Author: James Stephens (1882-1950)

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A Poetry Recital
Collected Poems
Here are Ladies
Insurrections
Kings and the Moon
Little Things
Reincarnations
Songs from the Clay
Strict Joy
The Adventures of Seumas Beg [and] The Rocky Road to Dublin
The Hill of Vision

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A bird sings now (A bird sings now) (from The Hill of Vision) - W. Mourant
A bird sings now (from The Hill of Vision)
W. Mourant: A bird sings now

A glass of beer (The lanky hank of a she in the inn over there) (from Reincarnations) - H. Andrews, J. Wilson
A long green swell (from Insurrections)
S. Adler, W. Mourant: Chill of the eve

A man came to me at the fair (from Songs from the Clay)
C. Gibbs: The market

A man was sitting underneath a tree (from Insurrections)
T. Dobson: Seumas Beg

A reply (Lift up my heart, and sing again ) (from Songs from the Clay - A Reply) - F. Swain
A rose for a young head (from Insurrections)
C. Forsyth, B. Treharne: The watcher

A snowy field (The Red-Bud, the Kentucky Tree ) (from Collected Poems) - D. Parke [x] *
A snowy field! A stable piled (from Collected Poems) [x] *
D. Parke: A snowy field

A song for lovers (The moon is shining on the sea) (from Songs from the Clay) - D. Taylor
A visit from the moon - T. Dunhill [x]
A woman is a branchy tree (A woman is a branchy tree) (from The Hill of Vision) - L. Mann, W. Mourant
A woman is a branchy tree (from The Hill of Vision)
L. Mann, W. Mourant: A woman is a branchy tree

An evening falls (At eve the horse is freed of plough or wain) (from Songs from the Clay) - W. Mourant
And it was stormy weather (Now the winds are riding by ) (from Songs from the Clay) - S. Adler
And it was windy weather (Now the winds are riding by ) (from Songs from the Clay)
D. Parke: As it was windy weather
S. Adler: And it was stormy weather

And suddenly I wakened up in a fright (from The Adventures of Seumas Beg [and] The Rocky Road to Dublin)
H. Lapp: Midnight

And then I pressed the shell (from Insurrections)
W. Mourant: The shell

And then I wakened up in such a fright (from The Adventures of Seumas Beg [and] The Rocky Road to Dublin)
H. Lapp: Midnight

And then/ there rung a bell (from Insurrections)
W. Mourant: The Tale of Mad Brigid

Anthony O'Daly (Anthony! Since your limbs were laid out ) (from Reincarnations) - S. Barber, W. Mourant ENG
Anthony! Since your limbs were laid out (from Reincarnations) ENG
S. Barber, W. Mourant: Anthony O'Daly

Arpeggio (He wills to be) (from Collected Poems) - W. Mourant [x]
As bird to nest, when, moodily (from Strict Joy) [x] *
A. Shepherd: Sarasvati

As down the road she wambled slow (from The Hill of Vision)
S. Barber, W. Mourant: Bessie Bobtail

As evening falls (At eve the horse is freed of plough or wain) (from Songs from the Clay)
W. Mourant: An evening falls

As it was windy weather (Now the winds are riding by ) (from Songs from the Clay) - D. Parke
As lily grows up easily (from Reincarnations)
J. Duke, W. Mourant, D. Parke, J. Trimble: Peggy Mitchell

At eve the horse is freed of plough or wain (from Songs from the Clay)
W. Mourant: An evening falls

At four o'clock, in dainty talk (from The Adventures of Seumas Beg [and] The Rocky Road to Dublin)
T. Dobson: Grafton Street

At the edge of the sea (There was a river that rose ) (from Songs from the Clay) - T. Dobson
At the end of the bough, at the top of the tree (from Here are Ladies) ENG
H. Spier: Sweet apple

Barbarians (I pause beside the stream and hear) (from Songs from the Clay) - W. Mourant
Bee! tell me whence do you come? (from Songs from the Clay)
D. Taylor: The messenger
D. Parke: Queen of the Bees

