Songs by Queen Lili'uokalani

             
NANI NA PUA KOOLAU
(Beautiful Are the Flowers of Koolau),
Lili'uokalani's first published song, 1869.

HE MELE LAHUI HAWAII,
 (The Song of the Hawaiian Nation),
was the second of Hawaii's 4 national anthems.
 Lili'uokalani wrote this song at the request of
King Kamehameha V in 1868, well before she was Queen.

AHE LAU MAKANI
(The Soft Gentle Breeze), 1868.

PUNA PAIA AALA
(Puna's Fragrant Bower), 1868.

HE PULE
(A Prayer), 1874.

KA WAI MAPUNA
(The Water Spring), 1876.

KUU PUA I PAOAKALANI
(My Flower at Paoakalani);
written about the flowers that her husband sent her.


HE INOA NO KA-'IU-LANI
(A Name Song for Ka-'iu-Lani); written for her niece.

HE KANIKAU NO LELE-IO-HOKU;
a dirge for Lele-io-Hoku, Queen
Lili'uokalani's brother who died of
rheumatic fever at age 22 in 1877.

KA WILIWILIWAI
(The Lawn Sprinkler); written
at Washington Place about a
neighbors sprinkler.

KOKOHI
(To Hold Forever)

PUIA KA NAHELE
(Forest Imbued with Fragrance), 1868.