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Composer: James Walter Wilson (1922-)

Alphabetic listing of musical settings [warning - not necessarily comprehensive]

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See Opus Order

Song Cycles, Symphonies, etc.

A Woman Young and Old

no. ?. O but there is wisdom (Text: William Butler Yeats)
no. ?. If I made the lashes dark (Text: William Butler Yeats)
no. ?. The lot of love is chosen (Text: William Butler Yeats)
no. ?. What lively lad most pleasured me (Text: William Butler Yeats) *
no. ?. I admit the briar (Text: William Butler Yeats)
no. ?. I did the dragon's will until you came (Text: William Butler Yeats) *
no. ?. Dry timber under that rich foliage (Text: William Butler Yeats) *

Bucolics

no. 1. In the cowslip pips I lie (Text: John Clare)
no. 2. When midnight comes (Text: John Clare)
no. 3. The birds are gone to bed (Text: John Clare)

Carrion Comfort

no. ?. Patience, hard thing! the hard thing but to pray (Text: Gerard Manley Hopkins)
no. ?. Thou art indeed just, Lord, if I contend (Text: Gerard Manley Hopkins)
no. ?. Not, I'll not, carrion comfort, Despair, not feast on thee (Text: Gerard Manley Hopkins)

Irish Songs , op. 40

no. ?. A glass of beer (Text: James Stephens)
no. ?. Nights of music (Text: Thomas Moore)

Three Birds

no. ?. Trotty Wagtail (Text: John Clare)
no. ?. The eagle (Text: Lord Alfred Tennyson) GER

Three Canticles

no. ?. Eve (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)

Trefoil

no. 1. Laughing song (Text: William Blake) RUS WEL
no. 2. Night (Text: William Blake) GER
no. 3. Spring (Text: William Blake) WEL

Upon Silence , op. 54

no. ?. The cat and the moon (Text: William Butler Yeats)
no. ?. The coat (Text: William Butler Yeats)
no. ?. Long-legged fly (Text: William Butler Yeats) *

All titles of vocal settings in our database, in alphabetic order

A glass of beer, op. 40 no. ? (in Irish Songs) (Text: James Stephens)
Dry timber under that rich foliage (in A Woman Young and Old) (Text: William Butler Yeats) *
Eve (in Three Canticles) (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
Fourth Canticle (Text: Gerard Manley Hopkins)
I admit the briar (in A Woman Young and Old) (Text: William Butler Yeats)
I did the dragon's will until you came (in A Woman Young and Old) (Text: William Butler Yeats) *
If I made the lashes dark (in A Woman Young and Old) (Text: William Butler Yeats)
In the cowslip pips I lie (in Bucolics) (Text: John Clare)
Laughing song (in Trefoil) (Text: William Blake) RUS WEL
Long-legged fly, op. 54 no. ? (in Upon Silence) (Text: William Butler Yeats) *
Lullaby, op. 39 (Yeats songs) no. ? (Text: William Butler Yeats) *
Night (in Trefoil) (Text: William Blake) GER
Nights of music, op. 40 no. ? (in Irish Songs) (Text: Thomas Moore)
Not, I'll not, carrion comfort, Despair, not feast on thee (in Carrion Comfort) (Text: Gerard Manley Hopkins)
O but there is wisdom (in A Woman Young and Old) (Text: William Butler Yeats)
Patience, hard thing! the hard thing but to pray (in Carrion Comfort) (Text: Gerard Manley Hopkins)
Song's Eternity (Text: John Clare)
Spring (in Trefoil) (Text: William Blake) WEL
Sweet dancer, op. 39 (Yeats songs) no. ? (Text: William Butler Yeats) *
The birds are gone to bed (in Bucolics) (Text: John Clare)
The cat and the moon, op. 54 no. ? (in Upon Silence) (Text: William Butler Yeats)
The cat and the moon, op. 39 (Yeats songs) no. ? (Text: William Butler Yeats)
The coat, op. 54 no. ? (in Upon Silence) (Text: William Butler Yeats)
The eagle (in Three Birds) (Text: Lord Alfred Tennyson) GER
The lot of love is chosen (in A Woman Young and Old) (Text: William Butler Yeats)
Thou art indeed just, Lord, if I contend (in Carrion Comfort) (Text: Gerard Manley Hopkins)
Trotty Wagtail (in Three Birds) (Text: John Clare)
What lively lad most pleasured me (in A Woman Young and Old) (Text: William Butler Yeats) *
When midnight comes (in Bucolics) (Text: John Clare)