Halcyon Days

Halcyon Days is an oblique reference to the Greek mythological figures Alcyone and Ceyx and Alcyone, often used to denote a past period that is being remembered for being happy and/or successful. It may also refer to:

Literature

• Halcyon Days (book), a 1997 collection of interviews with programmers of early video games
• Halcyon Days, a 1991 play by Steven Dietz
• Halcyon Days, a play by Shoji Kokami

Music

Albums

• Halcyon Days (Sounds of Swami EP), 2009
• Halcyon Days (BWO album), 2006
• Halcyon Days (Bruce Hornsby album), 2004
• Halcyon Days (Ellie Goulding album), 2013
• Halcyon Days (Steve Roach, Stephen Kent and Kenneth Newby album), 1996
• Halcyon Days (Strawbs album), 1997
• Halcyon Days, a 2007 album by Dr. Strangely Strange
• Halcyon Days, a 2008 album by The Paper Cranes
• Halcyon Days, a 2011 album by Mokhov
• Halcyon Days, a 2013 album by Glass Towers
• Halcyon Days, a 2022 album by Chagall Guevara

Compositions

• "Halcyon Days", a composition by Henry Purcell, written for the semi-opera The Tempest (circa 1695)
• "Halcyon Days", the first movement of the suite The Three Elizabeths by Eric Coates

Songs

• "Halcyon Days", by ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead from The Century of Self
• "Halcyon Days", by A Wilhelm Scream from Benefits of Thinking Out Loud
• "Halcyon Days", by One Thousand Violins
• "Halcyon Days", by Siobhán Donaghy from Ghosts
• "Halcyon Days", by Stratovarius from Nemesis
• "Halcyon Days", by Tages
• "Halcyon Days", by The Screamin' Cheetah Wheelies
• "Halcyon Days", by The Spring Standards
• "Halcyon Days", by Two Gallants from The Bloom and the Blight
• "Halcyon Days", by Prawn
• "Halcyon Days (Where Were You Then?)", by Local H from Whatever Happened to P.J. Soles?
  • "Halcion Daze", an earlier version of the same song, from '99–'00 Demos
• "Halcyon Daze", by Hidden in Plain View from Life in Dreaming
• "Halcyon Daze", by Mark Lanegan from Houston Publishing Demos 2002
• "The Halcyon Days", by The Tea Party from Triptych

Other uses

• Halcyon Days (company), a British retailer of luxury goods

See also

• Alcione (disambiguation)
• Alcyone (disambiguation)
• Halcion or triazolam, an insomnia drug
• Halcyon (disambiguation)