Texts by C. Sandburg set in Art Songs and Choral Works
Text Collections:
- Chicago Poems
- Cornhuskers
- Good Morning, America
- Honey and Salt
- Slabs of the Sunburnt West
- Smoke and Steel
- The People, Yes
- Wind Song
Texts set in art song or choral works (not necessarily comprehensive):
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- A. E. F. (There will be a rusty gun on the wall, sweetheart) (from Smoke and Steel)
- Alike and ever alike (Everywhere is love and love-making, weddings and babies) - M. Hennagin
- Anna Imroth (Cross the hands over the breast here - so) SWE
- Anna Imroth (Korsa händerna här över bröstet så) - G. Paulson
- Are you happy? It’s the only - S. Sargon
- A storm of white petals (from Cornhuskers) - G. Bachlund
- A swirl in the air where your head was once, here - M. Ippolito
- A teamster's farewell (Good-by now to the streets and the clash of wheels and locking hubs) (from Chicago Poems) - M. Smith
- Baby face (White Moon comes in on a baby face)
- Baby Toes (There is a blue star, Janet) (from Smoke and Steel) - C. Bricken
- Back Yard (Shine on, O moon of summer) (from Chicago Poems) - S. Raphling
- Beat, old heart, these are the old bars (from Slabs of the Sunburnt West) - V. Weigl (Beat, Old Heart)
- Beat, old heart (Beat, old heart, these are the old bars) (from Slabs of the Sunburnt West) - V. Weigl
- Be Careful What You Say () - L. Pfautsch [x] *
- Because I have called to you (from Smoke and Steel) - W. Golde (Calls)
- Bees and a honeycornb in the dried head (from Cornhuskers) - R. Crawford-Seeger, W. Mellers (In Tall Grass)
- Bend low again, night of summer stars (from Smoke and Steel) - G. Bachlund, E. Warren (Summer Stars)
- Between two hills (Between two hills) (from Chicago Poems) - G. Bachlund, J. Hall
- Between two hills (from Chicago Poems) - G. Bachlund, J. Hall
- Black horizons, come up - S. Grill
- Black Horizons (Black horizons, come up) - S. Grill
- Boy heart of Johnny Jones -- aching to-day? (from Cornhuskers) - I. Gertz (Buffalo Bill)
- Bricklayer Love (I thought of killing myself because I am only a bricklayer) (from Cornhuskers) - R. Hughes
- Broken sky () (from Good Morning, America) - R. Green [x] *
- Buffalo Bill (Boy heart of Johnny Jones -- aching to-day?) (from Cornhuskers) - I. Gertz
- Büffel () - B. Rövenstrunck [x] ⊗
- Bury this old Illinois farmer with respect - R. Sowash (Illinois Farmer)
- Bury this old Ohio farmer with respect (Illinois Farmer) - R. Sowash
- Cahoots (Play it across the table) (from Smoke and Steel) - G. Bachlund, H. Swanson
- Calls (Because I have called to you) (from Smoke and Steel) - W. Golde
- Chamfort (There's Chamfort. He's a sample) (from Chicago Poems) - K. Erickson
- Changing light winds - E. Alexander, D. Epstein (Changing Light Winds) *
- Chatter of birds two by two raises a night song (from Cornhuskers) - E. Helm, J. Wolfe (Prairie Waters by Night)
- Chicago (Hog Butcher for the World) (from Chicago Poems) - M. Klein, R. Morse, L. Ultan
- Chick Lorimer: Gone (Everybody loved Chick Lorimer in our town) (from Chicago Poems) - A. Wilder
- Child moon (The child’s wonder) - J. Hall
- Choose (The single clenched fist lifted and ready) (from Chicago Poems) - G. Bachlund
- Clark Street Bridge (Dust of the feet) (from Chicago Poems) - J. Beach
- Come on, superstition, and get my goat (from The People, Yes) - E. Russ (Come on, superstition, and get my goat) [x] *
- Come on, Superstition (Come on, superstition, and get my goat) (from The People, Yes) - E. Russ [x] *
- Come you, cartoonists (from Chicago Poems) - S. Raphling (Halsted Street Car)
