Texts by W. Whitman set in Art Songs and Choral Works

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Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892)

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A batter'd and wreck'd old man (from Leaves of Grass) (Prayer of Columbus) - R. Strassburg
A batter'd, wreck'd old man (from Leaves of Grass) - R. Strassburg (Prayer of Columbus)
Aboard, at a ship's helm (Aboard, at a ship's helm) (from Leaves of Grass) - G. Booth
A child said, What is the grass? fetching it to me with full hands (from Song of Myself) GER GER - V. Fine, N. Lockwood
A child said, What is the grass? (A child said, What is the grass? fetching it to me with full hands) (from Song of Myself) - V. Fine, N. Lockwood GER GER
A child's amaze (Silent and amazed even when a little boy) (from Leaves of Grass) - R. Beckett, T. Correa, R. Schonthal
A clear midnight (This is thy hour, O Soul, thy free flight into the wordless) - E. Bacon, R. Beckett, E. Bonner, T. Cipullo, T. Correa, P. Dalmas, D. Gilliam, P. Glass, U. Grahn, L. Hoiby, A. Kunz, S. Loher, K. Miehling, M. Ostrzyga, V. Persichetti, R. Platt, L. Reed, R. Samuel, S. Sargon, H. Somers, E. Spalding, H. Spier, R. Vaughan Williams, H. Willan CAT FRE GER GER FRE GER
A dirge for two veterans (The last sunbeam) - G. Holst FRE
A farm picture (Through the ample open door of the peaceful country barn) (from Leaves of Grass) - R. Beckett, J. Klein, O. Luening, R. Schonthal, R. Sowash
Afoot and light-hearted, I take to the open road (from Song of the Open Road) - N. Rorem, W. Wijdeveld
After a week of physical anguish - R. Harris (An Evening Lull)
After the dazzle of day is gone - H. Somers
After the dazzle of day (After the dazzle of day is gone) - H. Somers
After the sea-ship, after the whistling winds - R. Vaughan Williams (After the Sea-Ship)
After the Sea-Ship (After the sea-ship, after the whistling winds)
after the whistling winds - M. Ostrzyga
Ages and ages, returning at intervals (Ages and ages, returning at intervals) GER
A glimpse, through an interstice caught - N. Rorem (A glimpse)
A glimpse (A glimpse, through an interstice caught) - N. Rorem
A jubilant song (O to make the most jubilant song!) - N. Dello Joio
A la fin, tendrement - E. Spalding (L'invocation suprême)
A letter from Pete (Come up from the fields father, here’s a letter from our Pete) - B. Rogers
A live oak growing (I saw in Louisiana a live-oak growing) - C. Borzoni
All Peoples of the Globe Together Sail (One thought ever at the fore) - R. Ward
A long while, amid the noises of coming and going (A glimpse) - N. Rorem
Als der Fliederbusch FRE - J. Müller-Hermann [x]
A mask, a perpetual disguise of herself (Visor'd) - R. Schonthal
A mask, a perpetual disguiser of herself - R. Schonthal (Visor'd)
Amid these days of order, ease, prosperity - R. Platt (The Dying Veteran)
Among the men and women the multitude - C. Urquhart (Among the multitude)
Among the multitude (Among the men and women the multitude) - C. Urquhart
An Abraham Lincoln Song (O Captain! my Captain! our fearful trip is done) - W. Damrosch GER
And so good-bye to the war. I know not how it may have been, or may (from Specimen Days) - N. Rorem (The real war will never get in the books)
And so good-bye to the war. I know not how it may have been (from Specimen Days) (The real war will never get in the books) - N. Rorem
And Thou America (And thou, America!) (from Song of the Universal) - R. Valerio
And thou, America! (from Song of the Universal) - R. Valerio
And whence and why come you? - E. Bacon, L. Segerstam
And who are you? (A sight in camp in the daybreak grey and dim) - E. Bacon
And who art thou? said I to the soft-falling shower - O. Knussen
An ended day (The soothing sanity and blitheness of completion) - L. Segerstam
An Evening Lull (After a week of physical anguish) - R. Harris
A night battle, over a week since (May 12. -- There was part of the late battle at) (from Specimen Days)
A night battle (May 12. -- There was part of the late battle at) (from Specimen Days) - N. Rorem
Animals (I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contain'd) (from Song of Myself) - R. Beckett
An Incident. -- In one of the fights before Atlanta, a rebel - N. Rorem (Hospital Scenes -- Incidents)
An incident (An Incident. -- In one of the fights before Atlanta, a rebel) - N. Rorem
A noiseless, patient spider (from Leaves of Grass) - R. Beckett, O. Knussen, D. Mason, R. Samuel, R. Sowash (A noiseless patient spider)
An old man bending, I come, among new faces (from Leaves of Grass) (The dresser) - J. Adams
An old man's thoughts of school - H. Hanson
A pause -- the armies wait (from Leaves of Grass - A Carol of Harvest, for 1867)
Apple orchards, the trees all cover'd with blossoms - I. Venables (Out of May’s Shows Selected)
Approach Strong Deliveress! (Approach, strong Deliveress) (from Memories of President Lincoln - When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd) - G. Crumb FRE
Approach, strong Deliveress (from Memories of President Lincoln - When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd) FRE - G. Crumb (Death carol)
A prairie sunset: Shot gold, maroon and violet - S. Loher
A prairie sunset (A prairie sunset: Shot gold, maroon and violet) - S. Loher
Are you the new person drawn toward me? - N. Rorem
Are you the new person? (Are you the new person drawn toward me?) - N. Rorem
Aroused and angry, I thought to beat the alarum - S. Loher
Aroused and angry (Aroused and angry, I thought to beat the alarum) - S. Loher
As Adam, early in the morning (As Adam, early in the morning) - T. Correa, N. Rorem
As at Thy Portals also Death (As at thy portals also death) - I. Venables
Ashes of soldiers (Ashes of soldiers!) (from Leaves of Grass)
As if a phantom caress’d me (As if a phantom caress’d me) - S. Loher
As if a phantom caress’d me - S. Loher
A sight in camp in the daybreak gray and dim (A sight in camp in the daybreak grey and dim) - R. Thomas
A sight in camp in the daybreak grey and dim - E. Bacon, R. Boughton, E. Bryson, R. Cumming, D. Symons, R. Thomas (A sight in camp in the daybreak grey and dim)
A sight in camp (A sight in camp in the daybreak grey and dim) - R. Boughton, E. Bryson, R. Cumming, D. Symons
As I lay with my head in your lap, camerado - D. Hagen
As I watch'd the ploughman ploughing (As I watch'd the ploughman ploughing) - P. Dalmas, W. Neidlinger, A. Stout, R. Ward
A Sketch (1842) (Upon the ocean's wave-worn shore) - R. Platt
A Sketch (Upon the ocean's wave-worn shore)
As nearing departure (As nearing departure) (from Leaves of Grass)
A song of joys (O to make the most jubilant song!) - E. Canat de Chizy, P. Creston, A. Doherty, S. Sargon
A song of the good green grass! (from Leaves of Grass - A Carol of Harvest, for 1867)
A song (Come, I will make the continent indissoluble) (from Leaves of Grass)
A specimen case (In one of the hospitals I find Thomas Haley, company M) (from Specimen Days) - N. Rorem
At the dance and supper room, I could not help thinking - N. Rorem (Inauguration Ball)
At the dance and supper room (Inauguration Ball) - N. Rorem
At the last, tenderly (from Leaves of Grass) FRE - S. Adler, E. Bacon, A. Bergh, M. Besly, G. Binkerd, E. Bonner, J. Boyd, F. Bridge, L. Campbell-Tipton, J. Carter, T. Correa, R. Diggle, P. Garratt, P. Glass, E. Henderson, W. Hively, T. Hoekman, A. Hudson, L. Kastle, O. Luening, T. Pasatieri, D. Pederson, A. Powers, J. Rogers, S. Sargon, A. Schmutz, W. Schuman, E. Spalding, R. Starer, W. Storey-Smith, R. Thompson, R. Vaughan Williams, I. Venables, E. Whithorne, T. Whitmer (The last invocation)
At the last (At the last, tenderly) (from Leaves of Grass) - E. Bacon, M. Besly, A. Hudson, O. Luening FRE
At the tomb () - L. Campbell-Tipton FRE [x]
Au pied d'une tombe () - L. Campbell-Tipton [x] ⊗
Away, O soul! hoist instantly the anchor! (Passage to more than India!) (from Passage to India) - R. Vaughan Williams
Away, O soul! hoist instantly the anchor! (from Passage to India)
Bearing the bandages, water and sponge (from Leaves of Grass) - J. Adams (The dresser)
Beat! beat! drums! - blow! bugles! blow! FRE GER - E. Bacon, S. Coleridge-Taylor, H. Hanson, F. Heath, C. Loeffler, S. Raphling, A. Stoessel, R. Thomas, J. Van, R. Vaughan Williams, C. Vrionides, K. Weill (Beat! Beat! Drums!)
