Texts to Art Songs and Choral Works by N. Rorem

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Ned Rorem (1923 - 2022)

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5 Songs to Poems - Texts by Walt Whitman

no. 1. As Adam, early in the morning (Text: Walt Whitman)
no. 2. O you whom I often and silently come (Text: Walt Whitman)
no. 3. To you (Text: Walt Whitman)
no. 4. Look down, fair moon (Text: Walt Whitman)
no. 5. Gliding o'er all (Text: Walt Whitman)

After Long Silence

The sick rose (Text: William Blake) CAT FRE GER GER IRI NYN RUS SPA

Aftermath

no. 1. The drum (Text: John Scott of Amwell )
no. 2. The tigers of wrath [multi-text setting] (Text: Housman, Arnold, Marston, Blake) CAT FRE
no. 3. The fury of the aerial bombardment (Text: Richard Eberhart) *
no. 4. The park (Text: John Hollander) *
no. 5. Sonnet LXIV (Text: William Shakespeare) FRE GER
no. 6. On his seventy-fifth birthday (Text: Walter Savage Landor)
no. 7. Grief (Text: Elizabeth Barrett Browning)
no. 8. Remorse for any death (Text: Anonymous after Jorge Luis Borges) [x]*
no. 9. Losses (Text: Randall Jarrell) *
no. 10. Then (Text: Muriel Rukeyser) *

Another Sleep

no. 15. Night (Text: Anonymous after Sappho) FRE FRE GER GER GER GER ITA ITA RUS SAN SWE

Ariel: Five Poems of Sylvia Plath

no. 1. Words (Text: Sylvia Plath)
no. 2. Poppies in July (Text: Sylvia Plath)
no. 3. The hanging man (Text: Sylvia Plath)
no. 4. Poppies in October (Text: Sylvia Plath)
no. 5. Lady Lazarus (Text: Sylvia Plath)

Cycle of Holy Songs

no. 1. Psalm 134 (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts after Bible or other Sacred Texts) FRE
no. 2. Psalm 142 (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts after Bible or other Sacred Texts) GER
no. 3. Psalm 148 (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts after Bible or other Sacred Texts) GER GER
no. 4. Psalm 150 (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts after Bible or other Sacred Texts) DUT FRE GER ICE

Evidence of Things Not Seen

no. 1. From whence cometh song (Text: Theodore Roethke) *
no. 2. The Open Road (Text: Walt Whitman)
no. 3. O where are you going (Text: W. H. Auden)
no. 4. The Rainbow (Text: William Wordsworth) GER
no. 5. How Do I Love Thee (Text: Elizabeth Barrett Browning) CHI GER
no. 6. Life in a love (Text: Robert Browning)
no. 7. Their Lonely Betters (Text: W. H. Auden)
no. 8. His Beauty Sparkles (Text: Paul Goodman) *
no. 9. Boy with a Baseball Glove (Text: Paul Goodman) *
no. 10. A glimpse (Text: Walt Whitman)
no. 11. I am he . . . (Text: Walt Whitman)
no. 12. Love cannot fill the thickened lung with breath (Text: Edna St. Vincent Millay)
no. 13. The more loving one (Text: W. H. Auden)
no. 14. Hymn for Morning (Text: Thomas Ken)
no. 15. I saw a mass of matter of a dull gloomy color (Text: John Woolman)
no. 16. The Comfort of Friends (O the rapes) (Text: William Penn)
no. 17. A dead statesman (Text: Rudyard Kipling)
no. 18. The Candid Man (Text: Stephen Crane)
no. 19. Comment on War (Text: Langston Hughes)
no. 20. A learned man (Text: Stephen Crane)
no. 21. Dear, though the night is gone (Text: W. H. Auden)
no. 22. Requiescat (Text: Oscar Wilde) GER GER RUS
no. 23. Is my team ploughing (Text: Alfred Edward Housman) FRE HEB
no. 24. As I Walked Out One Evening (Text: W. H. Auden)
no. 25. The sick wife (Text: Jane Kenyon) *
no. 26. Now is the dreadful midnight (Text: Paul Goodman) *
no. 27. Hymn for Evening (Text: Thomas Ken)
no. 28. He thinks upon his death (Text: Ned Rorem after Julien Green) *
no. 29. On an echoing road (Text: Anonymous after Colette)
no. 30. A terrible disaster (Text: Paul Goodman) *
no. 31. Come In (Text: Robert Frost)
no. 32. The old men admiring themselves in the water (Text: William Butler Yeats) FRE
no. 33. End of the Day (Text: Anonymous after Charles Baudelaire) CZE GER
no. 34. Faith (Text: Mark Doty) *
no. 35. Even now the night jasmine is pouring (Text: Paul Monette) *
no. 36. Evidence of Things not seen (Text: William Penn)

Five Poems of Walt Whitman

no. 1. Reconciliation (Text: Walt Whitman) FRE
no. 2. Sometimes with one I love (Text: Walt Whitman)
no. 3. Look down, fair moon (Text: Walt Whitman)
no. 4. Gliding o'er all (Text: Walt Whitman)
no. 5. Gods (Text: Walt Whitman)

