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Composer: Liza Lehmann (1862-1918)

Alphabetic listing of musical settings [warning - not necessarily comprehensive]

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Song Cycles, Symphonies, etc.

Album of 8 German Songs

no. 6. Lieb Liebchen, leg's Händchen aufs Herze (Text: Heinrich Heine) DUT RUS ENG ITA FRE SWE ENG FRE
no. 6. Sweet love, lay thy hand (Text: after Heinrich Heine) [x] DUT RUS ITA FRE SWE FRE

Album of Five Tenor Songs

no. ?. When all the world is young (Text: Charles Kingsley)

Album of Nine English Songs

no. ?. The young rose (Text: Thomas Moore) GER

Bird Songs

no. 1. The Woodpigeon (Text: (A.S.))
no. 2. The Starling (Text: (A.S.))
no. 3. The Yellowhammer (Text: (A.S.))
no. 4. The Wren (Text: (A.S.))
no. 5. The Owl (Text: (A.S.))

Five little love songs

no. 1. There's a bird beneath your window (Text: Cora Randall Fabbri) [x]
no. 2. Along the sunny lane (Text: Cora Randall Fabbri) [x]
no. 3. Just a multitude of curls (Text: Cora Randall Fabbri)
no. 4. If I were a bird, I would sing all day (Text: Cora Randall Fabbri) [x]
no. 5. Clasp mine closer, little dear white hand (Text: Cora Randall Fabbri) [x]

Four Cautionary Tales and a Moral

no. 1. Rebecca (Text: Hilaire Belloc)
no. 2. Jim (Text: Hilaire Belloc)
no. 3. Matilda (Text: Hilaire Belloc)
no. 4. Henry King (Text: Hilaire Belloc)
no. 5. Charles Augustus Fortescue (Text: Hilaire Belloc)

Hips and haws : five country songs

no. 1. I be thinkin' (Text: Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall) [x]
no. 2. Country courtship (Text: Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall) [x]
no. 3. Jealousy (Text: Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall) [x]
no. 4. Bells across the meadow (Text: Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall) [x]
no. 5. Tramping (Text: Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall) [x]

In a Persian Garden

no. 1. Wake! For the Sun who scatter'd into flight (Text: Edward Fitzgerald after Hakim Omar Khayyám)
no. 2. Before the phantom of False morning died (Text: Edward Fitzgerald after Hakim Omar Khayyám)
no. 3. Now the New Year reviving old Desires (Text: Edward Fitzgerald after Hakim Omar Khayyám) ITA
no. 4. Irám indeed is gone with all his Rose (Text: Edward Fitzgerald after Hakim Omar Khayyám)
no. 5. Come, fill the Cup, and in the fire of Spring (Text: Edward Fitzgerald after Hakim Omar Khayyám)
no. 6. Whether at Naishápür or Babylon (Text: Edward Fitzgerald after Hakim Omar Khayyám)
no. 7. And not a drop that from our Cups we throw (Text: Edward Fitzgerald after Hakim Omar Khayyám)
no. 8. I sometimes think that never blows so red [multi-text setting] ENG
no. 9. A Book of Verses underneath the Bough (Text: Edward Fitzgerald after Hakim Omar Khayyám) ITA FRE FRE
no. 10. Myself when young did eagerly frequent [multi-text setting] ENG
no. 11. Ah, make the most of what we yet may spend (Text: Edward Fitzgerald after Hakim Omar Khayyám)
no. 12. When you and I behind the veil are past (Text: Edward Fitzgerald after Hakim Omar Khayyám)
no. 13. But if the Soul can fling the Dust aside (Text: Edward Fitzgerald after Hakim Omar Khayyám)
no. 14. I sent my Soul through the Invisible [multi-text setting] ENG
no. 15. Alas! that Spring should vanish with the Rose! (Text: Edward Fitzgerald after Hakim Omar Khayyám)
no. 16. The worldly hope men set their Hearts upon [multi-text setting] ENG
no. 17. Each morn a thousand Roses brings, you say (Text: Edward Fitzgerald after Hakim Omar Khayyám)
no. 18. They say the Lion and the Lizard keep [multi-text setting] ENG
no. 19. Ah, fill the Cup: -- What boots it to repeat [multi-text setting] ENG
no. 20. Ah, moon of my delight, who know'st no wane [multi-text setting] ENG
no. 21. As then the Tulip for her morning sup [multi-text setting] ENG
no. 22. Alas! that Spring should vanish with the Rose! (Text: Edward Fitzgerald after Hakim Omar Khayyám)