Bessie Bobtail (As down the road she wambled slow ) (from The Hill of Vision) - S. Barber, W. Mourant
Breakfast time (The sun is always in the sky) (from The Adventures of Seumas Beg [and] The Rocky Road to Dublin) - T. Dobson, W. Mourant
Check (The night was creeping on the ground) (from The Adventures of Seumas Beg [and] The Rocky Road to Dublin) - A. Butterworth, W. Mourant
Chill of the eve (A long green swell ) (from Insurrections) - S. Adler, W. Mourant
Christmas at Freelands (The Red-Bud, the Kentucky Tree ) (from Collected Poems) [x] *
D. Parke: A snowy field

Come with me, under my coat (from Reincarnations) ENG
S. Barber, H. Lapp, W. Mourant, D. Parke: The coolin

Could you but see her (from Strict Joy) [x] *
M. Bowles: The white swan

Dark wings (Sing while you may, O bird upon the tree!)
S. Barab: The hawk

Day by day/ the sun's broad beam (from Songs from the Clay)
L. Mann: This way to Winter

Dip and swing (from A Poetry Recital) *
S. Barab, W. Mourant: The rose in the wind

Egan O'Rahilly (Here in a distant place I hold my tongue) (from Reincarnations) - W. Mourant
Every Sunday there's a throng (from The Adventures of Seumas Beg [and] The Rocky Road to Dublin)
T. Dobson: Westland Row

Everything that I can spy (Everything that I can spy) (from The Hill of Vision) - W. Mourant
Everything that I can spy (from The Hill of Vision)
W. Mourant: Everything that I can spy

Follow, follow, follow ! (from The Hill of Vision - A Prelude and a Song)
R. Hageman: Me company along

Gleaming in silver are the hills (from Songs from the Clay)
W. Mourant: Washed in silver

Grafton Street (At four o'clock, in dainty talk) (from The Adventures of Seumas Beg [and] The Rocky Road to Dublin) - T. Dobson
He wills to be (from Collected Poems) [x]
W. Mourant: Arpeggio

Here in a distant place I hold my tongue (from Reincarnations)
W. Mourant: Egan O'Rahilly

Hesperus (Upon the sober sky thy robes are spread) (from Songs from the Clay) - F. May ENG ITA GER GRE
I bent again unto the ground (from Songs from the Clay)
W. Mourant: The voice of God

I can see (from Songs from the Clay)
W. Mourant: The buds

I cling and swing (from The Adventures of Seumas Beg [and] The Rocky Road to Dublin)
F. Bridge, G. Gwyther: So early in the morning, O

I heard a bird at dawn (from Songs from the Clay)
S. Barab, M. Bowles, A. Duff, W. Mourant, D. Taylor, R. Teed, L. White: The rivals

I know a girl (I know a girl) (from The Adventures of Seumas Beg [and] The Rocky Road to Dublin) - H. Lapp
I know a girl (from The Adventures of Seumas Beg [and] The Rocky Road to Dublin)
H. Lapp: I know a girl
M. Bowles, D. Parke, A. Strilko: The canal bank

I know the man without a soul (from Songs from the Clay)
S. Homer, F. Swain: The king of the fairy men

I looked from Mount Derision at (from The Hill of Vision)
F. Swain: Nucleolus

I pause beside the stream and hear (from Songs from the Clay)
W. Mourant: Barbarians

I was frightened, for a wind (from The Adventures of Seumas Beg [and] The Rocky Road to Dublin)
W. Mourant: The secret

I went to the Wood of Flowers (from The Adventures of Seumas Beg [and] The Rocky Road to Dublin)
I. Klein: The Wood of Flowers

If the Moon (If the Moon had a hand) (from Here are Ladies) - H. Castleman
If the Moon had a hand (from Here are Ladies)
H. Castleman: If the Moon

In Dublin town the people see (from The Adventures of Seumas Beg [and] The Rocky Road to Dublin)
W. Mourant: When you walk

