Arnold Bax - Welcome, Somer
Now welcome, somer with thy sonne softe That hast this wintres weders over shake And driven away the longe nightes blake! Saint Valentine, that art full hy in lofte Thus
Arnold Bax - A Christmas Carol
There is no rose of such virtue As is the rose that bare Jesu: Alleluya For in this rose contained was Heaven and earth in little space: Res miranda By that
Arnold Bax - To Eire
To Thee, Beloved, of old there came The sailers of a thousand ships Who learned to love Thy hidden name And love the music on Thy lips; But some, who thought to build Thy
Arnold Bax - The Enchanted Fiddle
I come out of the west with the fiddle I stole from a Genoese ship; Lord! that was a treasure I captured When I gave the stranger the slip! I saw in the flower of the
Arnold Bax - A Milking Sian
Give up thy milk to her who calls Across the low green hills of Heaven And stream-cool meads of Paradise! Across the low green hills of Heaven How sweet to hear the milking
Arnold Bax - Roundel
Your yën two wol sle me sodenly I may the beaute of hem not sustene So woundeth hit through-out my herte kene And but your word wol helen hastily My hertes wounde, whyl that
Arnold Bax - I heard a Piper piping
I heard a piper piping The blue hills among — And never did I hear So plaintive a song It seemed but a part Of the hills’ melancholy: No piper living there
Arnold Bax - Across the Door
The fiddles were playing and playing The couples were out on the floor; From converse and dancing he drew me And across the door Ah! strange were the dim, wide meadows
Arnold Bax - As I came over the grey, grey hills
As I came over the grey, grey hills And over the grey, grey water I saw the gilly leading on And the white Christ following after Where and where does the gilly lead?
Arnold Bax - The pigeons
Odalisques, odalisques Treading the pavement With feet pomegranate-stained: We bartered for, bought you Back in the years Ah, then we knew you Odalisques, odalisques