Lyric Companion
Composer

G. Holst

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

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LIEDER · 144

Man born of desire

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Rejoice, ye dead

a-choral-fantasia
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A dirge for two veterans

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A lake and a fairy boat

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A Vigil of Pentecost

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Airly Beacon

EN

Anna‑Marie

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Autumn song

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Awake, my heart

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Between us now

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Bhanavar's Lament

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Bring us in good ale

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Battle Hymn

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To the Unknown God

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Funeral Hymn

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To Varuna (God of the Waters)

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To Agni (God of Fire)

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Funeral Chant

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Hymn to the Dawn

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Hymn to the Waters

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Hymn to Vena

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Hymn to the Travellers

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Clear and cool

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Come to me

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Darest thou now O Soul

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Die Spröde

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Dirge and Hymeneal

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Diverus and Lazarus

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Draw not away thy hands

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Dream tryst

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Evening on the Moselle

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Epilogue

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Eternal Father

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Fain would I change that note

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First Choral Symphony

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Jesu, thou the Virgin-born

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Jesu Sweet

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My soul has nought but fire and ice

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I sing of a maiden

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My Leman is so true

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Gird on thy sword

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God be in my head

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I come from haunts of coot and hern

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I love thee

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I scanned her picture, dreaming

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I vow to thee, my country

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I will not let thee go

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In a wood

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In the bleak midwinter

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In youth is pleasure

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Lullay my liking

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Man born to toil

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Margrete's cradle song

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My joy

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Ushas (Dawn)

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Varuna I (Sky)

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Maruts (Stormclouds)

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Indra (God of Storm and Battle)

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Varuna II (The Waters)

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Song of the Frogs

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Vac (Speech)

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Creation

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Faith

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Not a sound but echoing in me

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Now sleep, and take thy rest

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O Lady, leave that silken thread

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O spiritual pilgrim

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Ode on a Grecian Urn

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Ode to Death

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Of one that is so fair and bright

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Roadways

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Sergeant's song

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Say who is this?

seven-partsongs
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O Love, I complain

seven-partsongs
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Angel spirits of sleep

seven-partsongs
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When first we met we did not guess

seven-partsongs
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Sorrow and joy

seven-partsongs
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Love on my heart from heaven fell

seven-partsongs
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Assemble all ye maidens

seven-partsongs
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Sing Heigh-ho!

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I sow'd the seeds of love

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There was a tree

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Matthew, Mark and Luke and John

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The song of the blacksmith

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I love my love

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Swansea Town

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Good Friday

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Intercession

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How mighty are the Sabbaths

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A love song

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Drinking song

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Before sleep

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Calm is the morn

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Weep you no more

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Lovely kind, and kindly loving

six-songs
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Peace

six-songs
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Slumber song

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Soft and gently

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Song of the Drovers

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Song to the Sleeping Lady

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Sweet and low

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Tears, idle tears

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O swallow, swallow

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Home they brought her warrior dead

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Now sleeps the crimson petal

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Spring it is cheery

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The autumn is old

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The Ballad of Hunting Knowe

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The Day Of The Lord

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The evening watch

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The Exile of Erin

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The Harper

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The heart worships

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The homecoming

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The Mystic Trumpeter

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The stars are with the voyager

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The swallow leaves her nest

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The White Lady's Farewell

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There sits a bird on yonder tree

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This have I done for my true love

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Thou didst delight mine eyes

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Let all mortal flesh keep silence

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Turn back O man

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Persephone

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Things lovelier

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Now in these fairylands

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A little music

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The thought

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The floral bandit

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Envoi

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The dream-city

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Journey's end

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In the street of lost time

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Rhyme

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Betelgeuse

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Mae 'nghariad i'n Fenws

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My sweetheart's like Venus

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Twin stars aloft

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A welcome song

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Terly, terlow

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Spring

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Summer

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Whether we die or we live

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Winter and the birds

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Man born of desire

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Rejoice, ye dead

a-choral-fantasia
EN

A dirge for two veterans

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A lake and a fairy boat

EN

A Vigil of Pentecost

EN

Airly Beacon

EN

Anna‑Marie

EN

Autumn song

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