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Author: Walter de la Mare (1873-1956)

Walter Ramal [pseudonym]

Text collections / compilations [warning - not necessarily comprehensive]

Bells and Grass: A Book of Rhymes
Ding Dong Bell
Flora: A Book of Drawings
Memory and Other Poems
Memory and Other Poems
Motley and Other Poems
Peacock Pie: A Book of Rhymes
Poems 1919-1934
Poems for Children
Songs of Childhood
The Fleeting and Other Poems
The Listeners and Other Poems
The Sunken Garden and Other Poems
The Three Mulla-Mulgars
The Veil and Other Poems

Texts set to music [warning - not necessarily comprehensive]

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Note: titles are in bold and first lines are in italics

A boy (Finger on lip I ever stand) (from Ding Dong Bell) - C. Le Fleming [x] *
A feather, a feather (from Bells and Grass: A Book of Rhymes) [x] *
C. Parry: The feather

A goldfinch (This feather-soft creature) (from Bells and Grass: A Book of Rhymes) - P. Harrison [x] *
A midget (Just a span and half a span) (from Ding Dong Bell) - T. Chanler, C. Le Fleming [x] *
A portrait of a warrior (His brow is seamed with line and scar) (from Songs of Childhood) - W. Buczynski
A screech across the sands [x] *
M. Hurd: Mr. Punch

A shepherd (A shepherd, Ned Vaughan ) (from Ding Dong Bell) - T. Chanler [x] *
A shepherd, Ned Vaughan (from Ding Dong Bell) [x] *
T. Chanler: A shepherd

A song of enchantment (A song of enchantment I sang me there ) (from Peacock Pie: A Book of Rhymes) - B. Britten, I. Boyle, V. Galway
A song of enchantment I sang me there (from Peacock Pie: A Book of Rhymes)
B. Britten, I. Boyle, V. Galway: A song of enchantment

A song of shadows (Sweep thy faint strings, Musician ) (from Peacock Pie: A Book of Rhymes) - J. Bennett, I. Boyle, G. Gwyther, S. Liddle
A song of soldiers (As I sat musing by the frozen dyke) (from Peacock Pie: A Book of Rhymes) - F. Austin, C. Gibbs
A very old woman lives in yon house (from The Listeners and Other Poems)
P. McIntyre, D. Smith: Alone

A warbler (In the sedge a tiny song) (from Bells and Grass: A Book of Rhymes) - P. Harrison [x] *
A--Apple Pie (Little Pollie Pillikins) (from Bells and Grass: A Book of Rhymes) - C. Gibbs [x] *
A-Tishoo (Sneeze, Pretty, sneeze, Dainty ) (from Songs of Childhood)
C. Gibbs: A-Tishoo

Abode (The abode of the nightingale is bare) (from Motley and Other Poems) - J. White
Absalom (Vain, proud, rebellious Prince) (from Memory and Other Poems) - D. Wickens [x] *
Afraid (Here lies, but seven years old, our little maid) - L. Berkeley *
After the songless rose of evening (from Motley and Other Poems)
O. Mase: The unchanging

Ahoy, and ahoy! 'Twixt mocking and merry (from Peacock Pie: A Book of Rhymes)
C. Gibbs: The changeling

Alas, alack! (Ann, Ann! Come quick as you can! ) (from Peacock Pie: A Book of Rhymes) - G. Bachlund, B. Crist, J. Emeléus, T. Greaves, R. Greene, H. Howells
Alexander (It was the Great Alexander) (from The Sunken Garden and Other Poems) - I. Gurney
Alice Hew (Sleep sound, Mistress Hew!) (from Ding Dong Bell) - C. Le Fleming [x] *
Alice Rodd (Here lyeth our infant, Alice Rodd) (from Ding Dong Bell) - T. Chanler [x] *
All that's past (Very old are the woods ) - G. Bachlund, L. Berkeley, F. Bontoft, D. Elwyn-Edwards, G. Garrett, I. Gurney, A. Roper
All winter through I bow my head (from The Listeners and Other Poems)
C. Gibbs, D. Smith: The scarecrow

Alone (The abode of the nightingale is bare) (from Motley and Other Poems)
J. White: Abode

Alone (A very old woman lives in yon house) (from The Listeners and Other Poems) - P. McIntyre, D. Smith
Alone - J. Brown [x]
An epitaph (Here lies a most beautiful lady ) (from The Listeners and Other Poems) - I. Gurney, D. Barlow, M. Besly, J. Duarte, A. Hoggett, J. Koch, M. Mulliner, M. Sheldon, D. Stone
An Introduction (Jemima is my name) (from Peacock Pie: A Book of Rhymes) - H. McKinney
An ominous bird sang from its branch (from The Listeners and Other Poems)
I. Gurney: Beware!

Andy Battle (Once and there was a young sailor, yeo ho! ) (from The Three Mulla-Mulgars) - C. Gibbs
Ann, Ann! Come quick as you can! (from Peacock Pie: A Book of Rhymes)
G. Bachlund, B. Crist, J. Emeléus, T. Greaves, R. Greene, H. Howells: Alas, alack!

Ann Poverty (Stranger, here lies) (from Ding Dong Bell) - T. Chanler *
Annie has run to the mill dam (from Bells and Grass: A Book of Rhymes) [x] *
J. Brown, P. Harrison: Dreamland

Ann's Cradle Song (Now silent falls the clacking mill) - C. Gibbs
Another Spring (What though the first pure snowdrop wilt and die) - L. Berkeley *
Applecumjockably, blindfold eye! (from Bells and Grass: A Book of Rhymes) [x] *
P. Harrison: Blindman's In

Arabia (Far are the shades of Arabia) (from The Listeners and Other Poems) - W. Browne
Araby (Dark-browed Sailor, tell me now) - C. Gibbs, M. Hurd
Are you far away? (from The Veil and Other Poems) [x]
E. Deale: The familiar

As I lay awake in the white moonlight (from Songs of Childhood)
F. Keel: Sleepy head

As I mused by the hearthside (from The Fleeting and Other Poems) [x] *
E. Allam: Comfort

As I sat musing by the frozen dyke (from Peacock Pie: A Book of Rhymes)
F. Austin, C. Gibbs: A song of soldiers
L. Berkeley: The song of the soldiers
C. Hely-Hutchinson, D. Holman, P. McIntyre, W. Webber: The song of soldiers
F. Swain: Song of the soldiers

As Lucy went a-walking (As Lucy went a-walking one morning cold and fine) (from Songs of Childhood) - C. Gibbs
As Lucy went a-walking one morning cold and fine (from Songs of Childhood)
C. Gibbs: As Lucy went a-walking

As we sailed out of London River (As we sailed out of London River) (from Bells and Grass: A Book of Rhymes) - H. Sykes [x] *
As we sailed out of London River (from Bells and Grass: A Book of Rhymes) [x] *
M. Hurd, M. Hurd: Sailor's Song
H. Sykes: As we sailed out of London River

Autumn (There is a wind where the rose was ) - B. Britten, M. Herbert, J. Langley, R. Milford, M. Gideon
Away (There is no sorrow) (from Memory and Other Poems) - R. Fleming [x] *
Be gentle, O hands of a child (Be gentle, O hands of a child) (from The Listeners and Other Poems) - V. Galway
Be gentle, O hands of a child (from The Listeners and Other Poems)
W. Buczynski, G. Garrett: Dreams
V. Galway: Be gentle, O hands of a child

Be very quiet now (Be very quiet now) (from Ding Dong Bell) - T. Chanler [x] *
Be very quiet now (from Ding Dong Bell) [x] *
T. Chanler: Be very quiet now

Beggar's song (Now all the roads to London town ) - C. Gibbs [x]
Behind the blinds I sit and watch (from Peacock Pie: A Book of Rhymes)
C. Hely-Hutchinson, E. Allam, E. Belchamber: The window

