Author: Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892)

Text Compilations

• Diaries
• Drum Taps
• I Sing the Body Electric
• Leaves of Grass
• Memories of President Lincoln
• Passage to India
• Song of Myself
• Song of the Open Road
• Song of the Universal
• Specimen Days
• The Sleepers

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• A batter'd and wreck'd old man (from Leaves of Grass) - R. Strassburg (Prayer of Columbus)
• A batter'd wreck'd old man (from Leaves of Grass) (Prayer of Columbus) - R. Strassburg
• Aboard, at a ship's helm (Aboard, at a ship's helm) (from Leaves of Grass) - G. Booth
• A child said, What is the grass? fetching it to me with full hands (from Song of Myself) GER GER - V. Fine, N. Lockwood
• A child said, What is the grass? (A child said, What is the grass? fetching it to me with full hands) (from Song of Myself) - V. Fine, N. Lockwood GER GER
• A child's amaze (Silent and amazed even when a little boy) (from Leaves of Grass) - R. Beckett, R. Schonthal
• A clear midnight (This is thy hour, O Soul, thy free flight into the wordless) - E. Bacon, R. Beckett, E. Bonner, P. Dalmas, D. Gilliam, P. Glass, U. Grahn, L. Hoiby, A. Kunz, S. Loher, K. Miehling, M. Ostrzyga, V. Persichetti, R. Platt, L. Reed, S. Sargon, H. Somers, E. Spalding, H. Spier, R. Vaughan Williams, H. Willan CAT FRE GER GER FRE GER
• A dirge for two veterans (The last sunbeam) - G. Holst FRE
• A farm picture (Through the ample open door of the peaceful country barn) (from Leaves of Grass) - R. Beckett, J. Klein, O. Luening, R. Schonthal, R. Sowash
• Afoot and light-hearted, I take to the open road (from Song of the Open Road) - N. Rorem, W. Wijdeveld
• After a week of physical anguish - R. Harris (An Evening Lull)
• After the dazzle of day is gone - H. Somers
• After the dazzle of day (After the dazzle of day is gone) - H. Somers
• After the sea-ship, after the whistling winds - R. Vaughan Williams (After the Sea-Ship)
• After the Sea-Ship (After the sea-ship, after the whistling winds)
• after the whistling winds - M. Ostrzyga
• Ages and ages, returning at intervals (Ages and ages, returning at intervals) GER
• A glimpse, through an interstice caught - N. Rorem (A glimpse)
• A glimpse (A glimpse, through an interstice caught) - N. Rorem
• A jubilant song (O to make the most jubilant song!) - N. Dello Joio
• A letter from Pete (Come up from the fields father, here’s a letter from our Pete) - B. Rogers
• A live oak growing (I saw in Louisiana a live-oak growing) - C. Borzoni
• All Peoples of the Globe Together Sail (One thought ever at the fore) - R. Ward
• A long while, amid the noises of coming and going (A glimpse) - N. Rorem
• A mask, a perpetual disguise of herself (Visor'd) - R. Schonthal
• A mask, a perpetual disguiser of herself - R. Schonthal (Visor'd)
• Amid these days of order, ease, prosperity - R. Platt (The Dying Veteran)
• Among the men and women the multitude - C. Urquhart (Among the multitude)
• Among the multitude (Among the men and women the multitude) - C. Urquhart
• An Abraham Lincoln Song (O Captain! my Captain! our fearful trip is done) - W. Damrosch GER
• And so good-bye to the war. I know not how it may have been, or may (from Specimen Days) - N. Rorem (The real war will never get in the books)
• And so good-bye to the war. I know not how it may have been (from Specimen Days) (The real war will never get in the books) - N. Rorem
• And Thou America (And thou, America!) (from Song of the Universal) - R. Valerio
• And thou, America! (from Song of the Universal) - R. Valerio
• And whence and why come you? - E. Bacon, L. Segerstam
• And who are you? (A sight in camp in the daybreak grey and dim) - E. Bacon
• And who art thou? said I to the soft-falling shower - O. Knussen
• An ended day (The soothing sanity and blitheness of completion) - L. Segerstam
• An Evening Lull (After a week of physical anguish) - R. Harris
• A night battle, over a week since (May 12. -- There was part of the late battle at) (from Specimen Days)
• A night battle (May 12. -- There was part of the late battle at) (from Specimen Days) - N. Rorem
• Animals (I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contain'd) (from Song of Myself) - R. Beckett
• An incident (It is Sunday afternoon, middle of summer, hot and oppressive, and very) - N. Rorem
• A noiseless, patient spider (from Leaves of Grass) - R. Beckett, O. Knussen, D. Mason, R. Sowash (A noiseless patient spider)
• An old man bending, I come, among new faces (from Leaves of Grass) - J. Adams (The dresser)
• An old man's thoughts of school - H. Hanson
• Approach Strong Deliveress! (Approach, strong Deliveress!) (from Memories of President Lincoln - When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd) - G. Crumb FRE
• Approach, strong Deliveress! (from Memories of President Lincoln - When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd) FRE - G. Crumb (Death carol)
• A prairie sunset: Shot gold, maroon and violet - S. Loher
• A prairie sunset (A prairie sunset: Shot gold, maroon and violet) - S. Loher
• Are you the new person drawn toward me? - N. Rorem
• Are you the new person? (Are you the new person drawn toward me?) - N. Rorem
• Aroused and angry, I thought to beat the alarum - S. Loher
• Aroused and angry (Aroused and angry, I thought to beat the alarum) - S. Loher
• As Adam, early in the morning (As Adam, early in the morning) - N. Rorem
• Ashes of soldiers (Ashes of soldiers!) (from Leaves of Grass)
• As if a phantom caress’d me (As if a phantom caress’d me) - S. Loher
• As if a phantom caress’d me - S. Loher
• A sight in camp in the daybreak gray and dim (A sight in camp in the daybreak grey and dim) - R. Thomas
• A sight in camp in the daybreak grey and dim - E. Bacon, E. Bryson, R. Cumming, D. Symons, R. Thomas (A sight in camp in the daybreak grey and dim)
• A sight in camp (A sight in camp in the daybreak grey and dim) - E. Bryson, R. Cumming, D. Symons
• As I lay with my head in your lap, camerado - D. Hagen
• As I watch'd the ploughman ploughing (As I watch'd the ploughman ploughing) - P. Dalmas, W. Neidlinger, A. Stout, R. Ward
• A Sketch (1842) (Upon the ocean's wave-worn shore) - R. Platt
• A Sketch (Upon the ocean's wave-worn shore)
• As nearing departure (As nearing departure) (from Leaves of Grass)
• A song of joys (O to make the most jubilant song!) - E. Canat de Chizy, P. Creston, A. Doherty, S. Sargon
• A song (Come, I will make the continent indissoluble) (from Leaves of Grass)
• A specimen case (June 18th. -- In one of the hospitals I find Thomas Haley, company M) (from Specimen Days) - N. Rorem
• At the dance and supper room, I could not help thinking - N. Rorem (Inauguration Ball)
• At the dance and supper room (Inauguration Ball) - N. Rorem
• At the last, tenderly (from Leaves of Grass) FRE - S. Adler, E. Bacon, A. Bergh, M. Besly, G. Binkerd, E. Bonner, J. Boyd, F. Bridge, L. Campbell-Tipton, J. Carter, R. Diggle, P. Garratt, P. Glass, E. Henderson, W. Hively, T. Hoekman, A. Hudson, L. Kastle, O. Luening, T. Pasatieri, D. Pederson, A. Powers, J. Rogers, S. Sargon, A. Schmutz, W. Schuman, E. Spalding, R. Starer, W. Storey-Smith, R. Thompson, E. Whithorne, T. Whitmer (The last invocation)
• At the last (At the last, tenderly) (from Leaves of Grass) - E. Bacon, M. Besly, A. Hudson, O. Luening FRE
• At the tomb () - L. Campbell-Tipton FRE [x]
• Au pied d'une tombe () - L. Campbell-Tipton [x]
• Away, O soul! hoist instantly the anchor! (Passage to more than India!) (from Passage to India) - R. Vaughan Williams
• Away, O soul! hoist instantly the anchor! (from Passage to India)
• Bearing the bandages, water and sponge (from Leaves of Grass) (The dresser) - J. Adams
• Beat! beat! drums! - blow! bugles! blow! FRE GER - E. Bacon, S. Coleridge-Taylor, H. Hanson, F. Heath, C. Loeffler, S. Raphling, A. Stoessel, R. Thomas, J. Van, R. Vaughan Williams, C. Vrionides, K. Weill (Beat! Beat! Drums!)
