Texts to Art Songs and Choral Works by D. Hagen
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Song Cycles, Collections, Symphonies, etc.:
- Alive in a Moment
- no. 1. Rondo: O What is That Sound (Text: W. H. Auden)
- no. 2. Variations: Orpheus (Text: W. H. Auden) [x]
- no. 3. Song: Epitaph on a Tyrant (Text: W. H. Auden)
- no. 4. Interlude: A Moment
- no. 5. Song: The Composer (Text: W. H. Auden) [x]
- no. 6. Scherzo: In Moments of Joy (Text: W. H. Auden) [x]
- no. 7. Closing Hymn: Alive in a Moment (Text: W. H. Auden) [x]
- Dear Youth
- no. 1. The Bonnie Blue Flag (Text: Annie Chambers Ketchum )
- no. 2. I stop again (Text: Hannah Anderson Ropes) [x]
- no. 3. The picture graved into my heart (Text: Hannah Anderson Ropes) [x]
- no. 4. The trouble was Tom [x]
- no. 5. The Lord knows... (Text: Ann Smith) [x]
- no. 6. O, for such a dream (Text: Ann Smith) [x]
- no. 7. Christmas Night (Text: Martha Ingram) [x]
- no. 8. ...silently dispersing (Text: Mary Boykin Chestnut) [x]
- Echo's songs
- no. 1. Never pain to tell thy love (Text: William Blake)
- no. 2. I am not yours (Text: Sara Teasdale)
- no. 3. A dream within a dream (Text: Edgar Allan Poe)
- no. 4. Echo's song (Text: Ben Jonson)
- no. 5. I am Rose (Text: Gertrude Stein)
- no. 6. Lost (Text: Carl Sandburg)
- no. 7. Why did you go? (Text: E. E. Cummings)
- no. 8. Since you went away (Text: Kenneth Rexroth after Shu Chi'siang) *
- no. 9. Thou wouldst be loved (Text: Edgar Allan Poe)
- no. 10. Look down, fair moon (Text: Walt Whitman)
- no. 11. The mild mother [x]
- Figments
- no. 1. Gravity (Text: Alice Wirth Gray) [x]*
- no. 2. Why we have cats (Text: Alice Wirth Gray) [x]*
- no. 3. The End of Daylight Savings Time (Text: Alice Wirth Gray) [x]*
- no. 4. Zoo Prepares to Adopt Metric System (Text: Alice Wirth Gray) [x]*
- no. 5. Lines After Marianne Moore (Text: Alice Wirth Gray) [x]*
- no. 6. Deer in Mist and Almonds (Text: Alice Wirth Gray) [x]*
- no. 7. The Poetry of Sausages: Morcilla (Text: Alice Wirth Gray) [x]*
- Heart of the Stranger
- no. 1. Symmetry (Text: Andrei Codrescu) *
- no. 2. Even Twilight (Text: Daron Aric Hagen after Charles Baudelaire) *
- no. 3. It weeps in my heart (Text: Daron Aric Hagen after Paul Verlaine) * CAT DUT GER GER GER GER GER RUS SPA
- no. 4. To Nobodaddy (Text: William Blake)
- no. 5. Dawlish Fair (Text: John Keats)
- no. 6. Under the night sky (Text: Kim Roberts) *
- no. 7. O, when I was in love with you (Text: Alfred Edward Housman) GER
- no. 8. An irony (Text: Gwen Hagen) *
- no. 9. Specimen case (Text: Walt Whitman)
- no. 10. Song (Text: Theodore Roethke) *
- Larkin Songs
- no. 1a. Going (Text: Philip Larkin) [x]*
- no. 1b. Coming (Text: Philip Larkin) [x]*
- no. 2. Interlude #1: Fiction and the Reading Public (Text: Philip Larkin) [x]*
- no. 3a. Counting (Text: Philip Larkin) [x]*
- no. 3b. 'None of the books have time' (Text: Philip Larkin) [x]*
- no. 4a. 'Within the dream you said' (Text: Philip Larkin) [x]*
- no. 4b. Talking in bed (Text: Philip Larkin) [x]*
- no. 5. Interlude #2: 'To write one song, you said' (Text: Philip Larkin) [x]*
- no. 6a. 'Morning at last: there is snow' (Text: Philip Larkin) [x]*
- no. 6b. The White Palace (Text: Philip Larkin) [x]*
- Letting Go
