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Texts by W. Stevens set in Art Songs and Choral Works

 § Author § 

Wallace Stevens (1879 - 1955)

Text Collections:

  • Harmonium
  • Six significant landscapes
  • The Palm at the End of the Mind
  • Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird

Texts set in art song or choral works (not necessarily comprehensive):

Legend:
The symbol [x] indicates a placeholder for a text that is not yet in the database.
The symbol ⊗ indicates a translation that is missing an original text.

A * indicates that a text cannot (yet?) be displayed on this site because of its copyright status.
Special notes: All titles and first lines are included in this index, including those used by composers.
Titles used by the text author appear in boldface. First lines appear in italics.
A language code in a blue rectangle like ENG indicates that a translation to that language is available.
A grey rectangle like FRE indicates a particular translation (usually one set to music) exists but isn't yet available.

  • A child asleep in its own life (Among the old men that you know) (from The Palm at the End of the Mind) - N. Rorem *
  • A clear day and no memories (No soldiers in the scenery) (from The Palm at the End of the Mind) - N. Rorem
  • A clear day and no memories (Today the air is clear of everything) - D. Hagen *
  • A few things for themselves * - L. Hoiby (O Florida, Venereal Soil)
  • Although you sit in a room that is gray * - E. Mandel
  • A man and a woman (from Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird) FRE GER - L. Foss, P. Glanville-Hicks, L. Talma
  • A mind of winter (One must have a mind of winter) (from Harmonium) - G. Benjamin
  • Among the old men that you know (from The Palm at the End of the Mind) * - N. Rorem (A child asleep in its own life)
  • Among twenty snowy mountains (from Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird) FRE GER - L. Foss, P. Glanville-Hicks, L. Talma
  • Anecdote of the Prince of Peacocks () - J. Connolly [x] *
  • An old man sits (from Six significant landscapes)
  • Another weeping woman (Pour the unhappiness out) (from Harmonium) - R. Holloway
  • Ariel was glad he had written his poems (from The Palm at the End of the Mind) - N. Rorem (The Planet on the Table)
  • At the earliest ending of winter - N. Rorem (Not ideas about the thing but the thing itself)
  • At the sight of blackbirds (from Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird) FRE GER - L. Foss, P. Glanville-Hicks, L. Talma
  • Banal sojourn (Two wooden tubs of blue hydrangeas stand at the foot of the stone steps) (from Harmonium) - R. Holloway
  • Before My Door (Now grapes are plush upon the vine) - L. Hoiby *
  • Brooder, brooder, deep beneath its walls - N. Rorem (The Dove in Spring)
  • Call the roller of big cigars (from Harmonium) - G. Bachlund, A. Hudson, R. Reynolds (The Emperor of Ice-Cream)
  • Continual Conversation with a Silent Man (The old brown hen and the old blue sky) - L. Hoiby *
  • Contrary Theses I (Now grapes are plush upon the vine) *
  • Cy est Pourtraicte, Madame Ste Ursule, et les Unze Mille Vierges (Ursula, in a garden, found) (from Harmonium) - J. Gardner
  • Depression before Spring (The cock crows) (from Harmonium) - J. Gardner
  • Disillusionment of ten o'clock (The houses are haunted) - G. Bachlund
  • Earthly anecdote () - J. Connolly [x] *
  • Evening, when the measure skips a beat * - L. Hoiby
  • Evening (Evening, when the measure skips a beat) - L. Hoiby *
  • Final soliloquy of the interior paramour (Light the first light of evening) - A. Thomas *
  • Floral Decorations for Bananas (Well, nuncle, this plainly won't do) - L. Hoiby *
  • Gray room (Although you sit in a room that is gray) - E. Mandel *
  • Gubbinal (That strange flower, the sun) (from Harmonium) - L. Hoiby, R. Holloway, V. Persichetti
  • He rode over Connecticut (from Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird) FRE GER - L. Foss, P. Glanville-Hicks, L. Talma
  • Icicles filled the long window (from Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird) FRE GER - L. Foss, P. Glanville-Hicks, L. Talma
  • I do not know which to prefer (from Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird) FRE GER - L. Foss, P. Glanville-Hicks, L. Talma
  • I know noble accents (from Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird) FRE GER - L. Foss, P. Glanville-Hicks, L. Talma
  • I measure myself (I measure myself) (from Six significant landscapes) - C. Brook
  • I measure myself (from Six significant landscapes) - C. Brook
  • In Oklahoma (from Harmonium) - J. Connolly, J. Gardner (Life is motion)
  • In that November off Tehuantepec * - R. Holloway (Sea surface full of clouds)
  • It's a strange courage * - D. Mason (Nuances of a theme by Williams)
  • It was evening all afternoon (from Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird) FRE GER - L. Foss, L. Talma
  • I was of three minds (from Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird) FRE GER - L. Foss, P. Glanville-Hicks, L. Talma
  • Just as my fingers on these keys (from Harmonium) - J. Gardner (Peter Quince at the Clavier)
  • Life is motion (In Oklahoma) (from Harmonium) - J. Connolly, J. Gardner