- Cool prayers (I was born on the prairie and the milk of its wheat) (from Cornhuskers) - L. Foss
- Cool Tombs (When Abraham Lincoln was shoveled into the tombs, he forgot) (from Cornhuskers) - W. Mellers, S. Raphling
- Cool your heels on the rail of an observation car (from Cornhuskers) - H. Swanson (Still Life)
- Crapshooters (Somebody loses whenever somebody wins) (from Smoke and Steel) GER
- Cross the hands over the breast here - so SWE (Anna Imroth) -
- Dämmerung () - B. Rövenstrunck [x] ⊗
- Das Ende () - B. Rövenstrunck [x] ⊗
- Daybreak () (from Wind Song) - P. Pisk [x]
- Death comes once, let it be easy (from Smoke and Steel) - W. Mellers (Finish)
- Death is stronger than all the governments (from Smoke and Steel) - G. Bachlund, V. Weigl (Death snips proud men)
- Death snips proud men by the nose (Death is stronger than all the governments) (from Smoke and Steel) - G. Bachlund, V. Weigl
- Death snips proud men (Death is stronger than all the governments) (from Smoke and Steel)
- Desolate and lone (from Chicago Poems) - D. Hagen, R. Hughes, H. Matthews, M. Smith, R. Strassburg, C. Van Buskirk, J. Wolfe (Lost)
- Dunes (What do we see here in the sand dunes of the white moon alone with our thoughts, Bill) - M. Ippolito
- Dust of the feet (from Chicago Poems) - J. Beach (Clark Street Bridge)
- Everybody loved Chick Lorimer in our town (from Chicago Poems) - K. Erickson, R. Hughes, S. Raphling, A. Wilder (Gone)
- Everywhere is love and love-making, weddings and babies - M. Hennagin
- Fall yellow (I spot the hills) (from Chicago Poems) - D. Epstein
- Finish (Death comes once, let it be easy) (from Smoke and Steel) - W. Mellers
- Fins (Plow over bars of sea plowing) (from Slabs of the Sunburnt West) - V. Weigl
- Fling your red scarf faster and faster, dancer - J. Hall
- Flux (Sand of the sea runs red) - M. Ippolito
- Fog (The fog comes) (from Chicago Poems) - E. Bacon, D. Epstein, R. Green, R. Harris, A. Hovhaness, H. Irwin, H. Matthews, W. Nash, S. Raphling, P. Schwartz, T. Somervell, L. Stone GER GER
- Follies (Shaken) - J. Hall
- For the gladness here where the sun is shining (from Chicago Poems) - H. Mollincone (Our prayer of thanks)
- For You (The peace of great doors be for you) (from Smoke and Steel)
- Four Preludes on Playthings of the Wind (The woman named To-morrow) (from Smoke and Steel) - S. Paulus, M. Tilson Thomas
- From the Far Corners (From the four corners of the earth) (from The People, Yes) - V. Weigl [x]
- From the four corners of the earth (from The People, Yes) - V. Weigl (From the four corners of the earth) [x]
- Gather the stars if you wish it so (from Smoke and Steel) - J. Beyer (Stars, Songs, Faces)
- God gets up in the morning (from Honey and Salt) - E. Alexander (God Is No Gentleman) *
- God is No Gentleman (God gets up in the morning) (from Honey and Salt) - E. Alexander *
- Gone (Everybody loved Chick Lorimer in our town) (from Chicago Poems) - K. Erickson, R. Hughes, S. Raphling
- Good-by now to the streets and the clash of wheels and locking hubs (from Chicago Poems) - G. Bachlund, M. Smith (A teamster's farewell)
- Good Morning, America () (from Good Morning, America) - E. Warren [x]
- Government (The Government -- I heard about the Government and) (from Chicago Poems) - G. Bachlund
- Grass (Pile the bodies high at Austerlitz and Waterloo) (from Cornhuskers) - F. Hart, F. Heath, T. Kroll
- Great Memories (Sea sunsets, give us keepsakes) - E. Warren
- Halsted Street Car (Come you, cartoonists) (from Chicago Poems) - S. Raphling
- Hands here, hands gnarled as thorntree roots - M. Hennagin *
- Hands here (Hands here, hands gnarled as thorntree roots) - M. Hennagin *
