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Composer: Peter Warlock (1894-1930) [pseudonym]

Philip Arnold Heseltine

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

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Song Cycles, Symphonies, etc.

Candlelight: a cycle of nursery jingles

no. 1. How many miles to Babylon?
no. 2. I won't be my father's Jack
no. 3. Robin and Richard
no. 4. O my kitten
no. 5. Little Tommy Tucker
no. 6. There was an old man
no. 7. I had a little pony
no. 8. Little Jack Jingle
no. 9. There was a man of Thessaly
no. 10. Suky, you shall be my wife
no. 11. There was an old woman
no. 12. Arthur o' Bower

Lillygay

no. 1. The distracted maid
no. 2. Johnnie wi' the Tye (Text: Victor Neuberg)
no. 3. The shoemaker (Text: Victor Neuberg)
no. 4. Burd Ellen and Young Tamlane
no. 5. Rantum Tantum (Text: Victor Neuberg)

Peterisms: first set

no. 1. Chopcherry (Text: George Peele)
no. 2. A sad song (Text: Francis Beaumont)
no. 3. Rutterkin (Text: John Skelton)

Peterisms: second set

no. 1. Roister Doister (Text: Nicholas Udall)
no. 2. Spring (Text: Thomas Nashe) GER
no. 3. Lusty Juventus (Text: R. Wever, probably Richard Wever)

The Curlew

no. 1. He reproves the curlew (Text: William Butler Yeats)
no. 2. The lover mourns for the loss of love (Text: William Butler Yeats)
no. 3. The withering of the boughs (Text: William Butler Yeats)
no. 4. He hears the cry of the sedge (Text: William Butler Yeats)

Three Belloc Songs

no. ?. My own country (Text: (Joseph) Hilaire Belloc)
no. ?. The night (Text: (Joseph) Hilaire Belloc)

Two Songs of Arthur Symons

no. 1. A prayer to St. Anthony of Padua (Text: Arthur Symons)
no. 2. The sick heart (Text: Arthur Symons)

