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Little Prayers
Song Cycle by Ned Rorem (1923 - 2022)
1. Rest well
Authorship:
- by Paul Goodman (1911 - 1972), no title, appears in The Lordly Hudson, in Little Prayers, no. 27, first published 1962, copyright ©
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- by Paul Goodman (1911 - 1972), no title, appears in The Lordly Hudson, in Little Prayers, no. 24, first published 1962, copyright ©
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- by Paul Goodman (1911 - 1972), no title, appears in Hawkweed, first published 1967, copyright ©
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Creator spirit, please let your soft lamp [ ... ]
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- by Paul Goodman (1911 - 1972), no title, appears in Hawkweed, first published 1967, copyright ©
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- by Paul Goodman (1911 - 1972), no title, appears in The Lordly Hudson, in Little Prayers, no. 5, first published 1962, copyright ©
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Authorship:
- by Paul Goodman (1911 - 1972), no title, appears in The Lordly Hudson, in Little Prayers, no. 12, first published 1962, copyright ©
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Father, guide and lead me stray [ ... ]
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- by Paul Goodman (1911 - 1972), no title, appears in Empire City, first published 1959, copyright ©
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I opened with my key, to my astonished joy . . . . . . . . . .— The rest of this text is not
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- by Paul Goodman (1911 - 1972), "Long lines", appears in Hawkweed, first published 1967, copyright ©
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Creator Spirit, who dost lightly hover whence I know not [ ... ]
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- by Paul Goodman (1911 - 1972), no title, appears in The Lordly Hudson, in Little Prayers, no. 1, first published 1962, copyright ©
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- by Paul Goodman (1911 - 1972), "Four Senseless Little Prayers of Convalescence", appears in Homespun of Oatmeal Gray, first published 1969-70, copyright ©
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- by Paul Goodman (1911 - 1972), no title, appears in The Lordly Hudson, in Little Prayers, no. 27, first published 1962, copyright ©
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- by Paul Goodman (1911 - 1972), no title, appears in Hawkweed, first published 1967, copyright ©
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- by Paul Goodman (1911 - 1972), no title, appears in Hawkweed, first published 1967, copyright ©
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- by Paul Goodman (1911 - 1972), no title, appears in The Lordly Hudson, in Little Prayers, no. 27, first published 1962, copyright ©
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- by Paul Goodman (1911 - 1972), "Three Little Prayers to Saint Harmony", appears in Homespun of Oatmeal Gray, first published 1969-70, copyright ©
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