- no. 1. A Suite of Appearances (Text: Mark Strand) [x]*
- no. 2. Ferry me across the water (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti) GER
- no. 3. Ghost Letter (Text: Richard McCann) [x]*
- no. 4. 'I'll sing a song to my love' (Text: Gwen Hagen) [x]*
- no. 5. Prayer to Sparrow in Two Seasons (Text: Mark Skinner) [x]*
- no. 6. The second law (Text: Stephen Sandy) [x]*
- no. 7. Psalm 150 (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts after Bible or other Sacred Texts) FRE GER ICE
- Lost in Translation
- no. 1. Herbsttag (Text: Rainer Maria Rilke) CHI ENG ENG ENG FRE GRE ITA
- no. 2. The garrison (Text: W. H. Auden) [x]
- no. 3. XIV (Text: Geōrgios Seferiádēs , as George Seferis) [x]*
- no. 4. 'And the feast is followed by the common day' (Text: Robert Kelley) [x]*
- no. 5. Giardino Autunnale (Text: Dino Campagna) [x]*
- Love in a Life
- no. 1. Love in a Life (Text: Robert Browning)
- no. 2. Congedo (Text: Nuar Alsadir) [x]*
- no. 3. Ample make this bed (Text: Emily Dickinson) FRE GER ITA
- no. 4. Stanzas for Music (Text: George Gordon Noel Byron, Lord Byron) [x]
- no. 5. The waking (Text: Theodore Roethke) *
- no. 6a. To you (Text: Walt Whitman)
- no. 6b. To you (Text: Walt Whitman)
- no. 7. Love (Text: Thomas Lodge) [x]
- Love Songs
- no. 1. I am loved (Text: Gwen Hagen) [x]*
- no. 2. Little Uneasy Song (Text: Reine Hauser) [x]*
- no. 3. Ah! Sun-Flower (Text: William Blake) FRE SPA
- no. 4. Lost love (Text: Ze'ev Dunei) [x]*
- no. 5. Washing her hair (Text: Sarah Gorham) [x]*
- no. 6. Requiem (Text: Ze'ev Dunei) [x]*
- no. 7. The satyr (Text: Gwen Hagen) [x]*
- no. 8. Sonnet after a story by Oscar Wilde (Text: Gardner McFall) [x]*
- Merrill Songs
- no. 1. A Downward Look (Text: James Ingram Merrill) [x]*
- no. 2. body (Text: James Ingram Merrill) [x]*
- no. 3. The Instilling (Text: James Ingram Merrill) [x]*
- no. 4. On the Block: Mantel Clock, Imitation Sèvres (Text: James Ingram Merrill) [x]*
- no. 5. Vol. XLIV, No. 3 (Text: James Ingram Merrill) [x]*
- no. 6. On the Block: Lamp, Terracotta Base, US, ca. 1925 (Text: James Ingram Merrill) [x]*
- no. 7. Pledge (Text: James Ingram Merrill) [x]*
- no. 8. An Upward Look (Text: James Ingram Merrill) [x]*
- Muldoon Songs
- no. 1. The Walking Father (Text: Paul Muldoon) [x]*
- no. 2. Thrush (Text: Paul Muldoon) [x]*
- no. 3. Blemish (Text: Paul Muldoon) [x]*
- no. 4. Mink (Text: Paul Muldoon) [x]*
- no. 5. Bran (Text: Paul Muldoon) [x]*
- no. 6. Vico (Text: Paul Muldoon) [x]*
- no. 7. Holy Thursday (Text: Paul Muldoon) [x]*
- Phantoms of Myself
- no. ?. 'I wake to your gestures...' (Text: Susan Griffin) [x]*
- no. 1. I wake thinking of myself as a man (Text: Susan Griffin) [x]*
- no. 2. A story (Text: Susan Griffin) [x]*
- no. 3. Confession (Text: Susan Griffin) [x]*
- no. 4. Her sadness runs beside her like a horse (Text: Susan Griffin) [x]*
- no. 5. 'Quiet, quiet heart' (Text: Susan Griffin) [x]*
- no. 6. Absence (Text: Susan Griffin) [x]*
- Rapture and Regret
- no. 1. Rapture (Text: Virginia Woolf) [x]
- no. 2. Regret (Text: Karen von Blixen-Finecke, née Karen Dinesen, Baroness , as Isak Dinesen) [x]*
- Songs of Experience
- no. 1. Youth, Day, Old Age, and Night (Text: Walt Whitman) FRE GER