- Happiness (I asked the professors who teach the meaning of life to tell me what is happiness) (from Chicago Poems) - G. Bachlund
- Haze gold (Sun, you may send your haze gold) (from Good Morning, America) - P. Glass, J. Hall *
- Hog Butcher for the World (from Chicago Poems) - M. Klein, R. Morse, L. Ultan (Chicago)
- Home thoughts (The sea rocks have a green moss) (from Smoke and Steel) - R. Crawford-Seeger
- Honky Tonk in Cleveland, Ohio (It's a jazz affair, drum crashes and coronet razzes) (from Smoke and Steel)
- Honky Tonk (It's a jazz affair, drum crashes and coronet razzes) (from Smoke and Steel) - G. Bachlund
- Huntington sleeps in a house six feet long (from Cornhuskers) - G. Bachlund (Southern Pacific)
- I am a copper wire slung in the air (from Chicago Poems) - S. Raphling (Under a telephone pole)
- I am glad God saw Death (from Chicago Poems) - G. Bachlund, H. Swanson, G. Youse (The Junk Man)
- I am riding on a limited express - W. Mayer (Limited)
- I am singing to you (from Chicago Poems) - M. Hennagin, V. Weigl (Killers)
- I am the people -- the mob -- the crowd -- the mass (from Chicago Poems) - H. Weiss (I am the people, the mob)
- I am the people, the mob (I am the people -- the mob -- the crowd -- the mass) (from Chicago Poems)
- I am the people (I am the people -- the mob -- the crowd -- the mass) (from Chicago Poems) - H. Weiss
- I asked the professors who teach the meaning of life to tell me what is happiness (from Chicago Poems) - G. Bachlund
- I asked the professors who teach the meaning of life (from Chicago Poems)
- If the oriole calls like last year - J. Hall
- I have love (from Chicago Poems) - G. Bachlund (Losses)
- I have seen/ the old gods go
- I have seen - G. Bachlund
- Illinois Farmer (Bury this old Illinois farmer with respect)
- Incantation (The peace of great doors be for you) (from Smoke and Steel) - J. Wallach
- In Tall Grass (Bees and a honeycornb in the dried head) (from Cornhuskers) - R. Crawford-Seeger, W. Mellers
- In the folded and quiet yesterdays (In the folded and quiet yesterdays) (from The People, Yes) - E. Robinson [x] *
- In the loam we sleep (from Cornhuskers) - G. Bachlund, R. Crawford-Seeger (Loam)
- In the old deep sing-song - E. Hugh-Jones (Old deep sing-song) [x] *
- I sang to you and the moon (I sang to you and the moon) (from Chicago Poems) - K. Erickson
- I sang to you and the moon (from Chicago Poems) - E. Alexander, G. Bachlund, K. Erickson, M. Ippolito (I sang)
- I sang (I sang to you and the moon) (from Chicago Poems) - E. Alexander, G. Bachlund, M. Ippolito
- I saw the famous man eating soup (from Smoke and Steel) - G. Bachlund (Soup)
- I spot the hills (from Chicago Poems) - D. Epstein, J. Hall (Theme in yellow)
- I thought of killing myself because I am only a bricklayer (from Cornhuskers) - R. Hughes (Bricklayer Love)
- I too have a garret of old playthings (from Cornhuskers) - E. Alexander (Upstairs)
- It's a jazz affair, drum crashes and coronet razzes (from Smoke and Steel) - G. Bachlund (Honky Tonk in Cleveland, Ohio)
- I was born on the prairie and the milk of its wheat (from Cornhuskers) - L. Foss, N. Lockwood (Prairie)
- I wish to God I never saw you, Mag (from Chicago Poems) - C. Ives, S. Kagen, S. Raphling (Mag)
- Jack was a swarthy, swaggering son-of-a-gun (from Chicago Poems) - K. Erickson (Jack)
- Jack (Jack was a swarthy, swaggering son-of-a-gun) (from Chicago Poems) - K. Erickson
- Joy (Let a joy keep you) (from Chicago Poems) - G. Bachlund, R. Crawford-Seeger
- Killers (I am singing to you) (from Chicago Poems) - M. Hennagin, V. Weigl
- Korsa händerna här över bröstet så - G. Paulson
