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Composer: Sir Charles Hubert Hastings Parry (1848-1918)

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A Garland of Shakesperian and Other Old-Fashioned Songs, op. 21

no. 1. Love's perjuries (Text: William Shakespeare)
no. 2. A spring song (Text: William Shakespeare) GER FIN
no. 3. A contrast [x]
no. 4. Love is a sickness (Text: Samuel Daniel)
no. 5. A sea dirge (Text: William Shakespeare) DUT NOR ITA
no. 6. Merry Margaret (Text: John Skelton)

A Selection of Welsh Melodies

no. ?. Prince Madog's Farewell (Text: Felicia Dorothea (Browne) Hemans)

Eight Four-part Songs

no. 1. Phyllis [x]
no. 2. O Love, they wrong thee much
no. 3. At her fair hands
no. 4. Home of my heart (Text: Arthur Christopher Benson) [x]
no. 5. You gentle nymphs
no. 6. Come pretty wag
no. 7. Ye thrilled me once (Text: Robert Seymour Bridges)
no. 8. Better music ne'er were known (Text: Francis Beaumont) [x]

Four Sonnets of Shakespeare

no. 1. Sonnet XXIX (Text: William Shakespeare) ITA
no. 2. Farewell, thou are too dear for my possessing (Text: William Shakespeare) ITA
no. 3. Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? (Text: William Shakespeare) ITA FIN
no. 4. When to the sessions of sweet silent thought (Text: William Shakespeare) RUS ITA

Invocation to music - An Ode in Honour of Henry Purcell

no. 1. Myriad voicèd Queen! (Text: Robert Seymour Bridges)
no. 2. Turn, O return! (Text: Robert Seymour Bridges)
no. 3. Thee, fair Poetry oft hath sought (Text: Robert Seymour Bridges)
no. 4. The monstrous sea (Text: Robert Seymour Bridges)
no. 5. Love to Love calleth (Text: Robert Seymour Bridges)
no. 7. Man, born of desire (Text: Robert Seymour Bridges)
no. 7. Dirge (Text: Robert Seymour Bridges)
no. 8. Rejoice, ye dead, where'er your spirits dwell (Text: Robert Seymour Bridges)
no. 9. O enter with me the gates of delight (Text: Robert Seymour Bridges)
no. 10. Thou, O Queen of sinless grace (Text: Robert Seymour Bridges)

Ode to St. Cecelia's Day

no. 1. Symphonia
no. 2. Descend ye nine (Text: Alexander Pope)
no. 3. By music (Text: Alexander Pope)
no. 4. But when our country's cause provokes to arms (Text: Alexander Pope)
no. 5. But when through all the infernal bounds (Text: Alexander Pope)
no. 6. By the streams that ever flow (Text: Alexander Pope)
no. 7. He sung, and hell consented (Text: Alexander Pope)
no. 8. But soon, too soon, the lover turns his eyes (Text: Alexander Pope)
no. 9. Music the fiercest grief can charm (Text: Alexander Pope)

Seven Part Songs for Male-Voice Choir

no. 1. Hang fear, cast away care (Text: Sir Charles Hubert Hastings Parry) [x]
no. 2. Love wakes and weeps (Text: Sir Walter Scott)
no. 3. The mad dog (Text: Oliver Goldsmith)
no. 4. That very wise man, Old Aesop (Text: Charles (John Huffam) Dickens) [x]
no. 5. Orpheus (Text: Sir Charles Hubert Hastings Parry) [x]
no. 6. Out upon it! (Text: Sir John Suckling)
no. 7. An analogy (Text: Sir Charles Hubert Hastings Parry) [x]

Six Modern Lyrics

no. ?. If I had but two little wings (Text: Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
no. ?. What voice of gladness (Text: Robert Seymour Bridges)

Six Partsongs

no. ?. My delight and thy delight (Text: Robert Seymour Bridges)