In Memoriam

no. 1. Introduction
no. 2. I sing to him that rests below (Text: Lord Alfred Tennyson)
no. 3. O Sorrow, wilt thou live with me (Text: Lord Alfred Tennyson)
no. 4. If Sleep and Death be truly one (Text: Lord Alfred Tennyson)
no. 5. Risest thou thus, dim dawn, again (Text: Lord Alfred Tennyson)
no. 6. When on my bed the moonlight falls (Text: Lord Alfred Tennyson)
no. 7. I cannot see the features right (Text: Lord Alfred Tennyson)
no. 8. Interlude
no. 9. Wild bird, whose warble, liquid sweet (Text: Lord Alfred Tennyson)
no. 10. To Sleep I give my powers away (Text: Lord Alfred Tennyson)
no. 11. Sweet after showers, ambrosial air (Text: Lord Alfred Tennyson)
no. 12. Who loves not Knowledge? Who shall rail (Text: Lord Alfred Tennyson)
no. 13. Strong Son of God, immortal Love (Text: Lord Alfred Tennyson)
no. 14. Epilogue (Text: Lord Alfred Tennyson)

More daisies: new songs of childhood

no. 1. Up into the cherry tree (Text: Robert Louis Stevenson)
no. 2. A moral (Text: Robert Louis Stevenson)
no. 3. For good luck (Text: Juliana Horatia Ewing)
no. 4. Goodnight and good morning (Text: Richard Monckton Milnes, Lord Houghton)
no. 5. Every night my prayers I say (Text: Robert Louis Stevenson)
no. 6. In dreamland [x]
no. 7. The cuckoo (Text: William Brighty Rands)
no. 8. Marching song (Text: Robert Louis Stevenson)
no. 9. My shadow (Text: Robert Louis Stevenson)
no. 10. The captain (Text: Robert Louis Stevenson) FRE
no. 11. A child's prayer (Text: Matilda Betham-Edwards)
no. 12. Fairy chimes [x]

Nonsense Songs: The Songs That Came Out Wrong

no. 1. How doth the little crocodile (Text: Lewis Carroll)
no. 2. Fury Said to a Mouse (Text: Lewis Carroll)
no. 3. You Are Old, Father William (Text: Lewis Carroll)
no. 4. Speak Roughly to Your Little Boy (Text: Lewis Carroll)
no. 5. Will You Walk a Little Faster (Text: Lewis Carroll)
no. 6. Mockturtle Soup (Text: Lewis Carroll)
no. 7. The Queen of Hearts (Text: Lewis Carroll)
no. 8. They Told Me You Had Been to Her (Text: Lewis Carroll)

Songs of a 'Flapper'

no. 1. In the garden [x]
no. 2. This beautiful world [x]
no. 3. My sister Nell [x]
no. 4. The ball [x]
no. 5. Good-night little stars [x]

Songs of love and spring

no. 1. Six spring (Text: Alfred Perceval Graves after Emanuel von Geibel) [x]
no. 2. When young love comes knocking (Text: Alfred Perceval Graves after Emanuel von Geibel) [x]
no. 3. In April mood (Text: Alfred Perceval Graves after Emanuel von Geibel) [x] FRE
no. 4. Dawning love (Text: Alfred Perceval Graves after Emanuel von Geibel) [x]
no. 5. Disturb it not (Text: Alfred Perceval Graves after Emanuel von Geibel) [x]
no. 6. Golden bridges (Text: Alfred Perceval Graves after Emanuel von Geibel) [x] FRE
no. 7. A dream of violets (Text: Alfred Perceval Graves after Emanuel von Geibel) [x]
no. 8. Star fancies (Text: Alfred Perceval Graves after Emanuel von Geibel) [x]
no. 9. Love's emblems (Text: Alfred Perceval Graves after Emanuel von Geibel) [x]
no. 10. My secret (Text: Alfred Perceval Graves after Emanuel von Geibel) [x]
no. 11. The sapphire (Text: Alfred Perceval Graves after Emanuel von Geibel) [x]
no. 12. Love enthroned (Text: Alfred Perceval Graves after Emanuel von Geibel) [x]