• Beat! beat! drums! (Beat! beat! drums! - blow! bugles! blow!) - E. Bacon, S. Coleridge-Taylor, H. Hanson, F. Heath, C. Loeffler, S. Raphling, A. Stoessel, R. Thomas, J. Van, R. Vaughan Williams, C. Vrionides, K. Weill FRE GER
• Beautiful women (Women sit, or move to and fro—some old, some young) (from Leaves of Grass) - R. Beckett
• Be composed - be at ease with me - I am Walt Whitman, liberal and lusty as Nature - N. Rorem
• Beginning my studies the first step pleas'd me so much - R. Beckett, L. Hoiby
• Beginning my studies (Beginning my studies the first step pleas'd me so much) - R. Beckett, L. Hoiby
• Behold this swarthy face, these gray eyes - G. Busby
• Behold this swarthy face (Behold this swarthy face, these gray eyes) - G. Busby
• Blow! blow! blow! (from Leaves of Grass - Sea-Drift)
• By the bivouac's fitful flame (By the bivouac's fitful flame) - A. Bliss, H. Gaul, H. Hanson, H. Harty, J. Van
• City of Ships (City of ships!) (from Drum Taps) - J. LoCascio
• Clear Midnight (This is thy hour, O Soul, thy free flight into the wordless) - J. Hanna CAT FRE GER GER FRE GER
• Coffin that passes through lanes and streets (from Memories of President Lincoln - When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd)
• Come, I will make the continent indissoluble (from Leaves of Grass) - Anonymous, R. Boughton, M. Frank, I. Gertz, E. Helm, G. Kleinsinger, N. Lee, H. Norris, F. White, E. Zuckmayer (A song)
• Come lovely and soothing death (Come lovely and soothing death) (from Memories of President Lincoln - When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd) - G. Crumb, J. Duke, S. Sargon FRE
• Come lovely and soothing death (from Memories of President Lincoln - When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd) FRE - G. Crumb, J. Duke, S. Sargon, W. Schuman (Death carol)
• Come, said the Muse (Come, said the Muse) (from Song of the Universal) - T. Whitmer
• Come, said the Muse (from Song of the Universal) - V. Persichetti, T. Whitmer
• Come up from the fields father, here’s a letter from our Pete (Come up from the fields Father) - V. Nelhybel, B. Rogers, R. Sowash, K. Weill
• Come up from the fields father, here’s a letter from our Pete - V. Nelhybel, B. Rogers, K. Weill (Lo, 'tis autumn)
• Come up from the fields Father (Come up from the fields father, here’s a letter from our Pete) - V. Nelhybel, K. Weill
• Crossing Brooklyn Ferry: Conclusion (Flood-tide below me! I watch you face to face) - J. Kaufer
• Crossing Brooklyn Ferry (Flood-tide below me! I watch you face to face) - V. Thomson
• Darest thou now O soul (Darest thou now O Soul) - S. Adler, E. Bacon, E. Bonner, G. Chadwick, R. Diggle, I. Freed, P. Glass, M. Hennagin, H. Henze, B. Huhn, N. Lockwood, K. Miehling, W. Schuman, C. Stanford, F. Valen, R. Vaughan Williams, T. Whitmer, D. Williams, C. Wood FRE GER FRE FRE
• Dark Mother, always gliding near, with soft feet (Dark Mother, always gliding near, with soft feet) (from Memories of President Lincoln - When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd) - G. Crumb FRE
• Dark Mother, always gliding near, with soft feet (from Memories of President Lincoln - When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd) FRE - G. Crumb, J. Duke, J. Rogers (Death carol)
• Dark mother, always gliding near (Dark Mother, always gliding near, with soft feet) (from Memories of President Lincoln - When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd) - J. Duke, J. Rogers FRE
• Das Gras (Ein Kind sagte: Was ist das Gras?) - F. Schreker
• Dear Camerado (As I lay with my head in your lap, camerado) - D. Hagen
• Dearest thou now o Soul (Darest thou now O Soul) - S. Adler FRE GER FRE FRE
• Death carol (Come lovely and soothing death) (from Memories of President Lincoln - When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd) FRE
• Delicate cluster! flag of teeming life! - R. Lo Presti (Delicate cluster)
• Delicate cluster (Delicate cluster! flag of teeming life!)
• Demon or bird! (said the boy's soul,) (from Leaves of Grass - Sea-Drift)
• Der ich, in Zwischenräumen, in Äonen und Äonen wiederkehre (Der ich, in Zwischenräumen, in Äonen und Äonen wiederkehre) - P. Hindemith
• Der ich, in Zwischenräumen, in Äonen und Äonen wiederkehre - P. Hindemith
• Dies ist deine Stunde, o Seele, dein freier Flug in das Wortlose CAT FRE FRE (Text: Anonymous after Walt Whitman) - W. Burkhard
• Dirge for two veterans (The last sunbeam) - N. Lockwood, H. McDonald, T. Pasatieri, F. Ritter, B. Rogers, S. Sargon, R. Thomas, R. Vaughan Williams, K. Weill, C. Wood FRE
• Drum Taps (Give me the splendid silent sun, with all his beams full-dazzling) - L. Elsmith
• Earth my likeness! (Earth! my likeness!) - N. Lee
• Earth! my likeness! - N. Lee
• Earth song () (from Song of Myself) - R. Sowash [x]
• Eine lichte Mitternacht () - P. Hindemith CAT FRE FRE (Text: Anonymous after Walt Whitman) [x]
• Ein Kind sagte: Was ist das Gras? - F. Schreker
• Élégie () - L. Campbell-Tipton [x]
• Elegy () - L. Campbell-Tipton FRE [x]
• Ethiopia saluting the colors (Who are you dusky woman, so ancient hardly human) - H. Burleigh, C. Wood
• Europe, the 72d and 73d years of These States (Suddenly, out of its stale and drowsy lair, the lair of slaves)
• Fast-anchor'd, eternal, O love! O woman I love! (Fast-anchor'd, eternal, O love) -
• Fast-anchor'd, eternal, O love (Fast-anchor'd, eternal, O love! O woman I love!)
