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Author: William Wordsworth (1770-1850)

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Epitaphs
The River Duddon, A series of Sonnets : Vaudracour and Julia : and Other Poems

Texts set to music [warning - not necessarily comprehensive]

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A complaint (There is a change -- and I am poor; ) - R. Owens
A flock of sheep that leisurely pass by GER
A night-piece (The sky is overcast) - W. Bon
A slumber did my spirit seal (A slumber did my spirit seal ) - F. Hart, J. Gardner
A slumber did my spirit seal
F. Hart, J. Gardner: A slumber did my spirit seal
N. Dodd: Lucy V

A song for the spinning wheel (Swiftly turn the murmuring wheel! ) (from The River Duddon, A series of Sonnets : Vaudracour and Julia : and Other Poems) - H. Antcliffe SWE
An den Schlaf (Die Herde Schlaf, die gemächlich zieht) - E. Pepping
And O, ye Fountains, Meadows, Hills, and Groves (O joy! that in our embers ) - G. Finzi
And O, ye Fountains, Meadows, Hills, and Groves
G. Dyson: Our birth is but a sleep
G. Finzi, G. Finzi, G. Finzi, G. Finzi, G. Finzi, G. Finzi, G. Finzi, G. Finzi, G. Finzi, G. Finzi, G. Finzi: There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream

As one who hangs down-bending from the side
D. Argento: Prologue: Shadow And Substance

Away, away - W. Bon [x]
Behold her, single in the field
A. Templeton: Hebridean Song
M. Chandler, J. Diack, P. Hadley, W. McCauley, G. Rasmussen, W. Snell, E. Thiman, L. Walters, I. Whyte, C. Wood, W. Wordsworth: The solitary reaper

Behold the Child among his new-born blisses (O joy! that in our embers ) - G. Finzi
Behold the Child among his new-born blisses
G. Dyson: Our birth is but a sleep
G. Finzi, G. Finzi, G. Finzi, G. Finzi, G. Finzi, G. Finzi, G. Finzi, G. Finzi, G. Finzi, G. Finzi, G. Finzi: There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream

But that night when on my bed I lay (But that night when on my bed I lay, I was most mov'd) - B. Britten FRE
But that night when on my bed I lay, I was most mov'd FRE
B. Britten: But that night when on my bed I lay

Clouds, lingering yet, extend in solid bars
D. Argento: The Lake At Evening

Composed upon Westminster Bridge, Sept. 3, 1803 (Earth has not anything to show more fair)
R. Lane, G. Rasmussen, W. Wordsworth: Westminster Bridge
M. Castelnuovo-Tedesco, A. Piggott, M. Short: Upon Westminster Bridge
R. Bennett: Sonnet
J. Eaton: Lines written upon Westminster Bridge

Daffodils (I wandered lonely as a cloud ) - G. Bachlund, H. de Lange GER
Die Herde Schlaf, die gemächlich zieht
E. Pepping: An den Schlaf

Earth fills her lap with pleasures of her own (O joy! that in our embers ) - G. Finzi
Earth fills her lap with pleasures of her own
G. Dyson: Our birth is but a sleep
G. Finzi, G. Finzi, G. Finzi, G. Finzi, G. Finzi, G. Finzi, G. Finzi, G. Finzi, G. Finzi, G. Finzi, G. Finzi: There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream

Earth has not anything to show more fair
R. Lane, G. Rasmussen, W. Wordsworth: Westminster Bridge
M. Castelnuovo-Tedesco, A. Piggott, M. Short: Upon Westminster Bridge
R. Bennett: Sonnet
J. Eaton: Lines written upon Westminster Bridge

Epilogue: De Profundis (The world is too much with us; late and soon) - D. Argento
Fair Is The Swan (Fair is the Swan, whose majesty, prevailing ) - D. Argento
Fair is the Swan, whose majesty, prevailing
D. Argento: Fair Is The Swan

From low to high doth dissolution climb
J. Beeson: Mutability

From 'Lucy' (I travelled among unknown men ) - B. Britten
Glide gently (Glide gently, thus for ever, ever glide) - W. Walton
Glide gently, thus for ever, ever glide
W. Walton: Glide gently

Hebridean Song (Behold her, single in the field ) - A. Templeton
Hope - R. Owens [x]
How richly glows the water's breast
J. Fernström: Lines written while sailing In a boat at evening

Hymn Near the Rapids (Jesu! bless our slender Boat) - D. Argento
I heard a thousand... (I heard a thousand blended notes ) - O. Freudenthal
I heard a thousand blended notes
O. Freudenthal: I heard a thousand...