The daisy chain: twelve songs of childhood

no. 1. Foreign children (Text: Robert Louis Stevenson) ITA
no. 2. Fairies (Text: Menella Bute Smedley)
no. 3. Keepsake Mill (Text: Robert Louis Stevenson)
no. 4. If no one ever marries me (Text: Laurence Alma-Tadema)
no. 5. Stars (Text: Robert Louis Stevenson) FRE
no. 6. Seeing the world [x]
no. 7. The ship that sailed into the sun (Text: William Brighty Rands)
no. 8. The swing (Text: Robert Louis Stevenson) FRE
no. 9. Mustard and cress (Text: Norman Rowland Gale)
no. 10. The moon (Text: Robert Louis Stevenson)
no. 11. Thank you very much indeed (Text: Norman Rowland Gale)
no. 12. Blind man's buff [x]

Two Seal Songs

no. ?. Mother Seal's Lullaby (Text: Rudyard Kipling) FRE

All titles of vocal settings in our database, in alphabetic order

A Book of Verses underneath the Bough (in In a Persian Garden) (Text: Edward Fitzgerald after Hakim Omar Khayyám) ITA FRE FRE
A child's prayer (in More daisies: new songs of childhood) (Text: Matilda Betham-Edwards)
A dream of violets (in Songs of love and spring) (Text: Alfred Perceval Graves after Emanuel von Geibel) [x]
A moral (in More daisies: new songs of childhood) (Text: Robert Louis Stevenson)
A widow bird sat mourning (Text: Percy Bysshe Shelley) ITA
Ah, fill the Cup: -- What boots it to repeat [multi-text setting] ENG (in In a Persian Garden)
Ah, make the most of what we yet may spend (in In a Persian Garden) (Text: Edward Fitzgerald after Hakim Omar Khayyám)
Ah, moon of my delight, who know'st no wane [multi-text setting] ENG (in In a Persian Garden)
Alas! that Spring should vanish with the Rose! (in In a Persian Garden) (Text: Edward Fitzgerald after Hakim Omar Khayyám)
Alas! that Spring should vanish with the Rose! (in In a Persian Garden) (Text: Edward Fitzgerald after Hakim Omar Khayyám)
Along the sunny lane (in Five little love songs) (Text: Cora Randall Fabbri) [x]
And not a drop that from our Cups we throw (in In a Persian Garden) (Text: Edward Fitzgerald after Hakim Omar Khayyám)
As then the Tulip for her morning sup [multi-text setting] ENG (in In a Persian Garden)
Before the phantom of False morning died (in In a Persian Garden) (Text: Edward Fitzgerald after Hakim Omar Khayyám)
Bells across the meadow (in Hips and haws : five country songs) (Text: Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall) [x]
Blind man's buff (in The daisy chain: twelve songs of childhood) [x]
But if the Soul can fling the Dust aside (in In a Persian Garden) (Text: Edward Fitzgerald after Hakim Omar Khayyám)
Charles Augustus Fortescue (in Four Cautionary Tales and a Moral) (Text: Hilaire Belloc)
Clasp mine closer, little dear white hand (in Five little love songs) (Text: Cora Randall Fabbri) [x]
Come, fill the Cup, and in the fire of Spring (in In a Persian Garden) (Text: Edward Fitzgerald after Hakim Omar Khayyám)
Country courtship (in Hips and haws : five country songs) (Text: Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall) [x]
Dawning love (in Songs of love and spring) (Text: Alfred Perceval Graves after Emanuel von Geibel) [x]
Disturb it not (in Songs of love and spring) (Text: Alfred Perceval Graves after Emanuel von Geibel) [x]
Dusk in the valley (Text: George Meredith)
Each morn a thousand Roses brings, you say (in In a Persian Garden) (Text: Edward Fitzgerald after Hakim Omar Khayyám)
En Septembre (Text: Paul Bourget)
Endymion (Text: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
Endymion (Text: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
Epilogue (in In Memoriam) (Text: Lord Alfred Tennyson)
Evensong (Text: Constance Morgan)
Every night my prayers I say (in More daisies: new songs of childhood) (Text: Robert Louis Stevenson)
Fairies (in The daisy chain: twelve songs of childhood) (Text: Menella Bute Smedley)
Fairy chimes (in More daisies: new songs of childhood) [x]
For good luck (in More daisies: new songs of childhood) (Text: Juliana Horatia Ewing)
Foreign children (in The daisy chain: twelve songs of childhood) (Text: Robert Louis Stevenson) ITA
