Songs for voice and piano :
under the pseudonym Telford: •
Six Songs, 1846, G. P. Reed Publishing • The Convict's Lullaby (Henry Kirke White); revised 1874,
S. Brainard's Sons, publisher • It is O'er (Mrs. Jameson) • Lass of Northmaven (from
The Pirate) • Byron's Farewell (Lord Byron) • Tirana Española; revised 1874, S. Brainard's Sons, publisher • My Home and Thee • The Blind Man's Bride (Ballad) (Caroline Sheridan Norton), G. P. Reed, 1846; revised 1874, S. Brainard's Sons, publisher • Cleveland's Farewell (
Sir Walter Scott), G. P. Reed, 1846 :
under his own name •
Florence, 8 songs,
Oliver Ditson, 1857 • Sands o' Dee (
Charles Kingsley) • Stars of the Summer Night (
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) • The Night is Clear and Cloudless (
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) • Ring Out Wild Bells (
Alfred Lord Tennyson) • Break, Break, Break, at the Foot of Thy Stones, O Sea (
Alfred Lord Tennyson) • From the Close-shut Window (Lowell) • Battle of the Baltic (Campbell) • I am Weary with Rowing (William Wetmore Story) •
Six Songs (
Bret Harte),
Oliver Ditson, 1870 • The Heathen Chinee • Chiquita • Twenty years • Jim • Flynn of Virginia • Upon the Stanislow •
Our Young Folks: Six Little Songs, G. D. Russell publisher, 1870 • (Unknown song) • The Rivulet (Lucy Larcom) • Lady Moon (Lord Houghton/Richard Monckton Milnes) • Little Nanny (Lucy Larcom) • Swing Away (Lucy Larcom) • Berrying Song (Lucy Larcom) •
Three Songs, G. D. Russell publisher, 1870 • Violet (Colonel John Hay), 1825 • We Two (
Jean Ingelow), 1840 • The Lighthouse-keeper's Child (Thomas Hood), 1849 •
Two Barcaroles (Luigi Catani), Ditson • The Honeymoon, 1884 • A Year After, 1886 :
other single songs, all published by Oliver Ditson unless noted • Aftermath (
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow), 1873 • Ah! When the Fight is Won (Recitative and Air) (from Lowell's
R.G.S. Memoriae Positum), 1892 • A Letter (Frederick Locker-Lampson), 1876 • Anacreontic (as sung by Mrs. Wilson Eyre) (
Leigh Hunt), 1876 • The Angelus (Frances L. Mace), 1883 • At the Garden Gate (
Frank Dempster Sherman), 1891 •
Ave Maria, 1873 • After Absence (
Lilla Cabot Perry), 1893 • Aftermath (
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) • Baby's Shoes (
Julia Ward Howe), W. H. Boner & Co., 1870 • Battle of the Baltic (unknown author), 1857 • The Bell Buoy (
Rudyard Kipling), 1901 • Bells on the Wind (Mrs. F. M. Ritter), 1880s • Beyond the Smiling and the Weeping (with optional mixed quartet) (Horatius Bonar), 1876 • The Black Friar (unknown author), 1858 • The Bobolink (G. P. Lathrop), 1877 • Bring Me No Cup (On a Motif from Lethe) (unknown author), 1891 • Bring the Bowl which you Boast (unknown author), 1858 • Broken Rhythm: My Oars Keep Time (H. Trusta/Elizabeth Stuart Phelps), 1850s, reissued 1876 • Castibelza (after
Victor Hugo), 1885 • Changed (from Longfellow's
Aftermath), 1873 • Coming (words from
Marigold Leaves) (unknown author), 1875 • The Confession (Praed), 1873 • The Cumberland (
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow), 1863 • The Destruction of the Assyrians (from
Hebrew Melodies) (Lord Byron), 1888 • Dormi, Jesu! The Virgin's Cradle-hymn (