Flight For Heaven

no. 1. To Music, to becalm his Fever (Text: Robert Herrick)
no. 2. Cherry-ripe (Text: Robert Herrick)
no. 3. Upon Julia's clothes (Text: Robert Herrick)
no. 4. To daisies, not to shut so soon (Text: Robert Herrick)
no. 5. Epitaph (upon a Child that died) (Text: Robert Herrick)
no. 6. Another Epitaph (Text: Robert Herrick)
no. 7. To the Willow-tree (Text: Robert Herrick)
no. 8. Comfort to a Youth that had lost his Love (Text: Robert Herrick) GER
no. 9. Piano Interlude
no. 10. To Anthea, who may command him anything (Text: Robert Herrick) FRE

Four Dialogues for 2 Voices and 2 Pianos

no. 1. The sub (Text: Frank O'Hara) [x]*
no. 2. The airport (Text: Frank O'Hara) [x]*
no. 3. The apartment (Text: Frank O'Hara) [x]*
no. 4. In New York and Spain (Text: Frank O'Hara) [x]*

Four Madrigals

no. 1. Parting (Text: Anonymous after Sappho) [x] ⊗
no. 2. Flowers for the Graces (Text: Anonymous after Sappho) [x] ⊗*
no. 3. Love (Text: Anonymous after Sappho) [x] ⊗*
no. 4. An absent friend (Text: Anonymous after Sappho) [x] ⊗*

Four Poems of Tennyson

Far-Far-Away (Text: Alfred Tennyson, Lord)
The sleeping palace (Text: Alfred Tennyson, Lord)

Four songs

The tulip tree (Text: Paul Goodman) *
The midnight sun (Text: Paul Goodman) [x]*

Last Poems of Wallace Stevens

no. 1. Not ideas about the thing but the thing itself (Text: Wallace Stevens)
no. 2. The River of Rivers in Connecticut (Text: Wallace Stevens)
no. 3. A child asleep in its own life (Text: Wallace Stevens) *
no. 4. The Planet on the Table (Text: Wallace Stevens)
no. 5. The Dove in Spring (Text: Wallace Stevens)
no. 6. Of mere being (Text: Wallace Stevens)
no. 7. A clear day and no memories (Text: Wallace Stevens)

Little Prayers

no. 1. Rest well (Text: Paul Goodman) [x]*
no. 2. Creator of the worlds, O Joy (Text: Paul Goodman) [x]*
no. 3. God, I prayed, to me restore (Text: Paul Goodman) [x]*
no. 4. Creator spirit, please (Text: Paul Goodman) *
no. 5. Novices of art understate (Text: Paul Goodman) [x]*
no. 6. O God of fire and the secret (Text: Paul Goodman) [x]*
no. 7. Father, guide and lead me (Text: Paul Goodman) *
no. 8. Long lines (Text: Paul Goodman) [x]*
no. 9. Creator spirit who dost (Text: Paul Goodman) *
no. 10. On all, the wicked and (Text: Paul Goodman) [x]*
no. 11. Rest well (Text: Paul Goodman) [x]*
no. 12. God bless my small home (Text: Paul Goodman) [x]*
no. 13. I waited in the parlor (Text: Paul Goodman) [x]*
no. 14. Rest well thy weary heart (Text: Paul Goodman) [x]*
no. 15. A prayer to Saint Harmony (Text: Paul Goodman) [x]*

Poèmes pour la Paix

no. 1. Lay (Text: Jehan Regnier)
no. 2. Ode (Text: Pierre de Ronsard) ENG
no. 3. Sonnet I (Text: Olivier de Magny)
no. 4. Sonnet II (Text: Olivier de Magny)
no. 5. Sonnet (Text: Jean Daurat)
no. 6. L'hymne de la paix (Text: Jean-Antoine de Baïf) [x]

Poems of Love and the Rain

no. 1. Prologue: From The Rain (Text: Donald Windham) [x]*
no. 2. Stop all the clocks (Text: W. H. Auden)
no. 3. The air is the only (Text: Howard Moss) [x]*
no. 4. Love's stricken 'why' (Text: Emily Dickinson)
no. 5. The apparition (Text: Theodore Roethke) [x]*
no. 6. Do I love you more than a day? (Text: Jack Larson) *
no. 7. in the rain (Text: E. E. Cummings)
no. 8. Song for lying in bed during a night rain (Text: Kenneth Pitchford) [x]*
no. 9. Interlude (Text: Theodore Roethke) [x]*
no. 10. Song for lying in bed during a night rain (Text: Kenneth Pitchford) [x]*
no. 11. in the rain (Text: E. E. Cummings)
no. 12. Do I love you more than a day? (Text: Jack Larson) *
no. 13. The apparition (Text: Theodore Roethke) [x]*
no. 14. Love's stricken 'why' (Text: Emily Dickinson)
no. 15. The air is the only (Text: Howard Moss) [x]*
no. 16. Stop all the clocks (Text: W. H. Auden)
no. 17. Epiglogue: From The Rain (Text: Donald Windham) [x]*