Fortunio (Text: Louis Charles Alfred de Musset) RUS SWE
Fury Said to a Mouse (in Nonsense Songs: The Songs That Came Out Wrong) (Text: Lewis Carroll)
Golden bridges (in Songs of love and spring) (Text: Alfred Perceval Graves after Emanuel von Geibel) [x] FRE
Good-night little stars (in Songs of a 'Flapper') [x]
Goodnight and good morning (in More daisies: new songs of childhood) (Text: Richard Monckton Milnes, Lord Houghton)
Henry King (in Four Cautionary Tales and a Moral) (Text: Hilaire Belloc)
How doth the little crocodile (in Nonsense Songs: The Songs That Came Out Wrong) (Text: Lewis Carroll)
I be thinkin' (in Hips and haws : five country songs) (Text: Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall) [x]
I cannot see the features right (in In Memoriam) (Text: Lord Alfred Tennyson)
I praise the tender flower (Text: Robert Seymour Bridges) DUT
I sent my Soul through the Invisible [multi-text setting] ENG (in In a Persian Garden)
I sing to him that rests below (in In Memoriam) (Text: Lord Alfred Tennyson)
I sometimes think that never blows so red [multi-text setting] ENG (in In a Persian Garden)
If I had but two little wings (Text: Samuel Taylor Coleridge) GER
If I were a bird, I would sing all day (in Five little love songs) (Text: Cora Randall Fabbri) [x]
If no one ever marries me (in The daisy chain: twelve songs of childhood) (Text: Laurence Alma-Tadema)
If Sleep and Death be truly one (in In Memoriam) (Text: Lord Alfred Tennyson)
In April mood (in Songs of love and spring) (Text: Alfred Perceval Graves after Emanuel von Geibel) [x] FRE
In dreamland (in More daisies: new songs of childhood) [x]
In the garden (in Songs of a 'Flapper') [x]
Interlude (in In Memoriam)
Introduction (in In Memoriam)
Irám indeed is gone with all his Rose (in In a Persian Garden) (Text: Edward Fitzgerald after Hakim Omar Khayyám)
Jealousy (in Hips and haws : five country songs) (Text: Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall) [x]
Jim (in Four Cautionary Tales and a Moral) (Text: Hilaire Belloc)
Just a multitude of curls (in Five little love songs) (Text: Cora Randall Fabbri)
Keepsake Mill (in The daisy chain: twelve songs of childhood) (Text: Robert Louis Stevenson)
Lieb Liebchen, leg's Händchen aufs Herze (in Album of 8 German Songs) (Text: Heinrich Heine) DUT RUS ENG ITA FRE SWE ENG FRE
Love enthroned (in Songs of love and spring) (Text: Alfred Perceval Graves after Emanuel von Geibel) [x]
Love's emblems (in Songs of love and spring) (Text: Alfred Perceval Graves after Emanuel von Geibel) [x]
Magdalen at Michael's gate (Text: Charles Kingsley)
Marching song (in More daisies: new songs of childhood) (Text: Robert Louis Stevenson)
Matilda (in Four Cautionary Tales and a Moral) (Text: Hilaire Belloc)
Mockturtle Soup (in Nonsense Songs: The Songs That Came Out Wrong) (Text: Lewis Carroll)
Mother Seal's Lullaby (in Two Seal Songs) (Text: Rudyard Kipling) FRE
Music, when soft voices die (Text: Percy Bysshe Shelley) RUS GER FRE
Mustard and cress (in The daisy chain: twelve songs of childhood) (Text: Norman Rowland Gale)
My secret (in Songs of love and spring) (Text: Alfred Perceval Graves after Emanuel von Geibel) [x]
My shadow (in More daisies: new songs of childhood) (Text: Robert Louis Stevenson)
My sister Nell (in Songs of a 'Flapper') [x]
Myself when young did eagerly frequent [multi-text setting] ENG (in In a Persian Garden)
No Candle was there and no fire (Text: Frances M. Gostling )
Now the New Year reviving old Desires (in In a Persian Garden) (Text: Edward Fitzgerald after Hakim Omar Khayyám) ITA
O Sorrow, wilt thou live with me (in In Memoriam) (Text: Lord Alfred Tennyson)
On the day I get to heaven (Text: Sivori Levey) [x]
Rebecca (in Four Cautionary Tales and a Moral) (Text: Hilaire Belloc)
Risest thou thus, dim dawn, again (in In Memoriam) (Text: Lord Alfred Tennyson)
Seeing the world (in The daisy chain: twelve songs of childhood) [x]