Beat! beat! drums! (Beat! beat! drums! - blow! bugles! blow!) - E. Bacon, S. Coleridge-Taylor, H. Hanson, F. Heath, C. Loeffler, S. Raphling, A. Stoessel, R. Thomas, J. Van, R. Vaughan Williams, C. Vrionides, K. Weill FRE GER
Beautiful women (Women sit, or move to and fro—some old, some young) (from Leaves of Grass) - R. Beckett
Be composed - be at ease with me - I am Walt Whitman, liberal and lusty as Nature - N. Rorem
Beginning my studies the first step pleas'd me so much - R. Beckett, L. Hoiby
Beginning my studies (Beginning my studies the first step pleas'd me so much) - R. Beckett, L. Hoiby
Behold this swarthy face, these gray eyes - G. Busby
Behold this swarthy face (Behold this swarthy face, these gray eyes) - G. Busby
Blow! blow! blow! (from Leaves of Grass - Sea-Drift)
But on these days of brightness (from Leaves of Grass - A Carol of Harvest, for 1867)
By broad Potomac’s shore -- again, old tongue! (from Leaves of Grass) - I. Gurney (By Broad Potomac’s Shore)
By Broad Potomac’s Shore (By broad Potomac’s shore -- again, old tongue!) (from Leaves of Grass) - I. Gurney
By the bivouac's fitful flame (By the bivouac's fitful flame) - A. Bliss, H. Gaul, H. Hanson, H. Harty, J. Van, C. Wood
City of Ships (City of ships!) (from Drum Taps) - J. LoCascio
Clear Midnight (This is thy hour, O Soul, thy free flight into the wordless) - J. Hanna CAT FRE GER GER FRE GER
Coffin that passes through lanes and streets (from Memories of President Lincoln - When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd)
Come, I will make the continent indissoluble (from Leaves of Grass) - Anonymous, R. Boughton, M. Frank, I. Gertz, E. Helm, G. Kleinsinger, N. Lee, H. Norris, F. White, E. Zuckmayer (A song)
Come lovely and soothing death (Come lovely and soothing death) (from Memories of President Lincoln - When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd) - G. Crumb, J. Duke, S. Sargon FRE
Come lovely and soothing death (from Memories of President Lincoln - When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd) FRE - G. Crumb, J. Duke, G. Holst, S. Sargon, W. Schuman (Death carol)
Come, said the Muse (Come, said the Muse) (from Song of the Universal) - T. Whitmer
Come, said the Muse (from Song of the Universal) - V. Persichetti, T. Whitmer
Come up from the fields father, here’s a letter from our Pete (Come up from the fields Father) - V. Nelhybel, B. Rogers, R. Sowash, K. Weill
Come up from the fields father, here’s a letter from our Pete - V. Nelhybel, B. Rogers, K. Weill (Lo, 'tis autumn)
Come up from the fields Father (Come up from the fields father, here’s a letter from our Pete) - V. Nelhybel, K. Weill
Crossing Brooklyn Ferry: Conclusion (Flood-tide below me! I watch you face to face) - J. Kaufer
Crossing Brooklyn Ferry (Flood-tide below me! I watch you face to face) - V. Thomson
Darest thou now O soul (Darest thou now O Soul) - S. Adler, E. Bacon, E. Bonner, G. Chadwick, R. Diggle, I. Freed, P. Glass, M. Hennagin, H. Henze, G. Holst, B. Huhn, N. Lockwood, K. Miehling, V. Olive, W. Schuman, C. Stanford, F. Valen, R. Vaughan Williams, T. Whitmer, D. Williams, C. Wood FRE GER FRE FRE
Dark Mother, always gliding near, with soft feet (Dark Mother, always gliding near, with soft feet) (from Memories of President Lincoln - When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd) - G. Crumb FRE
Dark Mother, always gliding near, with soft feet (from Memories of President Lincoln - When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd) FRE - G. Crumb, J. Duke, J. Rogers (Death carol)
Dark mother, always gliding near (Dark Mother, always gliding near, with soft feet) (from Memories of President Lincoln - When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd) - J. Duke, J. Rogers FRE
Das Gras (Ein Kind sagte: Was ist das Gras?) - F. Schreker
Dear Camerado (As I lay with my head in your lap, camerado) - D. Hagen
Dearest thou now o Soul (Darest thou now O Soul) - S. Adler FRE GER FRE FRE
Death carol (Come lovely and soothing death) (from Memories of President Lincoln - When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd) FRE
Delicate cluster! flag of teeming life! - R. Lo Presti (Delicate cluster)
Delicate cluster (Delicate cluster! flag of teeming life!)
Demon or bird! (said the boy's soul,) (from Leaves of Grass - Sea-Drift)
Der ich, in Zwischenräumen, in Äonen und Äonen wiederkehre (Der ich, in Zwischenräumen, in Äonen und Äonen wiederkehre) - P. Hindemith
Der ich, in Zwischenräumen, in Äonen und Äonen wiederkehre - P. Hindemith
Dies ist deine Stunde, o Seele, dein freier Flug in das Wortlose CAT FRE FRE - W. Burkhard (Text: Anonymous after Walt Whitman)
Dirge for two veterans (The last sunbeam) - N. Lockwood, H. McDonald, T. Pasatieri, F. Ritter, B. Rogers, S. Sargon, R. Thomas, R. Vaughan Williams, K. Weill, C. Wood FRE
Drum Taps (Give me the splendid silent sun, with all his beams full-dazzling) - L. Elsmith
Earth my likeness! (Earth! my likeness!) - N. Lee
Earth! my likeness! - N. Lee
Earth song () (from Song of Myself) - R. Sowash [x]
Eine lichte Mitternacht () - P. Hindemith CAT FRE FRE (Text: Anonymous after Walt Whitman) [x]
Ein Kind sagte: Was ist das Gras? - F. Schreker
Élégie () - L. Campbell-Tipton [x]
Elegy (In the swamp in secluded recesses) (from Memories of President Lincoln - When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd) - L. Campbell-Tipton FRE
Ethiopia saluting the colors (Who are you dusky woman, so ancient hardly human) - H. Burleigh, C. Wood
Europe, the 72d and 73d years of These States (Suddenly, out of its stale and drowsy lair, the lair of slaves)
Ever upon this stage (from Leaves of Grass - A Carol of Harvest, for 1867)
Fast-anchor'd, eternal, O love! O woman I love! (Fast-anchor'd, eternal, O love) -
Fast-anchor'd, eternal, O love (Fast-anchor'd, eternal, O love! O woman I love!)