- Kreisler (Sell me a violin, mister, of old mysterious wood) (from Cornhuskers) - S. Grill
- Lamentations (The woman named To-morrow) (from Smoke and Steel) - E. Erickson
- Lay me on an anvil, O God (from Cornhuskers) - P. Christiansen, R. Crawford-Seeger, R. Hughes, J. Spencer (Prayers of Steel)
- Leaves of poplars pick Japanese prints against the west - M. Ippolito
- Let a joy keep you (from Chicago Poems) - G. Bachlund, R. Crawford-Seeger (Joy)
- Limited (I am riding on a limited express) - W. Mayer
- Listen a while, the moon is a lovely woman, a lonely woman, lost in a (from Smoke and Steel) - M. Ippolito, W. Schuman (Night Stuff)
- Listen a while, the moon is a lovely woman, a lonely woman (from Smoke and Steel) (Night Stuff) - M. Ippolito, W. Schuman
- Little Girl, Be Careful What You Say () [x] *
- Loam (In the loam we sleep) (from Cornhuskers) - G. Bachlund, R. Crawford-Seeger
- Long ago I learned how to sleep (from Smoke and Steel) - P. Glass, F. Koch (Wind Song)
- Look out how you use proud words (from Slabs of the Sunburnt West) - G. Bachlund (Primer Lesson)
- Losses (I have love) (from Chicago Poems) - G. Bachlund
- Lost (Desolate and lone) (from Chicago Poems) - D. Hagen, R. Hughes, H. Matthews, M. Smith, R. Strassburg, C. Van Buskirk, J. Wolfe
- Love is a deep and a dark and a lonely () (from Honey and Salt) - R. Starer [x] *
- Mag (I wish to God I never saw you, Mag) (from Chicago Poems) - C. Ives, S. Kagen, S. Raphling
- Mamie beat her head against the bars of a little Indiana (from Chicago Poems) - S. Raphling (Mamie)
- Mamie (Mamie beat her head against the bars of a little Indiana) (from Chicago Poems) - S. Raphling
- Manual system (Mary has a thingamajig clamped on her ears) (from Smoke and Steel) - G. Bachlund
- Mary has a thingamajig clamped on her ears (from Smoke and Steel) - G. Bachlund (Manual system)
- Mask (Fling your red scarf faster and faster, dancer) - J. Hall
- Maybe he believes me, maybe not (from Good Morning, America) - S. Kagen, J. Musto, S. Raphling (Maybe) *
- Maybe (Maybe he believes me, maybe not) (from Good Morning, America) - S. Kagen, J. Musto, S. Raphling *
- Mill-Doors (You never come back) (from Chicago Poems) - N. Dello Joio, M. Silberstein
- Monotone (The monotone of the rain is beautiful) (from Chicago Poems) - M. Ippolito
- Monoton (The monotone of the rain is beautiful) (from Chicago Poems) - G. Davisson, N. Lockwood
- Moonset (Leaves of poplars pick Japanese prints against the west) - M. Ippolito
- My shirt is a token and symbol (from Smoke and Steel) - E. Lang (Shirt)
- My Shirt, Song for a Sailor (My shirt is a token and symbol) (from Smoke and Steel) - E. Lang
- Nebel kommen auf Katzenfüßen (Text: Anonymous after Carl Sandburg)
- Nebel kommen - B. Blacher (Text: Anonymous after Carl Sandburg)
- Nebel (Nebel kommen) - B. Blacher (Text: Anonymous after Carl Sandburg)
- Nebel () - B. Rövenstrunck [x]
- Nightsong () (from Wind Song) - P. Pisk [x] *
- Night Stuff (Listen a while, the moon is a lovely woman, a lonely woman, lost in a) (from Smoke and Steel) - M. Ippolito, W. Schuman
- Nocturn cabbage () (from Good Morning, America) - R. Green [x] *
- Nocturne in a Deserted Brickyard (Stuff of the moon) (from Chicago Poems) - D. Epstein
- Of my city the worst that men will ever say is this - M. Silberstein (They Will Say)
- Oh Angel (On Lang Syne Plantation they had a prayer) (from The People, Yes) - R. Starer [x] *
- Ohio Farmer (Bury this old Illinois farmer with respect) - R. Sowash
- Old deep sing-song (In the old deep sing-song) - E. Hugh-Jones [x] *