- no. 2. Amelia's song (Text: Gardner McFall) [x]*
- no. 3. Wisdom (Text: Sara Teasdale) FRE
- no. 4. Elegy for Ray Charles (Text: Stephen Dunn) [x]*
- no. 5. The stranger's grave (Text: Emily Lawless)
- no. 6. Two butterflies (Text: Emily Dickinson) GER
- Three Silent Things
- no. 1. I depart as air (Text: Walt Whitman)
- no. 2. Despite and still (Text: Robert Graves) *
- no. 3. Ferry me across the water (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti) GER
- no. 4. Do I love you? (Text: Jack Larson) *
- no. 5. Pitiless God (Text: Robinson Jeffers) [x]*
- no. 6. Three silent things (Text: Adelaide Crapsey)
- no. 7. Specimen case (Text: Walt Whitman)
- no. 8. Rain (Text: Paul Goodman) [x]*
- no. 9. Now that I love you (Text: Robert Graves) *
- no. 10. A clear day and no memories (Text: Wallace Stevens) *
- We Two
- no. 1. Dear Camerado (Text: Walt Whitman)
- no. 2. We two (Text: Walt Whitman) [x]
All titles of vocal settings in Alphabetic order
- Absence (in Phantoms of Myself) (Text: Susan Griffin) [x]*
- A clear day and no memories (in Three Silent Things) (Text: Wallace Stevens) *
- A Downward Look (in Merrill Songs) (Text: James Ingram Merrill) [x]*
- A dream within a dream (in Echo's songs) (Text: Edgar Allan Poe)
- Ah! Sun-Flower (in Love Songs) (Text: William Blake) FRE SPA
- Amelia's song (in Songs of Experience) (Text: Gardner McFall) [x]*
- Ample make this bed (in Love in a Life) (Text: Emily Dickinson) FRE GER ITA
- 'And the feast is followed by the common day' (in Lost in Translation) (Text: Robert Kelley) [x]*
- An irony (in Heart of the Stranger) (Text: Gwen Hagen) *
- An Upward Look (in Merrill Songs) (Text: James Ingram Merrill) [x]*
- A story (in Phantoms of Myself) (Text: Susan Griffin) [x]*
- A Suite of Appearances (in Letting Go) (Text: Mark Strand) [x]*
- Blemish (in Muldoon Songs) (Text: Paul Muldoon) [x]*
- body (in Merrill Songs) (Text: James Ingram Merrill) [x]*
- Bran (in Muldoon Songs) (Text: Paul Muldoon) [x]*
- Christmas Night (in Dear Youth) (Text: Martha Ingram) [x]
- Closing Hymn: Alive in a Moment (in Alive in a Moment) (Text: W. H. Auden) [x]
- Coming (in Larkin Songs) (Text: Philip Larkin) [x]*
- Confession (in Phantoms of Myself) (Text: Susan Griffin) [x]*
- Congedo (in Love in a Life) (Text: Nuar Alsadir) [x]*
- Counting (in Larkin Songs) (Text: Philip Larkin) [x]*
- Dawlish Fair (in Heart of the Stranger) (Text: John Keats)
- Dear Camerado (in We Two) (Text: Walt Whitman)
- Deer in Mist and Almonds (in Figments) (Text: Alice Wirth Gray) [x]*
- Despite and still (in Three Silent Things) (Text: Robert Graves) *
- Do I love you? (in Three Silent Things) (Text: Jack Larson) *
- Echo's song (in Echo's songs) (Text: Ben Jonson)
- Elegy for Ray Charles (in Songs of Experience) (Text: Stephen Dunn) [x]*
- Even Twilight (in Heart of the Stranger) (Text: Daron Aric Hagen after Charles Baudelaire) *
- Ferry me across the water (in Letting Go) (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti) GER
- Ferry me across the water (in Three Silent Things) (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti) GER
- Ghost Letter (in Letting Go) (Text: Richard McCann) [x]*
- Giardino Autunnale (in Lost in Translation) (Text: Dino Campagna) [x]*