Songs of Farewell

no. 1. My soul, there is a country (Text: Henry Vaughan)
no. 2. I know my soul hath power (Text: Sir John Davies)
no. 3. Never weather-beaten sail (Text: Thomas Campion)
no. 4. There is an old belief (Text: John Gibson Lockhart)
no. 5. At the round earth's imagin'd corners (Text: John Donne)
no. 6. Lord, let me know mine end (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts)

All titles of vocal settings in our database, in opus order (without opus first, alphabetic)

A fairy town (Text: Mary Coleridge)
A girl to her class (Text: Julian Sturgis) [x]
A lament (Text: Percy Bysshe Shelley) ITA
A lover's garland (Text: Alfred Perceval Graves after Anonymous/Unidentified Artist) [x]
A moment of farewell (Text: Julian Sturgis) [x]
A Song of Darkness and Light [multi-text setting]
A stray nymph of Dian (Text: Julian Sturgis)
A Welsh lullaby (Text: E. O. Jones after Volkslieder (Folksongs) ENG
An analogy (in Seven Part Songs for Male-Voice Choir) (Text: Sir Charles Hubert Hastings Parry) [x]
And yet I love her till I die
Armida's garden (Text: Mary Coleridge)
At her fair hands (in Eight Four-part Songs)
At the hour the long day ends (Text: Alfred Perceval Graves after Anonymous/Unidentified Artist) [x]
At the round earth's imagin'd corners (in Songs of Farewell) (Text: John Donne)
Autumn (Text: Thomas Hood)
Bed in summer (Text: Robert Louis Stevenson)
Better music ne'er were known (in Eight Four-part Songs) (Text: Francis Beaumont) [x]
Blest Pair of Sirens (Text: John Milton)
Blow, blow thou winter wind (Text: William Shakespeare) ITA FIN
Bright star (Text: John Keats)
Brown and furry (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
But soon, too soon, the lover turns his eyes (in Ode to St. Cecelia's Day) (Text: Alexander Pope)
But when our country's cause provokes to arms (in Ode to St. Cecelia's Day) (Text: Alexander Pope)
But when through all the infernal bounds (in Ode to St. Cecelia's Day) (Text: Alexander Pope)
By music (in Ode to St. Cecelia's Day) (Text: Alexander Pope)
By the streams that ever flow (in Ode to St. Cecelia's Day) (Text: Alexander Pope)
Come, boy Bacchus (Text: Julian Sturgis)
Come pretty wag (in Eight Four-part Songs)
Crabbed age and youth (Text: William Shakespeare)
Crossing the Bar (Text: Lord Alfred Tennyson)
Descend ye nine (in Ode to St. Cecelia's Day) (Text: Alexander Pope)
Dirge (in Invocation to music - An Ode in Honour of Henry Purcell) (Text: Robert Seymour Bridges)
Dirge in woods (Text: George Meredith)
Dream-Pedlary (Text: Thomas Lovell Beddoes)
Eton (Text: Algernon Charles Swinburne)
Eton Memorial Ode (Text: Robert Seymour Bridges)
Farewell, thou are too dear for my possessing (in Four Sonnets of Shakespeare) (Text: William Shakespeare) ITA
Fear no more the heat o' the sun (Text: William Shakespeare) ENG ITA GER FIN
Follow a shadow (Text: Ben Jonson)
From a city window (Text: Langdon Elwyn Mitchell) [x]
Gone were but the winter cold (Text: Allan Cunningham)
Good Night! ah! no; the hour is ill that severs those it should unite (Text: Percy Bysshe Shelley)
Grapes (Text: Julian Sturgis)
Hang fear, cast away care (in Seven Part Songs for Male-Voice Choir) (Text: Sir Charles Hubert Hastings Parry) [x]
He sung, and hell consented (in Ode to St. Cecelia's Day) (Text: Alexander Pope)
Home of my heart (in Eight Four-part Songs) (Text: Arthur Christopher Benson) [x]
I know my soul hath power (in Songs of Farewell) (Text: Sir John Davies)
I praise the tender flower (Text: Robert Seymour Bridges) DUT
If I might ride on puissant wing (Text: Julian Sturgis) [x]