- Omaha (Red barns and red heifers spot the green) (from Smoke and Steel) - E. Bacon
- On Lang Syne Plantation they had a prayer (from The People, Yes) - R. Starer (On Lang Syne Plantation they had a prayer) [x] *
- On up the sea slant (from Slabs of the Sunburnt West) - H. Clarke (Sea slant)
- Open the door now - J. Hall
- Our prayer of thanks (For the gladness here where the sun is shining) (from Chicago Poems) - H. Mollincone
- Passers-by, out of your many faces (from Chicago Poems) (Passers-by) - J. Beach
- Passers-by (Passers-by) (from Chicago Poems) - J. Beach
- Pearl fog (Open the door now) - J. Hall
- People, flung wide and far, born into toil, struggle, blood and dreams - M. Hennagin *
- People (People, flung wide and far, born into toil, struggle, blood and dreams) - M. Hennagin *
- Pile the bodies high at Austerlitz and Waterloo (from Cornhuskers) - F. Hart, F. Heath, T. Kroll (Grass)
- Play it across the table (from Smoke and Steel) - G. Bachlund, H. Swanson (Cahoots)
- Playthings of the wind (The woman named To-morrow) (from Smoke and Steel) - J. Kantor
- Plow over bars of sea plowing (from Slabs of the Sunburnt West) - V. Weigl (Fins)
- Prairie Waters by Night (Chatter of birds two by two raises a night song) (from Cornhuskers) - E. Helm, J. Wolfe
- Prairie (I was born on the prairie and the milk of its wheat) (from Cornhuskers) - L. Foss, N. Lockwood
- Prayers of Steel (Lay me on an anvil, O God) (from Cornhuskers) - P. Christiansen, R. Crawford-Seeger, J. Spencer
- Primer Lesson (Look out how you use proud words) (from Slabs of the Sunburnt West) - G. Bachlund
- Rat Riddles (There was a gray rat looked at me) (from Good Morning, America) - R. Crawford-Seeger *
- Red barns and red heifers spot the green (from Smoke and Steel) - E. Bacon (Omaha)
- Red-Headed Girl (Shake back your hair, O red-headed girl) (from Smoke and Steel) - G. Bachlund
- Red-Headed Restaurant Cashier (Shake back your hair, O red-headed girl) (from Smoke and Steel) - K. Rathaus
- Ripe corn () (from Good Morning, America) - J. Hall, W. Mellers [x] *
- Sand of the sea runs red - M. Ippolito
- Sea chest (There was a woman loved a man) (from Good Morning, America) - J. Musto *
- Sea slant (On up the sea slant) (from Slabs of the Sunburnt West) - H. Clarke
- Sea sunsets, give us keepsakes - E. Warren, V. Weigl
- Sea sunsets (Sea sunsets, give us keepsakes) - V. Weigl
- Sell me a violin, mister, of old mysterious wood (from Cornhuskers) - S. Grill
- Shake back your hair, O red-headed girl (from Smoke and Steel) - G. Bachlund, K. Rathaus (Red-Headed Restaurant Cashier)
- Shaken - J. Hall
- Shine on, O moon of summer (from Chicago Poems) - S. Raphling (Back Yard)
- Shirt (My shirt is a token and symbol) (from Smoke and Steel)
- Sketch (The shadows of the ships) (from Chicago Poems) - M. Smith
- Small Homes (The green bug sleeps in the white lily ear) (from Good Morning, America) - G. Bachlund, M. Oliver *
- Snatch of Sliphorn Jazz (Are you happy? It’s the only) - S. Sargon
- Sobs en route to a Penitentiary (Good-by now to the streets and the clash of wheels and locking hubs) (from Chicago Poems) - G. Bachlund
- Somebody loses whenever somebody wins (from Smoke and Steel) GER (Crapshooters) -
- Soup (I saw the famous man eating soup) (from Smoke and Steel) - G. Bachlund
- Southern Pacific (Huntington sleeps in a house six feet long) (from Cornhuskers) - G. Bachlund
- Special starlight () - H. Haslam [x] *
- Splinter (The voice of the last cricket) - J. Hall GER *
- Splitter () - B. Rövenstrunck [x]
- Spring carries surprises (Spring grass, there is a dance to be danced for you) (from Good Morning, America) - W. Mellers *