Beware! (An ominous bird sang from its branch) (from The Listeners and Other Poems) - I. Gurney
Blackbirds (In April, when these orchards blow) (from Bells and Grass: A Book of Rhymes) - M. Bruce [x] *
Blindman's In (Applecumjockably, blindfold eye!) (from Bells and Grass: A Book of Rhymes) - P. Harrison [x] *
Bluebells (Where the bluebells and the wind are) (from Songs of Childhood) - C. Gibbs, E. Dent
Bonum Omen (As we sailed out of London River) (from Bells and Grass: A Book of Rhymes) [x] *
M. Hurd, M. Hurd: Sailor's Song
H. Sykes: As we sailed out of London River

Bread and cherries (Cherries, ripe cherries!" the old woman cried ) (from Peacock Pie: A Book of Rhymes) - I. Gurney, J. Rogers
Bubble, bubble (from The Three Mulla-Mulgars) [x]
G. Peterkin: Song of the Water Maiden

Bunches of grapes (Bunches of grapes, says Timothy) (from Songs of Childhood) - I. Armitage, E. Bullock, C. Gibbs, H. Howells, F. Keel, P. Wilkinson, D. Pitcher
Bunches of grapes, says Timothy (from Songs of Childhood)
C. Forsyth: Says Jane
I. Armitage, E. Bullock, C. Gibbs, H. Howells, F. Keel, P. Wilkinson, D. Pitcher: Bunches of grapes

Cake and Sack (Old King Caraway supped on cake ) (from Peacock Pie: A Book of Rhymes) - T. Chanler
Candle, candle, burning clear (from Bells and Grass: A Book of Rhymes) [x] *
T. Pitfield: The House of Dream

Candlestickmaker's song (Listen, I who love thee well ) - C. Gibbs
Captain Lean (Out of the East a hurricane) (from Songs of Childhood) - C. Gibbs
Cherries, ripe cherries!" the old woman cried (from Peacock Pie: A Book of Rhymes)
I. Gurney, J. Rogers: Bread and cherries

Clouded with snow the cold winds blow (from The Listeners and Other Poems)
E. Cone, D. Stone, G. Bachlund: Winter

Come! said Old Shellover (from Peacock Pie: A Book of Rhymes)
T. Chanler, C. Gibbs: Old Shellover

Come! (From an island of the sea) - D. Arditti *
Come--Gone (Gone the snowdrop -- comes the crocus) (from Bells and Grass: A Book of Rhymes) - T. Greaves [x] *
Comfort (As I mused by the hearthside) (from The Fleeting and Other Poems) - E. Allam [x] *
Courage (O heart, hold thee secure) (from Memory and Other Poems) - R. Fleming [x] *
Crazed (I know a pool where nightshade preens) (from Flora: A Book of Drawings) - R. Greene [x] *
Dame Hickory (Dame Hickory, Dame Hickory) (from Songs of Childhood) - C. Gibbs
Dame Hickory, Dame Hickory (from Songs of Childhood)
C. Gibbs: Dame Hickory

Dark is the night (from Motley and Other Poems)
B. Britten: Vigil

Dark-browed Sailor, tell me now
C. Gibbs, M. Hurd: Araby

Dear delight (Youngling fair, and dear delight ) - M. Head
Dearest, it was a night
G. Finzi: The birthnight

Dim-berried is the mistletoe (Dim-berried is the mistletoe ) - A. Benjamin
Dim-berried is the mistletoe
A. Benjamin: Dim-berried is the mistletoe

Do diddle di do, poor Jim Jay (from Peacock Pie: A Book of Rhymes)
B. Crist: Jim Jay

Done for (Old Ben Bailey) (from Bells and Grass: A Book of Rhymes) - R. Fiske [x] *
Down the Hill of Ludgate (from Peacock Pie: A Book of Rhymes)
J. Brown: Up and down

Down-adown-derry (Down-adown-derry, sweet Annie Maroon) (from Songs of Childhood) - C. Gibbs
Down-adown-derry, sweet Annie Maroon (from Songs of Childhood)
C. Gibbs: Down-adown-derry

Dream-song (Sunlight, moonlight, twilight, starlight) (from Peacock Pie: A Book of Rhymes) - D. Carty, C. Hely-Hutchinson, W. Miessner, A. Milner, H. Roberton, E. Stringham, W. Whittaker, C. Gibbs
Dreamland (Annie has run to the mill dam) (from Bells and Grass: A Book of Rhymes) - J. Brown, P. Harrison [x] *
Dreams (Be gentle, O hands of a child) (from The Listeners and Other Poems) - W. Buczynski, G. Garrett
Earth folk (The cat she walks on padded claws) (from Peacock Pie: A Book of Rhymes) - R. Greene
Echo (Seven sweet notes) (from Bells and Grass: A Book of Rhymes) - J. Brown, P. Harrison, E. Hugh-Jones [x] *
Echo ("Who called?" I said, and the words) - D. Wickens
Echoes (The sea laments ) (from Poems for Children) - R. Housman [x] *
Eeka, Neeka (Eeka, Neeka, Leeka, Lea) (from Bells and Grass: A Book of Rhymes) - C. Gibbs, P. Harrison [x] *
Eeka, Neeka, Leeka, Lea (from Bells and Grass: A Book of Rhymes) [x] *
C. Gibbs, P. Harrison: Eeka, Neeka

England (No lovelier hills than thine have laid ) - D. Arditti, O. Mase, B. Rodewald
Epitaph (Here lies a most beautiful lady ) (from The Listeners and Other Poems) - R. Housman
Ere my heart beats too coldly and faintly (from Peacock Pie: A Book of Rhymes)
A. Shepherd: Truants

Ever, ever (from Bells and Grass: A Book of Rhymes) [x] *
P. Harrison, C. Gibbs: Why?

Exile (Had the gods loved me I had lain) (from The Listeners and Other Poems)
C. Gibbs: The exile

Far are the shades of Arabia (from The Listeners and Other Poems)
W. Browne: Arabia

Fare well (When I lie where shades of darkness) (from The Sunken Garden and Other Poems) - J. Baber, E. Cone, I. Gurney, R. Holloway
Finger on lip I ever stand (from Ding Dong Bell) [x] *
C. Le Fleming: A boy

Five Eyes (In Hans' old Mill his three black cats ) (from Peacock Pie: A Book of Rhymes) - C. Gibbs, C. Gibbs, B. Crist, A. Kent, H. Roberton
Fol dol do (Fol dol do, and a south wind a-blowing O) - C. Gibbs [x]
Fol dol do, and a south wind a-blowing O [x]
C. Gibbs: Fol dol do

For every sip the Hen says grace (from Bells and Grass: A Book of Rhymes) [x] *
C. Gibbs: Grace

From an island of the sea *
D. Arditti: Come!

From height of noon [x]
J. Weinzweig: The enchanted hill

From his cradle in the glamourie (from Peacock Pie: A Book of Rhymes)
P. Young: Peak and Puke

Full moon (One night as Dick lay half asleep ) (from Peacock Pie: A Book of Rhymes) - G. Bachlund, E. Allam, L. Berkeley, H. Howells, W. Wordsworth
Gold locks, and black locks (from Peacock Pie: A Book of Rhymes)
C. Gibbs: The barber's

Gone (Where's the Queen of Sheba?) (from Bells and Grass: A Book of Rhymes) - G. Cockshott [x] *
Gone the snowdrop -- comes the crocus (from Bells and Grass: A Book of Rhymes) [x] *
T. Greaves: Come--Gone

Grace (For every sip the Hen says grace) (from Bells and Grass: A Book of Rhymes) - C. Gibbs [x] *
Had the gods loved me I had lain (from The Listeners and Other Poems)
C. Gibbs: The exile

Hark! is that a horn I hear (from Songs of Childhood)
C. Gibbs, K. Richards: The horn
A. Butterworth: Hark! is that a horn I hear

Hark! is that a horn I hear (Hark! is that a horn I hear) (from Songs of Childhood) - A. Butterworth
Has anybody seen my Mopser? (from Peacock Pie: A Book of Rhymes)
J. Emeléus, T. Greaves: The bandog

