Lyric Companion
Composer

Sir Arthur Somervell

70 works in the catalog — read each text with IPA transcriptions and translations.

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LIEDER · 70

A voice by the cedar tree

1863
EN

Abschied

1863
DE

Ah, Love, but a day

1863
EN

Annabel Lee

1863
EN

Aspatia's song

1863
EN

Bed in summer

1863
EN

Birds in the high hall garden

1863
EN

Bleibt, o bleibt ihr Lippen ferne

1863
DE
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Bredon Hill

1863
EN

Come into the garden, Maud

1863
EN

Die holde Maid von Inverness

1863
DE

Die süße Dirn von Inverness

1863
DE

Erstes Lied des Narren

1863
DE

Fain would I change that note

1863
EN

Flower thoughts

1863
EN

Gedenken - Vergessen

1863
DE

Go not, happy day

1863
EN

In Westen

1863
DE

Into my heart an air that kills

1863
EN

Introduction

1863
EN

L'amabile fanciulla di Inverness

1863
IT

La jolie fille d'Inverness

1863
FR

Longing

1863
EN

Love me not for comely grace

1863
EN

Loveliest of trees

1863
EN

Madrigal à la musique

1863
FR

Mariechen, komm ans Fensterlein

1863
DE

Mary Morison

1863
EN

Meeting at Night

1863
EN

Musik, wenn leise Stimmen ersterben ...

1863
DE

My bed is a boat

1863
EN

My Jean

1863
EN

My true love hath my heart

1863
EN

Night

1863
EN

Nurse's song

1863
EN

O mistress mine

1863
EN

O My Luve's Like a Red, Red Rose

1863
EN

O Nanny wilt thou gang with me

1863
EN

O swallow, swallow

1863
EN

O that 'twere possible

1863
EN

O were my love yon lilac fair

1863
EN

On the idle hill of summer

1863
EN

Orpheus with his lute

1863
EN

Peace

1863
EN

Rothes Röslein

1863
DE

Silent worship

1863
EN

Song

1863
EN

Song: For music

1863
EN

Sterbelied

1863
DE

Sweet and low

1863
EN

Take, o take those lips away

1863
EN

Tears, idle tears

1863
EN

The blossom

1863
EN

The Forsaken Merman

1863
EN

The lads in their hundreds

1863
EN

The lamb

1863
EN

The lovely lass o' Inverness

1863
EN

The shepherd

1863
EN

The silver tassie

1863
EN

The street sounds to the soldiers' tread

1863
EN

The year's at the spring

1863
EN

Think no more, lad

1863
EN

To ----

1863
EN

Weep you no more, sad fountains

1863
EN

Weil noch, Sonnenstrahl

1863
DE

When a mounting skylark sings

1863
EN

When I was one-and-twenty

1863
EN

Where go the boats?

1863
EN

White in the moon

1863
EN

Windy nights

1863
EN

A voice by the cedar tree

1863
EN

Abschied

1863
DE

Ah, Love, but a day

1863
EN

Annabel Lee

1863
EN

Aspatia's song

1863
EN

Bed in summer

1863
EN

Birds in the high hall garden

1863
EN

Bleibt, o bleibt ihr Lippen ferne

1863
DE