- Spring grass, there is a dance to be danced for you (from Good Morning, America) - E. Alexander, P. Glass, R. Kreutz, W. Mellers, V. Weigl (Spring grass) *
- Spring grass (Spring grass, there is a dance to be danced for you) (from Good Morning, America) - E. Alexander, P. Glass, R. Kreutz, V. Weigl *
- Stars, Songs, Faces (Gather the stars if you wish it so) (from Smoke and Steel) - J. Beyer
- Stars () (from Wind Song) - E. Gerschefski [x] *
- Sterne, Lieder, Gesichter () - B. Rövenstrunck [x] ⊗
- Still Life (Cool your heels on the rail of an observation car) (from Cornhuskers) - H. Swanson
- Stuff of the moon (from Chicago Poems) - D. Epstein (Nocturne in a Deserted Brickyard)
- Summer grass () (from Good Morning, America) - J. Beyer, P. Glass, R. Green, W. Mellers, P. Pisk [x] *
- Summer Stars (Bend low again, night of summer stars) (from Smoke and Steel) - G. Bachlund, E. Warren
- Sunsets, Song for a Sailor () (from Good Morning, America) - E. Lang [x] *
- Sunsets (There are sunsets that whisper a good-by) - R. Crawford-Seeger
- Sunsets () (from Good Morning, America) [x] *
- Sun, you may send your haze gold (from Good Morning, America) - P. Glass, J. Hall (Haze gold) *
- Swirl (A swirl in the air where your head was once, here) - M. Ippolito
- Tawny Days (These are the tawny days: your face comes back) (from Smoke and Steel) - E. Warren
- Tawny (These are the tawny days: your face comes back) (from Smoke and Steel)
- The child’s wonder - J. Hall
- The fog comes on little cat feet (from Chicago Poems) GER GER (Fog) - E. Bacon, D. Epstein, R. Green, R. Harris, A. Hovhaness, H. Irwin, H. Matthews, W. Nash, S. Raphling, P. Schwartz, T. Somervell, L. Stone
- The fog comes (from Chicago Poems) GER GER - E. Bacon, D. Epstein, R. Green, R. Harris, A. Hovhaness, H. Irwin, H. Matthews, W. Nash, S. Raphling, P. Schwartz, T. Somervell, L. Stone (Fog)
- The gong of Time () (from Honey and Salt) - R. Starer [x] *
- The Government -- I heard about the Government and (from Chicago Poems) - G. Bachlund (Government)
- The green bug sleeps in the white lily ear (from Good Morning, America) - G. Bachlund, M. Oliver (Small Homes) *
- The grip of the ice is gone now (from Smoke and Steel) - E. Warren (The Wind Sings Welcome in Early Spring)
- The Hammer (I have seen) - G. Bachlund
- The hangman at home (What does the hangman think about) (from Smoke and Steel) - J. Musto
- The Junk Man (I am glad God saw Death) (from Chicago Poems) - G. Bachlund, H. Swanson, G. Youse
- The lawyers, Bob, know too much - G. Bachlund
- The Lawyers Know Too Much (The lawyers, Bob, know too much) - G. Bachlund
- Theme in yellow (I spot the hills) (from Chicago Poems) - J. Hall
- The monotone of the rain is beautiful (from Chicago Poems) - G. Davisson, M. Ippolito, N. Lockwood (Monotone)
- The peace of great doors be for you (from Smoke and Steel) - J. Wallach (For You)
- The Prayer of Steel (Lay me on an anvil, O God) (from Cornhuskers) - R. Hughes
- There are sunsets that whisper a good-by - R. Crawford-Seeger (Sunsets)
- There is a blue star, Janet (from Smoke and Steel) - C. Bricken (Baby Toes)
- There is only one man in the world - M. Hennagin *
- There is only one man (There is only one man in the world) - M. Hennagin *
- There's Chamfort. He's a sample (from Chicago Poems) - K. Erickson (Chamfort)
- There was a gray rat looked at me (from Good Morning, America) - R. Crawford-Seeger (Rat Riddles) *
- There was a woman loved a man (from Good Morning, America) - J. Musto (Sea chest) *
- There will be a rusty gun on the wall, sweetheart (from Smoke and Steel) - M. Hennagin (A. E. F.)