Santa Fe Songs

no. 1. Santa Fe (Text: Witter Bynner) [x]
no. 2. Opus 101 (Text: Witter Bynner)
no. 3. Any other time (Text: Witter Bynner) [x]
no. 4. Sonnet (Text: Witter Bynner)
no. 5. Coming down the stairs (Text: Witter Bynner) [x]
no. 6. He never knew (Text: Witter Bynner) [x]
no. 7. El musico (Text: Witter Bynner) [x]
no. 8. The wintry mind (Text: Witter Bynner)
no. 9. Water-hyacinths (Text: Witter Bynner) [x]
no. 10. Moving leaves (Text: Witter Bynner) [x]
no. 11. Yes I hear them (Text: Witter Bynner) [x]
no. 12. The sowers (Text: Witter Bynner)

Seven Motets for the Church Year

no. 1. While all things were in quiet silence (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts)
no. 2. Before the morning star begotten (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts)
no. 3. Lay up for yourselves (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts)
no. 4. Praise him who was crucified (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts)
no. 5. God is gone up (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts)
no. 6. Today the Holy Spirit appeared (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts)
no. 7. Rejoice we all in the Lord (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts)

Six Songs for High Voice

no. 1. Pippa's song (Text: Robert Browning) CAT GER ITA
no. 2. Cradle song (Text: The brothers Wedderburn after Martin Luther) DUT FRE GER
no. 3. Song for a girl (Text: John Dryden)
no. 4. Rondelay (Text: John Dryden)
no. 5. In a gondola (Text: Robert Browning)
no. 6. Song to a fair young lady, going out of town in the spring (Text: John Dryden)

Some Trees

no. 1. Some Trees (Text: John Ashbery) [x]*
no. 2. The grapevine (Text: John Ashbery) [x]*
no. 3. Our youth (Text: John Ashbery) [x]*

no. ?. Sun of the sleepless (Text: George Gordon Noel Byron, Lord Byron) CAT CHI FRE GER GER GER GER GER GER ITA RUS
no. ?. Dawn (Text: Paul Goodman) [x]*
no. 4. Day (Text: William Blake) RUS

The AIDS Quilt Songbook [multi-composer]

no. 1. Fury, composed by David Wheelock (Text: Susan Snively) [x]*
no. 2. Blues for an imaginary valentine, composed by Fred Hersch (Text: Fred Hersch) [x]*
no. 3. Heartbeats, composed by John Musto (Text: Melvin Dixon) [x]*
no. 4. A dream of nightingales, composed by Ned Rorem (Text: David Bergman) [x]*
no. 5. Walt Whitman in 1989, composed by Chris DeBlasio (Text: Perry Brass) [x]*
no. 6. The 80's miracle diet, composed by David Krakauer (Text: Melvin Dixon) [x]*
no. 7. For Richard, composed by Annea Lockwood (Text: Eve Ensler) [x]*
no. 8. Fairy book lines, composed by Donald St. Pierre (Text: Charles Barber) [x]*
no. 9. Vaslav's song, composed by William Bolcom (Text: Ethyl Eichelberger) [x]
no. 10. AIDS anxiety, composed by Richard Pearson Thomas (Text: Richard Pearson Thomas) [x]*
no. 11. The flute of interior time, composed by John H. Harbison (Text: Robert Bly after Kabir) ⊗*
no. 12. The birds of sorrow, composed by Carl Byron (Text: Ron Schreiber) [x]*
no. 13. Investiture at Cecconi's, composed by Lee Hoiby (Text: James Ingram Merrill) [x]*
no. 14. A certain light, composed by Elizabeth C. Brown (Text: Marie Howe) [x]*
no. 15. I never knew, composed by Ricky Ian Gordon (Text: Ricky Ian Gordon) [x]*
no. 16. The second law, composed by Richard Wilson (Text: Stephen Sandy) [x]*
no. 17. Perineo, composed by Libby Larsen (Text: Roberto Echavarren) [x]*
no. 18. The enticing lane, composed by Steven Houtz (Text: Christopher Hewitt) [x]*

The Nantucket Songs

no. 1. Song (Text: Theodore Roethke) *
no. 2. The Dance (Text: William Carlos Williams) *
no. 3. Nantucket (Text: William Carlos Williams) *
no. 4. Song (Text: Edmund Waller; Henry Kirke White) SPA
no. 5. Up-hill (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
no. 6. Mother, I cannot mind my wheel (Text: Walter Savage Landor after Sappho) FRE GER GER RUS
no. 7. Fear of death (Text: John Ashbery) *
no. 8. Thoughts of a young girl (Text: John Ashbery) *
no. 9. Ferry me across the water (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti) GER
no. 10. The dancer (Text: Edmund Waller)

The Poet's Requiem

no. 1. Friends, let us mourn (Text: Paul Goodman after Franz Kafka) [x] ⊗*
no. 2. Make me, my streaming face (Text: Paul Goodman after Rainer Maria Rilke) ⊗*
no. 3. Look, Segramor (Text: Paul Goodman after Jean Cocteau) [x] ⊗*
no. 4. Vast gulph! (Text: Paul Goodman after Stéphane Mallarmé) [x]*
no. 5. Our own death is unimaginable (Text: Paul Goodman after Sigmund Freud) *
no. 6. Of the millions, I know, who have gone to the grave (Text: Paul Goodman) *
no. 7. The hare or the deer (Text: Paul Goodman after André Gide) [x]*
no. 8. All eyes (Text: Paul Goodman after Rainer Maria Rilke) *