In the café where I sit (from Songs from the Clay)
F. Swain: The four old men

In the night (There always is a noise when it is dark) (from Songs from the Clay) - E. Cone
In the poppy field (Mad Patsy said, he said to me ) (from Reincarnations) - J. Trimble, J. Clark
In the scented bud of the morning O (from Here are Ladies) SPA
S. Barber, S. Barab, M. Bowles, R. Farley, W. Mourant, M. Mulliner, D. Parke, L. Mann, M. Wyrill: The daisies
R. Quilter, A. Shepherd: In the scented bud of the morning-O

In the scented bud of the morning-O (In the scented bud of the morning O ) (from Here are Ladies) - R. Quilter, A. Shepherd SPA
In the winter children go (from The Adventures of Seumas Beg [and] The Rocky Road to Dublin)
W. Mourant: White fields

Inis Fál (Now may we turn aside) (from Reincarnations) [x]
J. Trimble: Inis Fál

Inis Fál (Now may we turn aside) (from Reincarnations) - J. Trimble [x]
It is not on her gown (from Reincarnations)
W. Mourant: Nancy Walsh

Katty Gollagher (The hill is bare : I only find) (from The Adventures of Seumas Beg [and] The Rocky Road to Dublin) - E. Cone, W. Mourant
Lesbia (Sweet/ and delicate) (from Little Things) - D. Parke [x] *
Lift up my heart, and sing again (from Songs from the Clay - A Reply)
F. Swain: A reply

Little creatures everywhere (Little things that run and quail) (from Little Things) - A. Duckworth *
Little things (Little things that run and quail) (from Little Things) - R. Ward, W. Mourant *
Little things that run and quail (from Little Things) *
A. Duckworth: Little creatures everywhere
R. Ward, W. Mourant: Little things

Lovers (The moon is shining on the sea) (from Songs from the Clay) - W. Mourant
Mad Patsy (Mad Patsy said, he said to me ) (from Reincarnations) - B. Treharne
Mad Patsy said, he said to me (from Reincarnations)
J. Trimble, J. Clark: In the poppy field
B. Treharne: Mad Patsy

Mary Hynes (She is the sky of the sun! ) (from Reincarnations) - S. Barber, W. Mourant ENG
Mary Ruane (The sky-like girl whom we knew) (from Reincarnations) - W. Mourant
Me company along (Follow, follow, follow !) (from The Hill of Vision - A Prelude and a Song) - R. Hageman
Midnight (And suddenly I wakened up in a fright ) (from The Adventures of Seumas Beg [and] The Rocky Road to Dublin) - H. Lapp
Nancy Walsh (It is not on her gown) (from Reincarnations) - W. Mourant
Nothing at all (There was a man was very old) (from The Hill of Vision) - W. Mourant
Now I can see (from Songs from the Clay)
W. Mourant: The buds

Now may we turn aside (from Reincarnations) [x]
J. Trimble: Inis Fál

Now the winds are riding by (from Songs from the Clay)
D. Parke: As it was windy weather
S. Adler: And it was stormy weather

Now with the coming in of the spring (from Reincarnations) ENG
J. Trimble: The County Mayo

Nucleolus (I looked from Mount Derision at) (from The Hill of Vision) - F. Swain
O'Connell Bridge (In Dublin town the people see) (from The Adventures of Seumas Beg [and] The Rocky Road to Dublin)
W. Mourant: When you walk

Ora pro nobis (A bird sings now) (from The Hill of Vision)
W. Mourant: A bird sings now

Out and away (Silvery-black, and silvery-blue) (from A Poetry Recital) - A. Bax [x] *
Pastoral (The hill is bare : I only find) (from The Adventures of Seumas Beg [and] The Rocky Road to Dublin) - T. Dobson
Peggy Mitchell (As lily grows up easily ) (from Reincarnations) - J. Duke, W. Mourant, D. Parke, J. Trimble
Playing upon the hill three centaurs were! (from Songs from the Clay)
W. Busch: The centaurs

Queen of the Bees (Bee! tell me whence do you come?) (from Songs from the Clay) - D. Parke
Remember the spider (from Kings and the Moon - Kings and Tanists) [x] *
H. Lapp: Sermon

Righteous anger (The lanky hank of a she in the inn over there) (from Reincarnations)
H. Andrews, J. Wilson: A glass of beer

