Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894)

Text collections / compilations [warning - not necessarily comprehensive]

Songs in Many Keys
The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table
The Professor at the Breakfast-Table

Texts set to music [warning - not necessarily comprehensive]

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Army Hymn (O Lord of Hosts! Almighty King! ) - O. Dresel, A. Lwolff, H. Oliver, G. Peabody
Build thee more stately mansions (This is the ship of pearl, which, poets feign) (from The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table) - A. Farwell, C. Mueller, G. Young
Fantasia (Kiss mine eyelids, beauteous Morn )
C. Rogers: Kiss mine eyelids, lovely morn

Hymn of trust (Love Divine, that stoop'd to share) (from The Professor at the Breakfast-Table) - F. Allitsen, H. Baker, A. Beach, C. Ives, A. Beach
I saw him once before
S. Homer: The last leaf

I sometimes sit beneath a tree and read my own sweet songs
C. Ives: The last reader

I wrote some lines once on a time
S. Homer: The Height of the Ridiculous

It was a tall young oysterman lived by the river-side
R. Stevenson: Love and oysters
M. Shaw: The tall young oysterman
G. Grant-Schaefer, J. Hatton: The ballad of the oysterman
E. Bailey: The young oysterman

It was the stalwart butcher man
G. Bachlund: The Spectre Pig - A Ballad

Kiss mine eyelids, beauteous Morn
C. Rogers: Kiss mine eyelids, lovely morn

Kiss mine eyelids, lovely morn (Kiss mine eyelids, beauteous Morn ) - C. Rogers
Love and oysters (It was a tall young oysterman lived by the river-side) - R. Stevenson
Love Divine, that stoop'd to share (from The Professor at the Breakfast-Table)
F. Allitsen, H. Baker, A. Beach, C. Ives, A. Beach: Hymn of trust
L. Marshall: Though long the weary way we tread
N. Allen, W. Hammond, M. Harvey, J. Haydn, W. MacFarlane, G. Marston, G. Nevin, D. Protheroe, J. Vance: O love divine
C. Adams, A. Holden, A. Plumpton: Thou art near
H. Oliver: O love divine, that stooped to share

O Lord of Hosts! Almighty King!
O. Dresel, A. Lwolff, H. Oliver, G. Peabody: Army Hymn

O love divine (Love Divine, that stoop'd to share) (from The Professor at the Breakfast-Table) - N. Allen, W. Hammond, M. Harvey, J. Haydn, W. MacFarlane, G. Marston, G. Nevin, D. Protheroe, J. Vance
O love divine, that stooped to share (Love Divine, that stoop'd to share) (from The Professor at the Breakfast-Table) - H. Oliver
The ballad of the oysterman (It was a tall young oysterman lived by the river-side) - G. Grant-Schaefer, J. Hatton
The chambered nautilus (This is the ship of pearl, which, poets feign) (from The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table) - A. Beach, J. Fearis, G. Gartlan, G. La Munyon, R. Miles, D. Taylor
The Flower of Liberty (What flower is this that greets the morn) (from Songs in Many Keys) - W. Neidlinger, B. Treharne, O. Brown
The Height of the Ridiculous (I wrote some lines once on a time) - S. Homer
The last leaf (I saw him once before ) - S. Homer
The last reader (I sometimes sit beneath a tree and read my own sweet songs) - C. Ives
The Spectre Pig - A Ballad (It was the stalwart butcher man) - G. Bachlund
The tall young oysterman (It was a tall young oysterman lived by the river-side) - M. Shaw
The young oysterman (It was a tall young oysterman lived by the river-side) - E. Bailey
This is the ship of pearl, which, poets feign (from The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table)
A. Beach, J. Fearis, G. Gartlan, G. La Munyon, R. Miles, D. Taylor: The chambered nautilus
A. Farwell, C. Mueller, G. Young: Build thee more stately mansions

Thou art near (Love Divine, that stoop'd to share) (from The Professor at the Breakfast-Table) - C. Adams, A. Holden, A. Plumpton
Though long the weary way we tread (Love Divine, that stoop'd to share) (from The Professor at the Breakfast-Table) - L. Marshall
Too young for love (Too young for love? ) - C. Rogers
Too young for love?
C. Rogers: Too young for love

What flower is this that greets the morn (from Songs in Many Keys)
W. Neidlinger, B. Treharne, O. Brown: The Flower of Liberty
H. Keens: What Flower is this?

What Flower is this? (What flower is this that greets the morn) (from Songs in Many Keys) - H. Keens