The Songs
The songs are, with author of words, opus number (if any) and date of first publication:
- "Like to the Damask Rose", Simon Wastell (1892)
- "Queen Mary's Song", Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1889)
- "A Song of Autumn", Adam Lindsay Gordon (1892)
- "The Poet's Life", Ellen Burroughs (1892)
- "Through the Long Days", John Hay, Op. 16 No. 2 (1885)
- "Rondel", Henry Longfellow from a Rondel by Froissart, Op. 16 No. 3 (1894)
- "The Shepherd's Song", Barry Pain, Op. 16 No. 1 (1892)
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Famous quotes containing the word songs:
“Music is so much a part of their daily lives that if an Indian visits another reservation one of the first questions asked on his return is: What new songs did you learn?”
—Federal Writers Project Of The Wor, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)
“And songs climb out of the flames of the near campfires,
Pale, pastel things exquisite in their frailness
With a note or two to indicate it isnt lost,
On them at least. The songs decorate our notion of the world
And mark its limits, like a frieze of soap-bubbles.”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)