• Flaunt out, o sea (To-day a rude brief recitative) (from Leaves of Grass) - V. Persichetti
• Flood-tide below me! I watch you face to face - J. Kaufer, V. Thomson (Crossing Brooklyn Ferry)
• For the numberless unknown heroes (With music strong I come, with my cornets and my drums) (from Song of Myself) - H. Gaul
• For You O Democracy (Come, I will make the continent indissoluble) (from Leaves of Grass) - Anonymous, M. Frank, I. Gertz, E. Helm
• Fragment from Calamus (O you whom I often and silently come) (from Leaves of Grass) - L. Harrison
• From all the rest I single out you, having a message for you (from Leaves of Grass) - E. Bacon (To one shortly to die)
• From me to thee glad serenades (from Memories of President Lincoln - When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd) FRE - J. Duke (Death carol)
• From me to thee glad serenades (From me to thee glad serenades) (from Memories of President Lincoln - When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd) - J. Duke FRE
• From Montauk Point (I stand as on some mighty eagle's beak)
• From pent-up, aching rivers (From pent-up, aching rivers)
• From some far shore (Over the mountain growths, disease and sorrow) (from Song of the Universal) - W. Riegger
• Frühling (When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd) (from Memories of President Lincoln - When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd) - K. Hartmann FRE
• Full of life now, compact, visible - N. Rorem
• Full of life now (Full of life now, compact, visible) - N. Rorem
• Gentlemen, I will be very (from Diaries)
• George Walker (from Diaries)
• Give me, O God, to sing that thought! (from Song of the Universal) - E. Diemer
• Give me the splendid silent sun, with all his beams full-dazzling - L. Elsmith, H. Gilbert, R. Harris, N. Lockwood, R. Sowash, W. Spencer (Give me the splendid silent sun)
• Give me the splendid silent sun (Give me the splendid silent sun, with all his beams full-dazzling) - H. Gilbert, R. Harris, N. Lockwood, R. Sowash, W. Spencer
• Gliding o'er all, through all - M. Hennagin, O. Luening, K. Miehling, N. Rorem, P. Stearns
• Gliding o'er all (Gliding o'er all, through all) - M. Hennagin, O. Luening, K. Miehling, N. Rorem, P. Stearns
• Gods (Lover divine and perfect Comrade) (from Leaves of Grass) - M. Hennagin, N. Rorem
• Good-bye my fancy - (I had a word to say - W. Flanagan, D. Williams (Good-bye my fancy)
• Good-bye my fancy (Good-bye my fancy - (I had a word to say) - W. Flanagan, D. Williams
• Grand is the seen, the light, to me -- grand are the sky and stars - E. Bacon, P. Stearns (Grand is the seen)
• Grand is the seen (Grand is the seen, the light, to me -- grand are the sky and stars) - E. Bacon, P. Stearns
• Halcyon days (Not from successful love alone) - N. Lockwood
• Hark! some wild trumpeter -- some strange musician (from Leaves of Grass) - G. Holst, R. Starer (The Mystic Trumpeter)
• Has any one supposed it lucky to be born? (from Song of Myself) - H. Norris
• Hast never come to thee an hour (Hast never come to thee an hour) - M. Hennagin, O. Luening
• Here the frailest leaves of me, and yet my strongest-lasting (from Leaves of Grass) - O. Luening (Here the frailest leaves of me)
• Here the frailest leaves of me (Here the frailest leaves of me, and yet my strongest-lasting) (from Leaves of Grass)
• Here the frailest (Here the frailest leaves of me, and yet my strongest-lasting) (from Leaves of Grass) - O. Luening
• Hospital Scenes -- Incidents (It is Sunday afternoon, middle of summer, hot and oppressive, and very)
• How sweet the silent backward tracings! (from Leaves of Grass) - F. Delius
• Hush'd be the camps today (Hush'd be the camps to-day) - C. Dougherty, H. Loomis, R. Ward
• I am he that aches with amorous love - N. Rorem (I am He that Aches with Love)
• I am He that Aches with Love (I am he that aches with amorous love)
• I am he . . . (I am he that aches with amorous love) - N. Rorem
• I am she who adorn'd herself and folded her hair expectantly (from The Sleepers)
• I am the poet of the Body;/ And I am the poet of the Soul (from Song of Myself) ITA
• I am the poet of the Body (I am the poet of the Body) (from Song of Myself) - B. Lees ITA
• I am the poet of the Body (from Song of Myself) ITA - G. Allen, L. Campbell-Tipton, B. Lees, H. Norris, R. Williams
• I believe in you my soul, the other I am must not abase itself to you (from Song of Myself) - R. Lister
• I celebrate myself, and sing myself (from Song of Myself) - D. Brunner, A. Hudson, V. Persichetti
• I celebrate myself (I celebrate myself, and sing myself) (from Song of Myself) - A. Hudson, V. Persichetti
• I depart as air, I shake my white locks at the runaway sun (from Song of Myself)
• I depart as air (The spotted hawk swoops by and accuses me, he complains of my gab and my loitering) (from Song of Myself) - D. Hagen
• I dream'd in a dream I saw a city invincible to the attacks (from Leaves of Grass) - C. Borzoni, J. LoCascio (I dream'd in a dream)
• I dream'd in a dream (I dream'd in a dream I saw a city invincible to the attacks) (from Leaves of Grass) - C. Borzoni, J. LoCascio
• I hear America singing, the varied carols I hear (from Leaves of Grass) - V. Bay, C. Eastham, H. Gaul, I. Gertz, S. Harte, G. Kleinsinger, N. Lockwood, L. Pfautsch, S. Raphling, R. Reed, R. Sowash (I hear America singing)
• I hear America singing (I hear America singing, the varied carols I hear) (from Leaves of Grass) - C. Eastham, H. Gaul, I. Gertz, S. Harte, G. Kleinsinger, S. Raphling, R. Reed, R. Sowash
• I heard you, solemn-sweet pipes of the organ (from Leaves of Grass) - F. Piket, J. Rolfe (I heard you, solemn-sweet pipes of the organ)
• I heard you (I heard you, solemn-sweet pipes of the organ) (from Leaves of Grass) - F. Piket
• I know I have the best of time and space, and was never measured and never will be measured (from Song of Myself) - T. Whitmer
• I know I have the best of time and space (I know I have the best of time and space, and was never measured and never will be measured) (from Song of Myself) - T. Whitmer
• Inauguration Ball (At the dance and supper room, I could not help thinking) - N. Rorem
• In celebration (I celebrate myself, and sing myself) (from Song of Myself) - D. Brunner
• In clouds descending, in midnight sleep, of many a face of anguish (from Leaves of Grass) - K. Miehling (In clouds descending, in midnight sleep)