Three Calamus Songs

no. 1. Of him I love day and night (Text: Walt Whitman)
no. 2. I saw in Louisiana a live-oak growing (Text: Walt Whitman)
no. 3. To a common prostitute (Text: Walt Whitman)

Three Motets on Texts by Gerard Manley Hopkins

no. 3. Thee, God (Text: Gerard Manley Hopkins)

Three Poems of Demetrios Capetanakis

no. 1. Abel (Text: Demetrios Capetanakis) [x]
no. 2. Guilt (Text: Demetrios Capetanakis) [x]
no. 3. The land (Text: Demetrios Capetanakis) [x]

Three Poems of Paul Goodman

no. 1. For Susan (Text: Paul Goodman) *
no. 2. Clouds (Text: Paul Goodman) *
no. 3. What sparks and wiry cries (Text: Paul Goodman) *

Three Prayers

no. 1. Creator spirit who dost lightly hover (Text: Paul Goodman) *
no. 2. Father, guide and lead me (Text: Paul Goodman) *
no. 3. Creator spirit, please (Text: Paul Goodman) *

Two Poems of Theodore Roethke

no. 1. Orchids (Text: Theodore Roethke) *
no. 1. I strolled across an open field (Text: Theodore Roethke) *

Two songs

no. 1. Little elegy (Text: Elinor Wylie) GER
no. 2. On a singing girl (Text: Elinor Wylie)

War Scenes

no. 1. A night battle (Text: Walt Whitman)
no. 2. A specimen case (Text: Walt Whitman)
no. 3. An incident (Text: Walt Whitman)
no. 4. Inauguration Ball (Text: Walt Whitman)
no. 5. The real war will never get in the books (Text: Walt Whitman)

Whitman Cantata

That shadow, my likeness (Text: Walt Whitman)

Women's Voices

no. 1. Now let no charitable hope (Text: Elinor Wylie)
no. 2. A birthday (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
no. 3. To my dear and loving husband (Text: Anne Bradstreet)
no. 4. To the ladies (Text: Mary Lee, Lady Chudleigh)
no. 5. If ever hapless woman had a cause (Text: Mary Herbert, Countess of Pembroke, née Sidney)
no. 6. We never said farewell (Text: Mary Coleridge)
no. 7. The stranger (Text: Adrienne Rich) [x]*
no. 8. What inn is this (Text: Emily Dickinson) GER
no. 9. Defiled is my name
no. 10. Electrocution (Text: Lola Ridge)
no. 11. Smile, Death (Text: Charlotte Mew)

