This collection, representing major composers, was compiled as an introduction to British song literature for collegiate age singers and advanced high school age singers. Britten: Come you not from Newcastle? - Britten: Nocturne - Britten: The Nurse's Song - Clarke: Down by the Salley Gardens - Finzi: Come away, come away, death - Finzi: Oh fair to see - Gurney: Sleep - Purcell/Britten: I attempt from love's sickness to fly - Purcell/Britten: If music be the food of love (1st version) - Quilter: Love's Philosophy - Quilter: Now sleeps the crimson petal - Quilter: Weep you no more - Vaughan Williams: Linden Lea - Vaughan Williams: The Vagabond - Warlock: Take o take those lips away.