• In clouds descending, in midnight sleep (In clouds descending, in midnight sleep, of many a face of anguish) (from Leaves of Grass) - K. Miehling
• In one of the hospitals I find Thomas Haley, company M (from Specimen Days) (Some specimen cases) - D. Hagen, N. Rorem
• Inscription (Small is the theme of the following Chant) (from Leaves of Grass) - V. Fine
• In some unused lagoon, some nameless bay - E. Bonner, D. Gustafson, C. Livingston, R. Platt (The dismantled ship)
• In the dooryard fronting an old farm-house near the white-wash'd palings (from Memories of President Lincoln - When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd)
• In the swamp in secluded recesses (from Memories of President Lincoln - When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd) - P. Hindemith
• Introduktion. Elend (Allegro) (I sit and look out upon all the sorrows of the world) (from Leaves of Grass) - K. Hartmann
• Invocation (At the last, tenderly) (from Leaves of Grass) - L. Campbell-Tipton, E. Whithorne FRE
• I saw askant the armies (from Memories of President Lincoln - When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd)
• I saw in Louisiana a live-oak growing (I saw in Louisiana a live-oak growing) - C. Borzoni, M. Castelnuovo-Tedesco, D. Newlin, R. Platt, N. Rorem
• I see in you the estuary that enlarges and spreads (from Leaves of Grass) - J. Klein, R. Schonthal (To old age)
• I see the sleeping babe nestling the breast of its mother (from Leaves of Grass) - R. Beckett, J. Klein, R. Schonthal (Mother and Babe)
• I sing the Body electric (I sing the Body electric) (from I Sing the Body Electric) - A. Hudson, V. Persichetti
• I sing the Body electric (from I Sing the Body Electric) - A. Hudson, V. Persichetti
• Is it a dream? (Give me, O God, to sing that thought!) (from Song of the Universal) - E. Diemer
• I sit and look out upon all the sorrows of the world (from Leaves of Grass) - N. Dello Joio, W. Goldstein, K. Hartmann (I sit and look out)
• I sit and look out upon the world (I sit and look out upon all the sorrows of the world) (from Leaves of Grass) - N. Dello Joio
• I sit and look out (I sit and look out upon all the sorrows of the world) (from Leaves of Grass) - W. Goldstein
• I stand as on some mighty eagle's beak - F. Delius (From Montauk Point)
• I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contain'd (from Song of Myself) - R. Beckett, S. Kagen
• I think I could turn (I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contain'd) (from Song of Myself) - S. Kagen
• It is not upon you alone the dark patches fall (Crossing Brooklyn Ferry) - J. Kaufer, V. Thomson
• It is Sunday afternoon, middle of summer, hot and oppressive, and very - N. Rorem (Hospital Scenes -- Incidents)
• It is Sunday afternoon, middle of summer, hot and oppressive (Hospital Scenes -- Incidents) - N. Rorem
• I tramp a perpetual journey, (come listen all!) (from Song of Myself) - S. Loher
• I tramp a perpetual journey (I tramp a perpetual journey, (come listen all!)) (from Song of Myself) - S. Loher
• I understand the large hearts of heroes (from Song of Myself) - L. Hoiby
• I was there (I understand the large hearts of heroes) (from Song of Myself) - L. Hoiby
• I will make the Continent (Come, I will make the continent indissoluble) (from Leaves of Grass) - N. Lee
• I will plant Companionship (Come, I will make the continent indissoluble) (from Leaves of Grass) - N. Lee
• Jeunesse, jour, vieillese et nuit (Jeunesse, large, robuste, aimante, — jeunesse pleine de) (from Feuilles d'herbe) - E. Spalding GER
• Jeunesse, jour, vieillesse et nuit (Jeunesse, large, robuste, aimante, — jeunesse pleine de) (from Feuilles d'herbe) GER
• Jeunesse, large, robuste, aimante, — jeunesse pleine de (from Feuilles d'herbe) GER - E. Spalding (Jeunesse, jour, vieillesse et nuit)
• Joy, shipmate, joy! (Joy, shipmate, joy!) (from Leaves of Grass) - E. Bacon, F. Delius, D. Gustafson, B. Hall, L. Hoiby, S. Loher, P. Paviour, V. Persichetti, L. Robertson, J. Rogers, C. Stanford, R. Vaughan Williams, T. Whitmer CAT FRE
• Jugend, du große, sehnende, liebende! ENG FRE FRE (Jugend, Tag, Alter und Nacht) - J. Marx
• Jugend, du große, lüsterne, liebende! ENG FRE FRE - J. Marx (Jugend, Tag, Alter und Nacht)
• Jugend, Tag, Alter und Nacht (Jugend, du große, lüsterne, liebende!) ENG FRE FRE
• Jugend und Alter (Jugend, du große, lüsterne, liebende!) - J. Marx ENG FRE FRE
• June 18th. -- In one of the hospitals I find Thomas Haley, company M (from Specimen Days) - D. Hagen, N. Rorem (Some specimen cases)
• Kameradschaft (For You, O Democracy) (Come, I will make the continent indissoluble) (from Leaves of Grass) - E. Zuckmayer
• Keep singing (I hear America singing, the varied carols I hear) (from Leaves of Grass) - V. Bay
• Keep your splendid, silent sun (Give me the splendid silent sun) - L. Elsmith, H. Gilbert, R. Harris, N. Lockwood, R. Sowash, W. Spencer
• Last invocation (At the last, tenderly) (from Leaves of Grass) - R. Starer FRE
• Let others despair (Suddenly, out of its stale and drowsy lair, the lair of slaves) - E. Siegmeister
• Life and Death (As I watch'd the ploughman ploughing) - W. Neidlinger
• Lilac star bird (Yet each I keep and all, retrievements out of the night) (from Memories of President Lincoln - When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd) - J. Hawkins
• Lilac-Time (Warble me now, for joy of Lilac-time) (from Leaves of Grass) - C. Scott
• Lingering last drops (And whence and why come you?) - E. Bacon, L. Segerstam
• L'invocation suprême () - E. Spalding [x]
• Lo, body and soul -- this land (from Memories of President Lincoln - When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd)
• Lo! keen-eyed, towering Science! (from Song of the Universal)
• Long I thought that knowledge alone would suffice me - C. Borzoni
• Long I thought (Long I thought that knowledge alone would suffice me) - C. Borzoni
• Long, too long America (Long, too long America) (from Drum Taps)
• Look down, fair moon and bathe this scene (Look down, fair moon and bathe this scene) (from Drum Taps) - B. Rands
• Look down, fair moon and bathe this scene (from Drum Taps) - V. Fine, D. Hagen, J. Hanna, J. Klein, K. Miehling, H. Mollicone, C. Naginski, B. Rands, N. Rorem, H. Somers, J. Van, J. Wallach (Look down, fair moon)
