| Literary Artist | Delius Musical Work(s) |
| Cristen Asbjørnsen | Eventyr ("Once Upon a Time") (tone-poem) |
| Hans Christian Andersen | Zwei bräune Augen (song) |
| Carl Anderson | Frühlingsanbruch (song) |
| Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson | Over the Mountains High (song); Sonnenscheinlied (part-song); Slumber Song (song); Evening Voices (song); Young Venevel (song); Secret Love (song); Skogen gir susende, langsom besked (song) |
| Edward G.E.L. Bulwer-Lytton | Zanoni (incidental music) |
| George Washington Cable | Koanga (opera) |
| Ernest Dowson | Songs of Sunset (soprano/baritone, mixed chorus, and orchestra); Cynara (baritone and orchestra) |
| Holger Drachmann | Sakuntala (tenor and orchestra); Lyse Naetter (song); On the Seashore (song); Im Glück wir lachend gingen (song); Jeg hører i Natten (song); Summer Landscape (song) |
| James Elroy Flecker | Hassan (incidental music) |
| Gunnar Heiberg | Folkeraadet (incidental music) |
| Heinrick Heine | four songs (?) |
| Marie Heinitz | Traum Rosen (song) |
| James Elroy Flecker | Hassan (incidental music) |
| Ludvig Holstein | The Violet (song); Autumn (song) |
| Henrik Ibsen | Paa Vidderne (tone-poem); Hochgebirgsleben (song); Cradle Song (song); Minstrels (song); The Bird's Story (song) |
| Jens Peter Jacobsen | The Page Sat in the Lofty Tower (song); Through long, long years (song); Wine Roses (song); Let Springtime Come (song); Irmelin Rose (song); In the Seraglio Garden (song); Silken Shoes (song); Fennimore and Gerda (opera); An Arabesque (baritone, mixed chorus, and orchestra) |
| Ernst Josephson | Black Roses (song) |
| C.F. Keary | Koanga (opera libretto); A Village Romeo and Juliet (opera libretto) |
| Gottfried Keller | A Village Romeo and Juliet (opera) |
| Theodor Kjerulf | Longing (song) |
| Vilhelm Krag | Jeg havde en nyskaaren Seljefløjte (song) |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | Hiawatha (tone-poem) |
| Fiona Macleod | I-Brasil (song) |
| Jorgen Engebretsen Moë | Eventyr ("Once Upon a Time") (tone-poem) |
| May Morgan | The Streamlet's Slumber Song (song) |
| Andreas Munck | Sunset (song) |
| Alfred de Musset | Chanson de Fortunio (song) |
| Friedrich Nietzsche | Der Wanderer und sein Schatten (song); Der Einsame (song); Der Wanderer (song); Nach neuen Meeren (song); Mitternachtslied Zarathustras (baritone, male chorus, and orchestra); A Mass of Life (soloists, double-chorus, and orchestra) |
| John Paulsen | Summer Eve (song) |
| Robert Reinick | An den Sonnenschein (part-song) |
| Jean Richepin | Nuages (song) |
| Helge Rode | La ronde se déroule (tone-poem) |
| Rosenval (aka Berthe Gaston-Danville) | Margot la Rouge (opera) |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley | Indian Love Song (song); Love's Philosophy (song); To the Queen of my Heart (song) |
| Heinrich Simon | Requiem (soprano/baritone, double chorus, and orchestra) |
| Arthur Symons | On Craig Dhu (part-song); Wanderer's Song (part-song); Midsummer Song (part-song) |
| Alfred Tennyson | Maud - Come into the garden; Go not, happy day; I was walking a mile; Birds in the high-hall garden (songs for tenor and orchestra); Little Birdie (song); The Splendour Falls on Castle Walls (part-song) |
| Paul Verlaine | Deux Mélodies - Il pleure dans mon coeur; Le ciel est par dessus la toit (songs); Chanson d'automne (song); Avant que tu ne t'en ailles (song) |
| Aasmund Olavsson (A.O.) Vinje | The Homeward Journey (song) |
| ? von Geibel | O schneller, mein Ross! (song) |
| J.S. Cammermeyer Welhaven | The Nightingale (song) |
| Walt Whitman | Sea Drift (baritone, mixed chorus, and orchestra); Songs of Farewell (double chorus and orchestra); Idyll ("Once I passed thro' a populous City") (soprano/baritone and orchestra) |