- Going (in Larkin Songs) (Text: Philip Larkin) [x]*
- Gravity (in Figments) (Text: Alice Wirth Gray) [x]*
- Herbsttag (in Lost in Translation) (Text: Rainer Maria Rilke) CHI ENG ENG ENG FRE GRE ITA
- Her sadness runs beside her like a horse (in Phantoms of Myself) (Text: Susan Griffin) [x]*
- Holy Thursday (in Muldoon Songs) (Text: Paul Muldoon) [x]*
- I am loved (in Love Songs) (Text: Gwen Hagen) [x]*
- I am not yours (in Echo's songs) (Text: Sara Teasdale)
- I am Rose (in Echo's songs) (Text: Gertrude Stein)
- I depart as air (in Three Silent Things) (Text: Walt Whitman)
- 'I'll sing a song to my love' (in Letting Go) (Text: Gwen Hagen) [x]*
- Interlude #1: Fiction and the Reading Public (in Larkin Songs) (Text: Philip Larkin) [x]*
- Interlude #2: 'To write one song, you said' (in Larkin Songs) (Text: Philip Larkin) [x]*
- Interlude: A Moment (in Alive in a Moment)
- I stop again (in Dear Youth) (Text: Hannah Anderson Ropes) [x]
- It weeps in my heart (in Heart of the Stranger) (Text: Daron Aric Hagen after Paul Verlaine) * CAT DUT GER GER GER GER GER RUS SPA
- I wake thinking of myself as a man (in Phantoms of Myself) (Text: Susan Griffin) [x]*
- 'I wake to your gestures...' (in Phantoms of Myself) (Text: Susan Griffin) [x]*
- Lines After Marianne Moore (in Figments) (Text: Alice Wirth Gray) [x]*
- Little Uneasy Song (in Love Songs) (Text: Reine Hauser) [x]*
- Look down, fair moon (in Echo's songs) (Text: Walt Whitman)
- Lost love (in Love Songs) (Text: Ze'ev Dunei) [x]*
- Lost (in Echo's songs) (Text: Carl Sandburg)
- Love in a Life (in Love in a Life) (Text: Robert Browning)
- Love (in Love in a Life) (Text: Thomas Lodge) [x]
- Mink (in Muldoon Songs) (Text: Paul Muldoon) [x]*
- 'Morning at last: there is snow' (in Larkin Songs) (Text: Philip Larkin) [x]*
- Musik: Atem der Statuen (Text: Rainer Maria Rilke) ENG ENG ITA
- Never pain to tell thy love (in Echo's songs) (Text: William Blake)
- 'None of the books have time' (in Larkin Songs) (Text: Philip Larkin) [x]*
- Now that I love you (in Three Silent Things) (Text: Robert Graves) *
- O, for such a dream (in Dear Youth) (Text: Ann Smith) [x]
- On the Block: Lamp, Terracotta Base, US, ca. 1925 (in Merrill Songs) (Text: James Ingram Merrill) [x]*
- On the Block: Mantel Clock, Imitation Sèvres (in Merrill Songs) (Text: James Ingram Merrill) [x]*
- O, when I was in love with you (in Heart of the Stranger) (Text: Alfred Edward Housman) GER
- Pitiless God (in Three Silent Things) (Text: Robinson Jeffers) [x]*
- Pledge (in Merrill Songs) (Text: James Ingram Merrill) [x]*
- Prayer to Sparrow in Two Seasons (in Letting Go) (Text: Mark Skinner) [x]*
- Psalm 150 (in Letting Go) (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts after Bible or other Sacred Texts) FRE GER ICE
- 'Quiet, quiet heart' (in Phantoms of Myself) (Text: Susan Griffin) [x]*
- Rain (in Three Silent Things) (Text: Paul Goodman) [x]*
- Rapture (in Rapture and Regret) (Text: Virginia Woolf) [x]
- Regret (in Rapture and Regret) (Text: Karen von Blixen-Finecke, née Karen Dinesen, Baroness , as Isak Dinesen) [x]*
- Requiem (in Love Songs) (Text: Ze'ev Dunei) [x]*
- Rondo: O What is That Sound (in Alive in a Moment) (Text: W. H. Auden)