• Look down, fair moon (Look down, fair moon and bathe this scene) (from Drum Taps) - V. Fine, D. Hagen, J. Hanna, J. Klein, K. Miehling, H. Mollicone, C. Naginski, N. Rorem, H. Somers, J. Van, J. Wallach
• Lo, the moon ascending (The last sunbeam) - E. Bryson FRE
• Lo! the unbounded sea! - G. Booth, G. Harris, N. Lockwood, C. Naginski, H. Sandby (The ship starting)
• Lo, 'tis autumn (Come up from the fields father, here’s a letter from our Pete)
• Lo, 'tis autumn (Lo, ’tis autumn) - R. Sowash
• Louisiana (I saw in Louisiana a live-oak growing) - M. Castelnuovo-Tedesco
• Lovelost (Soothe! soothe! soothe!) (from Leaves of Grass - Sea-Drift) - M. Kilstofte
• Love of Comrades (Come, I will make the continent indissoluble) (from Leaves of Grass) - F. White
• Lover divine and perfect Comrade (from Leaves of Grass) - M. Hennagin, N. Rorem (Gods)
• Low hangs the moon, it rose late (from Leaves of Grass - Sea-Drift)
• Make no puns (from Diaries)
• May 12. -- There was part of the late battle at (from Specimen Days) - N. Rorem (A night battle, over a week since)
• Minuit clair () - E. Spalding CAT GER GER GER [x]
• Mother and Babe (I see the sleeping babe nestling the breast of its mother) (from Leaves of Grass) - R. Beckett, J. Klein, R. Schonthal
• My captain (O Captain! my Captain! our fearful trip is done) - C. Scott GER
• Nacht (Dies ist deine Stunde, o Seele, dein freier Flug in das Wortlose) - W. Burkhard CAT FRE FRE (Text: Anonymous after Walt Whitman)
• Night on the prairies (Night on the prairies) (from Leaves of Grass) - D. Pederson
• Night on the prairies (from Leaves of Grass) - D. Pederson
• Nocturne (Press close, bare-bosom'd night! Press close, magnetic, nourishing night!) (from Song of Myself) - S. Sargon ITA
• Nocturne (Whispers of heavenly death murmur'd I hear) (from Leaves of Grass) - R. Vaughan Williams CAT FRE FRE
• Nor for you, for one alone (from Memories of President Lincoln - When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd)
• Not from successful love alone - N. Lockwood (Halcyon days)
• Not heat flames up and consumes (Not heat flames up and consumes) - C. Borzoni
• Not heat flames up and consumes - C. Borzoni
• Not heaving from my ribb'd breast only (Not heaving from my ribb’d breast only) (from Leaves of Grass) - J. Rolfe
• Not heaving from my ribb’d breast only (from Leaves of Grass) - J. Rolfe
• Not upon you alone (Flood-tide below me! I watch you face to face) - J. Kaufer
• Now finalè to the shore (from Leaves of Grass) - F. Delius
• Now I will do nothing but listen (from Song of Myself) - L. Pfautsch
• Now while I sat in the day, and look'd forth (from Memories of President Lincoln - When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd)
• O A new song, a free song (from Drum Taps) (Song of the Banner at Daybreak) -
• O, a new song, a free song - W. Schuman
• O Captain! my Captain! our fearful trip is done GER - A. Anderson, A. Bergh, J. Bohannan, F. Butcher, W. Damrosch, W. Earhart, A. Farwell, L. Hoiby, K. Miehling, C. Scott, K. Weill
• O captain! My captain! (O Captain! my Captain! our fearful trip is done) - A. Anderson, A. Bergh, J. Bohannan, F. Butcher, W. Earhart, A. Farwell, L. Hoiby, K. Miehling, K. Weill GER
• Ode to Death () (from Memories of President Lincoln - When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd) - J. Ching [x]
• Ode to Democracy (Come, I will make the continent indissoluble) (from Leaves of Grass) - G. Kleinsinger
• Of God I know not (Of God I know not) - J. Glaser
• Of God I know not - J. Glaser
• Of him I love day and night I dream'd I heard he was dead - S. Loher, N. Rorem
• Of him I love day and night (Of him I love day and night I dream'd I heard he was dead) - S. Loher, N. Rorem
• Of obedience, faith, adhesiveness (from Leaves of Grass) - R. Schonthal (Thought)
• O how shall I warble myself for the dead one there I loved? (from Memories of President Lincoln - When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd) - J. Van
• On a flat road runs the well-train'd runner (from Leaves of Grass) - R. Beckett, L. Kirchner (The runner)
• Once I pass'd through a populous city, imprinting my brain (from Leaves of Grass) - F. Piket
• Once I pass'd through a populous city (Once I pass'd through a populous city, imprinting my brain) (from Leaves of Grass) - F. Piket
• Once I pass'd through a populous city (from Leaves of Grass)
• Once Paumanok, when the lilac-scent was in the air (from Leaves of Grass - Sea-Drift)
• One fitting glimpse caught through an interstice (A glimpse) - N. Rorem
• One hour to madness and joy (One hour to madness and joy!)
• One's-Self I sing -- a simple, separate Person (from Leaves of Grass) - G. Bachlund, V. Fine (One's‑Self I sing)
• One's-Self I sing (One's-Self I sing -- a simple, separate Person) (from Leaves of Grass) - G. Bachlund, V. Fine
• One thought ever at the fore (One thought ever at the fore) - E. Bacon, P. Stearns, R. Ward
• Only themselves understand themselves, and the like of themselves (from Leaves of Grass) - O. Luening (Perfections )
• Only themselves understand themselves (Only themselves understand themselves, and the like of themselves) (from Leaves of Grass) - O. Luening
• On the beach at night, alone (after the whistling winds) - M. Ostrzyga
• On the beach at night alone - G. Strang, R. Vaughan Williams, J. Wallach (On the Beach at Night, Alone)
• On the beach, at night, stands a child (On the beach, at night) - E. Bacon, W. Bergsma, J. Harrison, A. Imbrie, P. James, V. Persichetti, G. Victory
• On the beach, at night - E. Bacon, W. Bergsma, J. Harrison, A. Imbrie, P. James, V. Persichetti, G. Victory (On the beach, at night)
• On the frontier (Whispers of heavenly death murmur'd I hear) (from Leaves of Grass) - E. Bacon CAT FRE FRE
• O, nun heb du an, dort in deinem Moor (O, nun heb du an, dort in deinem Moor) - P. Hindemith
• O, nun heb du an, dort in deinem Moor - P. Hindemith
• O powerful western fallen star! (from Memories of President Lincoln - When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd)
• Oses-tu maintenant (Oses-tu maintenant) - E. Spalding GER [x]
• Oses-tu maintenant GER [x] - E. Spalding
• O span of youth! ever-push'd elasticity! (from Song of Myself) - H. Norris
• O take my hand, Walt Whitman! (from Leaves of Grass) - R. Platt (Salut au Monde!)
