Lyric Companion
Composer

Barber, Samuel

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

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LIEDER · 69

A slumber song of the Madonna

EN

A stopwatch and an ordnance map

EN

Andromache’s Farewell

EN

Au clair de la lune

FR

Bessie Bobtail

EN

Dere two fella Joe

EN

A last song

despite-and-still
EN

My lizard

despite-and-still
EN
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Solitary hotel

despite-and-still
EN

Despite and still

despite-and-still
EN

Dover Beach

EN

Easter Chorale

EN

At Saint Patrick's Purgatory

hermit-songs
EN

Church bell at night

hermit-songs
GA

Saint Ita's vision

hermit-songs
EN

The heavenly banquet

hermit-songs
EN

Sea-snatch

hermit-songs
GA

Promiscuity

hermit-songs
GA

The monk and his cat

hermit-songs
EN

The praises of God

hermit-songs
EN

The desire for hermitage

hermit-songs
EN

Hunting song

EN

Knoxville, Summer of 1915

EN

La nuit

FR

Love at the door

EN

Love's caution

EN

Man

EN

Puisque tout passe

melodies-passageres
FR

Un cygne

melodies-passageres
FR

Tombeau dans un parc

melodies-passageres
FR

Le clocher chante

melodies-passageres
FR

Départ

melodies-passageres
FR

Monks and raisins

EN

Mother, I cannot mind my wheel

EN

My Fairyland

EN

Night wanderers

EN

Nocturne

EN

Jack and Jill

nursery-songs-or-mother-goose-rhymes-set-to-music
EN

God bless you!

nursery-songs-or-mother-goose-rhymes-set-to-music
EN

I love little pussy

nursery-songs-or-mother-goose-rhymes-set-to-music
EN

Tom, Tom, the piper's son

nursery-songs-or-mother-goose-rhymes-set-to-music
EN

The Rockaby Lady

nursery-songs-or-mother-goose-rhymes-set-to-music
EN

I do not like thee, Dr. Fell

nursery-songs-or-mother-goose-rhymes-set-to-music
EN

Nuvoletta

EN

Of that so sweet imprisonment

EN

Peace

EN

Rain has fallen

EN

Mary Hynes

reincarnations
EN

Anthony O'Daly

reincarnations
EN

The coolin

reincarnations
EN

Sure on this shining night

EN

The beggar's song

EN

The queen's face on the summery coin

EN

The secrets of the old

EN

The Virgin Martyrs

EN

Now have I fed and eaten up the rose

three-songs
EN

A green lowland of pianos

three-songs
EN

O boundless, boundless evening

three-songs
EN

Lady, when I behold the roses

three-songs-the-words-from-old-england
EN

Hey Nonny No!

three-songs-the-words-from-old-england
EN

Thy love

EN

To be sung on the water

EN

Twelfth Night

EN

On the death of Cleopatra

two-choruses-from-anthony-and-cleopatra
EN

Little children of the wind

two-poems-of-the-wind
EN

Invocation to Youth

two-songs-of-youth
EN

I never thought that youth would go

two-songs-of-youth
EN

Under the willow tree

vanessa
EN

Must the winter come so soon?

vanessa
EN

A Hand of Bridge

Antony and Cleopatra

Vanessa

EN