His published works include over 100 songs (some of them for children), settings for soli, chorus and orchestra of Laurence Binyon's "Sursum Corda", Eleanor Farjeon's "The Ithacans", John Masefield's "The Seaport and her Sailors"; a ballad opera by Clifford Bax, "Mr Pepys", and "Water Folk", written for the Worcester Music Festival held in September 1932. He composed the music for T.S. Eliot's pageant play, "The Rock", (performed at the Sadler's Wells Theatre in May 1934), making him the only composer Eliot ever allowed to set his words to music. He later became the first editor of "National Anthems of the World", published after his death.