Have you been catching fish, Tom Noddy (from Peacock Pie: A Book of Rhymes)
B. Britten, F. Swain: Tit for tat

Here am I [x] *
M. Hurd: The guy
T. Greaves: Please to remember

Here is a sea-legged sailor (from Peacock Pie: A Book of Rhymes)
M. Hurd: The picture

Here lies a most beautiful lady (Here lies a most beautiful lady ) (from The Listeners and Other Poems) - G. Cockshott
Here lies a most beautiful lady (from The Listeners and Other Poems)
R. Housman: Epitaph
E. Deale: The Lady of the West Country
I. Gurney, D. Barlow, M. Besly, J. Duarte, A. Hoggett, J. Koch, M. Mulliner, M. Sheldon, D. Stone: An epitaph
G. Cockshott: Here lies a most beautiful lady

Here lies, but seven years old, our little maid *
L. Berkeley: Afraid

Here lies my husbands: One, Two Three (from Ding Dong Bell) [x] *
T. Chanler: Three Husbands (Epitaph no. 9)

Here lies Thomas Logge -- a rascally dogge (from Ding Dong Bell) [x] *
T. Chanler: Thomas Logge

Here lyeth our infant, Alice Rodd (from Ding Dong Bell) [x] *
T. Chanler: Alice Rodd

Here sleep I (from Ding Dong Bell) [x] *
T. Chanler: Susannah Fry

Hide and seek (Hide and seek, says the Wind ) (from Peacock Pie: A Book of Rhymes) - G. Bachlund, J. Brown, J. Emeléus, C. Gibbs, H. McKinney, A. Milner, E. Rose
Hide and seek, says the Wind (from Peacock Pie: A Book of Rhymes)
G. Bachlund, J. Brown, J. Emeléus, C. Gibbs, H. McKinney, A. Milner, E. Rose: Hide and seek

His brow is seamed with line and scar (from Songs of Childhood)
W. Buczynski: A portrait of a warrior

Hithery, hethery -- I love best (from Poems for Children) [x] *
C. Parry: The four brothers

Horizon to horizon (Horizon to horizon) (from The Veil and Other Poems) - J. Coulthard [x]
Horizon to horizon (from The Veil and Other Poems) [x]
J. Coulthard: Horizon to horizon

How do the days press on, and lay (from The Sunken Garden and Other Poems)
K. Richards: The flight

How large unto the tiny fly (from Songs of Childhood)
E. Belchamber: The fly

How often, these hours (from Memory and Other Poems) [x] *
J. Brown: The dove

I can't abear (I can't abear a butcher ) (from Peacock Pie: A Book of Rhymes) - B. Crist
I can't abear a butcher (from Peacock Pie: A Book of Rhymes)
B. Crist: I can't abear

I had a silver buckle (from Songs of Childhood)
A. Bliss, E. Leigh, H. Piggott: The buckle

I know a little cupboard (from Peacock Pie: A Book of Rhymes)
G. Bachlund, V. Harris, C. Hely-Hutchinson, E. Leigh, H. McKinney, W. Miessner, A. Milner, D. Moore, D. Parke, M. Strong: The cupboard

I know a pool where nightshade preens (from Flora: A Book of Drawings) [x] *
R. Greene: Crazed

I met at eve (I met at eve the Prince of sleep) GER *
E. Elgar: The prince of sleep

I met at eve the Prince of sleep GER *
E. Elgar: The prince of sleep

I saw the lovely arch (from Songs of Childhood)
B. Britten: The rainbow

I spied John Mouldy in his cellar (from Songs of Childhood)
C. Gibbs, F. Keel, T. Pitfield, H. Stevens, W. Veitch, C. Winn: John Mouldy

I supped where bloomed the red red rose (from Bells and Grass: A Book of Rhymes) [x] *
P. Harrison, J. Brown: Supper

I watched the Lady Caroline (I watched the Lady Caroline) (from Songs of Childhood) - J. Duke
I watched the Lady Caroline (from Songs of Childhood)
A. Bliss: Lovelocks
J. Duke: I watched the Lady Caroline

If I were Lord of Tartary (If I were Lord of Tartary) (from Songs of Childhood) - G. Bantock
If I were Lord of Tartary (from Songs of Childhood)
G. Bantock: If I were Lord of Tartary
H. Stevens: Lord of Tartary
E. Allam: Tartary

In April, when these orchards blow (from Bells and Grass: A Book of Rhymes) [x] *
M. Bruce: Blackbirds

In Hans' old Mill his three black cats (from Peacock Pie: A Book of Rhymes)
C. Gibbs, C. Gibbs, B. Crist, A. Kent, H. Roberton: Five Eyes

In stagnant gloom I toil through day *
L. Berkeley: Poetry

In the black furrow of a field (from Songs of Childhood)
A. Bliss: The hare

In the sedge a tiny song (from Bells and Grass: A Book of Rhymes) [x] *
P. Harrison: A warbler

In the woods as I did walk (from The Sunken Garden and Other Poems)
C. Gibbs: The stranger

Into a ship, dreaming (Will he ever be weary of wandering ) (from Peacock Pie: A Book of Rhymes) - B. Crist
Invocation (The burning fire shakes in the night) (from Motley and Other Poems) - R. Osborne
'Is there anybody there?' said the Traveller (from The Listeners and Other Poems)
N. Dello Joio, C. Gibbs, C. Lander, R. Stephenson, L. White, D. Young, J. Beeson: The listeners

Isled in the midnight air
L. Berkeley, P. McIntyre: The moth

It was about the deep of night *
M. Shaw: The Three Traitors

It was the Great Alexander (from The Sunken Garden and Other Poems)
I. Gurney: Alexander

It's a very odd thing (from Peacock Pie: A Book of Rhymes)
G. Bachlund, C. Gibbs, H. Howells, S. Kagen: Miss T.

Jane Eyre's song (You take my heart with tears) - C. Gibbs
Jemima is my name (from Peacock Pie: A Book of Rhymes)
H. McKinney: An Introduction
J. Emeléus: Mima

Jim Jay (Do diddle di do, poor Jim Jay) (from Peacock Pie: A Book of Rhymes) - B. Crist
John Mouldy (I spied John Mouldy in his cellar) (from Songs of Childhood) - C. Gibbs, F. Keel, T. Pitfield, H. Stevens, W. Veitch, C. Winn
Just a span and half a span (from Ding Dong Bell) [x] *
T. Chanler, C. Le Fleming: A midget

King Caraway (Old King Caraway supped on cake ) (from Peacock Pie: A Book of Rhymes) - F. Swain
King David (King David was a sorrowful man ) (from Peacock Pie: A Book of Rhymes) - H. Howells, C. Gibbs, M. Hurd, C. Proctor, F. Swain
King David was a sorrowful man (from Peacock Pie: A Book of Rhymes)
H. Howells, C. Gibbs, M. Hurd, C. Proctor, F. Swain: King David

Last night (Last night, as I sat here alone) - R. Field [x] *
Last night, as I sat here alone [x] *
R. Field: Last night

Leans now the fair willow [x]
E. Cone, J. Schmidt: The willow

Listen, I who love thee well
C. Gibbs: Candlestickmaker's song
D. Arditti: The Flower

Little Pollie Pillikins (from Bells and Grass: A Book of Rhymes) [x] *
C. Gibbs: A--Apple Pie

London River (As we sailed out of London River) (from Bells and Grass: A Book of Rhymes) - M. Hurd [x] *
Long-idling spring may come [x] *
E. Cone: Why, then comes in

Lord of Tartary (If I were Lord of Tartary) (from Songs of Childhood) - H. Stevens
Lorelei's Song (Pilgrim forget; in this dark tide) - C. Gibbs
Love in the almond bough (Love in the almond bough buildeth his nest ) - C. Gibbs [x]
Love in the almond bough buildeth his nest [x]
C. Gibbs: Love in the almond bough