All titles of vocal settings in Alphabetic order

Abel (in Three Poems of Demetrios Capetanakis) (Text: Demetrios Capetanakis) [x]
A birthday (in Women's Voices) (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
Absalom (Text: Paul Goodman) *
A child asleep in its own life (in Last Poems of Wallace Stevens) (Text: Wallace Stevens) *
A clear day and no memories (in Last Poems of Wallace Stevens) (Text: Wallace Stevens)
A dead statesman (in Evidence of Things Not Seen) (Text: Rudyard Kipling)
A dream of nightingales (in The AIDS Quilt Songbook) (Text: David Bergman) [x]*
A glimpse (in Evidence of Things Not Seen) (Text: Walt Whitman)
A journey (Text: Andrew Glaze)
A learned man (in Evidence of Things Not Seen) (Text: Stephen Crane)
All eyes (in The Poet's Requiem) (Text: Paul Goodman after Rainer Maria Rilke) *
An absent friend (in Four Madrigals) (Text: Anonymous after Sappho) [x] ⊗*
A night battle (in War Scenes) (Text: Walt Whitman)
An incident (in War Scenes) (Text: Walt Whitman)
Another Epitaph (in Flight For Heaven) (Text: Robert Herrick)
Any other time (in Santa Fe Songs) (Text: Witter Bynner) [x]
A prayer to Saint Harmony (in Little Prayers) (Text: Paul Goodman) [x]*
Are you the new person? (Text: Walt Whitman)
As Adam, early in the morning (in 5 Songs to Poems - Texts by Walt Whitman) (Text: Walt Whitman)
A sermon on miracles (Text: Paul Goodman) [x]*
As I Walked Out One Evening (in Evidence of Things Not Seen) (Text: W. H. Auden)
Ask me no more (Text: Alfred Tennyson, Lord)
A specimen case (in War Scenes) (Text: Walt Whitman)
A terrible disaster (in Evidence of Things Not Seen) (Text: Paul Goodman) *
Bedlam (Text: Elizabeth Bishop) [x]*
Before the morning star begotten (in Seven Motets for the Church Year) (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts)
Boy with a Baseball Glove (in Evidence of Things Not Seen) (Text: Paul Goodman) *
Catullus: On the burial of his brother (Text: Aubrey Vincent Beardsley after Gaius Valerius Catullus) ITA
Cherry-ripe (in Flight For Heaven) (Text: Robert Herrick)
Chromatic Fantasy (Text: Anthony Evan Hecht) *
Clouds (in Three Poems of Paul Goodman) (Text: Paul Goodman) *
Come In (in Evidence of Things Not Seen) (Text: Robert Frost)
Comfort to a Youth that had lost his Love (in Flight For Heaven) (Text: Robert Herrick) GER
Coming down the stairs (in Santa Fe Songs) (Text: Witter Bynner) [x]
Comment on War (in Evidence of Things Not Seen) (Text: Langston Hughes)
Conversation (Text: Elizabeth Bishop) *
Cradle song (in Six Songs for High Voice) (Text: The brothers Wedderburn after Martin Luther) DUT FRE GER
Creator of the worlds, O Joy (in Little Prayers) (Text: Paul Goodman) [x]*
Creator spirit, please (in Three Prayers) (Text: Paul Goodman) *
Creator spirit, please (in Little Prayers) (Text: Paul Goodman) *
Creator spirit who dost lightly hover (in Three Prayers) (Text: Paul Goodman) *
Creator spirit who dost (in Little Prayers) (Text: Paul Goodman) *
Dawn (in Sun) (Text: Paul Goodman) [x]*
Day (in Sun) (Text: William Blake) RUS
Dear, though the night is gone (in Evidence of Things Not Seen) (Text: W. H. Auden)
Defiled is my name (in Women's Voices)
Do I love you more than a day? (in Poems of Love and the Rain) (Text: Jack Larson) *
Do I love you more than a day? (in Poems of Love and the Rain) (Text: Jack Larson) *
Doll's boy (Text: E. E. Cummings) *
Early in the Morning (Text: Robert Silliman Hillyer) *
Echo's song (Text: Ben Jonson)
Electrocution (in Women's Voices) (Text: Lola Ridge)
El musico (in Santa Fe Songs) (Text: Witter Bynner) [x]
End of the Day (in Evidence of Things Not Seen) (Text: Anonymous after Charles Baudelaire) CZE GER
Epiglogue: From The Rain (in Poems of Love and the Rain) (Text: Donald Windham) [x]*
Epitaph (upon a Child that died) (in Flight For Heaven) (Text: Robert Herrick)
Even now the night jasmine is pouring (in Evidence of Things Not Seen) (Text: Paul Monette) *
Evidence of Things not seen (in Evidence of Things Not Seen) (Text: William Penn)
Faith (in Evidence of Things Not Seen) (Text: Mark Doty) *
Far-Far-Away (in Four Poems of Tennyson) (Text: Alfred Tennyson, Lord)
Father, guide and lead me (in Little Prayers) (Text: Paul Goodman) *
Father, guide and lead me (in Three Prayers) (Text: Paul Goodman) *
Fear of death (in The Nantucket Songs) (Text: John Ashbery) *
Ferry me across the water (in The Nantucket Songs) (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti) GER
Flowers for the Graces (in Four Madrigals) (Text: Anonymous after Sappho) [x] ⊗*
For Poulenc (Text: Frank O'Hara) *
For Susan (in Three Poems of Paul Goodman) (Text: Paul Goodman) *
Friends, let us mourn (in The Poet's Requiem) (Text: Paul Goodman after Franz Kafka) [x] ⊗*
From whence cometh song (in Evidence of Things Not Seen) (Text: Theodore Roethke) *
