Edward Lear and Music
Beside the music for two of his own Laughable Lyrics, The Courtship of the Yonghy-Bonghy-Bò, and The Pelican Chorus, Lear published two books of arrangements of Alfred Tennyson's poems: Robert Tear's performance of these, was published in a 1984 album entitled Tears, Idle Tears; the cassette version, published by Cabaletta Recording the same year (TCDN 5004) contains the following arrangements:
Edward Gray
Tears, Idle Tears
A Farewell
Sweet and Low
Home They Brought Her Warrior Dead
As through the Land
Come Not When I am Dead
O Let the Solid Ground
The Time Draws Near the Birth of Christ