Songs
(In the order listed in The Lyrics of Noël Coward, pp. 19–30):
- Cosmopolitan lady
- I'm so in love
- Poor little rich girl
- First love
- Couldn't we keep on dancing?
- Raspberry time in Runcorn
- Spinsters' song
- The vicarage dance
- Choir boys' song
- Even clergymen are naughty now and then
- Church parade
- Come a little closer
The Noël Coward Society, drawing on performing statistics from the publishers and the Performing Rights Society, ranks "Poor little rich girl" among Coward's ten most popular songs. The show also features four ballets, not by Coward. One of them, based on William Hogarth's The Rake’s Progress, was composed by Roger Quilter and choreographed by Leonid Massine.
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Famous quotes containing the word songs:
“What wondrous love is this
That caused the Lord of bliss
To bear the dreadful curse for my soul”
—Unknown. “What Wondrous Love is this!” L. 3-5, Dupuy’s Hymns and Spiritual Songs (1811)
“People fall out of windows, trees tumble down,
Summer is changed to winter, the young grow old
The air is full of children, statues, roofs
And snow. The theatre is spinning round,
Colliding with deaf-mute churches and optical trains.
The most massive sopranos are singing songs of scales.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)
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Loved! loved! loved! loved! loved!
But my mate no more, no more with me!
We two together no more.”
—Walt Whitman (1819–1892)