Treasury of riches
Artists, Composers, Hymns & Folk Songs from Years Past
Over the years, we've encountered a beautiful and varied feast of ideas through music, art, poetry, hymns, folk songs, and more.
This treasury is a growing record of the artists, composers, songs, poems, and other works that have enriched our afternoons together.
Browse our past studies below to rediscover an old favorite—or perhaps find something beautiful to enjoy together at home.
Hymns
Abide with Me For the Beauty of the Earth Jesus Shall Reign As with Gladness Men of Old Rock of Ages This Is My Father’s World Ah, Holy Jesus Hail Thee Festival Day Christ Is Made the Sure Foundation Fairest Lord Jesus Holy God, We Praise Thy Name Come, Ye Thankful People, Come Come My Way, My Truth, My Life Trust and Obey Eternal Father, Strong to Save Forty Days and Forty Nights Rejoice, the Lord Is King All Ye Who Seek a Comfort Sure I Sing the Mighty Power of God O God, Our Help in Ages Past Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen Be Thou My Vision Amazing Grace Before the Throne of God Above Man of Sorrows, What a Name Great Is Thy Faithfulness O Thou in Whose Presence We Gather Together Go Tell It on the Mountain A Charge to Keep I Have O Sacred Head, Now Wounded The Strife Is O’er Come Ye Sinners
Folk Songs
Shady Grove Hard Times Come Again No More The Lion Sleeps Tonight Robin Hood and the Pedlar Freight Train Now Is the Hour Waltzing Matilda Will the Circle Be Unbroken Simple Gifts The Whistling Gypsy We Be Soldiers Three The Keeper All Hail to the Days Keys of Canterbury Barbara Allen Hey, Ho, the Wind and the Rain Greensleeves Leave Her, Johnny Blow Ye Winds The Birds’ Courting Song My Grandfather’s Clock Yankee Doodle A Connecticut Peddler Wade in the Water I’ve Been Working on the Railroad Scarborough Fair The Wellerman Marie’s Wedding Oh Rowan Tree Rising of the Moon Mary Had a Baby On Ilkla Moor Baht ’at Uist Tramping Song Green Grow the Lilacs 59th Street Bridge Song I Love the Flowers
Poetry
Out in the Fields with God — Louise Imogen Guiney The Shepherd — William Blake The Kitten at Play — William Wordsworth Good News From Heaven — Martin Luther Chickadee — Ralph Waldo Emerson Sweet and Low — Alfred, Lord Tennyson Written in March — William Wordsworth Not What These Hands Have Done — Horatius Bonar maggie and milly and molly and may — E. E. Cummings Helen Hunt Jackson Joy Doubt God’s Lighthouses William Wordsworth To a Butterfly The World Is Too Much Daffodils Henry Wadsworth Longfellow A Psalm of Life The Castle Builder The Tide Rises Edna St. Vincent Millay God’s World Afternoon on a Hill When the Year Grows Old William Blake A Cradle Song The Lamb The Tyger John Greenleaf Whittier Dear Lord and Father of Mankind Laus Deo! The Wish of Today
Artists
Raffaello Sanzio (Raphael) Johannes Vermeer Mary Cassatt Fra Angelico & Filippo Lippi Bartolomé Esteban Murillo Georges Seurat Édouard Manet Vittore Carpaccio Thomas Gainsborough Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot Domenico Ghirlandaio Pieter Bruegel
Composers
César Franck Alexander Borodin Modest Mussorgsky Hildegard von Bingen Henry Purcell George Frideric Handel Johann Sebastian Bach Edward Elgar Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Richard Wagner Joseph Haydn Ludwig van Beethoven Antonín Dvořák
Shakespeare
Much Ado About Nothing As You Like It The Taming of the Shrew
Handicrafts
Chalk Drawing Brush Drawing Clay Weaving Embroidery Needle Felting Bookbinding Paper Sloyd Collaging Printmaking Lanyard Making