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Author: Humbert Wolfe (1885-1940)

Text collections / compilations [warning - not necessarily comprehensive]

Humoresque
Kensington Gardens
Others Abide
Requiem
The Unknown Goddess
This Blind Rose

Texts set to music [warning - not necessarily comprehensive]

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A candle cool (He has put by) (from This Blind Rose) - F. Hart [x]
A little music (Since it is evening ) (from This Blind Rose) - G. Holst
Alpine chaces (You called me, and I did not hear you) (from Humoresque) - F. Hart [x]
An Eastern Court (Here, quiet and long peace) (from This Blind Rose) [x]
F. Hart: An Eastern Court

Anacreon (Bloom, four-fold ivy) (from Others Abide) - M. Someren-Godfery [x]
Betelgeuse (On Betelgeuse ) (from The Unknown Goddess) - G. Holst
Beyond the town - oh far! beyond it (from The Unknown Goddess)
G. Holst: The floral bandit

Biton to his gods (To Bacchus, to the Nymphs and rural Pan) (from Others Abide) - M. Someren-Godfery [x]
Bloom, four-fold ivy (from Others Abide) [x]
M. Someren-Godfery: Anacreon

Bright hair grow dim (Bright hair grow dim) (from This Blind Rose) - F. Hart [x]
Bright hair grow dim (from This Blind Rose) [x]
F. Hart: Bright hair grow dim

Christ, on your Alpine Cross (from This Blind Rose) [x]
F. Hart: The alpine cross

Come back Persephone (from The Unknown Goddess)
G. Holst: Persephone

Cyclamen (She rests) (from This Blind Rose) - F. Hart [x]
Envoi (When the spark that glittered ) (from The Unknown Goddess) - G. Holst
Epilogue (I lay these lilies ) (from This Blind Rose) - G. Holst [x]
Evening (Now the first moth) (from Humoresque) - F. Hart [x]
Forgiveness (If it should come to pass) (from Humoresque) - F. Hart [x]
Forgiveness I (If it should come to pass) (from Humoresque) [x]
F. Hart: Forgiveness

Green candles ("There's someone at the door", said gold candlestick) (from The Unknown Goddess) - M. Someren-Godfery [x]
Harebell (Lie easy, harebell!) (from This Blind Rose) - F. Hart [x]
He has put by (from This Blind Rose) [x]
F. Hart: A candle cool

Here, quiet and long peace (from This Blind Rose) [x]
F. Hart: An Eastern Court

I have loved violins (from This Blind Rose) [x]
I. Dunlop: Violins

I have only asked you for a moment to stay (from Humoresque) [x]
F. Hart: Renunciation

I lay these lilies (from This Blind Rose) [x]
G. Holst: Epilogue

I looked back suddenly (I looked back suddenly into the empty room ) (from Humoresque) - H. Weisgall
I looked back suddenly into the empty room (from Humoresque)
H. Weisgall: I looked back suddenly

I stretched out my hands (from This Blind Rose) [x]
F. Hart: The pale and pilgrim moon

I will not write a poem for you (from The Unknown Goddess)
G. Holst, M. Broones: The thought

If I looked out on any night (from Humoresque) [x]
F. Hart: Neither moon nor candle-light

If it should come to pass (from Humoresque) [x]
F. Hart: Forgiveness

In the deep blue (from Humoresque) [x]
F. Hart: Morning

In the far corner (from Kensington Gardens) [x]
H. Taylor: The blackbird

In the street of lost time (Rest and have ease ) (from The Unknown Goddess) - G. Holst, M. Besly, F. Hart
Journey's end (What will they give me, when journey's done ) (from The Unknown Goddess) - F. Bridge, G. Holst, M. Broones, F. Hart
Lamon, the Gardener, to Priapus (This pomegranate in his cloth of gold) (from Others Abide) [x]
M. Someren-Godfery: Lamon to Priapus

Lamon to Priapus (This pomegranate in his cloth of gold) (from Others Abide) - M. Someren-Godfery [x]
Lie easy, harebell! (from This Blind Rose) [x]
F. Hart: Harebell

Listen! the wind (Listen! The wind is rising, and the air is wild with leaves ) - C. Dougherty
Listen! The wind is rising, and the air is wild with leaves
C. Dougherty: Listen! the wind

Morning (In the deep blue) (from Humoresque) - F. Hart [x]
Neither moon nor candle-light (If I looked out on any night) (from Humoresque) - F. Hart [x]
Night (Over the mountains) (from Humoresque) - F. Hart [x]
Noon (Rose, shut your heart) (from Humoresque) - F. Hart [x]
Now in these fairylands (Now in these fairylands ) (from This Blind Rose) - G. Holst, F. Hart
Now in these fairylands (from This Blind Rose)
G. Holst, F. Hart: Now in these fairylands

Now the first moth (from Humoresque) [x]
F. Hart: Evening

On a dream-hill we'll build our city (from The Unknown Goddess)
G. Holst: The dream-city

