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First Lines of Texts in All Languages, BM up to BZ

This index was generated 2009-11-21 05:00:24 PM

Boats sail on the rivers (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
H. Sarson: Boats and Bridges
S. Homer, M. Swinger, C. Wood: Boats sail on the rivers

Bobèche, adieu! bonsoir, Paillasse! arrière, Gille (Text: Paul Verlaine)
W. Bon: Le clown

Bog Kupidon dremal v tishi lesnoj RUS (Text: Samuil Yakovlevich Marschak after William Shakespeare)
D. Kabalevsky: Bog Kupidon dremal v tishi lesnoj

Bog sozdal mir iz nichego (Text: Konstantin Dmitrevich Bal'mont)
B. Asafiev: Bog sozdal mir iz nichego

Bogfinken bader i kilden (Text: Marinus Børup)
P. Schierbeck: Bogfinken

Bogi, Bogi moi! Kak grustna vechernjaja zemlja! ENG (Text: Mikhail Afanasievich Bulgakov)
D. Smirnov, D. Smirnov: Vechnyj prijut

Bogorodice Devo, radujsja (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts)
S. Rachmaninov: Bogorodice Devo, radujsja

Boicie się po ciemku, wiem POL (Text: Stanisław Barącz after Emil Faktor)
K. Szymanowski: Dla malych dziewczynek

Bois chers aux ramiers, pleurez, doux feuillages (Text: Charles-Marie-René Leconte de Lisle)
E. Chausson, Paladilhe: Nanny

Bois épais, redouble ton ombre ENG
J. Lully: Bois épais

Bois frissonnants, ciel étoilé DUT ENG (Text: Charles Cros)
E. Chausson: Chanson perpétuelle
H. Büsser: L'abandonée

Bois Janin à moi tour à tour (Text: Pierre de Ronsard)
F. Regnard: Bois Janin à moi

Bojus', bojus'!... ja ne privykla k schast'ju! (Text: Evdokiya Petrovna Grafinya Rostopchina)
A. Aliabev, I. Romanus, A. Postnikov: Bojus'!

Boldog legény, istenek párja (Text: Endre Ady)
Z. Kodály: Sappho szerelmes éneke

Bølge mod Kyst, hvor kommer Du fra? (Text: Vilhelm Bergsøe)
A. Backer-Grøndahl: Bølge mod Kyst

Bølgerne hviske i Maaneskin (Text: Johan Halmrast) [x]
A. Backer-Grøndahl: I Vaarnattens Drømme

Bølgerne ruller så tungt ved nat (Text: Vilhelm Krag)
A. Backer-Grøndahl, C. Sinding: Efter Storm

Bolit' dusha moja, bolit' (Text: Oleksandr Ivanovych Kandyba)
K. Stetsenko: Bolit' dusha moja

Böljan och stormen förenade skrida (Text: Anders Österling) [x]*
Y. Kilpinen: Sången

Bolnăvit de doruri multe (Text: Octavian Goga)
N. Bretan: Singur

Bol'shi seja ljubve nikto zhe immat', da kto dushu ENG (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts)
S. Rachmaninov: Iz `Evangelija ot Ioanna

Bon chevalier masqué qui chevauche en silence (Text: Paul Verlaine)
E. Chausson: Le Chevalier Malheur

Bon jour, bon mois, bon an et bonne estraine
G. Dufay: Bon jour, bon mois, bon an et bonne estraine

Bon jour, et puis, quelles nouvelles ENG (Text: Clément Marot)
G. Enescu: Aux damoyselles paresseuses d'escrire a leurs amys
R. de Lassus: Bon jour et puis quelles nouvelles?

Bon Saint Michel qui me donnez loisir SPA ENG (Text: Paul Morand)
M. Ravel: Chanson épique

Bona nox! bista rechta Ox (Text: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart)
W. Mozart: Bona nox! bista rechta Ox

Bone pastor Guillerme (Text: Guillaume de Machaut)
G. Machaut: Bone pastor Guillerme

Bones a-gittin' achy (Text: Paul Laurence Dunbar)
G. Bachlund: Chrismus Is A-Comin'

Bonjour mon coeur ENG (Text: Pierre de Ronsard)
R. de Lassus, P. Viardot: Bonjour mon coeur

Bonjour Suzon, ma fleur des bois ENG (Text: Louis Charles Alfred de Musset)
L. Delibes, Pessard: Bonjour Suzon

Bonne journée j'ai revu qui je n'oublie pas (Text: Paul Éluard) *
F. Poulenc: Bonne journée

Bonnie wee thing, canie wee thing (Text: Robert Burns)
Bonnie wee thing, cannie wee thing (Text: Volkslieder (Folksongs)
J. Haydn: Bonny wee thing
L. Beethoven: Bonnie wee thing

Bonte kraaie, waar, och armen (Text: Guido (Pieter Theodoor Jozef) Gezelle)
J. Andriessen: Bonte kraaie

