Lyric Companion
Composer

R. Beckett

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

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LIEDER · 41

Seven times one

2010·a-child-s-vision
EN

A shepherd band

1982
EN

adam talks to temptation

2012
EN

A child's amaze

1924·by-the-roadside
EN

Beautiful women

2015·by-the-roadside
EN

Doppelgänger

2021
EN

The River Otter (Japan)

2017·elegies-for-the-21st-century
EN

A bird came down the walk

1916·five-poems-by-emily-dickinson
EN
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A little budding rose

2021·five-poems-of-emily-bronte
EN

The faeries

2015·flights-of-fancy-four-poems-by-lydia-sharpe
EN

Words

2016·flights-of-fancy-four-poems-by-lydia-sharpe
EN

On being asked for a War Poem

2012·four-songs-from-a-man-young-and-old
EN

That crazed girl

2011·four-songs-from-a-man-young-and-old
EN

My fiftieth year

2011·four-songs-from-a-man-young-and-old
EN

Go heart

1983
EN

I wish I could speak like music

2019·hafez-unaccompanied-songs
EN

He is risen

2020
EN

I love to think that Jesus saw

2021
EN

Zechariah, do not fear

1997·john
EN

My God, why hast thou forsaken me

2021
EN

O clap your hands

2004
EN

Seeker

2016·poems-of-serenity-and-contemplation-of-lydia-sharpe
EN

Reading Gaol

2008
EN

Rejoice today with one accord

2019
EN

Naomi, you shall not call me

1996·ruth
EN

Your God shall be my God

1996·ruth
EN

The voice of God

2019·songs-of-brotherhood
EN

What if?

1926·songs-of-the-spirit
EN

Who is this?

2011·songs-of-the-spirit
EN

The Burning Babe

2013
EN

The golden mean

2014
EN

The human seasons

2021
EN

The night before Christmas

1889
EN

The Poet sings of Ruth

2009
EN

Summer: It will be Summer - eventually

1932·the-seasons-four-poems-of-emily-dickinson
EN

Autumn: Besides the autumn poets sing

2006·the-seasons-four-poems-of-emily-dickinson
EN

Beginning my studies

1926·three-inscriptions-by-walt-whitman
EN

Atalanta picks up the apples

1921·three-latin-poems-by-catullus
LA

To Diana

2001·three-latin-poems-by-catullus
LA

On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer

1975·to-one-who-has-been-long-in-city-pent-four-poems-by-john-keats
EN

Villanelle

2013
EN

Seven times one

2010·a-child-s-vision
EN

A shepherd band

1982
EN

adam talks to temptation

2012
EN

A child's amaze

1924·by-the-roadside
EN

Beautiful women

2015·by-the-roadside
EN

Doppelgänger

2021
EN

The River Otter (Japan)

2017·elegies-for-the-21st-century
EN

A bird came down the walk

1916·five-poems-by-emily-dickinson
EN