Various songs to texts by Thomas Hardy | Manuscripts and Archives at Oxford University

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Title

Various songs to texts by Thomas Hardy

Shelfmark

MS. Mus. b. 542

Summary

Fair copies of several songs for voice and piano, all with texts by Thomas Hardy. Partly autograph. Nos. 1-2 and 4-8 below were included in the posthumously published cycles I said to Love, op. 19a and Till earth outwears op. 19b respectively.

'Two lips' (1928);

'I need not go';

'The temporary the all';

'Let me enjoy the earth';

'Let me enjoy [the earth]'. Another copy, in a different hand;

'At a lunar eclipse';

'At a lunar eclipse'. Another copy, in the same hand as 5.

'I look into my glass.