Boot, saddle, to horse, and away! (Text: Robert Browning)
G. Peel: Boot, saddle, to horse
G. Bantock, G. Branscombe, R. Dansie, B. Daubney, N. Demuth, L. Drakeford, C. Hand, D. Hollins, J. Rogers, A. Wills: Boot and saddle
C. Reed, H. Sarson: Cavalier Song
H. Loomis: A Cavalier Song
J. Harrison, C. Stanford: Boot, saddle, to horse and away
G. Dyson, J. Easson: Boot, saddle, to horse and away!
G. Kobbé: To horse!
G. Stratton: Boot, saddle, to horse, and away

Booth led boldly with his big bass drum (Text: Vachel Lindsay)
S. Homer: General Booth enters into Heaven
P. James, P. James: General William Booth enters into heaven
C. Ives: General William Booth enters into Heaven

Born of the midnight cold (Text: George Turner Phelps)
H. Gilbert: Croon of the dew

Born with a red tummy was the bullfinch ENG
Bort allt vad oro gör FIN (Text: Carl S. Michael Bellman)
C. Bellman: Bort allt vad oro gör

Bort gå de, stumma skrida de (Text: Verner von Heidenstam)
H. Alfvén: Gustaf Frödings jordfärd

Borzolt, fehér Isten-szakállal (Text: Endre Ady)
N. Bretan: A Sion-hegy alatt

Bosporus! din Bølge sukker (Text: Holger Henrik Herholdt Drachmann)
C. Sinding: Bosporus! din Bølge sukker

Both you two have (Text: Robert Herrick)
F. Hart: To the yew and cypress

Bouche grave des lions (Text: Jean Cocteau)
G. Auric: Réveil

Bowered on sloping hillsides rise (Text: Caroline Alice Elgar, née Roberts)
E. Elgar: A Christmas greeting

Boy heart of Johnny Jones -- aching to-day? (Text: Carl Sandburg)
I. Gertz: Buffalo Bill

Boys, are ye calling a toast to-night? (Text: Sir Henry Newbolt)
J. Williams, A. Gray: Admiral Death

Bože! Bože! píseň novou SPA (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts)
A. Dvořák: Bože! Bože! píseň novou

Bože dálný, nesmrtelný GER (Text: Ozef Kalda)
L. Janáček: Bože dálný, nesmrtelný

Boże mój zmiłuj się nade mną (Text: Halina Póswiatowska) [x]*
T. Baird: Boże mój zmiłuj się nade mną

Bože muoj, otče muoj (Text: Volkslieder (Folksongs)
L. Janáček: Osamělý

Brächte dich meinem Arm der nächste Frühling ENG FRE (Text: Ludwig Heinrich Christoph Hölty)
F. Mendelssohn-Hensel: Die Ersehnte

Brachycome iberidifolia; étoile bleue ENG (Text: Lucien Alphonse Daudet)
D. Milhaud: Le brachycome

Brada! A son e bron wi mofo-buba (Text: Michaël Arnoldus Slory) *
G. Geertens: Komoto te na Egypte

Brahma, Dieu des croyants, maître des cités saintes ENG (Text: Armand Ocampo)
H. Bemberg: Chant Hindou

Branch by branch this tree has died (Text: Edna St. Vincent Millay) *
H. Adams: Branch by Branch

Brandt los, mijn hert, van al dat uw (Text: Guido (Pieter Theodoor Jozef) Gezelle)
J. Ryelandt: Brandt los

Brat af slaget rammet (Text: Frederik Paludan-Müller)
J. Hartmann: Brat af slaget rammet

Brátt mun birtan dofna (Text: Guðmundur Björnsson)
Sigfús Einarsson: Vögguvísa

Brauely deckt, come forth, bright day (Text: Thomas Campion)
T. Campion: Brauely deckt, come forth, bright day

Braunäuglein, die mein Leben war (Text: Karl Stieler)
G. Bunk: Braunäuglein

Brauner Bursche führt zum Tanze ENG ITA GER (Text: Hugo Conrat after Volkslieder (Folksongs)
G. Frumerie: Brauner Bursche
J. Brahms, H. Svensson: Brauner Bursche führt zum Tanze

Braust des Unglücks Sturm empor DUT (Text: Franz von Schober)
F. Schubert: Trost im Liede

Braust es, weht es, und der Bäume Gipfel tief sich neigen GER (Text: Friedrich Martin von Bodenstedt after Volkslieder (Folksongs)
P. Fassbaender: Liebesklage

Brausten alle Berge ENG GER (Text: Josef Wenzig after Volkslieder (Folksongs)
J. Brahms: Verlorene Jugend

Bräutlein meiner Seele GER (Text: Paul Heyse after Anonymous/Unidentified Artist)
A. Kleffel: Bräutlein weine nicht