Fecund America! To-day (from Leaves of Grass - A Carol of Harvest, for 1867)
Flaunt out, o sea (To-day a rude brief recitative) (from Leaves of Grass) - V. Persichetti
Flood-tide below me! I watch you face to face - J. Kaufer, V. Thomson (Crossing Brooklyn Ferry)
For the lands, and for these passionate days, and for myself (from Leaves of Grass - A Carol of Harvest, for 1867) - I. Gurney
For the lands (For the lands, and for these passionate days, and for myself) (from Leaves of Grass - A Carol of Harvest, for 1867) - I. Gurney
For the numberless unknown heroes (With music strong I come, with my cornets and my drums) (from Song of Myself) - H. Gaul
For You O Democracy (Come, I will make the continent indissoluble) (from Leaves of Grass) - Anonymous, M. Frank, I. Gertz, E. Helm
Fragment from Calamus (O you whom I often and silently come) (from Leaves of Grass) - L. Harrison
From all the rest I single out you, having a message for you (from Leaves of Grass) - E. Bacon (To one shortly to die)
From me to thee glad serenades (from Memories of President Lincoln - When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd) FRE - J. Duke (Death carol)
From me to thee glad serenades (From me to thee glad serenades) (from Memories of President Lincoln - When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd) - J. Duke FRE
From Montauk Point (I stand as on some mighty eagle's beak)
From pent-up, aching rivers (From pent-up, aching rivers)
From some far shore (Over the mountain growths, disease and sorrow) (from Song of the Universal) - W. Riegger
Frühling (When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd) (from Memories of President Lincoln - When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd) - K. Hartmann FRE GER
Full of life now, compact, visible - N. Rorem
Full of life now (Full of life now, compact, visible) - N. Rorem
Gentlemen, I will be very (from Diaries)
George Walker (from Diaries)
Give me, O God, to sing that thought! (from Song of the Universal) - E. Diemer
Give me the splendid silent sun, with all his beams full-dazzling - L. Elsmith, H. Gilbert, R. Harris, N. Lockwood, R. Sowash, W. Spencer (Give me the splendid silent sun)
Give me the splendid silent sun (Give me the splendid silent sun, with all his beams full-dazzling) - H. Gilbert, R. Harris, N. Lockwood, R. Sowash, W. Spencer
Gliding o'er all, through all - M. Hennagin, O. Luening, K. Miehling, N. Rorem, P. Stearns
Gliding o'er all (Gliding o'er all, through all) - M. Hennagin, O. Luening, K. Miehling, N. Rorem, P. Stearns
Gods (Lover divine and perfect Comrade) (from Leaves of Grass) - M. Hennagin, N. Rorem
Good-bye my fancy - (I had a word to say - W. Flanagan, D. Williams (Good-bye my fancy)
Good-bye my fancy (Good-bye my fancy - (I had a word to say) - W. Flanagan, D. Williams
Grand is the seen, the light, to me -- grand are the sky and stars - E. Bacon, P. Stearns (Grand is the seen)
Grand is the seen (Grand is the seen, the light, to me -- grand are the sky and stars) - E. Bacon, P. Stearns
Halcyon days (Not from successful love alone) - N. Lockwood
Hark! some wild trumpeter -- some strange musician (from Leaves of Grass) - G. Holst, R. Starer (The Mystic Trumpeter)
Has any one supposed it lucky to be born? (from Song of Myself) - H. Norris
Hast never come to thee an hour (Hast never come to thee an hour) - M. Hennagin, O. Luening
Here the frailest leaves of me, and yet my strongest-lasting (from Leaves of Grass) - O. Luening, C. Urquhart (Here the frailest leaves of me)
Here the frailest leaves of me (Here the frailest leaves of me, and yet my strongest-lasting) (from Leaves of Grass) - C. Urquhart
Here the frailest (Here the frailest leaves of me, and yet my strongest-lasting) (from Leaves of Grass) - O. Luening
Hospital Scenes -- Incidents (It is Sunday afternoon, middle of summer, hot and oppressive, and very)
How sweet the silent backward tracings! (from Leaves of Grass) - F. Delius
Hush'd be the camps today (Hush'd be the camps to-day) - C. Dougherty, H. Loomis, R. Ward
I am he that aches with amorous love - N. Rorem (I am He that Aches with Love)
I am He that Aches with Love (I am he that aches with amorous love)
I am he . . . (I am he that aches with amorous love) - N. Rorem
I am she who adorn'd herself and folded her hair expectantly (from The Sleepers)
I am the poet of the Body;/ And I am the poet of the Soul (from Song of Myself) ITA
I am the poet of the Body (I am the poet of the Body) (from Song of Myself) - B. Lees ITA
I am the poet of the Body (from Song of Myself) ITA - G. Allen, L. Campbell-Tipton, B. Lees, H. Norris, R. Williams
I believe in you my soul, the other I am must not abase itself to you (from Song of Myself) - R. Lister
I celebrate myself, and sing myself (from Song of Myself) - D. Brunner, A. Hudson, V. Persichetti
I celebrate myself (I celebrate myself, and sing myself) (from Song of Myself) - A. Hudson, V. Persichetti
I depart as air, I shake my white locks at the runaway sun (from Song of Myself)
I depart as air (The spotted hawk swoops by and accuses me, he complains of my gab and my loitering) (from Song of Myself) - D. Hagen
I dream'd in a dream I saw a city invincible to the attacks (from Leaves of Grass) - C. Borzoni, J. LoCascio (I dream'd in a dream)
I dream'd in a dream (I dream'd in a dream I saw a city invincible to the attacks) (from Leaves of Grass) - C. Borzoni, J. LoCascio
I hear America singing, the varied carols I hear (from Leaves of Grass) - V. Bay, C. Eastham, H. Gaul, I. Gertz, S. Harte, G. Kleinsinger, N. Lockwood, L. Pfautsch, S. Raphling, R. Reed, R. Sowash (I hear America singing)
I hear America singing (I hear America singing, the varied carols I hear) (from Leaves of Grass) - C. Eastham, H. Gaul, I. Gertz, S. Harte, G. Kleinsinger, S. Raphling, R. Reed, R. Sowash
I heard you, solemn-sweet pipes of the organ (from Leaves of Grass) - F. Piket, J. Rolfe (I heard you, solemn-sweet pipes of the organ)
I heard you (I heard you, solemn-sweet pipes of the organ) (from Leaves of Grass) - F. Piket
I know I have the best of time and space, and was never measured and never will be measured (from Song of Myself)
I know I have the best of time and space (I know I have the best of time and space) (from Song of Myself) - T. Whitmer
I know I have the best of time and space (from Song of Myself) - T. Whitmer
Inauguration Ball (At the dance and supper room, I could not help thinking) - N. Rorem
In celebration (I celebrate myself, and sing myself) (from Song of Myself) - D. Brunner
In clouds descending, in midnight sleep, of many a face of anguish (from Leaves of Grass) - K. Miehling (In clouds descending, in midnight sleep)
In clouds descending, in midnight sleep (In clouds descending, in midnight sleep, of many a face of anguish) (from Leaves of Grass) - K. Miehling
In one of the fights before Atlanta, a rebel (Hospital Scenes -- Incidents) - N. Rorem
In one of the hospitals I find Thomas Haley, company M (from Specimen Days) - D. Hagen, N. Rorem (Some specimen cases)
Inscription (Small is the theme of the following Chant) (from Leaves of Grass) - V. Fine
In some unused lagoon, some nameless bay - E. Bonner, D. Gustafson, C. Livingston, R. Platt (The dismantled ship)
In the dooryard fronting an old farm-house near the white-wash'd palings (from Memories of President Lincoln - When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd)