- These are the tawny days: your face comes back (from Smoke and Steel) - E. Warren (Tawny)
- The sea rocks have a green moss (from Smoke and Steel) - R. Crawford-Seeger (Home Thoughts)
- The sea-wash never ends (from Smoke and Steel) - G. Bachlund
- The sea-wash (The sea-wash never ends) (from Smoke and Steel) - G. Bachlund
- The shadows of the ships (from Chicago Poems) - M. Smith (Sketch)
- The single clenched fist lifted and ready (from Chicago Poems) - G. Bachlund (Choose)
- The south wind says so (If the oriole calls like last year) - J. Hall
- The stone goes straight (from Slabs of the Sunburnt West) - S. Raphling (Washington Monument by night)
- The strong men keep coming on (from Slabs of the Sunburnt West) - G. Bachlund, C. Bricken, C. Dougherty, E. Ferguson, S. Kagen, W. Lundquist, A. Malotte (Upstream)
- The strong men (The strong men keep coming on) (from Slabs of the Sunburnt West) - W. Lundquist
- The voice of the last cricket GER - J. Hall (Splinter) *
- The Wind Sings Welcome in Early Spring (The grip of the ice is gone now) (from Smoke and Steel)
- The Wind Sings Welcome (The grip of the ice is gone now) (from Smoke and Steel) - E. Warren
- The woman named To-morrow (from Smoke and Steel) - E. Erickson, J. Kantor, S. Paulus, M. Tilson Thomas (Four Preludes on Playthings of the Wind)
- The year (A storm of white petals) (from Cornhuskers) - G. Bachlund
- They Will Say (Of my city the worst that men will ever say is this) - M. Silberstein
- Timber moon () (from Good Morning, America) - J. Beyer, S. Raphling [x] *
- Under a telephone pole (I am a copper wire slung in the air) (from Chicago Poems) - S. Raphling
- Under the harvest moon (Under the harvest moon) (from Chicago Poems) - G. Bachlund, J. Hall, C. Naginski
- Uplands in May (Wonder as of old things) (from Chicago Poems) - D. Epstein
- Upstairs (I too have a garret of old playthings) (from Cornhuskers) - E. Alexander
- Upstream (The strong men keep coming on) (from Slabs of the Sunburnt West) - G. Bachlund, C. Bricken, C. Dougherty, E. Ferguson, S. Kagen, A. Malotte
- Washington Monument by night (The stone goes straight) (from Slabs of the Sunburnt West) - S. Raphling
- What does the hangman think about (from Smoke and Steel) - J. Musto (The hangman at home)
- What do we see here in the sand dunes of the white moon alone with our thoughts, Bill - M. Ippolito
- When Abraham Lincoln was shoveled into the tombs, he forgot (from Cornhuskers) - W. Mellers, S. Raphling (Cool Tombs)
- When Abraham Lincoln was shoveled into the tombs (from Cornhuskers) (Cool Tombs) - W. Mellers, S. Raphling
- Whitelight (Your whitelight flashes the frost to-night) - M. Ippolito
- White Moon comes in on a baby face - R. Crawford-Seeger (Baby face)
- White Moon (White Moon comes in on a baby face) - R. Crawford-Seeger
- White shoulders (Your white shoulders) (from Chicago Poems) - G. Bachlund
- Windscape (Changing light winds) - D. Epstein *
- Wind Song (Long ago I learned how to sleep) (from Smoke and Steel) - P. Glass
- Winter gold () (from Good Morning, America) - P. Glass [x] *
- Wonder as of old things (from Chicago Poems) - D. Epstein (Uplands in May)
- Würfelspieler () - B. Rövenstrunck [x]
- You never come back (from Chicago Poems) - N. Dello Joio, M. Silberstein (Mill-Doors)
- Your whitelight flashes the frost to-night - M. Ippolito
- Your white shoulders (from Chicago Poems) - G. Bachlund (White shoulders)
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