Brave crocus, out of time and rash (Text: Arlo Bates)
G. Chadwick: The crocus

Brave lads in olden musical centuries (Text: Robert Louis Stevenson)
P. Wishart: Old songs

Brazii își vindecă scorburile (Text: Marin Sorescu) *
M. Eisikovits: Transfuzie secretă

Bread and milk for breakfast (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
G. Conant: In winter

Break -- break it open; let the knocker rust (Text: John Davidson)
R. Stevenson: To the generation knocking at the door

Break, break, break (Text: Lord Alfred Tennyson)
J. Blockley, L. Lavater: Break, break
H. Hiles: Break! break!
G. MacFarren: Break, break on the cold grey stones
B. Crist: Break, o Sea
D. Arditti, E. Manning, S. Homer, J. Fernström, F. Cox, E. Jewell, A. Richardson, T. Anderton, E. Aguilar, F. Bibb, O. von Booth, W. Boyd, J. Brewer, P. Buck, E. Bunnett, C. Burleigh, L. Carey, F. Challinor, H. Clark, J. Corina, A. Darby, E. Davis, W. Dempster, N. Dinerstein, C. Düring, E. Edwards, P. Enfield, D. Foltz, A. Frere, S. Glover, C. Haydon, G. Henschel, E. Jewell, F. Kurzweil, H. Ley, T. Lowther, E. Martin, R. Miles, C. Moore, J. More, W. Mudie, Myra, W. Neidlinger, H. Oakeley, E. O'Beirne, A. Parsons, J. Paynter, A. Pease, A. Ray, C. Rootham, S. Ross, J. Shaw, P. Stearns, M. Stydolf, E. Tennyson, E. Thiman, J. Veaco, R. Walthew, M. Whitney, C. Williams, E. Yates, Zeta: Break, break, break
A. Pollock: Remembrance
A. Pecket: O for the touch
R. Goldbeck: Break, break, break on thy cold grey stones, o Sea
M. Cartwright: Stately ships glide on
F. Boott: O well for the fisherman's boy
J. Barnett: The song of the sea
R. Rogers: Break, break, break, on thy cold grey stones

Break forth in plaintive riot (Text: John R. Slater after Heinrich Heine) [x]
H. Schalit: Break forth in plaintive riot

Breake now my heart and dye, Oh no, she may relent (Text: Thomas Campion)
T. Campion: Breake now my heart and dye

breath of autumns being (Text: Percy Bysshe Shelley)
M. Ostrzyga: Wind resonances

Breathe from the gentle south (Text: William Cowper)
C. Ives: The waiting soul

Breathe from the gentle south, O Lord (Text: William Cowper)
C. Ives: The waiting soul

Breathe not, hid Heart: cease silently (Text: Thomas Hardy)
A. Brings: To an unborn pauper child

Breathes the wind a lullaby ENG (Text: A. Rosenthal after Theodor Storm)
Brechender Forst, brausendes Meer [x]
A. Winterberger: Düsterer Abend

Brecht die schwangern Anmutsnelken (Text: Johann Christian Günther) [x]
A. Knab: Aria zu einer Nachtmusik vor der Brautkammer

Breit' über mein Haupt dein schwarzes Haar ENG ITA (Text: Adolf Friedrich, Graf von Schack)
R. Strauss: Breit' über mein Haupt dein schwarzes Haar

Breite, Nachtigall, die Flügel (Text: Adolf Frey) [x]
F. Niggli: An die Nachtigall

Brennend rot und schwarz gefleckt (Text: Lotte Ingrisch) *
G. Einem: Mohnlied

Brennessel steht am Wegesrand ENG ITA FRE FIN (Text: Hugo Conrat)
J. Brahms: Brennessel steht am Wegesrand

Brich aus in lauten Klagen (Text: Heinrich Heine)
J. Neger: Rabbi von Bacharach
A. Heller: Brich aus in lauten Klagen

Brich eine Ros' im Garten (Text: Jean Baptist Rousseau) [x]
K. Reinecke: Rose und Traube

Brich nur, brich, du armes Herz! (Text: Friedrich Leopold, Graf zu Stolberg-Stolberg)
J. Schulz: Lied eines Unglücklichen

Bricht das matte Herz noch immer (Text: Novalis)
L. Reichardt: Sehnsucht nach dem Vaterlande
J. Kienlen: Lied aus Heinrich von Ofterdingen
A. Crelle: Zulima

Bridges, golden bridges (Text: Alfred Perceval Graves after Emanuel von Geibel) [x]
L. Lehmann: Golden bridges

Bridle the horse, and then mount and go ENG GER (Text: Edward Oxenford after Paul Alfred Enderling)
Brief on a flying night (Text: Alice Christina Meynell, née Thompson)
C. Hand, F. Hart, M. Meachen, B. Rawlinson, H. Sykes, V. Agopov: Chimes

Briefchen schrieb und warf in den Wind ich SPA ENG ITA GER (Text: Ferdinand Gregorovius after Anonymous/Unidentified Artist)
J. Weismann: Briefchen schrieb und warf in den Wind ich
A. Zemlinsky: Briefchen schrieb ich

Briefe, nun mein! Tot, bleich und lautlos dauernd! GER (Text: Rainer Maria Rilke after Elizabeth Barrett Browning)
V. Ullmann: Briefe, nun mein! Tot, bleich und lautlos dauernd!