In the swamp in secluded recesses (from Memories of President Lincoln - When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd) FRE - L. Campbell-Tipton, P. Hindemith
Introduktion. Elend (Allegro) (I sit and look out upon all the sorrows of the world) (from Leaves of Grass) - K. Hartmann
Invocation (At the last, tenderly) (from Leaves of Grass) - L. Campbell-Tipton, E. Whithorne FRE
Ireland () - I. Boyle [x]
I saw askant the armies (from Memories of President Lincoln - When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd)
I saw in Louisiana a live-oak growing (I saw in Louisiana a live-oak growing) - C. Borzoni, M. Castelnuovo-Tedesco, D. Newlin, R. Platt, N. Rorem
I saw the day, the return of the Heroes (from Leaves of Grass - A Carol of Harvest, for 1867)
I see in you the estuary that enlarges and spreads (from Leaves of Grass) - J. Klein, R. Schonthal (To old age)
I see the sleeping babe nestling the breast of its mother (from Leaves of Grass) - R. Beckett, J. Klein, R. Schonthal (Mother and Babe)
I see where America, Mother of All (from Leaves of Grass - A Carol of Harvest, for 1867)
I sing the Body electric (I sing the Body electric) (from I Sing the Body Electric) - A. Hudson, V. Persichetti
I sing the Body electric (from I Sing the Body Electric) - A. Hudson, V. Persichetti
Is it a dream? (Give me, O God, to sing that thought!) (from Song of the Universal) - E. Diemer
I sit and look out upon all the sorrows of the world (from Leaves of Grass) - N. Dello Joio, W. Goldstein, K. Hartmann (I sit and look out)
I sit and look out upon the world (I sit and look out upon all the sorrows of the world) (from Leaves of Grass) - N. Dello Joio
I sit and look out (I sit and look out upon all the sorrows of the world) (from Leaves of Grass) - W. Goldstein
I stand as on some mighty eagle's beak - F. Delius (From Montauk Point)
I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contain'd (from Song of Myself) - R. Beckett, S. Kagen
I think I could turn (I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contain'd) (from Song of Myself) - S. Kagen
It is not upon you alone the dark patches fall (Crossing Brooklyn Ferry) - J. Kaufer, V. Thomson
It is Sunday afternoon, middle of summer, hot and oppressive, and very (Hospital Scenes -- Incidents) - N. Rorem
It is Sunday afternoon, middle of summer, hot and oppressive (Hospital Scenes -- Incidents) - N. Rorem
I tramp a perpetual journey, (come listen all!) (from Song of Myself) - S. Loher
I tramp a perpetual journey (I tramp a perpetual journey, (come listen all!)) (from Song of Myself) - S. Loher
I understand the large hearts of heroes (from Song of Myself) - L. Hoiby
I was there (I understand the large hearts of heroes) (from Song of Myself) - L. Hoiby
I will make the Continent (Come, I will make the continent indissoluble) (from Leaves of Grass) - N. Lee
I will plant Companionship (Come, I will make the continent indissoluble) (from Leaves of Grass) - N. Lee
Jeunesse, jour, vieillese et nuit (Jeunesse, large, robuste, aimante, — jeunesse pleine de) (from Feuilles d'herbe) - E. Spalding GER
Jeunesse, jour, vieillesse et nuit (Jeunesse, large, robuste, aimante, — jeunesse pleine de) (from Feuilles d'herbe) GER
Jeunesse, large, robuste, aimante, — jeunesse pleine de (from Feuilles d'herbe) GER - E. Spalding (Jeunesse, jour, vieillesse et nuit)
Joy, shipmate, joy! (Joy, shipmate, joy!) (from Leaves of Grass) - E. Bacon, F. Delius, D. Gustafson, B. Hall, L. Hoiby, S. Loher, P. Paviour, V. Persichetti, L. Robertson, J. Rogers, C. Stanford, R. Vaughan Williams, T. Whitmer CAT FRE
Jugend, du große, sehnende, liebende! ENG FRE FRE (Jugend, Tag, Alter und Nacht) - J. Marx
Jugend, du große, lüsterne, liebende! ENG FRE FRE - J. Marx (Jugend, Tag, Alter und Nacht)
Jugend, Tag, Alter und Nacht (Jugend, du große, lüsterne, liebende!) ENG FRE FRE
Jugend und Alter (Jugend, du große, lüsterne, liebende!) - J. Marx ENG FRE FRE
Kameradschaft (For You, O Democracy) (Come, I will make the continent indissoluble) (from Leaves of Grass) - E. Zuckmayer
Keep singing (I hear America singing, the varied carols I hear) (from Leaves of Grass) - V. Bay
Keep your splendid, silent sun (Give me the splendid silent sun) - L. Elsmith, H. Gilbert, R. Harris, N. Lockwood, R. Sowash, W. Spencer
Last invocation (At the last, tenderly) (from Leaves of Grass) - R. Starer FRE
Let others despair (Suddenly, out of its stale and drowsy lair, the lair of slaves) - E. Siegmeister
Lied der Erinnerung (Als der Fliederbusch) - J. Müller-Hermann FRE [x]
Life and Death (As I watch'd the ploughman ploughing) - W. Neidlinger
Lilac star bird (Yet each I keep and all, retrievements out of the night) (from Memories of President Lincoln - When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd) - J. Hawkins
Lilac-Time (Warble me now, for joy of Lilac-time) (from Leaves of Grass) - C. Scott
Lingering last drops (And whence and why come you?) - E. Bacon, L. Segerstam
L'invocation suprême (A la fin, tendrement) - E. Spalding
Lo, body and soul -- this land (from Memories of President Lincoln - When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd)
Lo! keen-eyed, towering Science! (from Song of the Universal)
Long I thought that knowledge alone would suffice me - C. Borzoni
Long I thought (Long I thought that knowledge alone would suffice me) - C. Borzoni
Long, too long America (Long, too long America) (from Drum Taps)
Look down, fair moon and bathe this scene (Look down, fair moon and bathe this scene) (from Drum Taps) - B. Rands
Look down, fair moon and bathe this scene (from Drum Taps) - V. Fine, D. Hagen, J. Hanna, J. Klein, K. Miehling, H. Mollicone, C. Naginski, B. Rands, N. Rorem, H. Somers, J. Van, J. Wallach (Look down, fair moon)
Look down, fair moon (Look down, fair moon and bathe this scene) (from Drum Taps) - V. Fine, D. Hagen, J. Hanna, J. Klein, K. Miehling, H. Mollicone, C. Naginski, N. Rorem, H. Somers, J. Van, J. Wallach
Lo, the moon ascending (The last sunbeam) - E. Bryson FRE
Lo! the unbounded sea! - G. Booth, G. Harris, N. Lockwood, C. Naginski, H. Sandby (The ship starting)
Lo, 'tis autumn (Come up from the fields father, here’s a letter from our Pete)
Lo, 'tis autumn (Lo, ’tis autumn) - R. Sowash
Loud, O my throat, and clear, O soul! (from Leaves of Grass - A Carol of Harvest, for 1867)
Louisiana (I saw in Louisiana a live-oak growing) - M. Castelnuovo-Tedesco
Lovelost (Low hangs the moon, it rose late) (from Leaves of Grass - Sea-Drift) - M. Kilstofte
Love of Comrades (Come, I will make the continent indissoluble) (from Leaves of Grass) - F. White
Lover divine and perfect Comrade (from Leaves of Grass) - M. Hennagin, N. Rorem (Gods)
Low hangs the moon, it rose late (from Leaves of Grass - Sea-Drift) - M. Kilstofte
Make no puns (from Diaries)
May 12. -- There was part of the late battle at (from Specimen Days) - N. Rorem (A night battle, over a week since)
Minuit clair () - E. Spalding CAT GER GER GER [x]
Miracles (What shall I give? and which are my miracles?) (from Leaves of Grass) - L. Aborn
Mother and Babe (I see the sleeping babe nestling the breast of its mother) (from Leaves of Grass) - R. Beckett, J. Klein, R. Schonthal
My captain (O Captain! my Captain! our fearful trip is done) - C. Scott GER
Nacht (Dies ist deine Stunde, o Seele, dein freier Flug in das Wortlose) - W. Burkhard CAT FRE FRE (Text: Anonymous after Walt Whitman)