Full of life now (Text: Walt Whitman)
Gliding o'er all (in 5 Songs to Poems - Texts by Walt Whitman) (Text: Walt Whitman)
Gliding o'er all (in Five Poems of Walt Whitman) (Text: Walt Whitman)
God bless my small home (in Little Prayers) (Text: Paul Goodman) [x]*
God, I prayed, to me restore (in Little Prayers) (Text: Paul Goodman) [x]*
God is gone up (in Seven Motets for the Church Year) (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts)
Gods (in Five Poems of Walt Whitman) (Text: Walt Whitman)
Grief (in Aftermath) (Text: Elizabeth Barrett Browning)
Guilt (in Three Poems of Demetrios Capetanakis) (Text: Demetrios Capetanakis) [x]
He never knew (in Santa Fe Songs) (Text: Witter Bynner) [x]
He thinks upon his death (in Evidence of Things Not Seen) (Text: Ned Rorem after Julien Green) *
His Beauty Sparkles (in Evidence of Things Not Seen) (Text: Paul Goodman) *
How Do I Love Thee (in Evidence of Things Not Seen) (Text: Elizabeth Barrett Browning) CHI GER
Hymn for Evening (in Evidence of Things Not Seen) (Text: Thomas Ken)
Hymn for Morning (in Evidence of Things Not Seen) (Text: Thomas Ken)
I am he . . . (in Evidence of Things Not Seen) (Text: Walt Whitman)
I am Rose (Text: Gertrude Stein)
If ever hapless woman had a cause (in Women's Voices) (Text: Mary Herbert, Countess of Pembroke, née Sidney)
In a gondola (in Six Songs for High Voice) (Text: Robert Browning)
Inauguration Ball (in War Scenes) (Text: Walt Whitman)
In New York and Spain (in Four Dialogues for 2 Voices and 2 Pianos) (Text: Frank O'Hara) [x]*
Interlude (in Poems of Love and the Rain) (Text: Theodore Roethke) [x]*
in the rain (in Poems of Love and the Rain) (Text: E. E. Cummings)
in the rain (in Poems of Love and the Rain) (Text: E. E. Cummings)
I saw a mass of matter of a dull gloomy color (in Evidence of Things Not Seen) (Text: John Woolman)
I saw in Louisiana a live-oak growing (in Three Calamus Songs) (Text: Walt Whitman)
Is my team ploughing (in Evidence of Things Not Seen) (Text: Alfred Edward Housman) FRE HEB
I strolled across an open field (in Two Poems of Theodore Roethke) (Text: Theodore Roethke) *
I waited in the parlor (in Little Prayers) (Text: Paul Goodman) [x]*
I will always love you (Text: Frank O'Hara) *
Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair (Text: Stephen Collins Foster)
Lady Lazarus (in Ariel: Five Poems of Sylvia Plath) (Text: Sylvia Plath)
Lay up for yourselves (in Seven Motets for the Church Year) (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts)
Lay (in Poèmes pour la Paix) (Text: Jehan Regnier)
L'hymne de la paix (in Poèmes pour la Paix) (Text: Jean-Antoine de Baïf) [x]
Life in a love (in Evidence of Things Not Seen) (Text: Robert Browning)
Little elegy (in Two songs) (Text: Elinor Wylie) GER
Little lamb, who made thee? (Text: William Blake) CAT GER GER RUS
Long lines (in Little Prayers) (Text: Paul Goodman) [x]*
Look down, fair moon (in Five Poems of Walt Whitman) (Text: Walt Whitman)
Look down, fair moon (in 5 Songs to Poems - Texts by Walt Whitman) (Text: Walt Whitman)
Look, Segramor (in The Poet's Requiem) (Text: Paul Goodman after Jean Cocteau) [x] ⊗*
Losses (in Aftermath) (Text: Randall Jarrell) *
Love cannot fill the thickened lung with breath (in Evidence of Things Not Seen) (Text: Edna St. Vincent Millay)
Love in a Life (Text: Robert Browning)
Love's stricken 'why' (in Poems of Love and the Rain) (Text: Emily Dickinson)
Love's stricken 'why' (in Poems of Love and the Rain) (Text: Emily Dickinson)
Love (Text: Thomas Lodge)
Love (in Four Madrigals) (Text: Anonymous after Sappho) [x] ⊗*
Lullaby of the Woman of the Mountain (Text: Patrick Henry Pearse)
Make me, my streaming face (in The Poet's Requiem) (Text: Paul Goodman after Rainer Maria Rilke) ⊗*
Memory (Text: Theodore Roethke) [x]*
Mother, I cannot mind my wheel (in The Nantucket Songs) (Text: Walter Savage Landor after Sappho) FRE GER GER RUS
Moving leaves (in Santa Fe Songs) (Text: Witter Bynner) [x]
My papa's waltz (Text: Theodore Roethke) *
Nantucket (in The Nantucket Songs) (Text: William Carlos Williams) *
Night crow (Text: Theodore Roethke) [x]*
Night (in Another Sleep) (Text: Anonymous after Sappho) FRE FRE GER GER GER GER ITA ITA RUS SAN SWE
Not ideas about the thing but the thing itself (in Last Poems of Wallace Stevens) (Text: Wallace Stevens)
Novices of art understate (in Little Prayers) (Text: Paul Goodman) [x]*
Now is the dreadful midnight (in Evidence of Things Not Seen) (Text: Paul Goodman) *
Now let no charitable hope (in Women's Voices) (Text: Elinor Wylie)
Now sleeps the crimson petal (Text: Alfred Tennyson, Lord) CAT GER SPA
Ode (in Poèmes pour la Paix) (Text: Pierre de Ronsard) ENG
O do not love too long (Text: William Butler Yeats) FRE
Of him I love day and night (in Three Calamus Songs) (Text: Walt Whitman)
Of mere being (in Last Poems of Wallace Stevens) (Text: Wallace Stevens)