Bright be the place of thy soul (Text: George Gordon Noel Byron, Lord Byron)
R. Addison, G. Barker, C. Birch, F. Bosen, F. Clarke, J. Clarke-Whitfeld, J. Ellerton, W. Johnson, T. Matthay, F. Mendelssohn-Hensel, I. Nathan, S. Oakley, J. Pointer, J. Taylor, R. Owens: Bright be the place of thy soul!

Bright bird, light bird (Text: Edith Nesbit)
T. Riego: Slave song

Bright cap and streamers FRE (Text: James Joyce)
B. Moore, L. Betts, J. Ferris, J. Jarrett, D. Klotzman, W. Spencer, G. Treacher, G. Victory: Bright cap and streamers
E. Moeran: Bright cap

Bright clouds of May (Text: Edward Thomas)
I. Gurney: Bright Clouds

Bright hair grow dim (Text: Humbert Wolfe) [x]*
F. Hart: Bright hair grow dim

Bright is the ring of words HUN ITA (Text: Robert Louis Stevenson)
I. Gurney: Song and singer
R. Vaughan Williams, P. Warlock, P. Warlock, C. Carey, R. Farley, W. Hadow, S. Liddle, G. O'Hara, C. Oliver, G. Peel, A. Williams: Bright is the ring of words

Bright portals of the sky (Text: William Drummond of Hawthornden)
R. Vaughan Williams: Hymn

Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art (Text: John Keats)
C. Shaw, R. Steptoe: Bright star! would I were steadfast as thou art
R. Werther, B. Roe: His last sonnet
C. Parry, F. Converse, M. Cunningham, J. Meyerowitz, S. Pimsleur: Bright star
Q. Maganini: Sonnet: Bright star
R. Still: Sonnet

Bright stars, yellow stars, flashing through the air (Text: Joyce Kilmer)
H. Ware: Stars

Bright tulips, we do know (Text: Robert Herrick)
F. Hart: To a bed of tulips

Bright wanderer, fair coquette of Heaven (Text: Percy Bysshe Shelley)
G. Antheil: To the moon

Brightly beaming golden star (Text: after Heinrich Heine) [x]
A. Davenport: Brightly beaming golden star

Brightly sparkled the hall (Text: H. Hersee) [x]
F. Tosti: Come to my heart!

Brille encore (Text: Armand Lafrique) [x]
C. Chaminade: Chanson espagnole

Bring away this Sacred Tree (Text: Thomas Campion)
T. Campion: Song: Bring away this Sacred Tree

Bring her again, O western wind (Text: William Ernest Henley)
N. Johnson: Wind of the western sea
J. Hathaway, F. Korbay, H. Parker: Bring her again
A. Mallinson: Over the western sea
F. Hart: Western wind
C. Forsyth, L. Ronald: Bring her again, o western wind
A. Beach: The western wind
F. Hastings, W. Watts: Bring her again to me
M. Wald: The western sea

Bring' ich der Schönheit, da ich sie erblickt' (Text: after Michelangelo Buonarroti) [x]
E. Wolff: Bring' ich der Schönheit die Seele nah

Bring, in this timeless grave to throw (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
A. Leichtling: Bring, in this timeless grave to show

Bring Kateen-beug and Maurya Jude (Text: John Millington Synge)
A. Bax: Beg-Innish

Bring me all of your dreams (Text: (James Mercer) Langston Hughes) *
C. De Jong, S. Hovey, S. Raphling: The Dream Keeper

Bring me the sunset in a cup (Text: Emily Dickinson)
N. Peros: Bring me the sunset in a cup

Bring me those needles, Martha, I believe I'll knit Jesus a scarf (Text: Owen Dobson)
R. Fleming: Bring me those needles, Martha, I believe I'll knit Jesus a scarf

Bring me to the blasted oak (Text: William Butler Yeats) *
D. Lidov, P. Paviour, D. Young: Crazy Jane and the Bishop

Bring mir keine Geschenke. Bring mir nur dich (Text: Christina Busta) *
G. Einem: Das Geschenk

Bring' mir von allen Rosensträuchern (Text: Karl Ernst Knodt)
F. Petyrek: In der Rosenzeit

Bring the comb and play upon it (Text: Robert Louis Stevenson)
M. Williamson, M. Andrews, T. Crawford, E. Crowningshield, R. de Koven, V. Drozdoff, E. Falk, C. Grosvenor, L. Lehmann, S. Lekberg, P. Naylor, G. Peel, A. Rowley, F. Spedding, C. Stanford, E. Thompson, J. Whitfield, P. Williams, L. Zaninelli: Marching song

