Songs by Donald Swann

Tracklist

1. A Collection of Songs: The licorice fields at Pontefract
2. A Collection of Songs: Margate 1940
3. A Collection of Songs: Senex
4. A Collection of Songs: A subaltern’s love song
5. Five colourisations of Emily Dickinson: Farewell
6. Five colourisations of Emily Dickinson: I died for Beauty
7. Five colourisations of Emily Dickinson: I felt a Funeral, in my Brain
8. Five colourisations of Emily Dickinson: Dying
9. Five colourisations of Emily Dickinson: I had no time to Hate
10. Two sonnets by Edna St. Vincent Millay: And must I then, indeed, Pain, live with you
11. Two sonnets by Edna St. Vincent Millay: Thou famished grave, I will not fill thee yet
12. Stopping by woods
13. Two poems by Thomas Hardy: Thoughts of Phena
14. Two poems by Thomas Hardy: Before life and after
15. Four lyrics from In memoriam: Be near me when my light is low
16. Four lyrics from In memoriam: Oh yet we trust that somehow good
17. Four lyrics from In memoriam: The wish
18. Four lyrics from In memoriam: There rolls the deep
19. Two poems by Christina Rossetti: When I am dead, my dearest
20. Two poems by Christina Rossetti: A better resurrection
21. Dark rose of my heart
22. An invite to eternity
23. The harlot’s house
24. Six songs to poems by William Blake: The Garden of Love
25. Six songs to poems by William Blake: Ah! Sun-flower!
26. Six songs to poems by William Blake: The sick Rose
27. Six songs to poems by William Blake: The Angel
28. Six songs to poems by William Blake: The Fly
29. Six songs to poems by William Blake: Proverb
30. Я вас любил (I loved you once)
31. She is all harmony, all wonder
32. Some people’s dreams
33. Marguerite
34. A red, red rose
35. It was a lover, and his lass
36. See, dearest, how the rose
37. Arcades
38. We’ll go no more a-roving
39. Longing
40. Oh, why are the roses so pale?
41. Old songs of lost love
42. In the mist
43. Raiders’ dawn
44. The youth of the heart
45. He wishes for the cloths of heaven
46. Bilbo’s last song (no. 9 of "The road goes ever on")

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