Six spring (in Songs of love and spring) (Text: Alfred Perceval Graves after Emanuel von Geibel) [x]
Speak Roughly to Your Little Boy (in Nonsense Songs: The Songs That Came Out Wrong) (Text: Lewis Carroll)
Star fancies (in Songs of love and spring) (Text: Alfred Perceval Graves after Emanuel von Geibel) [x]
Stars (in The daisy chain: twelve songs of childhood) (Text: Robert Louis Stevenson) FRE
Strong Son of God, immortal Love (in In Memoriam) (Text: Lord Alfred Tennyson)
Sweet after showers, ambrosial air (in In Memoriam) (Text: Lord Alfred Tennyson)
Sweet love, lay thy hand (in Album of 8 German Songs) (Text: after Heinrich Heine) [x] DUT RUS ITA FRE SWE FRE
Thank you very much indeed (in The daisy chain: twelve songs of childhood) (Text: Norman Rowland Gale)
The ball (in Songs of a 'Flapper') [x]
The billet doux
The captain (in More daisies: new songs of childhood) (Text: Robert Louis Stevenson) FRE
The cuckoo (in More daisies: new songs of childhood) (Text: William Brighty Rands)
The Lake Isle of Innisfree (Text: William Butler Yeats) ITA
The lily of a day (Text: Ben Jonson)
The moon (in The daisy chain: twelve songs of childhood) (Text: Robert Louis Stevenson)
The Owl (in Bird Songs) (Text: (A.S.))
The Queen of Hearts (in Nonsense Songs: The Songs That Came Out Wrong) (Text: Lewis Carroll)
The sapphire (in Songs of love and spring) (Text: Alfred Perceval Graves after Emanuel von Geibel) [x]
The ship that sailed into the sun (in The daisy chain: twelve songs of childhood) (Text: William Brighty Rands)
The Starling (in Bird Songs) (Text: (A.S.))
The swing (in The daisy chain: twelve songs of childhood) (Text: Robert Louis Stevenson) FRE
The weathercock (Text: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
The Woodpigeon (in Bird Songs) (Text: (A.S.))
The worldly hope men set their Hearts upon [multi-text setting] ENG (in In a Persian Garden)
The Wren (in Bird Songs) (Text: (A.S.))
The Yellowhammer (in Bird Songs) (Text: (A.S.))
The young rose (in Album of Nine English Songs) (Text: Thomas Moore) GER
There's a bird beneath your window (in Five little love songs) (Text: Cora Randall Fabbri) [x]
They say the Lion and the Lizard keep [multi-text setting] ENG (in In a Persian Garden)
They Told Me You Had Been to Her (in Nonsense Songs: The Songs That Came Out Wrong) (Text: Lewis Carroll)
This beautiful world (in Songs of a 'Flapper') [x]
Thoughts have wings (Text: Frances M. Gostling )
Titania's Cradle (Text: William Shakespeare) FRE
To a little red spider (Text: L. Ann Cunnington)
To Sleep I give my powers away (in In Memoriam) (Text: Lord Alfred Tennyson)
Tramping (in Hips and haws : five country songs) (Text: Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall) [x]
Up into the cherry tree (in More daisies: new songs of childhood) (Text: Robert Louis Stevenson)
Wake! For the Sun who scatter'd into flight (in In a Persian Garden) (Text: Edward Fitzgerald after Hakim Omar Khayyám)
When all the world is young (in Album of Five Tenor Songs) (Text: Charles Kingsley)
When I am dead, my dearest (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti) ITA GER WEL
When Love is kind (Text: Thomas Moore)
When on my bed the moonlight falls (in In Memoriam) (Text: Lord Alfred Tennyson)
When you and I behind the veil are past (in In a Persian Garden) (Text: Edward Fitzgerald after Hakim Omar Khayyám)
When young love comes knocking (in Songs of love and spring) (Text: Alfred Perceval Graves after Emanuel von Geibel) [x]
Whether at Naishápür or Babylon (in In a Persian Garden) (Text: Edward Fitzgerald after Hakim Omar Khayyám)
Who loves not Knowledge? Who shall rail (in In Memoriam) (Text: Lord Alfred Tennyson)
Wild bird, whose warble, liquid sweet (in In Memoriam) (Text: Lord Alfred Tennyson)
Will You Walk a Little Faster (in Nonsense Songs: The Songs That Came Out Wrong) (Text: Lewis Carroll)
You Are Old, Father William (in Nonsense Songs: The Songs That Came Out Wrong) (Text: Lewis Carroll)

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