Bring us in no beef, sir, for that is full of bones (Text: 15^th cent.)
P. Warlock: Peter Warlock's Fancy

Bring us in no brown bread for that is made of bran (Text: 15^th century)
P. Warlock: Good ale

Bringe mir den Stein der Weisen GER (Text: Georg Friedrich Daumer after Hafis (Mohammed Schemsed-din)
H. Fleischer, H. Fleischer: Bringe mir den Stein der Weisen

Bringet des treu'sten Herzens Grüße (Text: Karl Egon Ebert)
F. Mendelssohn-Bartholdy: Reiselied

Bringet Kerzen, Wein und Saiten (Text: Emanuel von Geibel)
W. Baumgartner: Bringet Kerzen, Wein und Saiten

Bringt mir Blut der edlen Reben (Text: Ernst Moritz Arndt)
W. Baumgartner: Bringt mir Blut der edlen Reben

Brins d'osier (Text: (Claude Adhémar) André Theuriet) [x]
C. Franck: La chanson du vannier

Brodil ja pod ten'ju derev'ev RUS ENG ITA FRE (Text: Lev Aleksandrovich Mey after Heinrich Heine)
E. Denisov: Brodil ja pod ten'ju derev'ev

Brødre, meget langt herfra (Text: Hans Christian Andersen)
C. Weyse: Brødre, meget langt herfra

Broken, bewildered by the long retreat (Text: Wilfrid Wilson Gibson)
P. Miles: Retreat

Brørar kvarandre (Text: Volkslieder (Folksongs)
D. Johansen: Brørar kvarandre

Brót so stillan bylgja blá (Text: Hans Andreas Djurhuus) *
P. Alberg: Brót so stillan bylgja blá

Brother Bulleys, let us sing (Text: Thomas Hardy)
A. Serrell: The Bullfinches

Brother, come!/ And let us go unto our God (Text: Joseph S. Cotter, Jr.)
G. Bachlund: And What Shall You Say?

brotherS Of husbaNd egypt aNd yoursElf and jacob (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts)
J. Cage: brotherS Of husbaNd egypt aNd yoursElf and jacob

Broutez le thym, broutez mes chèvres (Text: Émile Augier)
C. Gounod: Chanson de pâtre

Brown and furry (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
C. Parry: Brown and furry
J. Berger, N. Simons: The caterpillar

Brown is my Love, but graceful
I. Gurney, R. Quilter: Brown is my Love

Brown-thrush singing all day long (Text: Sara Teasdale)
R. Baksa: April Song
K. Clarke: Love me, kiss me
S. Barab, H. Milligan, W. Watts: Love me

Brownie, Brownie, let down your milk (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
Brozhu li ja vdol' ulic shumnykh ENG FRE (Text: Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin)
D. Shostakovich: Stancy

Brüder, Brüder, wir ziehen in den Krieg (Text: Volkslieder (Folksongs) [x]
F. Silcher: Beim Ausmarsch

"Brüder" - Hört das Wort! (Text: Christian Morgenstern)
H. Ophoven: Festliche Hymne

Bruder Jakob, schläfst du noch? (Text: Volkslieder (Folksongs) [x]
W. Taubert: Bruder Jakob, schläfst du noch?

Brüder, lasset uns marschiren [x]
G. Zanger: Sänger's Marschlied

Brüder, lasst uns lustig sein NOR (Text: Johann Andreas Schachtner)
W. Mozart: Brüder, lasst uns lustig sein

Bruder Leichtsinn, so werd ich genannt ENG (Text: Fritz Löhner-Beda)
F. Lehár: Schön ist die Welt

Brüder, schrecklich brennt die Thräne [x]
F. Schubert: Lied

Bruder, sieh den armen Mann (Text: Christian Felix Weisse)
J. Hiller: Der arme Mann

Brüder! unser Erdenwallen DUT ENG (Text: Ignaz Franz Castelli)
F. Schubert: Trinklied

Bruder, wenn die Gläser winken (Text: Gotthold Ephraim Lessing)
J. Hiller, C. Graun, J. Graefe: Das aufgehobene Gebot

Bruit profond de la mer, tu ceins tout le rivage du globe sombre (Text: Robert, vicomte d'Humières)
C. Koechlin: Sur la grève

Brune enfant de l'Osmanli (Text: Jules Verne)
J. Hignard: Chanson turque

Brusande rusar en våg opp och stannar (Text: Gösta Schybergson)
J. Sibelius: Brusande rusar en våg

Büable, hör mi ân: Heut af mein Nâmenstag ENG
E. Humperdinck: Jager und Senn'rin

Bub und Mädel, groß und klein ENG (Text: Albert Sergel)
E. Humperdinck: Abzählen

Bubble, bubble (Text: Walter de la Mare) [x]
G. Peterkin: Song of the Water Maiden

Büble, wir - büble, wir wollen außre gehe! SPA ENG ITA FRE (Text: Des Knaben Wunderhorn)
G. Mahler: Verlorne müh'!