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

A lake and a fairy boat (Text: Thomas Hood)
A prayer to St. Anthony of Padua (in Two Songs of Arthur Symons) (Text: Arthur Symons)
A sad song (in Peterisms: first set) (Text: Francis Beaumont)
Adam lay ybounden (Text: 15^th century)
After two years (Text: Richard Aldington (né Edward Godfree Aldington)
Along the stream (Text: Launcelot Alfred Cranmer-Byng after Li-Tai-Po) ENG
Arthur o' Bower (in Candlelight: a cycle of nursery jingles)
As ever I saw (Text: 16^th century)
Autumn's twilight (Text: Arthur Symons)
Away to Twiver
Balulalow (Text: The brothers Wedderburn (James, John and Robert) after Martin Luther) ENG
Break of day (Text: John Donne)
Bright is the ring of words (Text: Robert Louis Stevenson) HUN ITA
Burd Ellen and Young Tamlane (in Lillygay)
Captain Stratton's Fancy (Text: John Masefield)
Carillon, carilla (Text: (Joseph) Hilaire Belloc)
Chanson du Jour de Noël (Text: Clément Marot) ENG
Chopcherry (in Peterisms: first set) (Text: George Peele)
Consider (Text: Ford Madox Ford)
Cradle song (Text: John Phillip)
Dedication (Text: Sir Philip Sidney)
Eloré Lo (Text: 17^th century)
Fair and true (Text: Nicholas Breton)
Good ale (Text: 15^th century)
Ha'nacker Mill (Text: (Joseph) Hilaire Belloc)
He hears the cry of the sedge (in The Curlew) (Text: William Butler Yeats)
He reproves the curlew (in The Curlew) (Text: William Butler Yeats)
Heraclitus (Text: William Johnson Cory after Callimachus) ENG
Hey troly loly lo (Text: 16^th century)
How many miles to Babylon? (in Candlelight: a cycle of nursery jingles)
I asked a thief to steal me a peach (Text: William Blake)
I had a little pony (in Candlelight: a cycle of nursery jingles)
I have a garden (Text: Thomas Moore)
I held Love's head (Text: Robert Herrick)
I won't be my father's Jack (in Candlelight: a cycle of nursery jingles)
In an arbour green (Text: R. Wever, probably Richard Wever)
Jadis (Text: Ernest Dowson)
Jenny Gray
Jillian of Berry
Johnnie wi' the Tye (in Lillygay) (Text: Victor Neuberg)
Late summer (Text: Edward Shanks)
Little Jack Jingle (in Candlelight: a cycle of nursery jingles)
Little Tommy Tucker (in Candlelight: a cycle of nursery jingles)
Little Trotty Wagtail (Text: John Clare)
Love for Love
Lullaby (Text: Thomas Dekker)
Lusty Juventus (in Peterisms: second set) (Text: R. Wever, probably Richard Wever)
Maltworms (Text: William Stevenson)
Milkmaids (Text: Dr. James Smith)
Mockery (Text: William Shakespeare) NOR GER
Mourn no more (Text: John Fletcher)
Mr. Belloc's Fancy (Text: Sir John Collings Squire)
Music, when soft voices die (Text: Percy Bysshe Shelley) RUS GER
Music, when soft voices die (Text: Percy Bysshe Shelley) RUS GER
My gostly fader (Text: after Charles, Duc d'Orléans) ENG
My own country (in Three Belloc Songs) (Text: (Joseph) Hilaire Belloc)
My sweet little darling (Text: 16^th century)
O my kitten (in Candlelight: a cycle of nursery jingles)
One more river
Passing by
Peter Warlock's Fancy (Text: 15^th cent.)
Piggésnie (Text: 16^th century)
Play-acting
Pretty ring time (Text: William Shakespeare) GER FIN
Rantum Tantum (in Lillygay) (Text: Victor Neuberg)
Rest, sweet nymphs
Robin and Richard (in Candlelight: a cycle of nursery jingles)
Robin Goodfellow
Roister Doister (in Peterisms: second set) (Text: Nicholas Udall)
Romance (Text: Robert Louis Stevenson) ITA
Rutterkin (in Peterisms: first set) (Text: John Skelton)
Sigh no more, ladies (Text: William Shakespeare)
Sleep (Text: John Fletcher) GER
Spring (in Peterisms: second set) (Text: Thomas Nashe) GER
Suky, you shall be my wife (in Candlelight: a cycle of nursery jingles)
Sweet content (Text: Thomas Dekker)
Sweet-and-Twenty (Text: William Shakespeare) GER
Take, o take those lips away GER FRE
The bachelor (Text: 15^th century)
The Bayly Berith the Bell Away (Text: 15^th century)
The birds (Text: (Joseph) Hilaire Belloc)
The cloths of heaven (Text: William Butler Yeats)
The contented lover (Text: James Mabbe)
The countryman (Text: John Chalkhill)
The distracted maid (in Lillygay)
The everlasting voices (Text: William Butler Yeats)
The first mercy (Text: Bruce Blunt) *
The fox (Text: Bruce Blunt) *
The Frostbound Wood (Text: Bruce Blunt) *
The lover mourns for the loss of love (in The Curlew) (Text: William Butler Yeats)
The lover mourns for the loss of love (Text: William Butler Yeats)
The lover's maze (Text: Thomas Campion)
The Magpie (Text: Harry Hunter)
The night (in Three Belloc Songs) (Text: (Joseph) Hilaire Belloc)
The shoemaker (in Lillygay) (Text: Victor Neuberg)
The sick heart (in Two Songs of Arthur Symons) (Text: Arthur Symons)
The singer (Text: Edward Shanks)
The spring of the year (Text: Allan Cunningham)
The Toper's Song
The water lily (Text: Robert Malise Bowyer Nichols)
The wind from the West (Text: Edward Young)
The withering of the boughs (in The Curlew) (Text: William Butler Yeats)
There is a lady sweet and kind
There was a man of Thessaly (in Candlelight: a cycle of nursery jingles)
There was an old man (in Candlelight: a cycle of nursery jingles)
There was an old woman (in Candlelight: a cycle of nursery jingles)
Thou gav'st me leave to kiss (Text: Robert Herrick)
To the memory of a great singer (Text: Robert Louis Stevenson) HUN ITA
Tom Tyler
Twelve Oxen (Text: early 16^th century)
Tyrley Tyrlow (Text: 16^th century)
Whenas the rye reach to the chin (Text: George Peele)
Willow, willow (Text: Volkslieder (Folksongs)
Wine comes in at the mouth (Text: William Butler Yeats)
Yarmouth Fair (Text: Hal Collins)
Youth (Text: R. Wever, probably Richard Wever)

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