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(Edward) Benjamin Britten

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

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Works in catalog: 124

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A cradle song

A Dirge

A Lye-Wake

Adam lay ybounden

Afton Water

Agnus Dei

Ah! Sun-flower! weary of time

Anthem for Doomed Youth

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Antique

April komt met haar milde regen

At a Calvary near the Ancre

At the round earth's imagin'd corners

Balulalow

Batter my heart

Being Beauteous

Benedictus

LA

Beware!

Bleibt, o bleibt ihr Lippen ferne

Brem, groene Brem...

Canto funebre

Chanson d'automne

Choice soul

Das Bäschen in unserm Sträßchen

David of the White Rock

Departure

Der Tiger

Die Linien des Lebens

Down by the Salley Gardens

Early one morning

Echoes

Ehre sei Gott in der Höhe

Every night and every morn

For I had wooed her oft and long

CY

From silent shades

Futility

Hälfte des Lebens

Herbstlied

Hochländisches Wiegenlied

Home

Hymn to Diana

I travelled among unknown men

I will give my love an apple

If it's ever spring again

If music be the food of love

If thou wilt ease thine heart

Im Gefängnis

In paradisum deducant te angeli

In the woods

Is my heart not sacred, full of finer life

It seems that out of battle I escaped

Kinderkreuzzug 1939

L'Enfance

La belle voyageuse

La chanson de la nourisse

Lamb of God

Le ciel est, par-dessus le toit

London

London, to thee I do present the merry month of May

Marine

May

Now sleeps the crimson petal

Nurse's song

O chut! Mon doux petit Donald

Oft in the stilly night

On a poet's lips I slept

Over the roof, the sky is

Parade

Perspice christicola, quae dignatio

Phrase

Pietà, Signor

Psalm 99 (100)

Royalty

Sally in our alley

Se la musica è il cibo dell'amore

Silver

Socrates and Alcibiades

Song of autumn

Sonnet LV

Sonnet: On Seeing a Piece of Our Artillery Brought into Action

Sonnet XVI

Sonnet XXIV

Sonnet XXX

Sonnet XXXI

Sonnet XXXII

Sonnet XXXVIII

Spring

Still falls the rain

Sumer is icumen in

Sweeter than roses

Take, o take those lips away

Tant sur la trompette sonnez

Tell me where is fancy bred

The Best Beloved

The birds

The chimney sweeper

The end

The fly

The foggy, foggy dew

The four sweet months

The Highland lullaby

The Impatient Maid

The lines of life are varied

The long sobs

The middle of life

The next war

The Oxen

The parable of the Old Man and the Young

The poison tree

The sick rose

The sky above the roof

The splendour falls

The tyger

The youth

There is no rose

There is someone in the world

Thou hast made me

To daffodils

To see a world in a grain of sand

To Sleep

Tom Bowling

Towns

Vento rude

Voices

When most I wink

A cradle song

A Dirge

A Lye-Wake

Adam lay ybounden

Afton Water

Agnus Dei

Ah! Sun-flower! weary of time

Anthem for Doomed Youth

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