Bûcheron abats mon ombre FRE (Text: Félix Gattegno after Federico García Lorca) *
F. Poulenc: Chanson de l'oranger sec

Büchlein, Büchlein an der Wand ITA (Text: Martin Walser)
G. Bachlund: Professoren-Liedchen

Buckland bells, Buckland bells (Text: Leonard Alfred George Strong) [x]*
H. Menges: Buckland bells

Buds of roses, virgin flowers (Text: Thomas Moore)
M. Arkwright: Rose! Thou art the sweetest flower

Buffalo Bill 's defunct (Text: E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings)
W. Clark: Buffalo Bill's Defunct
J. Yannatos, G. Bachlund: Buffalo Bill's
E. Mandel: Buffalo Bill's defunct

Bugles sang, saddening the evening air (Text: Wilfred Owen)
B. Britten: Dies irae

Buildings above the leafless trees (Text: Sara Teasdale)
J. Duke, G. Bachlund: Central Park at Dusk

Bujdokolva járok Bércet (Text: Sándor Endrődy)
E. Kálmán: Bujdokolva járok

Buko von Halberstadt (Text: Des Knaben Wunderhorn)
E. d'Albert, T. Streicher: Wiegenlied

Bulbuls Nachtlied durch die Schauer (Text: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
W. Petersen: Bulbul (Die Nachtigall)

Bullicioso era el arroyuelo GER
Bunches of grapes, says Timothy (Text: Walter de la Mare)
C. Forsyth: Says Jane
I. Armitage, E. Bullock, C. Gibbs, H. Howells, F. Keel, P. Wilkinson, D. Pitcher: Bunches of grapes

Bunt geschminkt wie zur Zeit der Schäferfeste (Text: Johannes Schlaf after Paul Verlaine) [x]
R. Trunk: Die Allee

Bunt sind schon die Wälder ENG (Text: Johann Gaudenz Freiherr von Salis-Seewis)
F. Schubert, H. Nägeli: Herbstlied

Buntes Treiben! wirre Welt (Text: Peter Cornelius) [x]
R. Kleinmichel: Buntes Treiben! wirre Welt

Buona sera, case scure ENG (Text: Volkslieder (Folksongs)
L. Sinigaglia: Serenata Friulana

Buona Vespre! Dors: Ton bout de cierge (Text: Tristan Corbière, né Édouard-Joachim)
R. Escher: Do, l'enfant do

Burd Ellen sits in her bower windowe
P. Warlock: Burd Ellen and Young Tamlane

Burgen mit hohen FRE (Text: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
J. Kienlen: Soldatenlied
R. Wagner, L. Lenz: Lied der Soldaten
J. Lecerf: Soldaten vorüberziehend

Burghers in Sunday clothes strolling ENG FRE (Text: Hal Draper after Heinrich Heine) *
N. Rice: Burghers in Sunday clothes strolling

Burja mgloju nebo krojet (Text: Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin)
A. Dargomyzhsky, N. Medtner, E. Nápravník, V. Rebikov, M. Slonov, M. Yakovlev: Zimnij vecher
P. Viardot: Burja

Burla bien con desamor GER
Burn or freeze as it doth please thee ENG
Bursche, schnür' den Rucksack! (Text: (Gustav) Hermann Kletke) [x]
C. Grädener: Bursche, schnür' den Rucksack!

Burst forth, my tears, assist my forward grief
J. Dowland: Burst forth, my tears

"Bury me on a Sunday" (Text: Thomas Hardy)
B. Roe: Farmer Dunman's Funeral

Busch und Wiese, Feld und Baum (Text: Hermann Hesse)
E. Broechin, W. Bühler, H. Hoffmann, M. Kowalski, H. Kurig, E. Märki, E. Nick, W. Rettich, H. Sälter, K. Schwarz, P. Suitner, R. Wagner-Régeny: Gang bei Nacht

Bushuj volnujsja, glubokoje more (Text: Evdokiya Petrovna Grafinya Rostopchina)
A. Dargomyzhsky: Bushuj volnujsja, glubokoje more

Bustopher Jones is not skin and bones (Text: T. S. (Thomas Stearns) Eliot) [x]*
A. Rawsthorne: Bustopher Jones: The Cat about Town

Busy, curious, thirsty fly (Text: William Oldys)
R. Bennett: The fly
P. Hindemith: On a fly drinking out of his cup

Busy old fool, unruly Sun (Text: John Donne)
H. Emmer: The rags of time
E. Maconchy: The sun rising

But give them me, the mouth, the eyes, the brow! (Text: Robert Browning)
H. Mollicone: Eurydice to Orpheus
J. Franco: Orpheus and Eurydice

'But hear. If you stay, and the child be born (Text: Thomas Hardy)
B. Roe: In the Restaurant

