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Author: Natalie Macfarren (1826-1916)

Texts set to music [warning - not necessarily comprehensive]

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Ah me, poor maid, what have I done?
Alinde (The western light is fading fast ) DUT SPA ITA FRE
By the Danube (How oft have I stray'd those banks beside)
Come in splendour (Come in splendour)
Come in splendour
Flowery omens (I will my heart's fond wishes plant) GER CZE
Glides a bark adown the river soft and slow
How oft have I stray'd those banks beside
I will my heart's fond wishes plant GER CZE
In the wood (The woodland calls with luring voice) DUT SPA
Let us lift up our heart, and with our heart FRE GER
Lo, we account them happy which endure and fail not FRE GER
Maiden's lament (Refreshing sleep, that dost to all bring peace) RUS
Maiden's lament (When thro' the weary day)
My love (My love hath breath'd my being into life)
My love hath breath'd my being into life
My Mother loves me not
No escape (Yonder in haste, lo, a maiden is wading ) GER CZE
Oh fair is my lass (Oh fair is my lass, but no riches she has)
Oh fair is my lass, but no riches she has
Oh green and shady woodland
Oh Saviour, ope the heav'nly gates FRE
Once fell a maid asleep, 'mid green midsummer grass GER CZE
Refreshing sleep, that dost to all bring peace RUS
Said Susan Lee to Johnny:
Serenade (When of the dull round of life thou art weary)
Since I had seen my truelove (Since I had seen my truelove)
Since I had seen my truelove
Songs my mother taught me (Songs my mother taught me in the days long vanished ) - C. Ives ITA GER FRE
Songs my mother taught me in the days long vanished ITA GER FRE
C. Ives: Songs my mother taught me

Tenderly bloweth a breeze from the woodland GER
That thou here hast wandered (When the Eastern breezes ) DUT FRE
The flowery message (Tenderly bloweth a breeze from the woodland) GER
The maiden and the grass (Once fell a maid asleep, 'mid green midsummer grass ) GER CZE
The western light is fading fast DUT SPA ITA FRE
The woodland (Oh green and shady woodland)
The woodland calls with luring voice DUT SPA
When of the dull round of life thou art weary
When the Eastern breezes DUT FRE
When thro' the weary day
Wherefore hath the light been given to a heart sorrowful FRE GER
With joy I'll lay me down to die FRE
Yonder in haste, lo, a maiden is wading GER CZE

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