Of the millions, I know, who have gone to the grave (in The Poet's Requiem) (Text: Paul Goodman) *
O God of fire and the secret (in Little Prayers) (Text: Paul Goodman) [x]*
On all, the wicked and (in Little Prayers) (Text: Paul Goodman) [x]*
On an echoing road (in Evidence of Things Not Seen) (Text: Anonymous after Colette)
On a singing girl (in Two songs) (Text: Elinor Wylie)
On his seventy-fifth birthday (in Aftermath) (Text: Walter Savage Landor)
Opus 101 (in Santa Fe Songs) (Text: Witter Bynner)
Orchids (in Two Poems of Theodore Roethke) (Text: Theodore Roethke) *
Our own death is unimaginable (in The Poet's Requiem) (Text: Paul Goodman after Sigmund Freud) *
Our youth (in Some Trees) (Text: John Ashbery) [x]*
O where are you going (in Evidence of Things Not Seen) (Text: W. H. Auden)
O you whom I often and silently come (in 5 Songs to Poems - Texts by Walt Whitman) (Text: Walt Whitman)
Parting (in Four Madrigals) (Text: Anonymous after Sappho) [x] ⊗
Piano Interlude (in Flight For Heaven)
Pippa's song (in Six Songs for High Voice) (Text: Robert Browning) CAT GER ITA
Poppies in July (in Ariel: Five Poems of Sylvia Plath) (Text: Sylvia Plath)
Poppies in October (in Ariel: Five Poems of Sylvia Plath) (Text: Sylvia Plath)
Praise him who was crucified (in Seven Motets for the Church Year) (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts)
Prologue: From The Rain (in Poems of Love and the Rain) (Text: Donald Windham) [x]*
Psalm 134 (in Cycle of Holy Songs) (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts after Bible or other Sacred Texts) FRE
Psalm 142 (in Cycle of Holy Songs) (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts after Bible or other Sacred Texts) GER
Psalm 148 (in Cycle of Holy Songs) (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts after Bible or other Sacred Texts) GER GER
Psalm 150 (in Cycle of Holy Songs) (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts after Bible or other Sacred Texts) DUT FRE GER ICE
Rain in spring (Text: Paul Goodman) *
Reconciliation (in Five Poems of Walt Whitman) (Text: Walt Whitman) FRE
Rejoice we all in the Lord (in Seven Motets for the Church Year) (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts)
Remorse for any death (in Aftermath) (Text: Anonymous after Jorge Luis Borges) [x]*
Requiem (Text: Robert Louis Stevenson) GER ITA
Requiescat (in Evidence of Things Not Seen) (Text: Oscar Wilde) GER GER RUS
Rest well thy weary heart (in Little Prayers) (Text: Paul Goodman) [x]*
Rest well (in Little Prayers) (Text: Paul Goodman) [x]*
Rest well (in Little Prayers) (Text: Paul Goodman) [x]*
Rondelay (in Six Songs for High Voice) (Text: John Dryden)
Root cellar (Text: Theodore Roethke) [x]*
Sally's smile (Text: Paul Goodman) [x]*
Santa Fe (in Santa Fe Songs) (Text: Witter Bynner) [x]
See how they love me (Text: Howard Moss) [x]*
Smile, Death (in Women's Voices) (Text: Charlotte Mew)
Snake (Text: Theodore Roethke) *
Sometimes with one I love (in Five Poems of Walt Whitman) (Text: Walt Whitman)
Some Trees (in Some Trees) (Text: John Ashbery) [x]*
Song for a girl (in Six Songs for High Voice) (Text: John Dryden)
Song for lying in bed during a night rain (in Poems of Love and the Rain) (Text: Kenneth Pitchford) [x]*
Song for lying in bed during a night rain (in Poems of Love and the Rain) (Text: Kenneth Pitchford) [x]*
Song to a fair young lady, going out of town in the spring (in Six Songs for High Voice) (Text: John Dryden)
Song (in The Nantucket Songs) (Text: Theodore Roethke) *
Song (in The Nantucket Songs) (Text: Edmund Waller; Henry Kirke White) SPA
Sonnet I (in Poèmes pour la Paix) (Text: Olivier de Magny)
Sonnet II (in Poèmes pour la Paix) (Text: Olivier de Magny)
Sonnet LXIV (in Aftermath) (Text: William Shakespeare) FRE GER
Sonnet (in Santa Fe Songs) (Text: Witter Bynner)
Sonnet (in Poèmes pour la Paix) (Text: Jean Daurat)
Spring (Text: Gerard Manley Hopkins)
Stop all the clocks (in Poems of Love and the Rain) (Text: W. H. Auden)
Stop all the clocks (in Poems of Love and the Rain) (Text: W. H. Auden)
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening (Text: Robert Frost) GER
Such beauty as hurts to behold (Text: Paul Goodman) [x]*
Sun of the sleepless (in Sun) (Text: George Gordon Noel Byron, Lord Byron) CAT CHI FRE GER GER GER GER GER GER ITA RUS
That shadow, my likeness (Text: Walt Whitman)
That shadow, my likeness (in Whitman Cantata) (Text: Walt Whitman)
The air is the only (in Poems of Love and the Rain) (Text: Howard Moss) [x]*
The air is the only (in Poems of Love and the Rain) (Text: Howard Moss) [x]*
The airport (in Four Dialogues for 2 Voices and 2 Pianos) (Text: Frank O'Hara) [x]*
The apartment (in Four Dialogues for 2 Voices and 2 Pianos) (Text: Frank O'Hara) [x]*