If I had but two little wings (in Six Modern Lyrics) (Text: Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
If thou survive my well-contented day (Text: William Shakespeare)
If thou would'st ease thine heart (Text: Thomas Lovell Beddoes)
Julia (Text: Robert Herrick)
La belle dame sans merci (Text: John Keats) GER
Lay a garland on my hearse (Text: Francis Beaumont)
Looking backward (Text: Julian Sturgis)
Lord, let me know mine end (in Songs of Farewell) (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts)
Love and laughter (Text: Arthur Butler) [x]
Love is a bable
Love to Love calleth (in Invocation to music - An Ode in Honour of Henry Purcell) (Text: Robert Seymour Bridges)
Love wakes and weeps (in Seven Part Songs for Male-Voice Choir) (Text: Sir Walter Scott)
Man, born of desire (in Invocation to music - An Ode in Honour of Henry Purcell) (Text: Robert Seymour Bridges)
Marian (Text: George Meredith)
More fond than Cushat dove (Text: Richard Harris Barham)
Music (Text: Percy Bysshe Shelley) RUS GER
Music the fiercest grief can charm (in Ode to St. Cecelia's Day) (Text: Alexander Pope)
My delight and thy delight (in Six Partsongs) (Text: Robert Seymour Bridges)
My heart is like a singing bird (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
My soul, there is a country (in Songs of Farewell) (Text: Henry Vaughan)
My true love hath my heart (Text: Sir Philip Sidney)
Myriad voicèd Queen! (in Invocation to music - An Ode in Honour of Henry Purcell) (Text: Robert Seymour Bridges)
Never weather-beaten sail (in Songs of Farewell) (Text: Thomas Campion)
Nightfall in winter (Text: Langdon Elwyn Mitchell)
No longer mourn for me (Text: William Shakespeare) RUS ITA
O enter with me the gates of delight (in Invocation to music - An Ode in Honour of Henry Purcell) (Text: Robert Seymour Bridges)
O Love, they wrong thee much (in Eight Four-part Songs)
O mistress mine (Text: William Shakespeare) GER
O never say that I was false of heart (Text: William Shakespeare)
Of all the torments (Text: William Walsh)
Oft in the stilly night (Text: Thomas Moore)
On a time the amorous Silvy (Text: John Attye)
One golden thread (Text: Julia Chatterton) [x]
Orpheus (in Seven Part Songs for Male-Voice Choir) (Text: Sir Charles Hubert Hastings Parry) [x]
Out upon it! (in Seven Part Songs for Male-Voice Choir) (Text: Sir John Suckling)
Phyllis (in Eight Four-part Songs) [x]
Prince Madog's Farewell (in A Selection of Welsh Melodies) (Text: Felicia Dorothea (Browne) Hemans)
Proud Maisie (Text: Sir Walter Scott)
Rejoice, ye dead, where'er your spirits dwell (in Invocation to music - An Ode in Honour of Henry Purcell) (Text: Robert Seymour Bridges)
Resurrection (Text: Mrs. H. Warner) [x]
Rosaline (Text: Thomas Lodge)
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? (in Four Sonnets of Shakespeare) (Text: William Shakespeare) ITA FIN
She is my love beyond all thought (Text: Alfred Perceval Graves)
Since thou, O fondest and truest (Text: Robert Seymour Bridges)
Sleep (Text: Julian Sturgis)
Sonnet XXIX (in Four Sonnets of Shakespeare) (Text: William Shakespeare) ITA
Symphonia (in Ode to St. Cecelia's Day)
Take, o take those lips away GER FRE FIN
That very wise man, Old Aesop (in Seven Part Songs for Male-Voice Choir) (Text: Charles (John Huffam) Dickens) [x]
The blackbird (Text: Alfred Perceval Graves)
The child and the twilight (Text: Langdon Elwyn Mitchell) [x]
The chivalry of the sea (Text: Robert Seymour Bridges)
The Choric Song from "The Lotos Eaters" (Text: Lord Alfred Tennyson)
The faithful lover (Text: Alfred Perceval Graves)
The feather (Text: Walter de la Mare) [x]*
