Texts by S. Plath set in Art Songs and Choral Works
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Texts set in art song or choral works (not necessarily comprehensive):
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- All night your moth-breath (from Ariel) - E. Vercoe (Morning Song)
- A smile fell in the grass. Irretrievable! (from Ariel) (The Night Dances) - F. Ahrold, M. Altena, P. Lambro
- A smile fell in the grass (from Ariel) - F. Ahrold, M. Altena, P. Lambro (The Night Dances)
- Axes/ After whose stroke the wood rings (from Ariel) - F. Ahrold, N. Rorem (Words)
- Blackberrying (Nobody in the lane, and nothing, nothing but blackberries) (from Crossing the Water) - R. Buckle
- Black lake, black boat, two black, cut-paper people - M. Altena (Crossing the water)
- By the roots of my hair some god got hold of me (from Ariel) - N. Rorem, M. Rusche (The hanging man)
- Cold and planetary, blue and mystical (The trees of the mind are black. Their irregular branches) (from Ariel) - V. Olive
- Crossing the water (Black lake, black boat, two black, cut-paper people) - M. Altena
- Cut () - R. Holloway [x]
- Daddy (You do not do, you do not do) (from Ariel) - P. Lambro
- Elm () - R. Holloway [x]
- Even the sun-clouds this morning cannot manage such skirts (from Ariel) - N. Rorem (Poppies in October)
- First, are you our sort of a person? - P. Lambro, J. Mitchell
- From "The Moon and the Yew Tree" (The moon is no door. It is a face in its own right) (from The Moon and the Yew Tree) - B. Rands
- I am silver and exact. I have no preconceptions (from Crossing the Water) - P. Lambro, E. Vercoe
- I have done it again (from Ariel) - R. Holloway, A. Reimann, N. Rorem (Lady Lazarus)
- I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead - S. Grill
- Lady Lazarus (I have done it again) (from Ariel) - R. Holloway, A. Reimann, N. Rorem
- Little poppies, little hell flames (from Ariel) - N. Rorem (Poppies in July)
- Love set you going like a fat gold watch - J. Mitchell
- Mad Girl's Love Song (I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead) - S. Grill
- Mirror (I am silver and exact. I have no preconceptions) (from Crossing the Water) - P. Lambro, E. Vercoe
- Morning song (All night your moth-breath) (from Ariel) - E. Vercoe
- Morning Song (Love set you going like a fat gold watch) - J. Mitchell
- Night Dances (A smile fell in the grass) (from Ariel) - F. Ahrold
- Nobody in the lane, and nothing, nothing but blackberries (from Crossing the Water) - R. Buckle
- Poppies in July (Little poppies, little hell flames) (from Ariel) - N. Rorem
- Poppies in October (Even the sun-clouds this morning cannot manage such skirts) (from Ariel) - N. Rorem
- Sheep in Fog (The hills step off into whiteness) (from Ariel) - F. Ahrold, M. Altena, J. Mitchell
- The Applicant (First, are you our sort of a person?) - P. Lambro, J. Mitchell
- The Couriers (The word of a snail on the plate of a leaf?) - J. Mitchell
- The hanging man (By the roots of my hair some god got hold of me) (from Ariel) - N. Rorem, M. Rusche
- The hills step off into whiteness (from Ariel) - F. Ahrold, M. Altena, J. Mitchell (Sheep in Fog)
- The Moon and the Yew Tree (The trees of the mind are black. Their irregular branches) (from Ariel)
- The moon is no door. It is a face in its own right (from The Moon and the Yew Tree) - B. Rands
- The Night Dances (A smile fell in the grass) (from Ariel) - M. Altena, P. Lambro
- The trees of the mind are black. Their irregular branches (from Ariel) - V. Olive (The Moon and the Yew Tree)
- The word of a snail on the plate of a leaf? - J. Mitchell
- This is the light of the mind, cold and planetary (from Ariel) (The Moon and the Yew Tree) - V. Olive
- Words (Axes/ After whose stroke the wood rings) (from Ariel) - F. Ahrold, N. Rorem
- You do not do, you do not do (from Ariel) - P. Lambro (Daddy)
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