Night on the prairies (Night on the prairies) (from Leaves of Grass) - D. Pederson
Night on the prairies (from Leaves of Grass) - D. Pederson
Nocturne (Press close, bare-bosom'd night! Press close, magnetic, nourishing night!) (from Song of Myself) - S. Sargon ITA
Nocturne (Whispers of heavenly death murmur'd I hear) (from Leaves of Grass) - R. Vaughan Williams CAT FRE FRE
Nor for you, for one alone (from Memories of President Lincoln - When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd)
Not from successful love alone - N. Lockwood (Halcyon days)
Not heat flames up and consumes (Not heat flames up and consumes) - C. Borzoni
Not heat flames up and consumes - C. Borzoni
Not heaving from my ribb'd breast only (Not heaving from my ribb’d breast only) (from Leaves of Grass) - J. Rolfe
Not heaving from my ribb’d breast only (from Leaves of Grass) - J. Rolfe
Not upon you alone (Flood-tide below me! I watch you face to face) - J. Kaufer
Now finalè to the shore (from Leaves of Grass) - F. Delius
Now I will do nothing but listen (from Song of Myself) - L. Pfautsch
Now while I sat in the day, and look'd forth (from Memories of President Lincoln - When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd)
O A new song, a free song (from Drum Taps) (Song of the Banner at Daybreak) -
O, a new song, a free song - W. Schuman
O Captain! my Captain! our fearful trip is done GER - A. Anderson, A. Bergh, J. Bohannan, F. Butcher, W. Damrosch, W. Earhart, A. Farwell, L. Hoiby, K. Miehling, C. Scott, K. Weill, C. Wood
O captain! My captain! (O Captain! my Captain! our fearful trip is done) - A. Anderson, A. Bergh, J. Bohannan, F. Butcher, W. Earhart, A. Farwell, L. Hoiby, K. Miehling, K. Weill, C. Wood GER
Ode to Death (Come lovely and soothing death) (from Memories of President Lincoln - When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd) - G. Holst FRE
Ode to Death () (from Memories of President Lincoln - When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd) - J. Ching [x]
Ode to Democracy (Come, I will make the continent indissoluble) (from Leaves of Grass) - G. Kleinsinger
Of God I know not (Of God I know not) - J. Glaser
Of God I know not - J. Glaser
Of him I love day and night I dream'd I heard he was dead - S. Loher, N. Rorem
Of him I love day and night (Of him I love day and night I dream'd I heard he was dead) - S. Loher, N. Rorem
Of obedience, faith, adhesiveness (from Leaves of Grass) - R. Schonthal (Thought)
O how shall I warble myself for the dead one there I loved? (from Memories of President Lincoln - When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd) - J. Van
On a flat road runs the well-train'd runner (from Leaves of Grass) - R. Beckett, L. Kirchner (The runner)
Once I pass'd through a populous city, imprinting my brain (from Leaves of Grass) - F. Piket
Once I pass'd through a populous city (Once I pass'd through a populous city, imprinting my brain) (from Leaves of Grass) - F. Piket
Once I pass'd through a populous city (from Leaves of Grass)
Once Paumanok, when the lilac-scent was in the air (from Leaves of Grass - Sea-Drift)
One fitting glimpse caught through an interstice (A glimpse) - N. Rorem
One hour to madness and joy (One hour to madness and joy!)
One's-Self I sing -- a simple, separate Person (from Leaves of Grass) - G. Bachlund, V. Fine (One's‑Self I sing)
One's-Self I sing (One's-Self I sing -- a simple, separate Person) (from Leaves of Grass) - G. Bachlund, V. Fine
One thought ever at the fore (One thought ever at the fore) - E. Bacon, P. Stearns, R. Ward
Only themselves understand themselves, and the like of themselves (from Leaves of Grass) - O. Luening (Perfections )
Only themselves understand themselves (Only themselves understand themselves, and the like of themselves) (from Leaves of Grass) - O. Luening
On the beach at night, alone (after the whistling winds) - M. Ostrzyga
On the beach at night alone - G. Strang, R. Vaughan Williams, J. Wallach (On the Beach at Night, Alone)
On the beach at night - E. Bacon, W. Bergsma, J. Harrison, A. Imbrie, P. James, L. Liebermann, V. Persichetti, G. Victory (On the Beach at Night)
On the frontier (Whispers of heavenly death murmur'd I hear) (from Leaves of Grass) - E. Bacon CAT FRE FRE
O, nun heb du an, dort in deinem Moor (O, nun heb du an, dort in deinem Moor) - P. Hindemith
O, nun heb du an, dort in deinem Moor - P. Hindemith
O powerful western fallen star! (from Memories of President Lincoln - When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd)
Oses-tu maintenant (Oses-tu maintenant) - E. Spalding GER [x]
Oses-tu maintenant GER - E. Spalding [x]
O span of youth! ever-push'd elasticity! (from Song of Myself) - H. Norris
O take my hand, Walt Whitman! (from Leaves of Grass) - R. Platt (Salut au Monde!)
O tan-faced prairie-boy! (O tan-faced prairie-boy!) - R. Thomas
O the blest eyes! the happy hearts! (from Song of the Universal)
O to make the most jubilant poem! (from Leaves of Grass) (Poem of Joys) -
O to make the most jubilant song! - E. Canat de Chizy, P. Creston, N. Dello Joio, E. Diemer, A. Doherty, S. Sargon, R. Starer (A song of joys)
O to make the most jubilant song (O to make the most jubilant song!) - E. Diemer
Out of May’s Shows Selected (Apple orchards, the trees all cover'd with blossoms) - I. Venables
Out of the cradle endlessly rocking (from Leaves of Grass - Sea-Drift)
Out of the rolling ocean the crowd came a drop gently to me - M. Kernochan, C. Vrionides
Out of the rolling ocean the crowd (Out of the rolling ocean the crowd came a drop gently to me) - C. Vrionides
Out of the rolling ocean (Out of the rolling ocean the crowd came a drop gently to me) - M. Kernochan
O vast Rondure, swimming in space (from Passage to India) - R. Vaughan Williams
Over the breast of the spring, the land, amid cities (from Memories of President Lincoln - When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd)
Over the mountain growths, disease and sorrow (from Song of the Universal) - W. Riegger
O we can wait no longer (from Passage to India) - R. Vaughan Williams
O western orb sailing the heaven (from Memories of President Lincoln - When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd) - P. Hindemith
O what shall I hang on the chamber walls? (from Memories of President Lincoln - When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd)
O what shall the pictures be that I hang on the walls (from Memories of President Lincoln - When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd)
O while I live to be the ruler of life, not a slave (A song of joys) - E. Canat de Chizy, P. Creston, N. Dello Joio, E. Diemer, A. Doherty, S. Sargon, R. Starer
O you whom I often and silently come (O you whom I often and silently come) (from Leaves of Grass) - C. Borzoni, R. Gassman, N. Lee, P. Reif, J. Rolfe, N. Rorem, C. Urquhart
O you whom I often and silently come (from Leaves of Grass) - C. Borzoni, R. Gassman, L. Harrison, N. Lee, P. Reif, J. Rolfe, N. Rorem, S. Sargon, C. Urquhart
O you whom I often (O you whom I often and silently come) (from Leaves of Grass) - S. Sargon
Passage, Immediate Passage (Passage to more than India!) (from Passage to India) - D. Healey
Passage to more than India! (from Passage to India) - D. Healey, R. Vaughan Williams
Passage to you! (from Leaves of Grass) - F. Delius