But if the Soul can fling the Dust aside ENG (Text: Edward Fitzgerald after Hakim Omar Khayyám)
L. Lehmann: Why, if the Soul can fling the Dust aside

But lately seen, in gladsome green (Text: Robert Burns)
J. Haydn: The death of the linnet

But Mary kept all these things, and pondered them in her own heart (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts)
R. Vaughan Williams: Narration (5)

But now life's face beholden (Text: Algernon Charles Swinburne)
J. Lang-Hyde: Change

But oft, when underneath the green-wood shade ENG (Text: Edward Fairfax after Torquato Tasso)
But only three in all God's universe GER (Text: Elizabeth Barrett Browning)
G. Branscombe, E. Freer: But only three in all God's universe

But soon, too soon, the lover turns his eyes: (Text: Alexander Pope)
C. Parry: But soon, too soon, the lover turns his eyes

But that night when on my bed I lay, I was most mov'd (Text: William Wordsworth)
B. Britten: But that night when on my bed I lay

But the eunuchs still complained ENG FRE (Text: Emma Lazarus after Heinrich Heine)
but the other (Text: E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings)
G. Bachlund: but the other

But we have only begun (Text: Denise Levertov) *
J. Wallach: Beginners

But when our Country's cause provokes to Arms (Text: Alexander Pope)
C. Parry: But when our country's cause provokes to arms

But when thro' all th'infernal bounds (Text: Alexander Pope)
C. Parry: But when through all the infernal bounds

But when through all the infernal bounds (Text: Alexander Pope)
C. Parry: But when through all the infernal bounds

But wherefore do not you a mightier way (Text: William Shakespeare)
R. Simpson: Sonnet XVI

but why should (Text: E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings) [x]*
M. Wright: but why should

But yestereve the winter trees (Text: Clark Ashton Smith)
G. Bachlund: The Snow-Blossoms

Búðarí loftið hún Gunna upp gekk ENG (Text: Jón Thoroddsen)
E. Thoroddsen: Búðarvísa

Butterflies are white and blue (Text: Edna St. Vincent Millay)
L. Steele: Mariposa

Butterfly is in love with the rose ENG (Text: Kate Freiligrath Kroeker after Heinrich Heine) [x]
G. Cox: Butterfly is in love with the rose
G. Boyle: The butterfly is in love with the rose

Buttervogel, auf ein Wort! (Text: August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben)
L. Erk: Schmetterling

buy me an ounce and i'll sell you a pound (Text: E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings) *
G. Bachlund, A. Blank: buy me an ounce and i'll sell you a pound

Buy roses, Sir, buy roses! ENG (Text: Vally Weigl, née Pick after Emil Alfred Herrmann)
K. Weigl: The Wanderer and the Flower Girl

Buza, buza, buza, de szép tábla buza (Text: Volkslieder (Folksongs)
B. Bartók: Buza, buza, buza, de szép tábla buza

By a departing light ITA GER (Text: Emily Dickinson)
L. Larsen: By a departing light

By a fountain where I lay
J. Dowland: By a fountain where I lay

By a route obscure and lonely (Text: Edgar Allan Poe)
A. Downes, H. Mulder, M. Van Höveln-Carpé: Dreamland

By a wondrous mystery (Text: Joseph Campbell)
F. Hart: By a wondrous mystery

By Allan stream I chanc'd to rove (Text: Robert Burns)
J. Haydn: Jingling Johnie

By beauteous softness mix'd with majesty
H. Purcell: By beauteous softness

By dim, mauve and. dream-white bushes of lilac (Text: Fiona Macleod)
G. Bantock: Nocturne

By dimpled Brook, and Fountain brim (Text: John Milton)
T. Arne: By dimpled brook

By herself, by herself, watching the party, (Text: Rhoda Levine) *
L. Berio: The grey mouse

By his evening fire the artist (Text: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
W. Bennett: The sculptor
W. Bradshaw, H. Tuddenham: Gaspar Becerra

By mere men's hands the flame was lit, we know (Text: Algernon Charles Swinburne)
By miracles exceeding power of man (Text: John Donne)
J. Mitchell: By miracles exceeding (crucifixion)

By morning's brightest beams (Text: Harmony Twitchell (Mrs. Charles Ives)
C. Ives: Allegro

By Music, minds an equal temper know (Text: Alexander Pope)
C. Parry: By music

By myself walking (Text: Charles Lamb)
C. Gibbs: Hypochondriacus

By night we linger'd on the lawn (Text: Lord Alfred Tennyson)
F. Spedding: Summer song

By shores and woods and steeples (Text: Alfred Edward Housman) *
By sunny market-place and street (Text: Robert Louis Stevenson)
J. Westrup: Prelude

By the blue wooden sea (Text: Edith Sitwell)
W. Walton: Switchback

By the first of August (Text: Anne Sexton) *
J. Mitchell: I Remember

By the forest pathways shady ENG FRE (Text: Louisa Loring Dresel after Nikolaus Lenau)
By the gaily circling glass (Text: John Milton)
T. Arne: By the gaily circling glass