• O tan-faced prairie-boy! (O tan-faced prairie-boy!) - R. Thomas
• O the blest eyes! the happy hearts! (from Song of the Universal)
• O to make the most jubilant poem! (from Leaves of Grass) (Poem of Joys) -
• O to make the most jubilant song! - E. Canat de Chizy, P. Creston, N. Dello Joio, E. Diemer, A. Doherty, S. Sargon, R. Starer (A song of joys)
• O to make the most jubilant song (O to make the most jubilant song!) - E. Diemer
• Out of the cradle endlessly rocking (from Leaves of Grass - Sea-Drift)
• Out of the rolling ocean the crowd came a drop gently to me - M. Kernochan, C. Vrionides
• Out of the rolling ocean the crowd (Out of the rolling ocean the crowd came a drop gently to me) - C. Vrionides
• Out of the rolling ocean (Out of the rolling ocean the crowd came a drop gently to me) - M. Kernochan
• O vast Rondure, swimming in space (from Passage to India) - R. Vaughan Williams
• Over the breast of the spring, the land, amid cities (from Memories of President Lincoln - When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd)
• Over the mountain growths, disease and sorrow (from Song of the Universal) - W. Riegger
• O we can wait no longer (from Passage to India) - R. Vaughan Williams
• O western orb sailing the heaven (from Memories of President Lincoln - When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd) - P. Hindemith
• O what shall I hang on the chamber walls? (from Memories of President Lincoln - When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd)
• O what shall the pictures be that I hang on the walls (from Memories of President Lincoln - When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd)
• O while I live to be the ruler of life, not a slave (A song of joys) - E. Canat de Chizy, P. Creston, N. Dello Joio, E. Diemer, A. Doherty, S. Sargon, R. Starer
• O you whom I often and silently come (O you whom I often and silently come) (from Leaves of Grass) - C. Borzoni, R. Gassman, N. Lee, P. Reif, J. Rolfe, N. Rorem
• O you whom I often and silently come (from Leaves of Grass) - C. Borzoni, R. Gassman, L. Harrison, N. Lee, P. Reif, J. Rolfe, N. Rorem, S. Sargon
• O you whom I often (O you whom I often and silently come) (from Leaves of Grass) - S. Sargon
• Passage to more than India! (from Passage to India) - R. Vaughan Williams
• Passage to you! (from Leaves of Grass) - F. Delius
• Passing stranger! you do not know how longingly I look upon you FRE - J. Heggie, N. Lee, M. Marder
• Passing the visions, passing the night (from Memories of President Lincoln - When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd)
• Patrolling Barnegat (Wild, wild the storm, and the sea high running) (from Leaves of Grass - Sea-Drift) - J. LoCascio
• Paumanok (Sea-beauty! stretch'd and basking!) (from Leaves of Grass - Sea-Drift) - B. Lees, R. Platt
• Perfections (Only themselves understand themselves, and the like of themselves) (from Leaves of Grass)
• Poem of Joys (O to make the most jubilant poem!) (from Leaves of Grass)
• Prayer of Columbus (A batter'd and wreck'd old man) (from Leaves of Grass) - R. Strassburg
• Press close, bare-bosom'd night! Press close, magnetic, nourishing night! (from Song of Myself) ITA - S. Sargon
• Quicksand years that whirl me I know not whither (from Leaves of Grass) - S. Adler (Quicksand years)
• Quicksand years (Quicksand years that whirl me I know not whither) (from Leaves of Grass) - S. Adler
• Race of veterans (World, take good notice, silver stars fading) - E. Bryson
• Reconciliation (Word over all, beautiful as the sky!) (from Leaves of Grass) - V. Fine, N. Rorem, J. Van, R. Vaughan Williams FRE
• Rhapsodie (I am the poet of the Body) (from Song of Myself) - L. Campbell-Tipton ITA
• Rhapsody (On the beach, at night) - J. Harrison
• Roots and leaves themselves alone are these GER (Roots and leaves themselves alone) -
• Roots and leaves themselves alone (Roots and leaves themselves alone are these) GER
• Sail forth! steer for the deep waters only! (from Passage to India) - J. Rogers
• Sail forth! (Sail forth! steer for the deep waters only!) (from Passage to India) - J. Rogers
• Salut au Monde! (Part 1) (O take my hand, Walt Whitman!) (from Leaves of Grass) - R. Platt
• Salut au Monde! (O take my hand, Walt Whitman!) (from Leaves of Grass)
• Scherzo - The Waves (After the sea-ship, after the whistling winds) - R. Vaughan Williams
• Schlagt! Schlagt! Trommeln! (Schlagt! Schlagt! Trommeln!) - P. Hindemith FRE
• Schlagt! Schlagt! Trommeln! FRE - P. Hindemith, O. Schoeck
• Sea-beauty! stretch'd and basking! (from Leaves of Grass - Sea-Drift) - B. Lees, R. Platt
• Shine! Great sun! (Shine! Shine! Shine!) (from Leaves of Grass - Sea-Drift) - S. Raphling
• Shine! Shine! Shine! (Shine! Shine! Shine!) (from Leaves of Grass - Sea-Drift) - H. Clarke
• Shine! Shine! Shine! (from Leaves of Grass - Sea-Drift) - H. Clarke, W. Gilchrist, A. Hartmann, M. Kernochan, S. Raphling, F. Warner, E. Warren
• Silent and amazed even when a little boy (from Leaves of Grass) - R. Beckett, R. Schonthal (A child's amaze)
• Simple and fresh and fair from winter's close emerging (from Leaves of Grass) - W. Neidlinger, A. Radleigh, R. Sowash (The first dandelion)
• Sing me the Universal (Come, said the Muse) (from Song of the Universal) - V. Persichetti
• Sing on, sing on, you gray-brown bird (from Memories of President Lincoln - When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd) - P. Hindemith
• Sing on, there in the swamp! (Sing on, there in the swamp!) (from Memories of President Lincoln - When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd) - P. Hindemith GER
• Sing on, there in the swamp! (from Memories of President Lincoln - When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd) GER - P. Hindemith
• Skirting the river road, (my forenoon walk, my rest,) - N. Dello Joio, O. Knussen, J. LoCascio (The Dalliance of the Eagles)
• Small is the theme of the following Chant (from Leaves of Grass) - V. Fine (Inscription)
• Smile o voluptuous cool-breath'd earth (I am the poet of the Body) (from Song of Myself) - G. Allen ITA
• Smile, O voluptuous, cool-breath'd earth! (from Song of Myself) ITA
• Some specimen cases (June 18th. -- In one of the hospitals I find Thomas Haley, company M) (from Specimen Days)
• Sometimes with one I love (Sometimes with one I love) - N. Rorem
• Sometimes with one I love - N. Rorem
• Song for all seas, all ships (To-day a rude brief recitative) (from Leaves of Grass) - R. Harris, W. Skolnik, R. Vaughan Williams, J. Wagner
• Song of Democracy (An old man's thoughts of school) - H. Hanson
• Song of myself () (from Song of Myself) - E. Rautavaara [x]
• Song of the Banner at Daybreak (O A new song, a free song) (from Drum Taps)
