Lyric Companion
Composer

E. Bacon

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

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LIEDER · 160

A brighter morning

1898
EN

A word

1898
EN

Ach Lieb, ich muß nun scheiden

1837
DE

Adam

1898
EN

After a hundred years

1898
EN

After Blenheim

1898
EN

Air

1898
EN

Alabaster wool

1898
EN
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Alone

1898
EN

And who are you?

1867
EN

Angels in the early morning

1898
EN

As imperceptibly as grief

1898
EN

As well as Jesus?

1898
EN

At the gate

1898
EN

August

1898
EN

Billy in the Darbies

1898
EN

Brady

1898
EN

Caliban

1898
EN

Calm soul

1891
EN

Cape Cod

1898
EN

Child's evening hymn

1898
EN

Christmas Eve

1825
EN

Der Brief

1819
DE

Der Soldat

1836
DE

Elate philosopher

1898
EN

Epitaph on an army of mercenaries

1880
EN

Es war ein fauler Schäfer

1838
DE

Farewell

1898
EN

Farewell to a name

1898
EN

Few get enough

1898
EN

The Eternal Goodness

1834·five-hymns
EN

It's all I have to bring

1898·five-poems-by-emily-dickinson
EN

So bashful

1898·five-poems-by-emily-dickinson
EN

Poor little heart!

1873·five-poems-by-emily-dickinson
EN

To make a prairie

1898·five-poems-by-emily-dickinson
EN

And this of all my hopes

1898·five-poems-by-emily-dickinson
EN

Flowers and moonlight

1898
EN

Fog

1898
EN

Foreign laws

1898
EN

The Lord of Ev'rything

1898·four-songs-for-soprano
EN

Epitaph

1888·four-songs-for-soprano
EN

Free will

1898
EN

What soft, cherubic creatures

1898·from-emily-s-diary
EN

It's coming -- the postponeless Creature

1898·from-emily-s-diary
EN

Unto me?

1898·from-emily-s-diary
EN

I dwell in possibility

1898·from-emily-s-diary
EN

Not what we did, shall be the test

1898·from-emily-s-diary
EN

Our share of night to bear

1898·from-emily-s-diary
EN

Is Heaven a Place -- a Sky -- a Tree?

1898·from-emily-s-diary
EN

The daisy follows soft the sun

1898·from-emily-s-diary
EN

My river runs to thee

1898·from-emily-s-diary
EN

Frühlingsgruß

1824
DE

Goodnight, Dear Heart

1909
EN

Ich hab' dich geliebt

1798
DE

Immortality

1898
EN

In thine eternal shade

1898
EN

It's such a little thing

1898
EN

Lehn deine Wang'

1796
DE

Lingering last drops

1898
EN

Looking forward

1898
EN

Looking‑Glass River

1876
EN

May Day

1898
EN

Meeres Stille

1752
DE

Mit einem gemalten Band

1752
DE

Morn and Night

1872
EN

With the first Arbutus

1898·nature
EN

The gentlest mother

1898·nature
EN

There came a day

1898·nature
EN

A spider

1898·nature
EN

A wind like a bugle

1898·nature
EN

Winter afternoons

1898·nature
EN

The mountain

1898·nature
EN

The Sea

1885·nature
EN

As if some little Arctic flower

1898·nature
EN

The crickets sang

1898·nature
EN

Night and day

1898
EN

No more milk

1898
EN

No wonder

1898
EN

Nothing much to lose

1898
EN

The dove

1898·of-a-feather
EN

The condor

1898·of-a-feather
EN

The sparrow

1898·of-a-feather
EN

The pigeon

1898·of-a-feather
EN

The vulture

1898·of-a-feather
EN

Of God

1898
EN

Oh, shadow on

1898
EN

Passenger of Infinity

1898
EN

Past surmise

1898
EN

Peace

1846
EN

Twilight

1898·quiet-airs
EN

The divine ship

1898·quiet-airs
EN

Of love

1898·quiet-airs
EN

Eden

1898·quiet-airs
EN

The little stone

1898·quiet-airs
EN

Fond affection

1898·quiet-airs
EN

Stars

1898·quiet-airs
EN

The heart

1898·quiet-airs
EN

Song of snow-white heads

1898·quiet-airs
EN

To musique, to becalme his fever

1852·quiet-airs
EN

Sailing homeward

1877
EN

Schools and rules

1898·seven-canons
EN

Ancient Christmas Carol

1898·six-songs
EN

Omaha

1898·six-songs
EN

No dew upon the grass

1898·six-songs
EN

A clear midnight

1872·six-songs
EN

World, take good notice

1867·six-songs
EN

Sleep

1898
EN

Solitude

1898
EN

Grand is the seen

1898·songs-at-parting-a-selection-of-walt-whitman-s-poems
EN

The last invocation

1855·songs-at-parting-a-selection-of-walt-whitman-s-poems
EN

Twilight

1898·songs-at-parting-a-selection-of-walt-whitman-s-poems
EN

Whispers of heavenly death

1872·songs-at-parting-a-selection-of-walt-whitman-s-poems
EN

The sobbing of the bells

1898·songs-at-parting-a-selection-of-walt-whitman-s-poems
EN

Let down the bars

1898·songs-from-emily-dickinson
EN

O friend

1898·songs-from-emily-dickinson
EN

A threadless way

1898·songs-from-emily-dickinson
EN

How still the bells

1898·songs-from-emily-dickinson
EN

The sun went down

1898·songs-from-emily-dickinson
EN

Savior

1898·songs-from-emily-dickinson
EN

She went as quiet as the dew

1898·songs-from-emily-dickinson
EN

Wild nights

1898·songs-from-emily-dickinson
EN

Simple days

1898·songs-from-emily-dickinson-nature-time-and-space-volume-1
EN

Is there such a thing as day?

1865·songs-from-emily-dickinson-nature-time-and-space-volume-1
EN

Velvet people

1898·songs-from-emily-dickinson-nature-time-and-space-volume-2
EN

The morns are meeker

1852·songs-from-emily-dickinson-nature-time-and-space-volume-2
EN

Stephano

1898
EN

Sweet is the swamp

1898
EN

Schilflied

1809·ten-songs-by-ernst-bacon
DE

Die Nachtblume

1805·ten-songs-by-ernst-bacon
DE

Gebet

1898·ten-songs-by-ernst-bacon
DE

The arts

1898
EN

The commonplace

1898
EN

The dodger

1898
EN

The golden rule

1898
EN

The look

1870
EN

The Lord Star

1885
EN

The rainy Pleiads

1898
EN

The river

1895
EN

The Spanish Armada

1898
EN

The starry train

1898
EN

The trade of man

1898
EN

The train

1873
EN

The unquiet grave

1872
EN

The white window

1887
EN

There's this to say

1898
EN

This quiet Dust

1891
EN

To a loving husband

1898
EN

To music: a fragment

1898
EN

To one shortly to die

1898
EN

Treading

1898
EN

Truth

1898
EN

Twilight

1884
EN

Two legacies

1898
EN

Vanity of vanities

1898
EN

Vergißmeinnicht

1794
DE

Wandl' ich in dem Wald des Abends

1805
DE

Water

1898
EN

We never know

1898
EN

Winter-Time

1898
EN

Yellow

1898
EN

A brighter morning

1898
EN

A word

1898
EN

Ach Lieb, ich muß nun scheiden

1837
DE

Adam

1898
EN

After a hundred years

1898
EN

After Blenheim

1898
EN

Air

1898
EN

Alabaster wool

1898
EN