Samuel Taylor Coleridge), 1859 • Douglas, Tender and True (Miss Mulock), 1884 • Echoes (Christopher Pearse Cranch), 1877 • Egyptian Serenade (George William Curtis), 1887 • The First Cricket (William Dean Howells), 1876 • The Fisherman's Song (Rose Terry Cooke), 1870 • Flow On, Sad Stream (William Wetmore Story), 1876 • Garden of Roses (William Wetmore Story), 1863 • Gipsies Song (unknown author), 1857 • Goodbye (Samuel G. Goodrich), 1858 • Guild the Engineer (Ballad) (unknown author), 1873 • Heigh-Ho! (Christopher Pearse Cranch), William A. Pond & Co. publisher, 1870 • Here's a health to King Charles (
William Makepeace Thackeray), 1867 • Home (Last Words in a Strange Land) (James Thomas Fields), 1880 • How to Put the Question (Mrs. Caroline Spencer), S. Brainard's Sons publisher, 1870 • If You Love Me (L. Clark), 1890 • I know not if Moonlight (unknown author), 1883 • In Memory of Oliver Wendell Holmes (
Samuel Francis Smith), C.W. Thompson & Co. publisher, 1899 • In the Cathedral (Katherine Saunders), Arthur P. Schmidt publisher, 1881 • In the Summer Even (from "Rohan's Ghost" by Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford), 1876 • Into my Heart a Silent Look (
Edward Bulwer-Lytton), 1885 • Jenny Kissed Me (
Leigh Hunt) • King Macbeth (song for baritone) (Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton/Owen Merideth), 1870 •
Kyrie Eleison (
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow), 1857 • Laus Deo (with chorus ad lib) (
John Greenleaf Whittier), 1868 • Leoni
John Ruskin, C.W. Thompson & Co. publisher, 1900 • Lethe (with optional 'cello or violin) (M.A. Barr), 1888, reissued 1911 • My Life is like the Summer-Rose (unknown author), 1873 • Love Song (Robert Burns Wilson), 1888 • The Mahogany Tree (unknown author), 1858 • Maria Mater (from
Memento Rerum Conditor) • Master Love (Collin Rae-Brown), 1876 • Memories Come O'er Me (William Wetmore Story), Lee & Walker publisher, 1876 • Metempsychosis (J.B., from the
London World), 1890 • New Year's Bells (
Alfred Tennyson), 1881 • The Night Has a Thousand Eyes (Francis William Bourdillon), 1874 • The Nightingale (Lust'ge Vögel in dem Wald), 1889 • Non Partir (And wilt thou go) (A. Casini; English version by Christopher Pearse Cranch), 1869 • Nora Macarty (
Thomas Bailey Aldrich), 1878 • Notturno (Roman Serenade) (unknown author),
White-Smith publisher • No More (
Friedrich Rückert), 1873 • O Domine Deus (O Lord my God) (prayer of
Mary, Queen of Scots), Prüfer publisher, 1874 • O Light at my Window (Christopher Pearse Cranch), William A. Pond & Co. publisher, 1870 • O Long and Lagging Hours of Time (Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford), in ''
Harper's Magazine'', 1885 • The Old Clock on the Stairs (with optional chorus) (
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 1886 • O Well for the Fisherman's Boy (or Break, Break) (unknown author), 1857 • Poor lone Hannah: As sung by Miss Adelaide Phillips (Lucy Larcom), 1869 • Regrets (C. S. T.), 1876 • Rose Aylmer (
Walter Savage Landor), 1875 • The Rose upon the Balcony (
William Makepeace Thackeray), 1866 • The Sailor's Wife (Charles Mackay), 1864 • The Sea Has Its Pearls (Das Meer hat seine Perlen) (after
Heinrich Heine), 1862 • Serenade (Frederick Locker-Lampson), 1869 • Sixty and Six (