Passing stranger! you do not know how longingly I look upon you FRE - J. Heggie, N. Lee, D. Little, M. Marder
Passing the visions, passing the night (from Memories of President Lincoln - When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd)
(Pass -- pass, ye proud brigades! (from Leaves of Grass - A Carol of Harvest, for 1867)
Patrolling Barnegat (Wild, wild the storm, and the sea high running) (from Leaves of Grass - Sea-Drift) - J. LoCascio
Paumanok (Sea-beauty! stretch'd and basking!) (from Leaves of Grass - Sea-Drift) - B. Lees, R. Platt
Perfections (Only themselves understand themselves, and the like of themselves) (from Leaves of Grass)
Poem of Joys (O to make the most jubilant poem!) (from Leaves of Grass)
Poor youth, so handsome, athletic (from Specimen Days) (Some specimen cases) - D. Hagen, N. Rorem
Prayer of Columbus (A batter'd, wreck'd old man) (from Leaves of Grass) - R. Strassburg
Press close, bare-bosom'd night! Press close, magnetic, nourishing night! (from Song of Myself) ITA - S. Sargon
Quicksand years that whirl me I know not whither (from Leaves of Grass) - S. Adler (Quicksand years)
Quicksand years (Quicksand years that whirl me I know not whither) (from Leaves of Grass) - S. Adler
Race of veterans (World, take good notice, silver stars fading) - E. Bryson
Reconciliation (Word over all, beautiful as the sky!) (from Leaves of Grass) - T. Correa, V. Fine, I. Gurney, N. Rorem, J. Van, R. Vaughan Williams FRE
Rhapsodie (I am the poet of the Body) (from Song of Myself) - L. Campbell-Tipton ITA
Rhapsody (On the beach at night) - J. Harrison
Roots and leaves themselves alone are these GER (Roots and leaves themselves alone) -
Roots and leaves themselves alone (Roots and leaves themselves alone are these) GER
Sail forth! steer for the deep waters only! (from Passage to India) - J. Rogers
Sail forth! (Sail forth! steer for the deep waters only!) (from Passage to India) - J. Rogers
Salut au Monde! (Part 1) (O take my hand, Walt Whitman!) (from Leaves of Grass) - R. Platt
Salut au Monde! (O take my hand, Walt Whitman!) (from Leaves of Grass)
Scherzo - The Waves (After the sea-ship, after the whistling winds) - R. Vaughan Williams
Schlagt! Schlagt! Trommeln! (Schlagt! Schlagt! Trommeln!) - P. Hindemith FRE
Schlagt! Schlagt! Trommeln! FRE - P. Hindemith, O. Schoeck
Sea-beauty! stretch'd and basking! (from Leaves of Grass - Sea-Drift) - B. Lees, R. Platt
Shine! Great sun! (Shine! Shine! Shine!) (from Leaves of Grass - Sea-Drift) - S. Raphling
Shine! Shine! Shine! (Shine! Shine! Shine!) (from Leaves of Grass - Sea-Drift) - H. Clarke, I. Venables
Shine! Shine! Shine! (from Leaves of Grass - Sea-Drift) - H. Clarke, W. Gilchrist, A. Hartmann, M. Kernochan, S. Raphling, R. Vaughan Williams, I. Venables, F. Warner, E. Warren
Silent and amazed even when a little boy (from Leaves of Grass) - R. Beckett, T. Correa, R. Schonthal (A child's amaze)
Simple and fresh and fair from winter's close emerging (from Leaves of Grass) - W. Neidlinger, A. Radleigh, R. Sowash (The first dandelion)
Sing me the Universal (Come, said the Muse) (from Song of the Universal) - V. Persichetti
Sing on, sing on, you gray-brown bird (from Memories of President Lincoln - When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd) - P. Hindemith
Sing on, there in the swamp! (Sing on, there in the swamp!) (from Memories of President Lincoln - When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd) - P. Hindemith GER
Sing on, there in the swamp! (from Memories of President Lincoln - When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd) GER - P. Hindemith
Skirting the river road, (my forenoon walk, my rest,) - N. Dello Joio, O. Knussen, J. LoCascio (The Dalliance of the Eagles)
Small is the theme of the following Chant (from Leaves of Grass) - V. Fine (Inscription)
Smile o voluptuous cool-breath'd earth (I am the poet of the Body) (from Song of Myself) - G. Allen ITA
Smile, O voluptuous, cool-breath'd earth! (from Song of Myself) ITA
Some specimen cases (In one of the hospitals I find Thomas Haley, company M) (from Specimen Days)
Sometimes with one I love (Sometimes with one I love) - N. Rorem, C. Urquhart
Sometimes with one I love - N. Rorem, C. Urquhart
Song for all seas, all ships (To-day a rude brief recitative) (from Leaves of Grass) - R. Harris, W. Skolnik, R. Vaughan Williams, J. Wagner
Song of Democracy (An old man's thoughts of school) - H. Hanson
Song of myself () (from Song of Myself) - E. Rautavaara [x]
Song of the Banner at Daybreak (O A new song, a free song) (from Drum Taps)
Song of the banner (O, a new song, a free song) - W. Schuman
Song of the open road (Afoot and light-hearted, I take to the open road) (from Song of the Open Road) - W. Wijdeveld
Songs from Calamus [song cycle] () - G. Busby [x]
Soon shall the winter's foil be here (Soon shall the winter's foil be here) - S. Loher
Soon shall the winter's foil be here - S. Loher
Soothe! soothe! soothe! (from Leaves of Grass - Sea-Drift)
Soundscape III () - U. Grahn [x]
Specimen case (In one of the hospitals I find Thomas Haley, company M) (from Specimen Days) - D. Hagen
Stranger, if you passing, meet me - D. Hagen, S. Loher, V. Persichetti, N. Rorem, C. Shaw (To you)
Stranger (Stranger, if you passing, meet me) - V. Persichetti
Suddenly, out of its stale and drowsy lair, the lair of slaves - E. Siegmeister (Europe, the 72d and 73d years of These States)
Tears! tears! tears! - N. Dello Joio, J. Hanna, R. Harris, K. Hartmann, J. Kaufer, K. Miehling, C. Stanford, J. Wallach, W. Wijdeveld (Tears)
Tears (Tears! tears! tears!) - N. Dello Joio, J. Hanna, R. Harris, K. Hartmann, J. Kaufer, K. Miehling, C. Stanford, J. Wallach, W. Wijdeveld
That music always round me, unceasing, unbeginning (from Leaves of Grass) - S. Adler (That music always round me)
That music always round me (That music always round me, unceasing, unbeginning) (from Leaves of Grass) - S. Adler
That shadow, my likeness, that goes to and fro - C. Borzoni, N. Rorem (That shadow, my likeness)
That shadow, my likeness (That shadow, my likeness, that goes to and fro) - C. Borzoni, N. Rorem
The aria sinking; (from Leaves of Grass - Sea-Drift)
The astronomer (When I heard the learn'd astronomer) (from Leaves of Grass) - J. Ivey
The big doors of the country barn stand open and ready (from Song of Myself) - N. Lockwood
The big doors of the country barn stand open and read (from Song of Myself)
The big doors of the country barn stand open (The big doors of the country barn stand open and ready) (from Song of Myself) - N. Lockwood
The commonplace I sing - E. Bacon, R. Harris (The commonplace)
The commonplace (The commonplace I sing) - E. Bacon, R. Harris
The Dalliance of Eagles (Skirting the river road, (my forenoon walk, my rest,)) - J. LoCascio
The dalliance of the eagles (Skirting the river road, (my forenoon walk, my rest,)) - N. Dello Joio, O. Knussen
The dismantled ship (In some unused lagoon, some nameless bay) - E. Bonner, D. Gustafson, C. Livingston, R. Platt
The divine ship (One thought ever at the fore) - E. Bacon
The dresser (An old man bending, I come, among new faces) (from Leaves of Grass)
The Dying Veteran (Amid these days of order, ease, prosperity) - R. Platt
The first dandelion (Simple and fresh and fair from winter's close emerging) (from Leaves of Grass) - W. Neidlinger, A. Radleigh, R. Sowash