The four brothers (Text: Walter de la Mare) [x]*
The mad dog (in Seven Part Songs for Male-Voice Choir) (Text: Oliver Goldsmith)
The maiden (Text: Mary Coleridge)
The monstrous sea (in Invocation to music - An Ode in Honour of Henry Purcell) (Text: Robert Seymour Bridges)
The North Wind (Text: William Ernest Henley)
The owl (Text: Lord Alfred Tennyson) GER
The peacock has a score of eyes (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
The Poet's Song (Text: Lord Alfred Tennyson)
The soldier's tent (Text: Alma Strettell after Volkslieder (Folksongs) ENG
The sound of hidden music (Text: Julia Chatterton) [x]
The spirit of the Spring (Text: Alfred Perceval Graves)
The ungentle guest (Text: Robert Herrick)
The wind has such a rainy sound (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
The witches' wood (Text: Mary Coleridge)
Thee, fair Poetry oft hath sought (in Invocation to music - An Ode in Honour of Henry Purcell) (Text: Robert Seymour Bridges)
There (Text: Mary Coleridge)
There be none of Beauty's daughters (Text: George Gordon Noel Byron, Lord Byron) RUS ITA GER
There is an old belief (in Songs of Farewell) (Text: John Gibson Lockhart)
There rolls the deep (Text: Lord Alfred Tennyson)
Thine eyes still shined for me (Text: Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Thou, O Queen of sinless grace (in Invocation to music - An Ode in Honour of Henry Purcell) (Text: Robert Seymour Bridges)
Three aspects (Text: Mary Coleridge)
Through the ivory gate (Text: Julian Sturgis)
To Althea, from prison (Text: Richard Lovelace)
To blossoms (Text: Robert Herrick)
To Lucasta, on going to the wars (Text: Richard Lovelace)
Turn, O return! (in Invocation to music - An Ode in Honour of Henry Purcell) (Text: Robert Seymour Bridges)
Under the greenwood tree (Text: William Shakespeare) GER
Weathers (Text: Thomas Hardy)
Weep you no more (Text: 16^th century) GER
What part of dread eternity (Text: Sir Charles Hubert Hastings Parry)
What voice of gladness (in Six Modern Lyrics) (Text: Robert Seymour Bridges)
When comes my Gwen (Text: E. O. Jones after Mynyddog) ENG
When icicles hang by the wall (Text: William Shakespeare) GER
When in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes (in Four Sonnets of Shakespeare) (Text: William Shakespeare) ITA
When lovers meet again (Text: Langdon Elwyn Mitchell)
When the dew is falling (Text: Julia Chatterton) [x]
When to the sessions of sweet silent thought (in Four Sonnets of Shakespeare) (Text: William Shakespeare) RUS ITA
When we two parted (Text: George Gordon Noel Byron, Lord Byron)
Whence (Text: Julian Sturgis)
Where shall the lover rest, whom the fates sever from his true maiden's breast (Text: Sir Walter Scott)
Whether I live (Text: Mary Coleridge)
Why art thou slow (Text: Philip Massinger)
Why so pale and wan? (Text: Sir John Suckling)
Willow, willow, willow (Text: William Shakespeare after Volkslieder (Folksongs) ENG GER
Wine and water (Text: Gilbert Keith Chesterton)
Ye little birds that sit and sing (Text: Thomas Heywood)
Ye thrilled me once (in Eight Four-part Songs) (Text: Robert Seymour Bridges)
You gentle nymphs (in Eight Four-part Songs)

op. 21. A Garland of Shakesperian and Other Old-Fashioned Songs
no. 1. Love's perjuries (Text: William Shakespeare)
no. 2. A spring song (Text: William Shakespeare) GER FIN
no. 3. A contrast [x]
no. 4. Love is a sickness (Text: Samuel Daniel)
no. 5. A sea dirge (Text: William Shakespeare) DUT NOR ITA
no. 6. Merry Margaret (Text: John Skelton)

op. 208. And Did Those Feet in Ancient Time (Text: William Blake) SPA

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