Thomas Wentworth Higginson), 1890 • A Song of Long Ago (G. P. Lathrop), 1887 • The Song of the Sea (William Dean Howells), 1872 • Song of the Stromkerl (unknown author), 1868 • A Spanish Cradle Song (unknown author), 1893 • Spring Song (A Bird Sings Sweet and Strong) (George W. Curtis), 1866 • The Stormy Petrel (Samuel G. Goodrich), 1876 • Strike Me a Note (Thomas William Parsons), 1891 • Sunset in Venice (Barcarole with English and Italian words) (Attilio Sarfatti), J. E. Ditson & Co., 1887 • The Sunset Light (Barcarole) (Mary L. Ritter), Arthur P. Schmidt publishing, 1884 • The Swallows (Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer), 1884 • That Joyous Strain (Christopher Pearse Cranch), 1887 • Thou and I (Words Address to her Sister) (Phoebe Cary), 1875 • Thou dost not Remember the Hour (Ballad) (unknown author), S. Brainard's Sons publisher, 1874 • Three Fishers (unknown author), 1868 • Three Friends of Mine (Sonnet) (
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow), 1882 • Through the Long Days" (Col. John Hay), 1878 • A Toast (
George Santayana), C.W. Thompson & Co. publisher, 1893 • Twenty Years Ago (William Wetmore Story), 1882 • Vanished Time (William Wetmore Story), 1877 • Waiting for the Bugle (
Thomas Wentworth Higginson), 1889 • Waiting for you Jock (Mrs. Moulton's Concert Song) (from ''Blackwood's Magazine''), 1874 • We Shall Meet No More (unknown author), 1886 • We Two are Bound Together (Wir beide sein verbunden), White-Smith publisher • When Sylvia Sings (Samuel P. Duffield), 1892 • When the Boys Come Home (A Song of '65) (Col. John Hay), 1887 • The Wind Exultant (Winifred Howells), 1888 • Wishing (A Nursery Song), (William Allingham), 1859 • Yon Faithful Star (Serenade) (unknown author), 1873
Vocal duets • The Brooklet (
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow), 1874 • The Clover-blossoms Kiss Her Feet (duet for mezzo-soprano and tenor or baritone) (
Oscar Laighton), 1882 • Father the Watches of the Night are O'er (duet for equal voices) (Mrs. Ellen Sturgis Hooper), 1889 • In the Dark, in the Dew (song and duet) (Miss Prescott), 1875 • Love (song or duet for mixed voices) (Mrs. J. T. Fields), 1891 • The Rivulet (duet for mezzo-soprano and tenor or baritone) (
Alfred Tennyson), 1882
Large works •
Maria Mater, soloists, chorus and orchestra •
Mass, soloists, chorus and orchestra •
Miserere, a cappella mixed chorus,
Oliver Ditson, 1888 •
The Song of Zechariah, cantata •
Te Deum (according to the liturgy of the Church of England), soloists, chorus and orchestra, 1884
Shorter choral works and part-songs • Ave Maria, women's voices and piano or organ, 1897 • The Bells of San Blas (Longfellow), quartet for equal voices, 1882 • Carmen tabernarium (Ad usum sodalium die anniversario XX : iterum impressum die anniversario XLV) (Walter Map), men's voices, published 1929 • Good Lives on Earth (unknown author), canon for three voices, unpublished, c.1890 • Here's a health to King Charles! (
Sir Walter Scott), tenor solo and men's chorus, 1867; mixed voices, Ditson, published 1909 • Lead Kindly Light (Rev. Newman), quartet for mixed voices, 1884 • My Harp Has One Unchanging Theme (Deh Senti il Rio), trio for soprano, tenor, and bass, 1893 • A National Anthem (Christopher Pearse Cranch), mixed voices, Ditson, 1881 • Union and Liberty: National Anthem, (
Oliver Wendell Holmes), mixed voices and piano, Ditson, 1894 • Vestis Angelica (
Thomas Wentworth Higginson), quartet for mixed voices, 1890
Instrumental works • String quartets ==References==