Lovelocks (I watched the Lady Caroline) (from Songs of Childhood) - A. Bliss
Lullaby (Sleep, lovely white soul ) (from Songs of Childhood) - C. Gibbs
Mary (Mary! Mary! Mary!) (from Bells and Grass: A Book of Rhymes) - E. Leigh [x] *
Mary! Mary! Mary! (from Bells and Grass: A Book of Rhymes) [x] *
E. Leigh: Mary

Me who have sailèd (from The Three Mulla-Mulgars) [x]
G. Peterkin: She's me forgot

Melmillo (Three and thirty birds there stood) (from Peacock Pie: A Book of Rhymes) - C. Carey, H. Farjeon, C. Gibbs, S. Liddle
Mima (Jemima is my name) (from Peacock Pie: A Book of Rhymes) - J. Emeléus
Miss Cherry (Once -- once I loved) (from Bells and Grass: A Book of Rhymes) - R. Fiske [x] *
Miss T. (It's a very odd thing ) (from Peacock Pie: A Book of Rhymes) - G. Bachlund, C. Gibbs, H. Howells, S. Kagen
Mistletoe (Sitting under the mistletoe ) (from Peacock Pie: A Book of Rhymes) - C. Gibbs, L. Berkeley, B. Crist, E. Lodge, L. Pattison
Mistress Fell (Whom seek you here, sweet Mistress Fell?) (from The Sunken Garden and Other Poems) - B. Burrows
Monkeys in a forest (from Bells and Grass: A Book of Rhymes) [x] *
P. Harrison, J. Brown, C. Gibbs: Where

Moonlight (The far moon maketh lovers wise) (from Motley and Other Poems) - F. Brinkworth
Mother Carey (Sing a lo lay) - C. Gibbs [x]
Mr. Punch (A screech across the sands) [x] *
M. Hurd: Mr. Punch

Mrs. MacQueen (With glass like a bull's-eye) (from Peacock Pie: A Book of Rhymes) - C. Hand, H. Howells
Mrs. MacQueen or the Lollie-Shop (With glass like a bull's-eye) (from Peacock Pie: A Book of Rhymes)
C. Hand, H. Howells: Mrs. MacQueen

Music (When music sounds, gone is the earth I know ) (from The Sunken Garden and Other Poems) - G. Bachlund, D. Murray, G. Read, E. Smith
Music unheard (Sweet sounds, begone) (from The Listeners and Other Poems) - D. Wickens
My dear Daddie bought a mansion (from Peacock Pie: A Book of Rhymes)
B. Crist: The little bird

Never more, sailor (Never more, Sailor) (from The Listeners and Other Poems) - G. Peterkin
Never more, Sailor (from The Listeners and Other Poems)
G. Peterkin: Never more, sailor

Nicholas Nye (Thistle and darnell and dock grew there) (from Peacock Pie: A Book of Rhymes) - D. Dorward, L. Hughes-Jones
Nicoletta (Oh, my pretty Nicoletta) (from Bells and Grass: A Book of Rhymes) - E. Allam, P. Harrison [x] *
Nigger-boy Sambo who scours the pots (from Bells and Grass: A Book of Rhymes) [x] *
P. Harrison: Sambo

Night (That shining moon) (from Memory and Other Poems) - W. Wordsworth [x] *
Nine and ninety monkeys (There was a ship of Rio) (from Peacock Pie: A Book of Rhymes) - V. Campbell, G. Peterkin
Nine feat fiddlers had good Queen Bess (from Songs of Childhood) [x]
A. Shepherd: The fiddlers

No breath of wind *
R. Parfrey: Snow
M. Bruce: The snow

No jewel (No jewel from the rock) (from Bells and Grass: A Book of Rhymes) - P. Harrison [x] *
No jewel from the rock (from Bells and Grass: A Book of Rhymes) [x] *
P. Harrison: No jewel

No lovelier hills than thine have laid
D. Arditti, O. Mase, B. Rodewald: England

No one was in the fields (from The Fleeting and Other Poems) [x] *
E. Deale: Tom's angel

No voice to scold - T. Chanler [x]
No voices to scold (No voices to scold) (from Ding Dong Bell) - T. Chanler [x] *
No voices to scold (from Ding Dong Bell) [x] *
T. Chanler: No voices to scold

Nod (Softly along the road of evening ) (from The Listeners and Other Poems) - C. Gibbs, D. Ford, S. Harmati, V. Harris, R. Housman, D. Smith, J. Tobin
Nothing on the grey roof, nothing on the brown (from Peacock Pie: A Book of Rhymes)
A. Milner, H. Roberton: The old stone house

Now all the roads to London town [x]
C. Gibbs: Beggar's song

Now silent falls (Now silent falls the clacking mill)
C. Gibbs: Ann's Cradle Song

Now silent falls the clacking mill
C. Gibbs: Ann's Cradle Song

O heart, hold thee secure (from Memory and Other Poems) [x] *
R. Fleming: Courage

O starry face [x] *
N. Auerbach: The vision

Of all the trees in England (Of all the trees in England) (from Peacock Pie: A Book of Rhymes) - H. Roberton
Of all the trees in England (from Peacock Pie: A Book of Rhymes)
C. Hely-Hutchinson: Trees
C. Wood: The trees in England
H. Roberton: Of all the trees in England

Off the ground (Three jolly Farmers once bet a pound ) (from Peacock Pie: A Book of Rhymes) - A. Flay, C. Gibbs
Oh, my pretty Nicoletta (from Bells and Grass: A Book of Rhymes) [x] *
E. Allam, P. Harrison: Nicoletta

Old Ben Bailey (from Bells and Grass: A Book of Rhymes) [x] *
R. Fiske: Done for

Old King Caraway (Old King Caraway supped on cake ) (from Peacock Pie: A Book of Rhymes) - A. Milner, W. Whittaker
Old King Caraway supped on cake (from Peacock Pie: A Book of Rhymes)
A. Milner, W. Whittaker: Old King Caraway
F. Swain: King Caraway
T. Chanler: Cake and Sack

Old Shellover (Come! said Old Shellover ) (from Peacock Pie: A Book of Rhymes) - T. Chanler, C. Gibbs
Old Susan (When Susan's work was done she'd sit) (from The Listeners and Other Poems) - D. Smith
Old Tillie Turveycombe sat to sew (from Peacock Pie: A Book of Rhymes)
T. Chanler, M. Hurd, E. Leigh: Tillie

Once -- once I loved (from Bells and Grass: A Book of Rhymes) [x] *
R. Fiske: Miss Cherry

Once and there was a young sailor (Once and there was a young sailor, yeo ho! ) (from The Three Mulla-Mulgars) - G. Peterkin
Once and there was a young sailor, yeo ho! (from The Three Mulla-Mulgars)
C. Gibbs: Andy Battle
G. Peterkin: Once and there was a young sailor

Once was a miller (from Bells and Grass: A Book of Rhymes) [x] *
P. Harrison, C. Gibbs: White

One night as Dick lay half asleep (from Peacock Pie: A Book of Rhymes)
G. Bachlund, E. Allam, L. Berkeley, H. Howells, W. Wordsworth: Full moon

Out of the East a hurricane (from Songs of Childhood)
C. Gibbs: Captain Lean

Over the wintry fields [x] *
E. Cone: Winter evening

Peace in thy hands (from The Listeners and Other Poems)
G. Bachlund, N. Auerbach: The ghost

Peak and Puke (From his cradle in the glamourie) (from Peacock Pie: A Book of Rhymes) - P. Young
Pilgrim forget; in this dark tide
C. Gibbs: Lorelei's Song

Please to remember (Here am I) - T. Greaves [x] *
Poetry (In stagnant gloom I toil through day) - L. Berkeley *
Poor Henry (Thick in its glass the physic stands ) (from Peacock Pie: A Book of Rhymes) - L. Berkeley, G. Bachlund
Poor little Lucy (from Peacock Pie: A Book of Rhymes)
G. Bachlund, A. Milner, J. Turner: The lost shoe