I travelled among unknown men (I travelled among unknown men ) - C. Ives
I travelled among unknown men
B. Britten: From 'Lucy'
N. Dodd: Lucy III
C. Ives: I travelled among unknown men

I wandered lonely as a cloud (I wandered lonely as a cloud ) - E. Thiman GER
I wandered lonely as a cloud GER
L. Héritte-Viardot: The daffodils
E. Thiman: I wandered lonely as a cloud
G. Bachlund, H. de Lange: Daffodils
F. Kelley: The Daffodils

In Remembrance Of Schubert (O glide, fair stream! For ever so) - D. Argento
In the mountains - W. Bon [x]
It is a beauteous evening (It is a beauteous evening, calm and free) - R. Birch
It is a beauteous evening, calm and free
R. Birch: It is a beauteous evening

It is the first mild day of March GER
B. Randall, A. Brejestovsky: To my sister

Jesu! bless our slender Boat
D. Argento: Hymn Near the Rapids

Lines written upon Westminster Bridge (Earth has not anything to show more fair) - J. Eaton
Lines written while sailing In a boat at evening (How richly glows the water's breast ) - J. Fernström
Lucy I (Strange fits of passion have I known ) - N. Dodd
Lucy II (She dwelt among the untrodden ways ) - N. Dodd
Lucy III (I travelled among unknown men ) - N. Dodd
Lucy IV (Three years she grew in sun and shower) - N. Dodd
Lucy V (A slumber did my spirit seal ) - N. Dodd
Lutes and voices down th' enchanted woods
D. Argento: Music On The Water

Music On The Water (Lutes and voices down th' enchanted woods ) - D. Argento
Mutability (From low to high doth dissolution climb) - J. Beeson
My heart leaps up (My heart leaps up when I behold ) - P. Moravec GER
My heart leaps up when I behold GER
P. Moravec: My heart leaps up
C. Ives: So may it be!
N. Rorem: The Rainbow

No Nightingale did ever chaunt
A. Templeton: Hebridean Song
M. Chandler, J. Diack, P. Hadley, W. McCauley, G. Rasmussen, W. Snell, E. Thiman, L. Walters, I. Whyte, C. Wood, W. Wordsworth: The solitary reaper

Now, while the birds thus sing a joyous song (O joy! that in our embers ) - G. Finzi
Now, while the birds thus sing a joyous song
G. Dyson: Our birth is but a sleep
G. Finzi, G. Finzi, G. Finzi, G. Finzi, G. Finzi, G. Finzi, G. Finzi, G. Finzi, G. Finzi, G. Finzi, G. Finzi: There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream

O glide, fair stream! For ever so
D. Argento: In Remembrance Of Schubert

O joy! that in our embers
G. Dyson: Our birth is but a sleep
G. Finzi, G. Finzi, G. Finzi, G. Finzi, G. Finzi, G. Finzi, G. Finzi, G. Finzi, G. Finzi, G. Finzi, G. Finzi: There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream

O joy! that in our embers (O joy! that in our embers ) - G. Finzi
Ode on Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood (O joy! that in our embers )
G. Dyson: Our birth is but a sleep
G. Finzi, G. Finzi, G. Finzi, G. Finzi, G. Finzi, G. Finzi, G. Finzi, G. Finzi, G. Finzi, G. Finzi, G. Finzi: There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream

On such a night of June (The sun has long been set) - W. Bon
Our birth is but a sleep (O joy! that in our embers ) - G. Dyson
Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting (O joy! that in our embers ) - G. Finzi
Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting
G. Dyson: Our birth is but a sleep
G. Finzi, G. Finzi, G. Finzi, G. Finzi, G. Finzi, G. Finzi, G. Finzi, G. Finzi, G. Finzi, G. Finzi, G. Finzi: There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream

Prologue: Shadow And Substance (As one who hangs down-bending from the side ) - D. Argento
Seven Daughters had Lord Archibald GER
She dwelt among the untrodden ways (She dwelt among the untrodden ways ) - N. Peros
She dwelt among the untrodden ways
N. Dodd: Lucy II
N. Peros: She dwelt among the untrodden ways

Sieben Töchter hatte Lord Archibald [x]
J. Rheinberger: Vom einsamen Grund

Snurra hjulet, raska på [x] *
J. Ekström: Visa vid spinnrocken

So may it be! (My heart leaps up when I behold ) - C. Ives GER
Song for the spinning wheel (Swiftly turn the murmuring wheel! ) (from The River Duddon, A series of Sonnets : Vaudracour and Julia : and Other Poems) - F. Barbour, W. Ibberson, G. Jacob, M. Peck-Taylor, M. Phillips SWE
Sonnet (Earth has not anything to show more fair) - R. Bennett
Strange fits of passion have I known
N. Dodd: Lucy I