The Good Earth (I am the poet of the Body) (from Song of Myself) - R. Williams ITA
The Gossamer Thread (A noiseless, patient spider) (from Leaves of Grass) - R. Samuel
The Grave of Him I Love (O how shall I warble myself for the dead one there I loved?) (from Memories of President Lincoln - When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd) - J. Van
The harvest according (As I watch'd the ploughman ploughing) - A. Stout
The imprisoned soul (At the last, tenderly) (from Leaves of Grass) - A. Bergh FRE
The last invocation (At the last, tenderly) (from Leaves of Grass) - S. Adler, E. Bacon, G. Binkerd, E. Bonner, J. Boyd, F. Bridge, J. Carter, T. Correa, R. Diggle, P. Garratt, P. Glass, E. Henderson, W. Hively, T. Hoekman, L. Kastle, T. Pasatieri, D. Pederson, A. Powers, J. Rogers, S. Sargon, A. Schmutz, W. Schuman, E. Spalding, W. Storey-Smith, R. Thompson, R. Vaughan Williams, I. Venables, T. Whitmer FRE
The last sunbeam FRE - E. Bryson, G. Holst, N. Lockwood, H. McDonald, T. Pasatieri, F. Ritter, B. Rogers, S. Sargon, R. Thomas, R. Vaughan Williams, K. Weill, C. Wood (The last sunbeam)
The little one sleeps in its cradle (The little one sleeps in its cradle) (from Song of Myself) - N. Lockwood
The little one sleeps in its cradle (from Song of Myself) - N. Lockwood
The Lord Star (On the beach at night) - E. Bacon
The Love of Comrades (Come, I will make the continent indissoluble) (from Leaves of Grass) - R. Boughton
The Love-Song of the Birds (Shine! Shine! Shine!) (from Leaves of Grass - Sea-Drift) - R. Vaughan Williams
The Mystic Trumpeter (Hark! some wild trumpeter -- some strange musician) (from Leaves of Grass) - G. Holst, R. Starer
The night, in silence, under many a star (from Memories of President Lincoln - When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd) FRE - G. Crumb (Death carol)
The night in silence under many a star (The night, in silence, under many a star) (from Memories of President Lincoln - When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd) - G. Crumb FRE
Then with the knowledge of death as walking one side of me (from Memories of President Lincoln - When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd)
The Open Road (Afoot and light-hearted, I take to the open road) (from Song of the Open Road) - N. Rorem
The Pleiades (On the beach at night) - V. Persichetti
The real war will never get in the books (And so good-bye to the war. I know not how it may have been, or may) (from Specimen Days) - N. Rorem
There is that in me -- I do not know what it is (from Song of Myself) - V. Persichetti, T. Whitmer
There is that in me (There is that in me -- I do not know what it is) (from Song of Myself) - V. Persichetti, T. Whitmer
There was part of the late battle at Chancellorsville (from Specimen Days) (A night battle, over a week since) - N. Rorem
The runner (On a flat road runs the well-train'd runner) (from Leaves of Grass) - R. Beckett, L. Kirchner
The Second Part III (A hum...). (I believe in you my soul, the other I am must not abase itself to you) (from Song of Myself) - R. Lister
The ship starting (Lo! the unbounded sea!) - G. Booth, G. Harris, C. Naginski, H. Sandby
The sobbing of the bells, the sudden death-news everywhere (from Leaves of Grass) - E. Bacon (The sobbing of the bells)
The sobbing of the bells (The sobbing of the bells, the sudden death-news everywhere) (from Leaves of Grass) - E. Bacon
The soft voluptuous opiate shades (from Leaves of Grass) - E. Bacon, T. Correa, R. Platt, L. Segerstam (Twilight)
The song of Chicago () - I. Gurney [x]
The soothing sanity and blitheness of completion - L. Segerstam (An ended day)
The spotted hawk swoops by and accuses me, he complains of my gab and my loitering (from Song of Myself) - D. Hagen
The Unknown Region (Darest thou now O Soul) - W. Schuman FRE GER FRE FRE
The Unknown (Darest thou now O Soul) - B. Huhn FRE GER FRE FRE
The Unseen Soul (Grand is the seen, the light, to me -- grand are the sky and stars) - E. Bacon
The voice of the rain (And who art thou? said I to the soft-falling shower) - O. Knussen
The World below the Brine (The world below the brine) (from Leaves of Grass) - D. Healey, J. LoCascio
The World Beneath the Brine (The world below the brine) (from Leaves of Grass) - D. Healey
The wound-dresser (Bearing the bandages, water and sponge) (from Leaves of Grass) - J. Adams
The year that trembled (Year that trembled and reel'd beneath me!) - R. Harris
This is thy hour, O Soul, thy free flight into the wordless CAT FRE GER GER FRE GER - E. Bacon, R. Beckett, E. Bonner, T. Cipullo, T. Correa, P. Dalmas, D. Gilliam, P. Glass, U. Grahn, J. Hanna, L. Hoiby, A. Kunz, S. Loher, K. Miehling, M. Ostrzyga, V. Persichetti, R. Platt, L. Reed, J. Rolfe, R. Samuel, S. Sargon, H. Somers, E. Spalding, H. Spier, R. Vaughan Williams, H. Willan, A. Williams (A clear midnight)
This is thy hour o soul (This is thy hour, O Soul, thy free flight into the wordless) - J. Rolfe, A. Williams CAT FRE GER GER FRE GER
Thought (Of obedience, faith, adhesiveness) (from Leaves of Grass) - R. Schonthal
Through the ample open door of the peaceful country barn (from Leaves of Grass) - R. Beckett, J. Klein, O. Luening, R. Schonthal, R. Sowash (A farm-picture)
Till of a sudden (from Leaves of Grass - Sea-Drift)
To a common prostitute (Be composed - be at ease with me - I am Walt Whitman, liberal and lusty as Nature) - N. Rorem
To a Historian (You who celebrate bygones!) (from Leaves of Grass)
To All, To Each (Come lovely and soothing death) (from Memories of President Lincoln - When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd) - W. Schuman FRE
To a stranger (Passing stranger! you do not know how longingly I look upon you) - J. Heggie, N. Lee, D. Little, M. Marder FRE
To-day a rude brief recitative (from Leaves of Grass) - R. Harris, V. Persichetti, W. Skolnik, R. Vaughan Williams, J. Wagner (Song for all seas, all ships)
Toil on, Heroes! harvest the products! (from Leaves of Grass - A Carol of Harvest, for 1867)
To old age (I see in you the estuary that enlarges and spreads) (from Leaves of Grass) - J. Klein, R. Schonthal
To one shortly to die (From all the rest I single out you, having a message for you) (from Leaves of Grass) - E. Bacon
To Paumanok () - I. Gurney [x]
To the Soul (Darest thou now O Soul) - C. Stanford FRE GER FRE FRE
To The States, or any one of them (from Leaves of Grass) - G. Bachlund, S. Loher (Walt Whitman's caution)
To the States (To The States, or any one of them) (from Leaves of Grass) - G. Bachlund, S. Loher
To the tally of my soul (from Memories of President Lincoln - When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd)
To think of time -- of all that retrospection! (from Leaves of Grass) - R. Starer (To think of time)
To think of time (To think of time -- of all that retrospection!) (from Leaves of Grass) - R. Starer
Toward the Unknown Region (Darest thou now O Soul) - R. Vaughan Williams FRE GER FRE FRE
To what you said, passionately clasping my hand, this is my answer - L. Bernstein
To what you said (To what you said, passionately clasping my hand, this is my answer) - L. Bernstein
To you (Stranger, if you passing, meet me) - D. Hagen, S. Loher, N. Rorem, C. Shaw
Tribute (Delicate cluster! flag of teeming life!) - R. Lo Presti
Trickle, drops! my blue veins leaving! - N. Lee
Trickle drops (Trickle, drops! my blue veins leaving!) - N. Lee
