''Seven Lieder'' is a set of songs by the English composer Edward Elgar published together in 1907, by Ascherberg, Hopwood & Crew Ltd. The set was published with German words 'by Ed. Sachs', though a wartime reprint of the songs published it as ''Edward Elgar's Album of Seven Songs'' with only the English words. It was also published in different keys, for 'high' and 'low' voice.

Songs

The songs are, with author of words,

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Like to the Damask Rose ”Like to the Damask Rose” is a poem either by Francis Quarles called ''"Hos ego versiculos"'', or by Simon Wastell called ''“The flesh profiteth nothing”''.Stephen Banfield (''Sensibility and English Song: Critical studies of the early 20th ...

", Simon Wastell (1892) #" Queen Mary's Song", Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1889) #"

A Song of Autumn "A Song of Autumn" is a poem by Adam Lindsay Gordon set to music by Edward Elgar in 1892. The song was dedicated by Elgar to 'Miss Marshall'. It was first published by Orsborn & Tuckwood, then by Ascherberg in 1892 before it was re-published in 1 ...

Adam Lindsay Gordon Adam Lindsay Gordon (19 October 1833 – 24 June 1870) was a British-Australian poet, horseman, police officer and politician. He was the first Australian poet to gain considerable recognition overseas, and according to his contemporary, write ...

(1892) #" The Poet's Life", Ellen Burroughs (1892) #"

Through the Long Days ”Through the Long Days” is a song written by the English composer Edward Elgar in 1885 as No. 2 of his Op. 16, Three Songs. The words are from a poem by the American writer and statesman John Hay. The song was composed when Elgar was on ho ...

", John Hay, Op. 16, No. 2 (1885) #" Rondel",

Henry Longfellow Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (February 27, 1807 – March 24, 1882) was an American poet and educator. His original works include "Paul Revere's Ride", ''The Song of Hiawatha'', and ''Evangeline''. He was the first American to completely transl ...

from a rondel by

Froissart Jean Froissart ( Old and Middle French: '' Jehan'', – ) (also John Froissart) was a French-speaking medieval author and court historian from the Low Countries who wrote several works, including ''Chronicles'' and ''Meliador'', a long Arthuria ...

, Op. 16, No. 3 (1894) #" The Shepherd's Song",

Barry Pain Barry Eric Odell Pain (28 September 18645 May 1928) was an English journalist, poet, humorist and writer. Biography Born in Cambridge, Barry Pain was educated at Sedbergh School and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. He became a prominent contri ...

, Op. 16 No. 1 (1892)

Recordings

Songs and Piano Music by Edward Elgar
performed by Amanda Pitt (soprano), Mark Wilde (tenor), Peter Savidge (baritone) with

David Owen Norris David Owen Norris, (born 1953) is a British pianist, composer, academic, and broadcaster. Early life Norris was born in 1953 in Long Buckby in Northamptonshire, England, later attending Daventry Grammar School. He took lessons locally from c ...

(on Elgar's 1844 Broadwood

square piano The square piano is a type of piano that has horizontal strings arranged diagonally across the rectangular case above the hammers and with the keyboard set in the long side, with the sounding board above a cavity in the short side. It is variously ...

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