Sweet are the sounds that mingle from afar
D. Argento: The Lake At Night

Sweet is the love - O. Freudenthal [x]
Swiftly turn the murmuring wheel! (from The River Duddon, A series of Sonnets : Vaudracour and Julia : and Other Poems) SWE
H. Antcliffe: A song for the spinning wheel
F. Barbour, W. Ibberson, G. Jacob, M. Peck-Taylor, M. Phillips: Song for the spinning wheel

The Daffodils (I wandered lonely as a cloud ) - F. Kelley GER
The death of young Romilly : a ballad (What is good for a bootless bene ) - M. Arkwright
The Force of Prayer; or, The Founding of Bolton Priory: A Tradition (What is good for a bootless bene )
M. Arkwright: The death of young Romilly : a ballad

The Lake At Evening (Clouds, lingering yet, extend in solid bars ) - D. Argento
The Lake At Night (Sweet are the sounds that mingle from afar) - D. Argento
The Rainbow (My heart leaps up when I behold ) - N. Rorem GER
The Rainbow comes and goes (O joy! that in our embers ) - G. Finzi
The Rainbow comes and goes
G. Dyson: Our birth is but a sleep
G. Finzi, G. Finzi, G. Finzi, G. Finzi, G. Finzi, G. Finzi, G. Finzi, G. Finzi, G. Finzi, G. Finzi, G. Finzi: There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream

The Seven Sisters (Seven Daughters had Lord Archibald ) GER
The sky is overcast
W. Bon: A night-piece

The solitary reaper (Behold her, single in the field ) - M. Chandler, J. Diack, P. Hadley, W. McCauley, G. Rasmussen, W. Snell, E. Thiman, L. Walters, I. Whyte, C. Wood, W. Wordsworth
The sun has long been set (The sun has long been set)
W. Bon: On such a night of June

The sun has long been set
W. Bon: On such a night of June

The world is too much with us; late and soon
D. Argento: Epilogue: De Profundis

Then sing, ye Birds, sing, sing a joyous song!
G. Dyson: Our birth is but a sleep
G. Finzi, G. Finzi, G. Finzi, G. Finzi, G. Finzi, G. Finzi, G. Finzi, G. Finzi, G. Finzi, G. Finzi, G. Finzi: There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream

Then sing, ye Birds, sing, sing a joyous song! (O joy! that in our embers ) - G. Finzi
There is a change -- and I am poor;
R. Owens: A complaint

There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream (O joy! that in our embers ) - G. Finzi
There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream
G. Dyson: Our birth is but a sleep
G. Finzi, G. Finzi, G. Finzi, G. Finzi, G. Finzi, G. Finzi, G. Finzi, G. Finzi, G. Finzi, G. Finzi, G. Finzi: There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream

Thou, whose exterior semblance doth belie (O joy! that in our embers ) - G. Finzi
Thou, whose exterior semblance doth belie
G. Dyson: Our birth is but a sleep
G. Finzi, G. Finzi, G. Finzi, G. Finzi, G. Finzi, G. Finzi, G. Finzi, G. Finzi, G. Finzi, G. Finzi, G. Finzi: There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream

Three years she grew in sun and shower
N. Dodd: Lucy IV

To my sister (It is the first mild day of March) - B. Randall, A. Brejestovsky GER
To Sleep (A flock of sheep that leisurely pass by) GER
Travelling - W. Bon [x]
Upon Westminster Bridge (Earth has not anything to show more fair) - M. Castelnuovo-Tedesco, A. Piggott, M. Short
Visa vid spinnrocken (Snurra hjulet, raska på) - J. Ekström [x] *
Vom einsamen Grund (Sieben Töchter hatte Lord Archibald) - J. Rheinberger [x]
Weep not, beloved friends (Weep not, beloved friends! nor let the air ) (from Epitaphs) - S. Coleridge-Taylor, C. Rootham
Weep not, beloved friends! nor let the air (from Epitaphs)
S. Coleridge-Taylor, C. Rootham: Weep not, beloved friends

Westminster Bridge (Earth has not anything to show more fair) - R. Lane, G. Rasmussen, W. Wordsworth
What is good for a bootless bene
M. Arkwright: The death of young Romilly : a ballad

Written in early spring (I heard a thousand blended notes )
O. Freudenthal: I heard a thousand...

Ye blessed Creatures, I have heard the call (O joy! that in our embers ) - G. Finzi
Ye blessed Creatures, I have heard the call
G. Dyson: Our birth is but a sleep
G. Finzi, G. Finzi, G. Finzi, G. Finzi, G. Finzi, G. Finzi, G. Finzi, G. Finzi, G. Finzi, G. Finzi, G. Finzi: There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream

Young Romilly through Barden woods
M. Arkwright: The death of young Romilly : a ballad

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