Sarasvati (As bird to nest, when, moodily) (from Strict Joy) - A. Shepherd [x] *
Sermon (Remember the spider) (from Kings and the Moon - Kings and Tanists) - H. Lapp [x] *
Seumas Beg (A man was sitting underneath a tree) (from Insurrections) - T. Dobson
She is the sky of the sun! (from Reincarnations) ENG
S. Barber, W. Mourant: Mary Hynes

Shepherd, play a little air (Shepherd! while the lambs do feed ) (from The Adventures of Seumas Beg [and] The Rocky Road to Dublin) - W. Stickles
Shepherd! while the lambs do feed (from The Adventures of Seumas Beg [and] The Rocky Road to Dublin)
S. Adler, P. Taylor: The piper
W. Stickles: Shepherd, play a little air

Silvery-black, and silvery-blue (from A Poetry Recital) [x] *
A. Bax: Out and away

Sing while you may, O bird upon the tree!
S. Barab: The hawk

So early in the morning, O (I cling and swing ) (from The Adventures of Seumas Beg [and] The Rocky Road to Dublin) - F. Bridge, G. Gwyther
Solitude - M. Bowles [x]
Spring is singing - R. Farley [x]
Stephen's Green (The wind stood up and gave a shout ) (from The Adventures of Seumas Beg [and] The Rocky Road to Dublin)
S. Adler, E. Cone, M. Lucas: The wind

Still lift up my heart, and sing again (from Songs from the Clay - A Reply)
F. Swain: A reply

Sweet/ and delicate (from Little Things) [x] *
D. Parke: Lesbia

Sweet apple (At the end of the bough, at the top of the tree) (from Here are Ladies) - H. Spier ENG
Tanist (Remember the spider) (from Kings and the Moon - Kings and Tanists) [x] *
H. Lapp: Sermon

The buds (Now I can see ) (from Songs from the Clay) - W. Mourant
The canal bank (I know a girl) (from The Adventures of Seumas Beg [and] The Rocky Road to Dublin) - M. Bowles, D. Parke, A. Strilko
The cat - M. Besly, T. Dobson [x]
The centaurs (Playing upon the hill three centaurs were!) (from Songs from the Clay) - W. Busch
The coolin (Come with me, under my coat ) (from Reincarnations) - S. Barber, H. Lapp, W. Mourant, D. Parke ENG
The coolun (Come with me, under my coat ) (from Reincarnations) ENG
S. Barber, H. Lapp, W. Mourant, D. Parke: The coolin

The County Mayo (Now with the coming in of the spring) (from Reincarnations) - J. Trimble ENG
The crooked paths go every way (from Songs from the Clay)
H. Howells, W. Mourant: The goat paths

The daisies (In the scented bud of the morning O ) (from Here are Ladies) - S. Barber, S. Barab, M. Bowles, R. Farley, W. Mourant, M. Mulliner, D. Parke, L. Mann, M. Wyrill SPA
The fifteen acres (I cling and swing ) (from The Adventures of Seumas Beg [and] The Rocky Road to Dublin)
F. Bridge, G. Gwyther: So early in the morning, O

The four old men (In the café where I sit) (from Songs from the Clay) - F. Swain
The goat paths (The crooked paths go every way) (from Songs from the Clay) - H. Howells, W. Mourant
The hawk (Sing while you may, O bird upon the tree!) - S. Barab
The hill - C. Taylor [x]
The hill is bare : I only find (from The Adventures of Seumas Beg [and] The Rocky Road to Dublin)
E. Cone, W. Mourant: Katty Gollagher
T. Dobson: Pastoral

The king of the fairy men (I know the man without a soul) (from Songs from the Clay) - S. Homer, F. Swain
The lanky hank of a she in the inn over there (from Reincarnations)
H. Andrews, J. Wilson: A glass of beer

The long-rólling (from A Poetry Recital) [x] *
A. Duff: The main deep

The main deep (The long-rólling) (from A Poetry Recital) - A. Duff [x] *
The market (A man came to me at the fair ) (from Songs from the Clay) - C. Gibbs
The messenger (Bee! tell me whence do you come?) (from Songs from the Clay) - D. Taylor
The Moon (If the Moon had a hand) (from Here are Ladies)
H. Castleman: If the Moon