Poor Tired Tim! It's sad for him (from Peacock Pie: A Book of Rhymes)
G. Bachlund, E. Belchamber, B. Crist, D. Faulkner, H. Howells: Tired Tim

Quack (What said the drake to his lady-love) (from Poems 1919-1934) - R. Fleming [x] *
Queen Djenira (When Queen Djenira slumbers through) (from The Listeners and Other Poems) - B. Burrows
Rachel (Rachel sings sweet) (from The Listeners and Other Poems) - L. Berkeley, B. Burrows, P. McIntyre, D. Smith
Rachel sings sweet (from The Listeners and Other Poems)
L. Berkeley, B. Burrows, P. McIntyre, D. Smith: Rachel

Reverie (When slim Sophia mounts her horse) (from Songs of Childhood) - C. Gibbs, F. Keel, A. Shepherd
Rooks in October (They sweep up, crying) (from Memory and Other Poems) [x] *
E. Cone: Rooks in October

Sailorman, I'll give to you (from Songs of Childhood)
C. Gibbs, M. Hurd, D. Stoll: The silver penny

Sailor's Song (As we sailed out of London River) (from Bells and Grass: A Book of Rhymes) - M. Hurd [x] *
Sallie (When Sallie with her pitcher goes) (from Bells and Grass: A Book of Rhymes) - P. Harrison, R. Waters [x] *
Sambo (Nigger-boy Sambo who scours the pots) (from Bells and Grass: A Book of Rhymes) - P. Harrison [x] *
Says Jane (Bunches of grapes, says Timothy) (from Songs of Childhood) - C. Forsyth
See, now, this filigree [x]
N. Auerbach, W. Wordsworth: The snowflake

Seven sweet notes (from Bells and Grass: A Book of Rhymes) [x] *
J. Brown, P. Harrison, E. Hugh-Jones: Echo

Shadow and light both strove to be (from The Listeners and Other Poems)
C. Gibbs: The Bells

Shadows (The horse in the field ) (from Bells and Grass: A Book of Rhymes) - R. Stoker [x] *
She's me forgot (Me who have sailèd) (from The Three Mulla-Mulgars) - G. Peterkin [x]
Sighs have no skill (Sighs have no skill) - P. Fricker
Sighs have no skill
P. Fricker: Sighs have no skill

Silence (With changeful sound life beats upon the ear) (from The Listeners and Other Poems) - E. Goossens
Silver (Slowly, silently, now the moon) (from Peacock Pie: A Book of Rhymes) - B. Britten, J. Duke, C. Gibbs, J. Koch, A. Rosser, G. Bachlund, V. Archer, L. Berkeley, W. Buczynski, A. Butterworth, J. Emeléus, H. Farjeon, H. Greenhill, C. Hand, V. Harris, C. Hely-Hutchinson, A. Milner, R. Redman, N. Saunders, E. Smith, W. Vosper, V. Weigl, D. Young, D. Zanders, M. Horder
Sing a lo lay [x]
C. Gibbs: Mother Carey

Sitting under the mistletoe (from Peacock Pie: A Book of Rhymes)
C. Gibbs, L. Berkeley, B. Crist, E. Lodge, L. Pattison: Mistletoe

Sleep, lovely white soul (from Songs of Childhood)
C. Gibbs: Lullaby

Sleep sound, Mistress Hew! (from Ding Dong Bell) [x] *
C. Le Fleming: Alice Hew

Sleepy head (As I lay awake in the white moonlight) (from Songs of Childhood) - F. Keel
Slowly, silently, now the moon (Slowly, silently, now the moon) (from Peacock Pie: A Book of Rhymes) - A. Shepherd
Slowly, silently, now the moon (from Peacock Pie: A Book of Rhymes)
A. Shepherd: Slowly, silently, now the moon
B. Britten, J. Duke, C. Gibbs, J. Koch, A. Rosser, G. Bachlund, V. Archer, L. Berkeley, W. Buczynski, A. Butterworth, J. Emeléus, H. Farjeon, H. Greenhill, C. Hand, V. Harris, C. Hely-Hutchinson, A. Milner, R. Redman, N. Saunders, E. Smith, W. Vosper, V. Weigl, D. Young, D. Zanders, M. Horder: Silver

Sneeze, Pretty, sneeze, Dainty (from Songs of Childhood)
C. Gibbs: A-Tishoo

Snow (No breath of wind) - R. Parfrey *
Softly along the road of evening (Softly along the road of evening ) (from The Listeners and Other Poems) - H. Davies, S. Lekberg, A. Shepherd
Softly along the road of evening (from The Listeners and Other Poems)
H. Davies, S. Lekberg, A. Shepherd: Softly along the road of evening
C. Gibbs, D. Ford, S. Harmati, V. Harris, R. Housman, D. Smith, J. Tobin: Nod

Solitude - E. Hugh-Jones [x]
Some one (Some one came knocking ) (from Peacock Pie: A Book of Rhymes) - G. Bachlund, S. Adler, V. Archer, M. Besly, B. Crist, N. Swift, R. Thompson
Some one came knocking (from Peacock Pie: A Book of Rhymes)
G. Bachlund, S. Adler, V. Archer, M. Besly, B. Crist, N. Swift, R. Thompson: Some one

Some one is always sitting there (from Peacock Pie: A Book of Rhymes)
C. Gibbs, H. Farjeon, F. Keel: The little green orchard

Song of shadows (Sweep thy faint strings, Musician ) (from Peacock Pie: A Book of Rhymes) - I. Fischer
Song of the secret (Where is beauty? ) (from Peacock Pie: A Book of Rhymes) - G. Bachlund
Song of the soldiers (As I sat musing by the frozen dyke) (from Peacock Pie: A Book of Rhymes) - F. Swain
Song of the Water Maiden (Bubble, bubble) (from The Three Mulla-Mulgars) - G. Peterkin [x]
Sorcery (What voice is that I hear)
A. Butterworth: What voice is that I hear

Speak not -- whisper not (from The Sunken Garden and Other Poems)
C. Gibbs: The sunken garden

Still, and blanched, and cold, and lone (from The Listeners and Other Poems)
C. Gibbs: The mountains

Stranger, here lies (from Ding Dong Bell) *
T. Chanler: Ann Poverty

Sunlight, moonlight, twilight, starlight (from Peacock Pie: A Book of Rhymes)
D. Carty, C. Hely-Hutchinson, W. Miessner, A. Milner, H. Roberton, E. Stringham, W. Whittaker, C. Gibbs: Dream-song

Supper (I supped where bloomed the red red rose) (from Bells and Grass: A Book of Rhymes) - P. Harrison, J. Brown [x] *
Susannah Fry (Here sleep I) (from Ding Dong Bell) - T. Chanler [x] *
Sweep thy faint strings, Musician (from Peacock Pie: A Book of Rhymes)
G. Bachlund, C. Gibbs, F. Keel, D. Pedley, W. Whittaker, W. Wordsworth: The song of shadows
P. Young: The song of the shadows
J. Bennett, I. Boyle, G. Gwyther, S. Liddle: A song of shadows
I. Fischer: Song of shadows

Sweet sounds, begone (Sweet sounds, begone) (from The Listeners and Other Poems) - C. Gibbs
Sweet sounds, begone (from The Listeners and Other Poems)
D. Wickens: Music unheard
C. Gibbs: Sweet sounds, begone

Take heed, young heart (Take heed, young heart, to Time) - C. Gibbs *
Take heed, young heart, to Time *
C. Gibbs: Take heed, young heart

Tartary (If I were Lord of Tartary) (from Songs of Childhood) - E. Allam
Tell me, tell me, unknown stranger [x]
C. Gibbs, G. Peterkin: The galliass

That shining moon (from Memory and Other Poems) [x] *
W. Wordsworth: Night

That wooden hive between the trees [x] *
R. Milford: The garden

The abode of the nightingale is bare (from Motley and Other Poems)
J. White: Abode