On Betelgeuse (On Betelgeuse ) (from The Unknown Goddess) - G. Allen, G. Allen
On Betelgeuse (from The Unknown Goddess)
G. Holst: Betelgeuse
G. Allen, G. Allen: On Betelgeuse

Over the mountains (Over the mountains) (from Humoresque) [x]
F. Hart: Night

Over the mountains (from Humoresque) [x]
F. Hart: Night

Persephone (Come back Persephone ) (from The Unknown Goddess) - G. Holst
Queen Victoria (Queen Victoria's / statue is ) (from Kensington Gardens) [x]
S. Adler: Queen Victoria

Queen Victoria's / statue is (from Kensington Gardens) [x]
S. Adler: Queen Victoria

Renunciation (I have only asked you for a moment to stay) (from Humoresque) - F. Hart [x]
Rest and have ease (from The Unknown Goddess)
G. Holst, M. Besly, F. Hart: In the street of lost time

Rhyme (Rhyme / in your clear chime ) (from The Unknown Goddess) - G. Holst
Rhyme / in your clear chime (from The Unknown Goddess)
G. Holst: Rhyme

Rose, shut your heart (from Humoresque) [x]
F. Hart: Noon

Rue de Toutes Ames (Street of all souls, have in your moonless keeping) (from This Blind Rose - Geneva) [x]
F. Hart: Street of All Souls

She rests (from This Blind Rose) [x]
F. Hart: Cyclamen

Since it is evening (from This Blind Rose)
G. Holst: A little music

Slide the dead cedar-tree (Slides the dead) (from This Blind Rose) - F. Hart [x]
Slides the dead (from This Blind Rose) [x]
F. Hart: Slide the dead cedar-tree

Some evening when you are sitting alone (from The Unknown Goddess)
J. Duke, M. Someren-Godfery: The white dress

Street of All Souls (Street of all souls, have in your moonless keeping) (from This Blind Rose - Geneva) - F. Hart [x]
Street of all souls, have in your moonless keeping (from This Blind Rose - Geneva) [x]
F. Hart: Street of All Souls

Summer -- Renunciation (I have only asked you for a moment to stay) (from Humoresque) [x]
F. Hart: Renunciation

The alpine cross (Christ, on your Alpine Cross) (from This Blind Rose) - F. Hart [x]
The blackbird (In the far corner) (from Kensington Gardens) - H. Taylor [x]
The dream-city (On a dream-hill we'll build our city ) (from The Unknown Goddess) - G. Holst
The floral bandit (Beyond the town - oh far! beyond it ) (from The Unknown Goddess) - G. Holst
The high song (The high song is over) (from Requiem) - M. Salter [x]
The high song is over (from Requiem) [x]
M. Salter: The high song

The lamp in the empty room (I looked back suddenly into the empty room ) (from Humoresque)
H. Weisgall: I looked back suddenly

The lilac (Who thought of the lilac?) (from Kensington Gardens) - S. Adler [x]
The pale and pilgrim moon (I stretched out my hands) (from This Blind Rose) - F. Hart [x]
The rose (Why should a man) (from Kensington Gardens) - S. Adler [x]
The thought (I will not write a poem for you ) (from The Unknown Goddess) - G. Holst, M. Broones
The water queen - I. Dunlop [x]
The white dress (Some evening when you are sitting alone ) (from The Unknown Goddess) - J. Duke, M. Someren-Godfery
"There's someone at the door", said gold candlestick (from The Unknown Goddess) [x]
M. Someren-Godfery: Green candles

Things lovelier (You cannot dream ) (from The Unknown Goddess) - G. Holst, S. Adler
This pomegranate in his cloth of gold (from Others Abide) [x]
M. Someren-Godfery: Lamon to Priapus

To Bacchus, to the Nymphs and rural Pan (from Others Abide) [x]
M. Someren-Godfery: Biton to his gods

Two sparrows (from Kensington Gardens) - G. Grant-Schaefer, G. Jacob [x]
Violins (I have loved violins) (from This Blind Rose) - I. Dunlop [x]
Wadham Gardens (Slides the dead) (from This Blind Rose) [x]
F. Hart: Slide the dead cedar-tree

What will they give me, when journey's done (from The Unknown Goddess)
F. Bridge, G. Holst, M. Broones, F. Hart: Journey's end

When the spark that glittered (from The Unknown Goddess)
G. Holst: Envoi

Who thought of the lilac? (from Kensington Gardens) [x]
S. Adler: The lilac

Why should a man (from Kensington Gardens) [x]
S. Adler: The rose

You called me, and I did not hear you (from Humoresque) [x]
F. Hart: Alpine chaces

You cannot dream (You cannot dream ) (from The Unknown Goddess) - M. Head
You cannot dream (from The Unknown Goddess)
M. Head: You cannot dream
G. Holst, S. Adler: Things lovelier

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