- Scherzo: In Moments of Joy (in Alive in a Moment) (Text: W. H. Auden) [x]
- ...silently dispersing (in Dear Youth) (Text: Mary Boykin Chestnut) [x]
- Since you went away (in Echo's songs) (Text: Kenneth Rexroth after Shu Chi'siang) *
- Song: Epitaph on a Tyrant (in Alive in a Moment) (Text: W. H. Auden)
- Song: The Composer (in Alive in a Moment) (Text: W. H. Auden) [x]
- Song (in Heart of the Stranger) (Text: Theodore Roethke) *
- Sonnet after a story by Oscar Wilde (in Love Songs) (Text: Gardner McFall) [x]*
- Specimen case (in Three Silent Things) (Text: Walt Whitman)
- Specimen case (in Heart of the Stranger) (Text: Walt Whitman)
- Stanzas for Music (in Love in a Life) (Text: George Gordon Noel Byron, Lord Byron) [x]
- Symmetry (in Heart of the Stranger) (Text: Andrei Codrescu) *
- Talking in bed (in Larkin Songs) (Text: Philip Larkin) [x]*
- The Bonnie Blue Flag (in Dear Youth) (Text: Annie Chambers Ketchum )
- The End of Daylight Savings Time (in Figments) (Text: Alice Wirth Gray) [x]*
- The garrison (in Lost in Translation) (Text: W. H. Auden) [x]
- The Instilling (in Merrill Songs) (Text: James Ingram Merrill) [x]*
- The Lord knows... (in Dear Youth) (Text: Ann Smith) [x]
- The mild mother (in Echo's songs) [x]
- The picture graved into my heart (in Dear Youth) (Text: Hannah Anderson Ropes) [x]
- The Poetry of Sausages: Morcilla (in Figments) (Text: Alice Wirth Gray) [x]*
- The satyr (in Love Songs) (Text: Gwen Hagen) [x]*
- The second law (in Letting Go) (Text: Stephen Sandy) [x]*
- The stranger's grave (in Songs of Experience) (Text: Emily Lawless)
- The trouble was Tom (in Dear Youth) [x]
- The waking (in Love in a Life) (Text: Theodore Roethke) *
- The Walking Father (in Muldoon Songs) (Text: Paul Muldoon) [x]*
- The White Palace (in Larkin Songs) (Text: Philip Larkin) [x]*
- Thou wouldst be loved (in Echo's songs) (Text: Edgar Allan Poe)
- Three silent things (in Three Silent Things) (Text: Adelaide Crapsey)
- Thrush (in Muldoon Songs) (Text: Paul Muldoon) [x]*
- To a Street Person (Text: Daron Aric Hagen after Charles Baudelaire) * CZE
- To Nobodaddy (in Heart of the Stranger) (Text: William Blake)
- To you (in Love in a Life) (Text: Walt Whitman)
- To you (in Love in a Life) (Text: Walt Whitman)
- Two butterflies (in Songs of Experience) (Text: Emily Dickinson) GER
- Under the night sky (in Heart of the Stranger) (Text: Kim Roberts) *
- Variations: Orpheus (in Alive in a Moment) (Text: W. H. Auden) [x]
- Vico (in Muldoon Songs) (Text: Paul Muldoon) [x]*
- Vol. XLIV, No. 3 (in Merrill Songs) (Text: James Ingram Merrill) [x]*
- Washing her hair (in Love Songs) (Text: Sarah Gorham) [x]*
- We two (in We Two) (Text: Walt Whitman) [x]
- Why did you go? (in Echo's songs) (Text: E. E. Cummings)
- Why we have cats (in Figments) (Text: Alice Wirth Gray) [x]*
- Wisdom (in Songs of Experience) (Text: Sara Teasdale) FRE
- 'Within the dream you said' (in Larkin Songs) (Text: Philip Larkin) [x]*
- XIV (in Lost in Translation) (Text: Geōrgios Seferiádēs , as George Seferis) [x]*
- Youth, Day, Old Age, and Night (in Songs of Experience) (Text: Walt Whitman) FRE GER
- Zoo Prepares to Adopt Metric System (in Figments) (Text: Alice Wirth Gray) [x]*
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