The bandog (Has anybody seen my Mopser?) (from Peacock Pie: A Book of Rhymes) - J. Emeléus, T. Greaves
The barber's (Gold locks, and black locks) (from Peacock Pie: A Book of Rhymes) - C. Gibbs
The bees' song (Thousandz of thornz there be) (from Peacock Pie: A Book of Rhymes) - C. Gibbs, R. Greene, C. Hely-Hutchinson, S. Liddle, A. Milner, G. Peterkin, F. Keel
The Bells (Shadow and light both strove to be ) (from The Listeners and Other Poems) - C. Gibbs
The birthnight (Dearest, it was a night ) - G. Finzi
The buckle (I had a silver buckle) (from Songs of Childhood) - A. Bliss, E. Leigh, H. Piggott
The burning fire shakes in the night (from Motley and Other Poems)
R. Osborne: Invocation

The cat she walks on padded claws (from Peacock Pie: A Book of Rhymes)
R. Greene: Earth folk

The changeling (Ahoy, and ahoy! 'Twixt mocking and merry) (from Peacock Pie: A Book of Rhymes) - C. Gibbs
The cupboard (I know a little cupboard ) (from Peacock Pie: A Book of Rhymes) - G. Bachlund, V. Harris, C. Hely-Hutchinson, E. Leigh, H. McKinney, W. Miessner, A. Milner, D. Moore, D. Parke, M. Strong
The doctor's song (The goodman said 'tis time for bed) - C. Gibbs
The dove (How often, these hours) (from Memory and Other Poems) - J. Brown [x] *
The dunce (Why does he still keep ticking?) (from Peacock Pie: A Book of Rhymes) - E. Belchamber, H. Howells
The enchanted hill (From height of noon) - J. Weinzweig [x]
The exile (Had the gods loved me I had lain) (from The Listeners and Other Poems) - C. Gibbs
The familiar (Are you far away? ) (from The Veil and Other Poems) - E. Deale [x]
The far moon maketh lovers wise (from Motley and Other Poems)
F. Brinkworth: Moonlight

The feather (A feather, a feather) (from Bells and Grass: A Book of Rhymes) - C. Parry [x] *
The feckless dinner-party (Who are we waiting for?) (from The Fleeting and Other Poems) - R. Holloway [x] *
The fiddlers (Nine feat fiddlers had good Queen Bess) (from Songs of Childhood) - A. Shepherd [x]
The fleeting (The late wind failed) (from Poems for Children) - L. Berkeley, W. Wordsworth [x] *
The flight (How do the days press on, and lay) (from The Sunken Garden and Other Poems) - K. Richards
The Flower (Listen, I who love thee well ) - D. Arditti
The flower (Horizon to horizon) (from The Veil and Other Poems) [x]
J. Coulthard: Horizon to horizon

The flowers of the field (from The Listeners and Other Poems)
G. Garrett: The hawthorn hath a deathly smell

The fly (How large unto the tiny fly) (from Songs of Childhood) - E. Belchamber
The four brothers (Hithery, hethery -- I love best) (from Poems for Children) - C. Parry [x] *
The galliass (Tell me, tell me, unknown stranger ) - C. Gibbs, G. Peterkin [x]
The garden (That wooden hive between the trees) - R. Milford [x] *
The ghost (Peace in thy hands) (from The Listeners and Other Poems) - G. Bachlund, N. Auerbach
The ghost - I. Gurney [x]
The ghost ("Who knocks?" -- "I, who was beautiful) (from Motley and Other Poems) - P. Tauber
The gnomies (As I lay awake in the white moonlight) (from Songs of Childhood)
F. Keel: Sleepy head

The goodman said 'tis time for bed
C. Gibbs: The doctor's song

The guy (Here am I) - M. Hurd [x] *
The hare (In the black furrow of a field) (from Songs of Childhood) - A. Bliss
The hawthorn hath a deathly smell (The flowers of the field) (from The Listeners and Other Poems) - G. Garrett
The holly - M. Horder [x] *
The horn (Hark! is that a horn I hear) (from Songs of Childhood) - C. Gibbs, K. Richards
The horse in the field (from Bells and Grass: A Book of Rhymes) [x] *
R. Stoker: Shadows

The House of Dream (Candle, candle, burning clear) (from Bells and Grass: A Book of Rhymes) - T. Pitfield [x] *
The huntsmen (Three jolly gentlemen) (from Peacock Pie: A Book of Rhymes) - G. Bachlund, M. Bartholomew, J. Brown, J. Emeléus, C. Gibbs, C. Hely-Hutchinson, A. O'Murnaghan
The Lady of the West Country (Here lies a most beautiful lady ) (from The Listeners and Other Poems) - E. Deale
The late wind failed (from Poems for Children) [x] *
L. Berkeley, W. Wordsworth: The fleeting

The linnet (Upon this leafy bush) (from Motley and Other Poems) - C. Gibbs, E. Leigh, K. Leighton, P. Naylor, M. Horder
The listeners ('Is there anybody there?' said the Traveller) (from The Listeners and Other Poems) - N. Dello Joio, C. Gibbs, C. Lander, R. Stephenson, L. White, D. Young, J. Beeson
The little bird (My dear Daddie bought a mansion) (from Peacock Pie: A Book of Rhymes) - B. Crist
The little creature (Twinkum, twankum, twirlum and twitch ) - C. Hand
The little green orchard (Some one is always sitting there) (from Peacock Pie: A Book of Rhymes) - C. Gibbs, H. Farjeon, F. Keel
The little old Cupid ('Twas a very small garden) (from Peacock Pie: A Book of Rhymes) - B. Crist, C. Hely-Hutchinson, H. McKinney
The little salamander (When I go free) (from The Sunken Garden and Other Poems) - C. Gibbs, E. Deale
The lost shoe (Poor little Lucy ) (from Peacock Pie: A Book of Rhymes) - G. Bachlund, A. Milner, J. Turner
The mad prince (Who said 'Peacock Pie' ) (from Peacock Pie: A Book of Rhymes) - C. Gibbs
The mocking fairy (Won't you look out of your window, Mrs. Gill) (from Peacock Pie: A Book of Rhymes) - M. Besly, B. Crist
The moth (Isled in the midnight air) - L. Berkeley, P. McIntyre
The mountains (Still, and blanched, and cold, and lone) (from The Listeners and Other Poems) - C. Gibbs
The night song ('Tis silence on the enchanted lake) (from Songs of Childhood) - C. Gibbs
The night watch - E. Belchamber [x]
The night-swans ('Tis silence on the enchanted lake) (from Songs of Childhood)
C. Gibbs: The night song

The old Pig said to the little pigs (from Peacock Pie: A Book of Rhymes)
J. Emeléus: The pigs and the charcoal-burner

The old sailor (There came an old sailor ) (from Bells and Grass: A Book of Rhymes) - M. Hurd [x] *
The old soldier (There came an Old Soldier to my door) (from Peacock Pie: A Book of Rhymes) - B. Crist, D. Dushkin, C. Gibbs, C. Hely-Hutchinson, F. Swain
The old stone house (Nothing on the grey roof, nothing on the brown) (from Peacock Pie: A Book of Rhymes) - A. Milner, H. Roberton
The old tailor (There once was an old Tailor) (from Bells and Grass: A Book of Rhymes) - T. Greaves [x] *
The picture (Here is a sea-legged sailor) (from Peacock Pie: A Book of Rhymes) - M. Hurd
The pigs and the charcoal-burner (The old Pig said to the little pigs) (from Peacock Pie: A Book of Rhymes) - J. Emeléus
The portrait of a warrior (His brow is seamed with line and scar) (from Songs of Childhood)
W. Buczynski: A portrait of a warrior

