English, French, German and Italian words; selections not in English include English translations.
Art thou troubled? / George Frideric Handel -- My mother bids me bind my hair = Bind' auf dein Haar / Anne Hunter, Franz Joseph Haydn -- Bluebird / Rudolph Schirmer -- A brown bird singing / Royden Barrie, Haydn Wood -- For my soul thirsteth for God (from Psalm 42) / Felix Mendelssohn -- The green cathedral / Gordon Johnstone, Carl Hahn -- I will lay me down in peace (O God of my righteousness) / Maurice Greene -- I will sing of Thy great mercies (from St. Paul) / Felix Mendelssohn -- In meinem Garten die Nelken = My treasured flowers are dying / Emanuel von Geibel, Robert Franz -- Love among the daffodils / Edward Teschemacher, Eric Coates -- Maman, Dites-Moi = Mother, please explain / harmonized by Jean-Baptiste Weckerlin -- May-Day carol / English folksong (Essex), transcribed and harmonized by Deems Taylor -- The merry widow waltz / Franz Lehár -- Mother sorrow / Edvard Grieg -- Il Neige = 'Tis snowing / Hermann Bemberg -- Nuit d'étoiles = Lovely night of stars / Théodore de Banville, Claude Debussy -- Praise / George Herbert, George Dyson -- The pool of quietness / Grace Wallace, Thomas Vincent Cator -- Ridente la calma = How calm is my spirit / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart -- Der Sandmann = The sand-man / Gustave Herrmann Kletka, Robert Schumann -- Se meritar potessi = If only by deserving / Domenico Bruni -- Sound the flute! / William Blake, Celius Dougherty -- Spleen / Paul Verlaine, Lady Dean Paul Poldowski -- Sur la Terrasse de Saint Germain = On the Terrasse of Saint-Germain / André Alexandre, Félix Fourdrain -- Star Vicino = Let me linger near thee / Anon. (previously attributed to Salvator Rosa) -- To a little child / Clara Edwards -- The time for making songs has come / Hermann Hagedorn, James H. Rogers -- La vezzosa pastorella = In the cool and dewy morning / Domenico Bruni -- Vilia (from the Merry widow) / Franz Lehár -- Waters ripple and flow / Czecho-Slovak folksong, harmonized by Deems Taylor -- Welcome, pretty primrose / Ciro Pinsuti -- When Jesus walked on Galilee / Warren Charles Klein, Clara Edwards -- The willow song / William Shakespeare (from Othello), Samuel Coleridge-Taylor -- Under the greenwood tree / William Shakespeare (from As you like it), Thomas Augustine Arne