"A suite of thirty-four songs for lovers" composed by
James Joyce, this cycle of
poems was eventually set to music by
George Molyneux Palmer. In subsequent printings two tailpieces were added to the collection, making it thirty-six.
The arrangement and order of poems varies from edition to edition - what I enter here, unless otherwise noted, will be of the 1907 edition.
I : Strings in the earth and air
II : The twilight turns from amethyst
III : At that hour when all things have repose,
IV : When the shy star goes forth in heaven,
V : Lean out of the window,
VI : I would in that sweet bosom be
VII : My love is in a light attire
VIII : Who goes amid the green wood
IX : Winds of May, that dance on the sea,
X : Bright cap and streamers,
XI : Bid adieu, adieu, adieu
XII : What counsel has the hooded moon
XIII : Go seek her out all courteously
XIV : My dove, my beautiful one,
XV : From dewy dreams, my soul, arise,
XVI : O cool is the valley now
XVII : Because your voice was at my side
XVIII : O Sweetheart, hear you
XIX : Be not sad because all men
XX : In the dark pinewood
XXI : He who hath glory lost nor hath
XXII : Of that so sweet imprisonment
XXIII : This heart that flutters near my heart
XXIV : Silently she's combing,
XXV : Lightly come or lightly go:
XXVI : Thou leanest to the shell of night,
XXVII : Though I thy Mithridates were
XXVIII : Gentle lady, do not sing
XXIX : Dear heart, why will you use me so?
XXX : Love came to us in time gone by
XXXI : O, it was out by Donnycarney
XXXII : Rain has fallen all the day.
XXXIII : Now, O now, in this brown land
XXXIV : Sleep now, O sleep now,
XXXV : All day I hear the noise of waters
XXXVI : I hear an army charging upon the land,