The prince of sleep (I met at eve the Prince of sleep) - E. Elgar GER *
The quartet (Tom sang for joy and Ned sang for joy and old Sam sang for joy) (from Peacock Pie: A Book of Rhymes) - G. Grant-Schaefer
The quartette (Tom sang for joy and Ned sang for joy and old Sam sang for joy) (from Peacock Pie: A Book of Rhymes) - D. Symons
The Queen of Arabia (The Queen of Arabia, Uanjinee) - M. Bartholomew [x]
The Queen of Arabia, Uanjinee [x]
M. Bartholomew: The Queen of Arabia

The rainbow (I saw the lovely arch) (from Songs of Childhood) - B. Britten
The ride-by-nights (Up on their brooms the Witches stream) (from Peacock Pie: A Book of Rhymes) - C. Gibbs, B. Britten, C. Hand, H. Roberton, P. Young
The salamander (When I go free) (from The Sunken Garden and Other Poems)
C. Gibbs, E. Deale: The little salamander

The scarecrow (All winter through I bow my head) (from The Listeners and Other Poems) - C. Gibbs, D. Smith
The scent of bramble fills the air (from Songs of Childhood)
C. Gibbs, C. Gibbs: The sleeping beauty

The scribe (What lovely things ) - I. Gurney, H. Howells
The sea laments (from Poems for Children) [x] *
R. Housman: Echoes

The ship of Rio (There was a ship of Rio) (from Peacock Pie: A Book of Rhymes) - B. Britten, E. Allam, M. Andrews, V. Archer, B. Crist, B. Daubney, D. Dushkin, C. Gibbs, T. Greaves, A. Jacob, A. Milner, M. Rose, E. Smith
The silver penny (Sailorman, I'll give to you) (from Songs of Childhood) - C. Gibbs, M. Hurd, D. Stoll
The sleeping beauty (The scent of bramble fills the air ) (from Songs of Childhood) - C. Gibbs, C. Gibbs
The snow (No breath of wind) - M. Bruce *
The snowflake (See, now, this filigree) - N. Auerbach, W. Wordsworth [x]
The song of secret (Where is beauty? ) (from Peacock Pie: A Book of Rhymes) - G. Peterkin
The song of shadows (Sweep thy faint strings, Musician ) (from Peacock Pie: A Book of Rhymes) - G. Bachlund, C. Gibbs, F. Keel, D. Pedley, W. Whittaker, W. Wordsworth
The song of soldiers (As I sat musing by the frozen dyke) (from Peacock Pie: A Book of Rhymes) - C. Hely-Hutchinson, D. Holman, P. McIntyre, W. Webber
The song of the mad prince (Who said 'Peacock Pie' ) (from Peacock Pie: A Book of Rhymes) - I. Anhalt, J. Emeléus
The song of the secret (Where is beauty? ) (from Peacock Pie: A Book of Rhymes)
G. Peterkin: The song of secret
H. Roberton: Where is beauty?
G. Bachlund: Song of the secret

The song of the shadows (Sweep thy faint strings, Musician ) (from Peacock Pie: A Book of Rhymes) - P. Young
The song of the soldiers (As I sat musing by the frozen dyke) (from Peacock Pie: A Book of Rhymes) - L. Berkeley
The stranger (In the woods as I did walk) (from The Sunken Garden and Other Poems) - C. Gibbs
The sunken garden (Speak not -- whisper not) (from The Sunken Garden and Other Poems) - C. Gibbs
The sunken garden (Speak not -- whisper not) (from The Sunken Garden and Other Poems)
C. Gibbs: The sunken garden

The three cherry trees (There were three cherry trees once) (from The Listeners and Other Poems) - E. Dent, H. Johnson
The Three Traitors (It was about the deep of night) - M. Shaw *
The trees in England (Of all the trees in England) (from Peacock Pie: A Book of Rhymes) - C. Wood
The truants (Ere my heart beats too coldly and faintly) (from Peacock Pie: A Book of Rhymes)
A. Shepherd: Truants

The unchanging (After the songless rose of evening) (from Motley and Other Poems) - O. Mase
The vision (O starry face) - N. Auerbach [x] *
The Wanderer (Will he ever be weary of wandering ) (from Peacock Pie: A Book of Rhymes) - C. Gibbs
The willow (Leans now the fair willow) - E. Cone, J. Schmidt [x]
The window (Behind the blinds I sit and watch) (from Peacock Pie: A Book of Rhymes) - C. Hely-Hutchinson, E. Allam, E. Belchamber
Then (Twenty, forty, sixty, eighty ) (from Peacock Pie: A Book of Rhymes) - G. Bachlund, C. Gibbs
There came an old sailor (from Bells and Grass: A Book of Rhymes) [x] *
M. Hurd: The old sailor

There came an Old Soldier to my door (from Peacock Pie: A Book of Rhymes)
B. Crist, D. Dushkin, C. Gibbs, C. Hely-Hutchinson, F. Swain: The old soldier

There is no sorrow (from Memory and Other Poems) [x] *
R. Fleming: Away

There is a wind where the rose was
B. Britten, M. Herbert, J. Langley, R. Milford, M. Gideon: Autumn

There once was an old Tailor (from Bells and Grass: A Book of Rhymes) [x] *
T. Greaves: The old tailor

There was a ship of Rio (from Peacock Pie: A Book of Rhymes)
B. Britten, E. Allam, M. Andrews, V. Archer, B. Crist, B. Daubney, D. Dushkin, C. Gibbs, T. Greaves, A. Jacob, A. Milner, M. Rose, E. Smith: The ship of Rio
V. Campbell, G. Peterkin: Nine and ninety monkeys
T. Chanler, F. Keel: The Ship of Rio

There were three cherry trees once (from The Listeners and Other Poems)
E. Dent, H. Johnson: The three cherry trees

They sweep up, crying (from Memory and Other Poems) [x] *
E. Cone: Rooks in October

Thick in its glass the physic stands (from Peacock Pie: A Book of Rhymes)
L. Berkeley, G. Bachlund: Poor Henry

This feather-soft creature (from Bells and Grass: A Book of Rhymes) [x] *
P. Harrison: A goldfinch

Thistle and darnell and dock grew there (from Peacock Pie: A Book of Rhymes)
D. Dorward, L. Hughes-Jones: Nicholas Nye

Thomas Logge (Here lies Thomas Logge -- a rascally dogge) (from Ding Dong Bell) - T. Chanler [x] *
Thousandz of thornz there be (from Peacock Pie: A Book of Rhymes)
C. Gibbs, R. Greene, C. Hely-Hutchinson, S. Liddle, A. Milner, G. Peterkin, F. Keel: The bees' song

Three and thirty birds there stood (from Peacock Pie: A Book of Rhymes)
C. Carey, H. Farjeon, C. Gibbs, S. Liddle: Melmillo

Three Husbands (Epitaph no. 9) (Here lies my husbands: One, Two Three) (from Ding Dong Bell) - T. Chanler [x] *
Three jolly Farmers once bet a pound (from Peacock Pie: A Book of Rhymes)
A. Flay, C. Gibbs: Off the ground

Three jolly gentlemen (Three jolly gentlemen) (from Peacock Pie: A Book of Rhymes) - A. Bliss, N. Butterworth, H. Roberton, R. Teed
Three jolly gentlemen (from Peacock Pie: A Book of Rhymes)
G. Bachlund, M. Bartholomew, J. Brown, J. Emeléus, C. Gibbs, C. Hely-Hutchinson, A. O'Murnaghan: The huntsmen
A. Bliss, N. Butterworth, H. Roberton, R. Teed: Three jolly gentlemen

Three Sisters (Three sisters rest beneath) (from Ding Dong Bell) - T. Chanler [x] *
Three sisters rest beneath (from Ding Dong Bell) [x] *
C. Le Fleming: Three sisters
T. Chanler: Three Sisters

Tillie (Old Tillie Turveycombe sat to sew) (from Peacock Pie: A Book of Rhymes) - T. Chanler, M. Hurd, E. Leigh
Tired Tim (Poor Tired Tim! It's sad for him ) (from Peacock Pie: A Book of Rhymes) - G. Bachlund, E. Belchamber, B. Crist, D. Faulkner, H. Howells
'Tis silence on the enchanted lake (from Songs of Childhood)
C. Gibbs: The night song

