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Author: Henry Thornton Wharton (1846-1895)

Texts set to music [warning - not necessarily comprehensive]

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Bridal song (O fair, O lovely! As the sweet apple ) - G. Bantock
Daughter of Zeus GER GER
G. Bantock: Hymn to Aphrodite

Delicate Adonis is dying, Cytherea; what shall we do? ITA FRE
Evening song (Evening, thou bringest all that bright morning scattered ) - G. Bantock ITA GER FRE
Evening, thou bringest all that bright morning scattered ITA GER FRE
G. Bantock: Evening song

Evening, thou that bringest ITA GER FRE
How I adore thee (Love, love, when weeping wind* on black rock mountain ) - A. Hovhaness GER *
Hymn to Aphrodite (Daughter of Zeus ) - G. Bantock GER GER
I loved thee once, Atthis, long ago (I loved thee once, Atthis, long ago ) - G. Bantock
I loved thee once, Atthis, long ago
G. Bantock: I loved thee once, Atthis, long ago

In a dream, I spake (In a dream, I spake with the daughter of Cyprus ) - G. Bantock
In a dream I spake with the daughter of Cyprus. ITA FRE
In a dream, I spake with the daughter of Cyprus
G. Bantock: In a dream, I spake

Love let the wind cry (Love let the wind cry on the dark mountain ) (from Sappho: One Hundred Lyrics) - U. Moore GER
Love let the wind cry on the dark mountain (from Sappho: One Hundred Lyrics) GER
U. Moore: Love let the wind cry

Love, love, when weeping wind* on black rock mountain GER *
A. Hovhaness: How I adore thee

Muse of the golden throne (Muse of the golden throne, O raise that strain ) - G. Bantock
Muse of the golden throne, O raise that strain
G. Bantock: Muse of the golden throne

O fair, O lovely! As the sweet apple
G. Bantock: Bridal song

Peer of gods he seems (Peer of gods he seems, who sits in thy presence ) - G. Bantock
Peer of gods he seems, who sits in thy presence
G. Bantock: Peer of gods he seems

Stand face to face, friend (Stand face to face, friend.. ) - G. Bantock
Stand face to face, friend..
G. Bantock: Stand face to face, friend

That man seems to me peer of gods FRE
The moon has set (The moon has set, and the Pleiades ) - G. Bantock ITA GER FRE GER
The moon has set ITA GER FRE GER
The moon has set, and the Pleiades ITA GER FRE GER
G. Bantock: The moon has set

The moon rose full, and the women stood ITA GER FRE
This is the dust of Timas FRE
Thus at times with tender feet the Cretan women dance ITA FRE