The apparition (in Poems of Love and the Rain) (Text: Theodore Roethke) [x]*
The apparition (in Poems of Love and the Rain) (Text: Theodore Roethke) [x]*
The Candid Man (in Evidence of Things Not Seen) (Text: Stephen Crane)
The Comfort of Friends (O the rapes) (in Evidence of Things Not Seen) (Text: William Penn)
The dancer (in The Nantucket Songs) (Text: Edmund Waller)
The Dance (in The Nantucket Songs) (Text: William Carlos Williams) *
The Dove in Spring (in Last Poems of Wallace Stevens) (Text: Wallace Stevens)
The drum (in Aftermath) (Text: John Scott of Amwell )
Thee, God (in Three Motets on Texts by Gerard Manley Hopkins) (Text: Gerard Manley Hopkins)
The end (Text: Dana Gioia) *
The fury of the aerial bombardment (in Aftermath) (Text: Richard Eberhart) *
The grapevine (in Some Trees) (Text: John Ashbery) [x]*
The hanging man (in Ariel: Five Poems of Sylvia Plath) (Text: Sylvia Plath)
The hare or the deer (in The Poet's Requiem) (Text: Paul Goodman after André Gide) [x]*
Their Lonely Betters (in Evidence of Things Not Seen) (Text: W. H. Auden)
The land (in Three Poems of Demetrios Capetanakis) (Text: Demetrios Capetanakis) [x]
The Little Pretty Nightingale (Text: Anonymous)
The Lordly Hudson (Text: Paul Goodman) *
The midnight sun (in Four songs) (Text: Paul Goodman) [x]*
The more loving one (in Evidence of Things Not Seen) (Text: W. H. Auden)
Then (in Aftermath) (Text: Muriel Rukeyser) *
The old men admiring themselves in the water (in Evidence of Things Not Seen) (Text: William Butler Yeats) FRE
The Open Road (in Evidence of Things Not Seen) (Text: Walt Whitman)
The park (in Aftermath) (Text: John Hollander) *
The Planet on the Table (in Last Poems of Wallace Stevens) (Text: Wallace Stevens)
The Rainbow (in Evidence of Things Not Seen) (Text: William Wordsworth) GER
The real war will never get in the books (in War Scenes) (Text: Walt Whitman)
The River of Rivers in Connecticut (in Last Poems of Wallace Stevens) (Text: Wallace Stevens)
The serpent (Text: Theodore Roethke) *
The sick rose (in After Long Silence) (Text: William Blake) CAT FRE GER GER IRI NYN RUS SPA
The sick rose (Text: William Blake) CAT FRE GER GER IRI NYN RUS SPA
The sick wife (in Evidence of Things Not Seen) (Text: Jane Kenyon) *
The silver swan (Text: Anonymous) FRE GER
The sleeping palace (in Four Poems of Tennyson) (Text: Alfred Tennyson, Lord)
The sowers (in Santa Fe Songs) (Text: Witter Bynner)
The stranger (in Women's Voices) (Text: Adrienne Rich) [x]*
The sub (in Four Dialogues for 2 Voices and 2 Pianos) (Text: Frank O'Hara) [x]*
The tigers of wrath [multi-text setting] (in Aftermath) (Text: Blake, Marston, Arnold, Housman) FRE CAT
The tulip tree (in Four songs) (Text: Paul Goodman) *
The waking (Text: Theodore Roethke) *
The wintry mind (in Santa Fe Songs) (Text: Witter Bynner)
The youth with the red-gold hair (Text: Edith Sitwell)
Thoughts of a young girl (in The Nantucket Songs) (Text: John Ashbery) *
To a common prostitute (in Three Calamus Songs) (Text: Walt Whitman)
To Anthea, who may command him anything (in Flight For Heaven) (Text: Robert Herrick) FRE
To a young girl (Text: William Butler Yeats) FRE
To daisies, not to shut so soon (in Flight For Heaven) (Text: Robert Herrick)
Today the Holy Spirit appeared (in Seven Motets for the Church Year) (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts)
To Jane (Text: Percy Bysshe Shelley)
To Music, to becalm his Fever (in Flight For Heaven) (Text: Robert Herrick)
To my dear and loving husband (in Women's Voices) (Text: Anne Bradstreet)
To the ladies (in Women's Voices) (Text: Mary Lee, Lady Chudleigh)
To the Willow-tree (in Flight For Heaven) (Text: Robert Herrick)
To you (in 5 Songs to Poems - Texts by Walt Whitman) (Text: Walt Whitman)
Up-hill (in The Nantucket Songs) (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
Upon Julia's clothes (in Flight For Heaven) (Text: Robert Herrick)
Vast gulph! (in The Poet's Requiem) (Text: Paul Goodman after Stéphane Mallarmé) [x]*
Visits to St. Elizabeth's (Text: Elizabeth Bishop) [x]*
Water-hyacinths (in Santa Fe Songs) (Text: Witter Bynner) [x]
We never said farewell (in Women's Voices) (Text: Mary Coleridge)
What can I tell my bones (Text: Theodore Roethke) [x]*
What if some little pain (Text: Edmund Spenser)
What inn is this (in Women's Voices) (Text: Emily Dickinson) GER
What sparks and wiry cries (in Three Poems of Paul Goodman) (Text: Paul Goodman) *
While all things were in quiet silence (in Seven Motets for the Church Year) (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts)
Words (in Ariel: Five Poems of Sylvia Plath) (Text: Sylvia Plath)
Yes I hear them (in Santa Fe Songs) (Text: Witter Bynner) [x]
Youth, Day, Old Age, and Night (Text: Walt Whitman) FRE GER
You, the Young Rainbow (Text: Edith Sitwell) [x]

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