Author: Kenneth Rexroth (1905 - 1982)
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Texts set to music as art song or choral works [warning - not necessarily comprehensive]
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- After you were gone * - Daron Aric Hagen (Since you went away)
- Aix en Provence: Spring (There are no images here) *
- A little child (A little child) - Stephen Chatman *
- A little child * - Stephen Chatman (A little child)
- Alone () - Scott Gendel [x] *
- A single ray () - Scott Gendel [x] *
- Autumn covers all the world (from The Love Poems of Marichiko) * - Lori Laitman (Autumn)
- Autumn (Autumn covers all the world) (from The Love Poems of Marichiko) - Lori Laitman *
- A white bird (Once, far over the breakers) - Stephen Chatman *
- Before we were lovers () - Scott Gendel [x] *
- Do not smile to yourself * - Elizabeth Walton Vercoe (Lady Otomo No Sakanoe)
- Fair autumn (I sought to make fair autumn yet more fair) - Stephen Chatman *
- From the plum the petals blow (from Songs for Marie’s Lutebook) * - Scott Gendel (From the plum)
- From the plum (From the plum the petals blow) (from Songs for Marie’s Lutebook) - Scott Gendel *
- Gic to Har (It is late at night, cold and damp) *
- Gic to Har (It is late at night, cold and damp) - Scott Gendel *
- Half in a dream () - Scott Gendel [x] *
- Have you any idea how long a night can last *
- Have you any idea * - Elizabeth Walton Vercoe (The Mother of the Commander Michitsuna)
- I do not know why (I do not know why) - Stephen Chatman *
- I do not know why * - Stephen Chatman (I do not know why)
- I dreamed I held * - Elizabeth Walton Vercoe (Lady Kasa (II))
- If I thought I could get away (from The Love Poems of Marichiko) * - Lori Laitman (If I thought)
- If I thought (If I thought I could get away) (from The Love Poems of Marichiko) - Lori Laitman *
- I go out of the darkness * - Elizabeth Walton Vercoe (Lady Izumi Shikibu)
- I love and fear him * - Elizabeth Walton Vercoe (Lady Kasa)
- I love you () - Scott Gendel [x] *
- Imperceptible it withers in the world *
- Imperceptible * - Elizabeth Walton Vercoe (The Poetess Ono No Komachi)
- I should not have waited * - Elizabeth Walton Vercoe (Lady Akazome Emon)
- I sit at my desk (I sit at my desk) (from The Love Poems of Marichiko) - Lori Laitman *
- I sit at my desk (from The Love Poems of Marichiko) * - Lori Laitman (I sit at my desk)
- I sought to make fair autumn yet more fair * - Stephen Chatman (Fair autumn)
- It does not matter that I am forgotten *
- It does not matter * - Elizabeth Walton Vercoe (Lady Ukon)
- It is late at night, cold and damp * (Gic to Har)
- It is late at night, cold and damp * - Scott Gendel (Gic to Har)
- I waited all night () - Scott Gendel [x] *
- Just us./ In our little house (from The Love Poems of Marichiko) * - Lori Laitman (Just us)
- Just us (Just us./ In our little house) (from The Love Poems of Marichiko) - Lori Laitman *
- Lady Akazome Emon (I should not have waited) - Elizabeth Walton Vercoe *
- Lady Horikawa (Will he always love me?) - Elizabeth Walton Vercoe *
- Lady Izumi Shikibu (II) (Will I cease to be) - Elizabeth Walton Vercoe *
- Lady Izumi Shikibu (I go out of the darkness) - Elizabeth Walton Vercoe *
- Lady Kasa (II) (I dreamed I held) - Elizabeth Walton Vercoe *
- Lady Kasa (I love and fear him) - Elizabeth Walton Vercoe *
- Lady Murasaki Shikibu (Someone passes) - Elizabeth Walton Vercoe *
- Lady Otomo No Sakanoe (II) (You say, "I will come.") - Elizabeth Walton Vercoe *
- Lady Otomo No Sakanoe (Do not smile to yourself) - Elizabeth Walton Vercoe *
- Lady Suo (That spring night I spent) - Elizabeth Walton Vercoe *
- Lady Ukon (It does not matter) - Elizabeth Walton Vercoe *
- Left on the beach (Left on the beach) - Stephen Chatman *
- Left on the beach * - Stephen Chatman (Left on the beach)
- Listen () - Scott Gendel [x] *
- Love me () - Scott Gendel [x] *
- My full heart () - Scott Gendel [x] *
- My sorrow () - Scott Gendel [x] *
- Oh the anguish of these secret meetings (from The Love Poems of Marichiko) * - Lori Laitman (Oh the anguish)
- Oh the anguish (Oh the anguish of these secret meetings) (from The Love Poems of Marichiko) - Lori Laitman *
- Once, far over the breakers * - Stephen Chatman (A white bird)
- Only dreams () - Scott Gendel [x] *
- Sea water () - Scott Gendel [x] *
- Since you went away (After you were gone) - Daron Aric Hagen *
- Someone passes, and while I wonder *
- Someone passes * - Elizabeth Walton Vercoe (Lady Murasaki Shikibu)
- Spring (There are no images here) - Scott Gendel *
- Swifter than hail (Swifter than hail) - Stephen Chatman *
- Swifter than hail * - Stephen Chatman (Swifter than hail)
- Ten thousand miles () - Scott Gendel [x] *
- That spring night I spent * - Elizabeth Walton Vercoe (Lady Suo)
- The blue-eyed grass is opening now (from Songs for Marie’s Lutebook) * - Scott Gendel (The blue-eyed grass)
- The blue-eyed grass (The blue-eyed grass is opening now) (from Songs for Marie’s Lutebook) - Scott Gendel *
- The Mother of the Commander Michitsuna (Have you any idea) - Elizabeth Walton Vercoe *
- The nightingale has not come * - Stephen Chatman (The nightingale)
- The nightingale (The nightingale has not come) - Stephen Chatman *
- The Poetess Ono No Komachi (Imperceptible) - Elizabeth Walton Vercoe *
- There are no images here * (Aix en Provence: Spring)
- There are no images here * - Scott Gendel (Spring)
- The sea is quiet, the wind gives over (from Songs for Marie’s Lutebook) * - Scott Gendel (The sea is quiet)
- The sea is quiet (The sea is quiet, the wind gives over) (from Songs for Marie’s Lutebook) - Scott Gendel *
- What years are these? (Greensleeves) (What years are these that warm your breast) (from Songs for Marie’s Lutebook) - Scott Gendel *
- What years are these that warm your breast (from Songs for Marie’s Lutebook) * - Scott Gendel (What years are these? (Greensleeves))
- Will he always love me? * - Elizabeth Walton Vercoe (Lady Horikawa)
- Will I cease to be * - Elizabeth Walton Vercoe (Lady Izumi Shikibu (II))
- You ask me what I thought about (from The Love Poems of Marichiko) * - Lori Laitman (You ask me)
- You ask me (You ask me what I thought about) (from The Love Poems of Marichiko) - Lori Laitman *
- You say, "I will come." * - Elizabeth Walton Vercoe (Lady Otomo No Sakanoe (II))
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