Trommelschläge (Schlagt! Schlagt! Trommeln!) - O. Schoeck FRE
Twenty-eight young men bathe by the shore (from Song of Myself) - L. Hoiby
Twenty-eight young men (Twenty-eight young men bathe by the shore) (from Song of Myself) - L. Hoiby
Twilight (The soft voluptuous opiate shades) (from Leaves of Grass) - E. Bacon, T. Correa, R. Platt, L. Segerstam
Two together (Shine! Shine! Shine!) (from Leaves of Grass - Sea-Drift) - A. Hartmann
Under Thee only they harvest -- even but a wisp of hay (from Leaves of Grass - A Carol of Harvest, for 1867)
Unseen buds, infinite, hidden well - R. Platt (Unseen Buds)
Unseen Buds (Unseen buds, infinite, hidden well) - R. Platt
Upon the ocean's wave-worn shore - R. Platt (A Sketch)
Vigil strange I kept on the field one night - R. Thomas (Vigil strange I kept on the field)
Vigil strange I kept on the field (Vigil strange I kept on the field one night)
Vigil (Vigil strange I kept on the field one night) - R. Thomas
Visor'd (A mask, a perpetual disguiser of herself) - R. Schonthal
Vocalism, measure, concentration, determination - J. Harbison (Vocalism)
Vocalism (Vocalism, measure, concentration, determination) - J. Harbison
Voyage (Joy, shipmate, joy!) (from Leaves of Grass) - V. Persichetti CAT FRE
Walt Whitman's caution (To The States, or any one of them) (from Leaves of Grass)
Walt Whitman (Who goes there? hankering, gross, mystical, nude) (from Song of Myself) - C. Ives
Warble for Lilac Time (Warble me now, for joy of Lilac-time) (from Leaves of Grass) - E. Carter
Warble me now, for joy of Lilac-time (from Leaves of Grass) - E. Carter, C. Scott (Warble for Lilac-Time)
We descend upon you and all things -- we arrest you all (Crossing Brooklyn Ferry) - J. Kaufer, V. Thomson
We two boys together clinging (We two boys together clinging) (from Leaves of Grass) - G. Bachlund, M. Tilson Thomas, C. Urquhart, C. Wong
We two boys (We two boys together clinging) (from Leaves of Grass) - G. Bachlund
We two -- how long we were fool'd! (We two -- how long we were fool'd!) (from Leaves of Grass)
We two together (Shine! Shine! Shine!) (from Leaves of Grass - Sea-Drift) - W. Gilchrist, M. Kernochan, F. Warner
We two (Shine! Shine! Shine!) (from Leaves of Grass - Sea-Drift) - E. Warren
We two () - D. Hagen [x]
What scene is this? -- is this indeed humanity (from Specimen Days) (A night battle, over a week since) - N. Rorem
What shall I give? and which are my miracles? (from Leaves of Grass) - L. Aborn (Miracles)
What think you I take my pen in hand to record? (What think you I take my pen in hand to record?) - C. Borzoni
What think you I take my pen in hand to record? - C. Borzoni
When I heard at the close of the day how my name had been receiv'd - C. Borzoni, R. Platt
When I heard at the close of the day (When I heard at the close of the day how my name had been receiv'd) - C. Borzoni, R. Platt
When I heard the learn'd astronomer (When I heard the learn'd astronomer) (from Leaves of Grass) - R. Beckett, O. Knussen
When I heard the learn'd astronomer (from Leaves of Grass) - R. Beckett, J. Ivey, O. Knussen
When I Peruse the Conquer'd Fame of Heroes (When I peruse the conquer'd fame of heroes) (from Leaves of Grass) - J. LoCascio
When I peruse the conquer'd fame of heroes (from Leaves of Grass) - J. LoCascio (When I Peruse the Conquer'd Fame)
When I Peruse the Conquer'd Fame (When I peruse the conquer'd fame of heroes) (from Leaves of Grass)
When late I sang, sad was my voice (from Leaves of Grass - A Carol of Harvest, for 1867)
When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd (When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd) (from Memories of President Lincoln - When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd) - G. Crumb, V. Fine FRE GER
When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd (from Memories of President Lincoln - When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd) FRE GER - G. Crumb, V. Fine, K. Hartmann
Whereto answering, the sea (from Leaves of Grass - Sea-Drift)
While I live (O to make the most jubilant song!) - R. Starer
Whispers from heavenly death (Darest thou now O Soul) - H. Henze FRE GER FRE FRE
Whispers of heavenly death murmur'd I hear (from Leaves of Grass) CAT FRE FRE - E. Bacon, E. Bonner, L. Kastle, R. Luedeke, R. Vaughan Williams, D. Williams (Whispers of Heavenly Death)
Whispers of heavenly death (Darest thou now O Soul) - E. Bacon, V. Olive FRE GER FRE FRE
Whispers of heavenly death (Whispers of heavenly death murmur'd I hear) (from Leaves of Grass) - E. Bacon, E. Bonner, L. Kastle, R. Luedeke, D. Williams CAT FRE FRE
Whispers (Whispers of heavenly death murmur'd I hear) (from Leaves of Grass) - E. Bacon CAT FRE FRE
Whitman interlude (A noiseless, patient spider) (from Leaves of Grass) - D. Mason
Whitman () - T. Verbey [x]
Whitman () - P. Creston [x]
Who are you dusky woman, so ancient hardly human - H. Burleigh, C. Wood
Who goes there? Hankering, gross, mystical and nude (from Song of Myself)
Who goes there? hankering, gross, mystical, nude (from Song of Myself) - C. Ives, H. Norris
Wild, wild the storm, and the sea high running (from Leaves of Grass - Sea-Drift) - J. LoCascio
With music strong I come, with my cornets and my drums (from Song of Myself) - H. Gaul
Women sit, or move to and fro—some old, some young (from Leaves of Grass) - R. Beckett (Beautiful women)
Word over all, beautiful as the sky! (from Leaves of Grass) FRE - T. Correa, V. Fine, I. Gurney, N. Rorem, J. Van, R. Vaughan Williams (Reconciliation)
World, take good notice, silver stars fading - E. Bacon, E. Bryson (World, take good notice)
World, take good notice (World, take good notice, silver stars fading) - E. Bacon
Wurzeln und Halme sind dies nur - F. Schreker
Wurzeln und Halme (Wurzeln und Halme sind dies nur) - F. Schreker
Years of the modern! years of the unperform'd! (Years of the modern) -
Years of the modern (Years of the modern! years of the unperform'd!)
Years of the modern () - N. Dello Joio [x]
Year that trembled and reel'd beneath me! - R. Harris (Year that trembled)
Year that trembled (Year that trembled and reel'd beneath me!)
Yes, when the stars glisten'd (from Leaves of Grass - Sea-Drift)
Yet each I keep and all, retrievements out of the night (from Memories of President Lincoln - When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd) - J. Hawkins
Yet each to keep and all, retrievements out of the night (from Memories of President Lincoln - When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd)
You sea! I resign myself to you also--I guess what you mean (from Song of Myself) - B. Lees
You sea! (You sea! I resign myself to you also--I guess what you mean) (from Song of Myself) - B. Lees
Youth, Day, Old Age, and Night (Youth, large, lusty, loving) (from Leaves of Grass - Great are the Myths) - D. Hagen, N. Rorem, E. Spalding, W. Wijdeveld FRE GER
Youth, large, lusty, loving -- youth full of grace, force, fascination (from Leaves of Grass - Great are the Myths) FRE GER
Youth, large, lusty, loving (from Leaves of Grass - Great are the Myths) FRE GER - D. Hagen, N. Rorem, E. Spalding, W. Wijdeveld
You who celebrate bygones! (from Leaves of Grass) - V. Persichetti (To a Historian)
You who celebrate bygones (You who celebrate bygones!) (from Leaves of Grass) - V. Persichetti

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