  • Light the first light of evening * - A. Thomas (Final soliloquy of the interior paramour)
  • Mozart, 1935 (Poet, be seated at the piano) - S. Wheeler
  • No soldiers in the scenery (from The Palm at the End of the Mind) - N. Rorem (A clear day and no memories)
  • Not all the knives of the lamp-posts (Not all the knives of the lamp-posts) (from Six significant landscapes) - C. Brook
  • Not all the knives of the lamp-posts (from Six significant landscapes) - C. Brook
  • Not ideas about the thing but the thing itself (At the earliest ending of winter) - N. Rorem
  • Now grapes are plush upon the vine * - L. Hoiby (Contrary Theses I)
  • Nuances of a theme by Williams (It's a strange courage) - D. Mason *
  • O Florida, Venereal Soil (A few things for themselves) *
  • O Florida (A few things for themselves) - L. Hoiby *
  • Of mere being (The palm at the end of the mind) (from The Palm at the End of the Mind) - N. Rorem
  • One must have a mind of winter (from Harmonium) - G. Bachlund, G. Benjamin, J. Connolly, W. Hekster, V. Persichetti (The snow man)
  • O thin men of Haddam (from Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird) FRE GER - L. Foss, P. Glanville-Hicks, L. Talma
  • Peter Quince at the Clavier (Just as my fingers on these keys) (from Harmonium) - J. Gardner
  • Ploughing on Sunday (The white cock's tail) (from Harmonium) - J. Gardner
  • Poet, be seated at the piano - S. Wheeler (Mozart, 1935)
  • Pour the unhappiness out (from Harmonium) - R. Holloway (Another weeping woman)
  • Rationalists, wearing square hats (from Six significant landscapes)
  • Sea surface full of clouds [cantata] (In that November off Tehuantepec) - R. Holloway *
  • Sea surface full of clouds (In that November off Tehuantepec) *
  • She sang beyond the genius of the sea * - R. Erickson (The idea of order at Key West)
  • Tattoo () - J. Connolly [x] *
  • That strange flower, the sun (from Harmonium) - L. Hoiby, R. Holloway, V. Persichetti (Gubbinal)
  • The blackbird whirled in the autumn winds (from Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird) FRE GER - L. Foss, P. Glanville-Hicks, L. Talma
  • The cock crows (from Harmonium) - J. Gardner (Depression before Spring)
  • The course of a particular (Today the leaves cry, hanging on branches swept by wind) - R. Holloway *
  • The Dove in Spring (Brooder, brooder, deep beneath its walls) - N. Rorem
  • The Emperor of Ice-Cream (Call the roller of big cigars) (from Harmonium) - G. Bachlund, A. Hudson, R. Reynolds
  • The houses are haunted - G. Bachlund
  • The idea of order at Key West (She sang beyond the genius of the sea) - R. Erickson *
  • The night is of the color (The night is of the color) (from Six significant landscapes) - C. Brook
  • The night is of the color (from Six significant landscapes) - C. Brook
  • The old brown hen and the old blue sky * - L. Hoiby
  • The palm at the end of the mind (from The Palm at the End of the Mind) - N. Rorem (Of mere being)
  • The place of the solitaires () - J. Connolly [x] *
  • The Planet on the Table (Ariel was glad he had written his poems) (from The Palm at the End of the Mind) - N. Rorem
  • The poem that took the place of a mountain (There it was, word for word) - A. Thomas *
  • There is a great river this side of Stygia - N. Rorem (The River of Rivers in Connecticut)
  • There it was, word for word * - A. Thomas (The poem that took the place of a mountain)
  • The river is moving (from Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird) FRE GER - L. Foss, P. Glanville-Hicks, L. Talma
  • The River of Rivers in Connecticut (There is a great river this side of Stygia) - N. Rorem
  • The snow man (One must have a mind of winter) (from Harmonium) - G. Bachlund, J. Connolly, W. Hekster, V. Persichetti
  • The white cock's tail (from Harmonium) - J. Gardner (Ploughing on Sunday)
  • The wind shifts (This is how the wind shifts) (from Harmonium) - R. Holloway
  • This is how the wind shifts (from Harmonium) - R. Holloway (The wind shifts)
  • This vast inelegance () - R. Holloway [x] *
  • Today the air is clear of everything * - D. Hagen (A clear day and no memories)
  • Today the leaves cry, hanging on branches swept by wind * - R. Holloway (The course of a particular)
  • To the roaring wind (What syllable are you seeking)
  • Two wooden tubs of blue hydrangeas stand at the foot of the stone steps (from Harmonium) - R. Holloway (Banal sojourn)
  • Ursula, in a garden, found (from Harmonium) - J. Gardner (Cy est Pourtraicte, Madame Ste Ursule, et les Unze Mille Vierges)
  • Vocalissimus (What syllable are you seeking) - J. Cloud
  • Well, nuncle, this plainly won't do * - L. Hoiby
  • What syllable are you seeking - J. Cloud (To the roaring wind)
  • When my dream was near the moon (When my dream was near the moon) (from Six significant landscapes) - C. Brook, L. Flenady, P. Novak, K. Tang
  • When my dream was near the moon (from Six significant landscapes) - C. Brook, L. Flenady, P. Novak, K. Tang
  • When the blackbird flew out of sight (from Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird) FRE GER - L. Foss, P. Glanville-Hicks, L. Talma

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