• Song of the banner (O, a new song, a free song) - W. Schuman
• Song of the open road (Afoot and light-hearted, I take to the open road) (from Song of the Open Road) - W. Wijdeveld
• Songs from Calamus [song cycle] () - G. Busby [x]
• Soon shall the winter's foil be here (Soon shall the winter's foil be here) - S. Loher
• Soon shall the winter's foil be here - S. Loher
• Soothe! soothe! soothe! (from Leaves of Grass - Sea-Drift) - M. Kilstofte
• Soundscape III () - U. Grahn [x]
• Specimen case (June 18th. -- In one of the hospitals I find Thomas Haley, company M) (from Specimen Days) - D. Hagen
• Stranger, if you passing, meet me - D. Hagen, S. Loher, V. Persichetti, N. Rorem, C. Shaw (To you)
• Stranger (Stranger, if you passing, meet me) - V. Persichetti
• Suddenly, out of its stale and drowsy lair, the lair of slaves - E. Siegmeister (Europe, the 72d and 73d years of These States)
• Tears! tears! tears! - N. Dello Joio, J. Hanna, R. Harris, K. Hartmann, J. Kaufer, K. Miehling, C. Stanford, J. Wallach, W. Wijdeveld (Tears)
• Tears (Tears! tears! tears!) - N. Dello Joio, J. Hanna, R. Harris, K. Hartmann, J. Kaufer, K. Miehling, C. Stanford, J. Wallach, W. Wijdeveld
• That music always round me, unceasing, unbeginning (from Leaves of Grass) - S. Adler (That music always round me)
• That music always round me (That music always round me, unceasing, unbeginning) (from Leaves of Grass) - S. Adler
• That shadow, my likeness, that goes to and fro - C. Borzoni, N. Rorem (That shadow, my likeness)
• That shadow, my likeness (That shadow, my likeness, that goes to and fro) - C. Borzoni, N. Rorem
• The aria sinking; (from Leaves of Grass - Sea-Drift)
• The astronomer (When I heard the learn'd astronomer) (from Leaves of Grass) - J. Ivey
• The big doors of the country barn stand open and ready (from Song of Myself) - N. Lockwood
• The big doors of the country barn stand open and read (from Song of Myself)
• The big doors of the country barn stand open (The big doors of the country barn stand open and ready) (from Song of Myself) - N. Lockwood
• The commonplace I sing - E. Bacon, R. Harris (The commonplace)
• The commonplace (The commonplace I sing) - E. Bacon, R. Harris
• The Dalliance of Eagles (Skirting the river road, (my forenoon walk, my rest,)) - J. LoCascio
• The dalliance of the eagles (Skirting the river road, (my forenoon walk, my rest,)) - N. Dello Joio, O. Knussen
• The dismantled ship (In some unused lagoon, some nameless bay) - E. Bonner, D. Gustafson, C. Livingston, R. Platt
• The divine ship (One thought ever at the fore) - E. Bacon
• The dresser (An old man bending, I come, among new faces) (from Leaves of Grass)
• The Dying Veteran (Amid these days of order, ease, prosperity) - R. Platt
• The first dandelion (Simple and fresh and fair from winter's close emerging) (from Leaves of Grass) - W. Neidlinger, A. Radleigh, R. Sowash
• The Good Earth (I am the poet of the Body) (from Song of Myself) - R. Williams ITA
• The Grave of Him I Love (O how shall I warble myself for the dead one there I loved?) (from Memories of President Lincoln - When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd) - J. Van
• The harvest according (As I watch'd the ploughman ploughing) - A. Stout
• The imprisoned soul (At the last, tenderly) (from Leaves of Grass) - A. Bergh FRE
• The last invocation (At the last, tenderly) (from Leaves of Grass) - S. Adler, E. Bacon, G. Binkerd, E. Bonner, J. Boyd, F. Bridge, J. Carter, R. Diggle, P. Garratt, P. Glass, E. Henderson, W. Hively, T. Hoekman, L. Kastle, T. Pasatieri, D. Pederson, A. Powers, J. Rogers, S. Sargon, A. Schmutz, W. Schuman, E. Spalding, W. Storey-Smith, R. Thompson, T. Whitmer FRE
• The last sunbeam FRE - E. Bryson, G. Holst, N. Lockwood, H. McDonald, T. Pasatieri, F. Ritter, B. Rogers, S. Sargon, R. Thomas, R. Vaughan Williams, K. Weill, C. Wood (The last sunbeam)
• The little one sleeps in its cradle (The little one sleeps in its cradle) (from Song of Myself) - N. Lockwood
• The little one sleeps in its cradle (from Song of Myself) - N. Lockwood
• The Lord Star (On the beach, at night) - E. Bacon
• The Love of Comrades (Come, I will make the continent indissoluble) (from Leaves of Grass) - R. Boughton
• The Mystic Trumpeter (Hark! some wild trumpeter -- some strange musician) (from Leaves of Grass) - G. Holst, R. Starer
• The night, in silence, under many a star (from Memories of President Lincoln - When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd) FRE - G. Crumb (Death carol)
• The night in silence under many a star (The night, in silence, under many a star) (from Memories of President Lincoln - When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd) - G. Crumb FRE
• Then with the knowledge of death as walking one side of me (from Memories of President Lincoln - When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd)
• The Open Road (Afoot and light-hearted, I take to the open road) (from Song of the Open Road) - N. Rorem
• The Pleiades (On the beach, at night) - V. Persichetti
• The real war will never get in the books (And so good-bye to the war. I know not how it may have been, or may) (from Specimen Days) - N. Rorem
• There is that in me -- I do not know what it is (from Song of Myself) - V. Persichetti, T. Whitmer
• There is that in me (There is that in me -- I do not know what it is) (from Song of Myself) - V. Persichetti, T. Whitmer
• There was part of the late battle at Chancellorsville (from Specimen Days) (A night battle, over a week since) - N. Rorem
• The runner (On a flat road runs the well-train'd runner) (from Leaves of Grass) - R. Beckett, L. Kirchner
• The Second Part III (A hum...). (I believe in you my soul, the other I am must not abase itself to you) (from Song of Myself) - R. Lister
• The ship starting (Lo! the unbounded sea!) - G. Booth, G. Harris, C. Naginski, H. Sandby
• The sobbing of the bells, the sudden death-news everywhere (from Leaves of Grass) - E. Bacon (The sobbing of the bells)
• The sobbing of the bells (The sobbing of the bells, the sudden death-news everywhere) (from Leaves of Grass) - E. Bacon
• The soft voluptuous opiate shades - E. Bacon, R. Platt, L. Segerstam (Twilight)
• The soothing sanity and blitheness of completion - L. Segerstam (An ended day)
• The soul's expression (With stammering lips and insufficient sound) - S. Coleridge-Taylor
• The spotted hawk swoops by and accuses me, he complains of my gab and my loitering (from Song of Myself) - D. Hagen
• The Unknown Region (Darest thou now O Soul) - W. Schuman FRE GER FRE FRE
• The Unknown (Darest thou now O Soul) - B. Huhn FRE GER FRE FRE
• The Unseen Soul (Grand is the seen, the light, to me -- grand are the sky and stars) - E. Bacon