The moon comes every night to peep (from The Adventures of Seumas Beg [and] The Rocky Road to Dublin)
J. Heath, W. Mourant: The white window

The moon is shining on the sea (from Songs from the Clay)
D. Taylor: A song for lovers
W. Mourant: Lovers

The mountains stand and stare around (from The Adventures of Seumas Beg [and] The Rocky Road to Dublin)
W. Mourant: The Paps of Dana

The night was creeping on the ground (from The Adventures of Seumas Beg [and] The Rocky Road to Dublin)
A. Butterworth, W. Mourant: Check

The Paps of Dana (The mountains stand and stare around) (from The Adventures of Seumas Beg [and] The Rocky Road to Dublin) - W. Mourant
The piper (Shepherd! while the lambs do feed ) (from The Adventures of Seumas Beg [and] The Rocky Road to Dublin) - S. Adler, P. Taylor
The Red-Bud, the Kentucky Tree (from Collected Poems) [x] *
D. Parke: A snowy field

The rivals (I heard a bird at dawn ) (from Songs from the Clay) - S. Barab, M. Bowles, A. Duff, W. Mourant, D. Taylor, R. Teed, L. White
The rose in the wind (Dip and swing ) (from A Poetry Recital) - S. Barab, W. Mourant *
The secret (I was frightened, for a wind) (from The Adventures of Seumas Beg [and] The Rocky Road to Dublin) - W. Mourant
The shell (And then I pressed the shell) (from Insurrections) - W. Mourant
The sky-like girl whom we knew (from Reincarnations)
W. Mourant: Mary Ruane

The sun is always in the sky (from The Adventures of Seumas Beg [and] The Rocky Road to Dublin)
T. Dobson, W. Mourant: Breakfast time

The Tale of Mad Brigid (And then/ there rung a bell) (from Insurrections) - W. Mourant
The voice of God (I bent again unto the ground) (from Songs from the Clay) - W. Mourant
The watcher (A rose for a young head) (from Insurrections) - C. Forsyth, B. Treharne
The white swan (Could you but see her) (from Strict Joy) - M. Bowles [x] *
The white window (The moon comes every night to peep) (from The Adventures of Seumas Beg [and] The Rocky Road to Dublin) - J. Heath, W. Mourant
The wind (The wind stood up and gave a shout ) (from The Adventures of Seumas Beg [and] The Rocky Road to Dublin) - S. Adler, E. Cone, M. Lucas
The wind stood up and gave a shout (from The Adventures of Seumas Beg [and] The Rocky Road to Dublin)
S. Adler, E. Cone, M. Lucas: The wind

The Wood of Flowers (I went to the Wood of Flowers ) (from The Adventures of Seumas Beg [and] The Rocky Road to Dublin) - I. Klein
There always is a noise when it is dark (from Songs from the Clay)
E. Cone: In the night

There was a man was very old (from The Hill of Vision)
W. Mourant: Nothing at all

There was a river that rose (from Songs from the Clay)
T. Dobson: At the edge of the sea

This way to Winter (Day by day/ the sun's broad beam) (from Songs from the Clay) - L. Mann
Upon the sober sky thy robes are spread (from Songs from the Clay) ENG ITA GER GRE
F. May: Hesperus

Washed in silver (Gleaming in silver are the hills) (from Songs from the Clay) - W. Mourant
Westland Row (Every Sunday there's a throng ) (from The Adventures of Seumas Beg [and] The Rocky Road to Dublin) - T. Dobson
When you walk (In Dublin town the people see) (from The Adventures of Seumas Beg [and] The Rocky Road to Dublin) - W. Mourant
White fields (In the winter children go) (from The Adventures of Seumas Beg [and] The Rocky Road to Dublin) - W. Mourant
Wind and tree (A woman is a branchy tree) (from The Hill of Vision)
L. Mann, W. Mourant: A woman is a branchy tree

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