Tit for tat (Have you been catching fish, Tom Noddy ) (from Peacock Pie: A Book of Rhymes) - B. Britten, F. Swain
Tom sang for joy and Ned sang for joy and old Sam sang for joy (from Peacock Pie: A Book of Rhymes)
D. Symons: The quartette
G. Grant-Schaefer: The quartet

Tom's angel (No one was in the fields) (from The Fleeting and Other Poems) [x] *
E. Deale: Tom's angel

Trees (Of all the trees in England) (from Peacock Pie: A Book of Rhymes) - C. Hely-Hutchinson
Truants (Ere my heart beats too coldly and faintly) (from Peacock Pie: A Book of Rhymes) - A. Shepherd
'Twas a very small garden (from Peacock Pie: A Book of Rhymes)
B. Crist, C. Hely-Hutchinson, H. McKinney: The little old Cupid

Twenty, forty, sixty, eighty (from Peacock Pie: A Book of Rhymes)
G. Bachlund, C. Gibbs: Then

Twilight (When to the inward darkness of my mind ) (from The Fleeting and Other Poems) - W. Buczynski *
Twinkum, twankum, twirlum and twitch
C. Hand: The little creature

Two Gardens (Two Gardens see! this of enchanted flowers) - B. Roe
Two Gardens see! this of enchanted flowers
B. Roe: Two Gardens

Up and down (Down the Hill of Ludgate) (from Peacock Pie: A Book of Rhymes) - J. Brown
Up on their brooms the Witches stream (from Peacock Pie: A Book of Rhymes)
C. Gibbs, B. Britten, C. Hand, H. Roberton, P. Young: The ride-by-nights

Upon this leafy bush (from Motley and Other Poems)
C. Gibbs, E. Leigh, K. Leighton, P. Naylor, M. Horder: The linnet

Vain, proud, rebellious Prince (from Memory and Other Poems) [x] *
D. Wickens: Absalom

Very old are the woods
G. Bachlund, L. Berkeley, F. Bontoft, D. Elwyn-Edwards, G. Garrett, I. Gurney, A. Roper: All that's past

Vigil (Dark is the night ) (from Motley and Other Poems) - B. Britten
Voices (Who is it calling by the darkened river)
A. Butterworth: Who is it calling by the darkened rover

Wanderers (Wide are the meadows of night) (from Peacock Pie: A Book of Rhymes) - F. Austin, H. Farjeon
What lovely things
I. Gurney, H. Howells: The scribe

What said the drake to his lady-love (from Poems 1919-1934) [x] *
R. Fleming: Quack

What though the first pure snowdrop wilt and die *
L. Berkeley: Another Spring

What voice is that I hear (What voice is that I hear) - A. Butterworth
What voice is that I hear
A. Butterworth: What voice is that I hear

When I go free (from The Sunken Garden and Other Poems)
C. Gibbs, E. Deale: The little salamander

When I lie where shades of darkness (from The Sunken Garden and Other Poems)
J. Baber, E. Cone, I. Gurney, R. Holloway: Fare well

When music sounds (When music sounds, gone is the earth I know ) (from The Sunken Garden and Other Poems) - P. Cartwright, T. Evans, G. Gover, M. Horder
When music sounds, gone is the earth I know (from The Sunken Garden and Other Poems)
P. Cartwright, T. Evans, G. Gover, M. Horder: When music sounds
G. Bachlund, D. Murray, G. Read, E. Smith: Music

When Queen Djenira slumbers through (from The Listeners and Other Poems)
B. Burrows: Queen Djenira

When Sallie with her pitcher goes (from Bells and Grass: A Book of Rhymes) [x] *
P. Harrison, R. Waters: Sallie

When slim Sophia mounts her horse (When slim Sophia mounts her horse) (from Songs of Childhood) - J. Duke
When slim Sophia mounts her horse (from Songs of Childhood)
J. Duke: When slim Sophia mounts her horse
C. Gibbs, F. Keel, A. Shepherd: Reverie

When Susan's work was done she'd sit (from The Listeners and Other Poems)
D. Smith: Old Susan

When to the inward darkness of my mind (from The Fleeting and Other Poems) *
W. Buczynski: Twilight

Where (Monkeys in a forest) (from Bells and Grass: A Book of Rhymes) - P. Harrison, J. Brown, C. Gibbs [x] *
Where is beauty? (from Peacock Pie: A Book of Rhymes)
G. Peterkin: The song of secret
H. Roberton: Where is beauty?
G. Bachlund: Song of the secret

Where is beauty? (Where is beauty? ) (from Peacock Pie: A Book of Rhymes) - H. Roberton
Where the bluebells and the wind are (from Songs of Childhood)
C. Gibbs, E. Dent: Bluebells

Where's the Queen of Sheba? (from Bells and Grass: A Book of Rhymes) [x] *
G. Cockshott: Gone

White (Once was a miller) (from Bells and Grass: A Book of Rhymes) - P. Harrison, C. Gibbs [x] *
Who are we waiting for? (from The Fleeting and Other Poems) [x] *
R. Holloway: The feckless dinner-party

"Who called?" I said, and the words
D. Wickens: Echo

Who is it calling by the darkened river
A. Butterworth: Who is it calling by the darkened rover

Who is it calling by the darkened rover (Who is it calling by the darkened river) - A. Butterworth
"Who knocks?" -- "I, who was beautiful (from Motley and Other Poems)
P. Tauber: The ghost

Who said 'Peacock Pie' (from Peacock Pie: A Book of Rhymes)
C. Gibbs: The mad prince
I. Anhalt, J. Emeléus: The song of the mad prince

Whom seek you here, sweet Mistress Fell? (from The Sunken Garden and Other Poems)
B. Burrows: Mistress Fell

Why does he still keep ticking? (from Peacock Pie: A Book of Rhymes)
E. Belchamber, H. Howells: The dunce

Why, then comes in (Long-idling spring may come) - E. Cone [x] *
Why? (Ever, ever) (from Bells and Grass: A Book of Rhymes) - P. Harrison, C. Gibbs [x] *
Wide are the meadows of night (from Peacock Pie: A Book of Rhymes)
F. Austin, H. Farjeon: Wanderers

Will ever? (Will he ever be weary of wandering ) (from Peacock Pie: A Book of Rhymes) - G. Bachlund
Will he ever be weary of wandering (from Peacock Pie: A Book of Rhymes)
G. Bachlund: Will ever?
B. Crist: Into a ship, dreaming
C. Gibbs: The Wanderer

Will-o'-the-wisp (Will-o'-the-wisp) (from Bells and Grass: A Book of Rhymes) [x] *
P. Harrison, M. Bruce: Will-o'-the-wisp

Will-o'-the-wisp (from Bells and Grass: A Book of Rhymes) [x] *
P. Harrison, M. Bruce: Will-o'-the-wisp

Winter (Clouded with snow the cold winds blow) (from The Listeners and Other Poems) - E. Cone, D. Stone, G. Bachlund
Winter evening (Over the wintry fields) - E. Cone [x] *
With changeful sound life beats upon the ear (from The Listeners and Other Poems)
E. Goossens: Silence

With glass like a bull's-eye (from Peacock Pie: A Book of Rhymes)
C. Hand, H. Howells: Mrs. MacQueen

Won't you look out of your window, Mrs. Gill (from Peacock Pie: A Book of Rhymes)
M. Besly, B. Crist: The mocking fairy
G. Dyson: Won't you look out of your window?

Won't you look out of your window? (Won't you look out of your window, Mrs. Gill) (from Peacock Pie: A Book of Rhymes) - G. Dyson
You take my heart with tears (You take my heart with tears) - P. Fricker
You take my heart with tears
P. Fricker: You take my heart with tears
C. Gibbs: Jane Eyre's song

Youngling fair, and dear delight
M. Head: Dear delight

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