Lyric Companion
Composer

G. Finzi

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

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LIEDER · 118

A merrymaking in question

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A young man's exhortation

a-young-man-s-exhortation
EN

Budmouth Dears

a-young-man-s-exhortation
EN

Ditty

a-young-man-s-exhortation
EN

Her temple

a-young-man-s-exhortation
EN

The Comet at Yell'ham

a-young-man-s-exhortation
EN

Shortening days

a-young-man-s-exhortation
EN

The sigh

a-young-man-s-exhortation
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Transformations

a-young-man-s-exhortation
EN

The dance continued

a-young-man-s-exhortation
EN

Afterwards

EN

All this night

EN

At news of a woman's death

EN

Childhood among the ferns

before-and-after-summer
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Before and after summer

before-and-after-summer
EN

The self-unseeing

before-and-after-summer
EN

Overlooking the river

before-and-after-summer
EN

Channel firing

before-and-after-summer
EN

In the mind's eye

before-and-after-summer
EN

The too short time

before-and-after-summer
EN

Epeisodia

before-and-after-summer
EN

Amabel

before-and-after-summer
EN

He abjures love

before-and-after-summer
EN

Birds at Winter Nightfall

EN

Boy Johnny

EN

Paying calls

by-footpath-and-stile
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The master and the leaves

by-footpath-and-stile
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Voices from things growing in a churchyard

by-footpath-and-stile
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Exeunt omnes

by-footpath-and-stile
EN

By the earth's corpse

EN

Cabaret Voltaire

1945
FR

Days too short

EN

Dead in the cold

EN

Rhapsody

dies-natalis
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The Rapture

dies-natalis
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Wonder

dies-natalis
EN

The Salutation

dies-natalis
EN

During wind and rain

EN

Waiting both

earth-and-air-and-rain
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The phantom

earth-and-air-and-rain
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So I have fared

earth-and-air-and-rain
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To Lizbie Browne

earth-and-air-and-rain
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The clock of the years

earth-and-air-and-rain
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In a churchyard

earth-and-air-and-rain
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For St. Cecilia

EN

If she be made of white and red

four-songs-from-love-s-labours-lost
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False Concolinel

four-songs-from-love-s-labours-lost
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God-forgotten

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God is gone up

EN

Great things

EN

He fears his good fortune

EN

I am the one

EN

I found her out there

EN

I need not go

i-said-to-love
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At Middle-Field Gate in February

i-said-to-love
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Two lips

i-said-to-love
EN

In five-score summers

i-said-to-love
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For Life I had never cared greatly

i-said-to-love
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I said to Love

i-said-to-love
EN

June leaves and autumn

EN

Libellule rouge

1945·la-lune-a-la-fenetre
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L'épouse du criquet

1945·la-lune-a-la-fenetre
FR

Compagnon de voyage

1945·la-lune-a-la-fenetre
FR

La lune à la fenêtre

1945·la-lune-a-la-fenetre
FR

La lampe de la chambre voisine

1945·la-lune-a-la-fenetre
FR

L'averse du soir

1945·la-lune-a-la-fenetre
FR

La robe de l'univers

1945
FR

Lo, the full, final Sacrifice

EN

Middle-age enthusiasms

EN

News for her mother

EN

O dear me!

EN

I say I'll seek her

oh-fair-to-see
EN

As I lay in the early sun

oh-fair-to-see
EN

Only the wanderer

oh-fair-to-see
EN

To joy

oh-fair-to-see
EN

Harvest

oh-fair-to-see
EN

Since we loved

oh-fair-to-see
EN

On a discarded curl of hair

EN

Pâle aurore

1945
FR

from 'August 1914'

requiem-da-camera
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Lament

requiem-da-camera
EN

Clear and gentle stream

seven-unaccompanied-part-songs
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Wherefore to-night so full of care

seven-unaccompanied-part-songs
EN

So various

EN

Tall nettles

EN

The Cupboard

EN

The end of the episode

EN

The faithful swallow

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The lily has a smooth stalk

EN

The Night of the Dance

the-mound
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The subalterns

the-mound
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The Mound

the-mound
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The Temporary the All

EN

The terrible robber men

EN

The Twilit Waters

EN

Life a right shadow is

three-short-elegies
EN

This world a hunting is

three-short-elegies
EN

In years defaced

till-earth-outwears
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I look into my glass

till-earth-outwears
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It never looks like summer

till-earth-outwears
EN

At a lunar eclipse

till-earth-outwears
EN

Life laughs onward

till-earth-outwears
EN

Timing her

EN

To a poet a thousand years hence

to-a-poet
EN

On parent knees

to-a-poet
EN

Intrada

to-a-poet
EN

The birthnight

to-a-poet
EN

June on Castle Hill

to-a-poet
EN

Ode on the rejection of St. Cecilia

to-a-poet
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T’en souvient-il

1945·trois-melodies
FR

L’Océan des âges

1945·trois-melodies
FR

La vie, l’amour

1945·trois-melodies
FR

English Hills

two-songs
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When I consider how my life is spent

two-sonnets
EN

How soon hath Time

two-sonnets
EN

Un coup de dés jamais n’abolira le hasard

1944
FR

White-flowering days

EN

Yell'ham-Wood's story

EN

A merrymaking in question

EN

A young man's exhortation

a-young-man-s-exhortation
EN

Budmouth Dears

a-young-man-s-exhortation
EN

Ditty

a-young-man-s-exhortation
EN

Her temple

a-young-man-s-exhortation
EN

The Comet at Yell'ham

a-young-man-s-exhortation
EN

Shortening days

a-young-man-s-exhortation
EN

The sigh

a-young-man-s-exhortation
EN