By the Hoof of the Wild Goat uptossed (Text: Rudyard Kipling)
P. Grainger: The fall of the stone

By the Isar, in the twilight (Text: D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence)
A. Cooke: River roses
W. Ogdon: By the Isar

By the lore of ages far (Text: Henry Fothergill Chorley)
J. Hatton: The Enchantress

By the mad dead Moon (Text: George Granville Barker) [x]
M. Williamson: To a child

By the North Gate, the wind blows full of sand ENG (Text: Ezra Pound after Li-Tai-Po)
G. Bantock: Lament of the Frontier Guard

By the old Moulmein Pagoda lookin' eastward to the sea (Text: Rudyard Kipling)
O. Speaks: On the Road to Mandalay
H. Dixon, W. Hedgcock, D. Prince, H. Travannion: On the road to Mandalay
B. Beverley: Mandalay Waltz
H. Richardson, F. Ayres, W. Damrosch, A. Foote, H. Genzmer, A. Thayer, A. Whiting, C. Willeby: Mandalay

By the roots of my hair some god got hold of me (Text: Sylvia Plath) *
N. Rorem: The Hanging Man

By the rude bridge that arched the flood (Text: Ralph Waldo Emerson)
E. Birge, J. Jarrett, R. Kent, M. Mailman, J. Rico, R. Ringwald, R. Ward, K. Wood: Concord Hymn

By the Runic Stone (Text: Thomas Hardy)
R. Buckle: By the Runic Stone

By the sad waters of separation (Text: Ernest Dowson)
F. Delius: By the sad waters of separation

By the sea, by the desolate nocturnal sea ENG FRE (Text: Emma Lazarus after Heinrich Heine)
By the side of the Shannon was laid a young Lover GER (Text: William Smyth)
L. Beethoven: By the side of the Shannon

By the streams that ever flow (Text: Alexander Pope)
C. Parry, C. Parry: By the streams that ever flow

By Thee the fire doth shine ENG (Text: Gustav Holst after Bible or other Sacred Texts)
G. Holst: Faith

By ways remote and distant waters sped ENG (Text: Aubrey Vincent Beardsley after Gaius Valerius Catullus)
N. Rorem: Catullus: On the burial of his brother

By William late offended GER (Text: William Smyth)
L. Beethoven: Jeanie's Distress

By yon castle wa' at the close of the day (Text: Robert Burns)
By you bonny banks and you bonny braes (Text: Volkslieder (Folksongs)
R. Vaughan Williams: Loch Lomond

Byl den' vesennij. Vse, rascvetaja, likovalo (Text: Oskar Strok) *
O. Strok: Chjornyje glaza

Byl maj, i vejalo teplom (Text: Aleksey Nikolayevich Pleshcheyev)
B. Grodzky: Byl Maj

Byl malen'kij mal'chik (Text: Vasily Andreyevich Zhukovsky)
A. Gretchaninov: Mal'chik s pal'chik

Byl ongi król sedziwy RUS ENG ITA FRE (Text: after Heinrich Heine) [x]
M. Hertz: Stary król

Był sobie dziad i baba, bardzo starzy oboje (Text: Józef Ignacy Kraszewski)
S. Moniuszko: Dziad i baba

Byl staryj korol'... (`Etu pesnju ja, drugi, slykhal v starinu) RUS ENG ITA GER FRE (Text: Aleksey Nikolayevich Pleshcheyev after Heinrich Heine)
V. Kalinnikov: Byl staryj korol'

Byl u Khrista-mladenca sad, i mnogo roz vzrastil on v njom RUS (Text: Aleksey Nikolayevich Pleshcheyev after Richard Henry Stoddard)
P. Tchaikovsky: Legenda

Byla nedolgoj zhizn' cvetka.. ENG (Text: Stepan Shchipachev) *
N. Myaskovsky: O cvetke

Byla vesna, byl jasnyj den' RUS (Text: Larin after Paul Verlaine)
M. Ippolitov-Ivanov: Osen'ju

Bylykh strastej, bylykh zhelanij (Text: Vasily Ivanovich Tumansky)
M. Balakirev: Zveno

Byron! how sweetly sad thy melody! (Text: John Keats)
Q. Maganini: Sonnet to Byron
J. Holbrooke: Byron! how sweetly sad thy melody!

Byt' groze! Ja vizhu `eto (Text: Mirra (Mariya) Alexandrovna Lokhvitskaya)
S. Lyapunov: Byt' groze!

Byt' mozhet, uzh ne dolgo mne (Text: Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin)
C. Cui: Byt' mozhet uzh ne dolgo mne

Byvalo, v glubokij polunochnyj chas (Text: Aleksey Stepanovich Khomyakov)
S. Rachmaninov: K detjam

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