• The voice of the rain (And who art thou? said I to the soft-falling shower) - O. Knussen
• The World below the Brine (The world below the brine) (from Leaves of Grass) - J. LoCascio
• The wound-dresser (An old man bending, I come, among new faces) (from Leaves of Grass) - J. Adams
• The year that trembled (Year that trembled and reel'd beneath me!) - R. Harris
• This is thy hour, O Soul, thy free flight into the wordless CAT FRE GER GER FRE GER - E. Bacon, R. Beckett, E. Bonner, P. Dalmas, D. Gilliam, P. Glass, U. Grahn, J. Hanna, L. Hoiby, A. Kunz, S. Loher, K. Miehling, M. Ostrzyga, V. Persichetti, R. Platt, L. Reed, J. Rolfe, S. Sargon, H. Somers, E. Spalding, H. Spier, R. Vaughan Williams, H. Willan, A. Williams (A clear midnight)
• This is thy hour o soul (This is thy hour, O Soul, thy free flight into the wordless) - J. Rolfe, A. Williams CAT FRE GER GER FRE GER
• Thought (Of obedience, faith, adhesiveness) (from Leaves of Grass) - R. Schonthal
• Through the ample open door of the peaceful country barn (from Leaves of Grass) - R. Beckett, J. Klein, O. Luening, R. Schonthal, R. Sowash (A farm-picture)
• Till of a sudden (from Leaves of Grass - Sea-Drift)
• To a common prostitute (Be composed - be at ease with me - I am Walt Whitman, liberal and lusty as Nature) - N. Rorem
• To a Historian (You who celebrate bygones!) (from Leaves of Grass)
• To All, To Each (Come lovely and soothing death) (from Memories of President Lincoln - When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd) - W. Schuman FRE
• To a stranger (Passing stranger! you do not know how longingly I look upon you) - J. Heggie, N. Lee, M. Marder FRE
• To-day a rude brief recitative (from Leaves of Grass) - R. Harris, V. Persichetti, W. Skolnik, R. Vaughan Williams, J. Wagner (Song for all seas, all ships)
• To old age (I see in you the estuary that enlarges and spreads) (from Leaves of Grass) - J. Klein, R. Schonthal
• To one shortly to die (From all the rest I single out you, having a message for you) (from Leaves of Grass) - E. Bacon
• To the Soul (Darest thou now O Soul) - C. Stanford FRE GER FRE FRE
• To The States, or any one of them (from Leaves of Grass) - G. Bachlund, S. Loher (Walt Whitman's caution)
• To the States (To The States, or any one of them) (from Leaves of Grass) - G. Bachlund, S. Loher
• To the tally of my soul (from Memories of President Lincoln - When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd)
• To think of time -- of all that retrospection! (from Leaves of Grass) - R. Starer (To think of time)
• To think of time (To think of time -- of all that retrospection!) (from Leaves of Grass) - R. Starer
• Toward the Unknown Region (Darest thou now O Soul) - R. Vaughan Williams FRE GER FRE FRE
• To what you said, passionately clasping my hand, this is my answer - L. Bernstein
• To what you said (To what you said, passionately clasping my hand, this is my answer) - L. Bernstein
• To you (Stranger, if you passing, meet me) - D. Hagen, S. Loher, N. Rorem, C. Shaw
• Tribute (Delicate cluster! flag of teeming life!) - R. Lo Presti
• Trickle, drops! my blue veins leaving! - N. Lee
• Trickle drops (Trickle, drops! my blue veins leaving!) - N. Lee
• Trommelschläge (Schlagt! Schlagt! Trommeln!) - O. Schoeck FRE
• Twenty-eight young men bathe by the shore (from Song of Myself) - L. Hoiby
• Twenty-eight young men (Twenty-eight young men bathe by the shore) (from Song of Myself) - L. Hoiby
• Twilight (The soft voluptuous opiate shades) - E. Bacon, R. Platt, L. Segerstam
• Two together (Shine! Shine! Shine!) (from Leaves of Grass - Sea-Drift) - A. Hartmann
• Unseen buds, infinite, hidden well - R. Platt (Unseen Buds)
• Unseen Buds (Unseen buds, infinite, hidden well) - R. Platt
• Upon the ocean's wave-worn shore - R. Platt (A Sketch)
• Vigil strange I kept on the field one night - R. Thomas (Vigil strange I kept on the field)
• Vigil strange I kept on the field (Vigil strange I kept on the field one night)
• Vigil (Vigil strange I kept on the field one night) - R. Thomas
• Visor'd (A mask, a perpetual disguiser of herself) - R. Schonthal
• Vocalism, measure, concentration, determination - J. Harbison (Vocalism)
• Vocalism (Vocalism, measure, concentration, determination) - J. Harbison
• Voyage (Joy, shipmate, joy!) (from Leaves of Grass) - V. Persichetti CAT FRE
• Walt Whitman's caution (To The States, or any one of them) (from Leaves of Grass)
• Walt Whitman (Who goes there? hankering, gross, mystical, and nude) (from Song of Myself) - C. Ives
• Warble for Lilac Time (Warble me now, for joy of Lilac-time) (from Leaves of Grass) - E. Carter
• Warble me now, for joy of Lilac-time (from Leaves of Grass) - E. Carter, C. Scott (Warble for Lilac-Time)
• We descend upon you and all things -- we arrest you all (Crossing Brooklyn Ferry) - J. Kaufer, V. Thomson
• We two boys together clinging (We two boys together clinging) (from Leaves of Grass) - G. Bachlund, M. Tilson-Thomas, C. Wong
• We two boys (We two boys together clinging) (from Leaves of Grass) - G. Bachlund
• We two -- how long we were fool'd! (We two -- how long we were fool'd!) (from Leaves of Grass)
• We two together (Shine! Shine! Shine!) (from Leaves of Grass - Sea-Drift) - W. Gilchrist, M. Kernochan, F. Warner
• We two (Shine! Shine! Shine!) (from Leaves of Grass - Sea-Drift) - E. Warren
• We two () - D. Hagen [x]
• What scene is this? -- is this indeed humanity (from Specimen Days) (A night battle, over a week since) - N. Rorem
• What think you I take my pen in hand to record? (What think you I take my pen in hand to record?) - C. Borzoni
• What think you I take my pen in hand to record? - C. Borzoni
• When I heard at the close of the day how my name had been receiv'd - C. Borzoni, R. Platt
• When I heard at the close of the day (When I heard at the close of the day how my name had been receiv'd) - C. Borzoni, R. Platt
• When I heard the learn'd astronomer (When I heard the learn'd astronomer) (from Leaves of Grass) - R. Beckett, O. Knussen
• When I heard the learn'd astronomer (from Leaves of Grass) - R. Beckett, J. Ivey, O. Knussen
• When I Peruse the Conquer'd Fame of Heroes (When I peruse the conquer'd fame of heroes) (from Leaves of Grass) - J. LoCascio
• When I peruse the conquer'd fame of heroes (from Leaves of Grass) - J. LoCascio (When I Peruse the Conquer'd Fame)
• When I Peruse the Conquer'd Fame (When I peruse the conquer'd fame of heroes) (from Leaves of Grass)
• When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd (When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd) (from Memories of President Lincoln - When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd) - G. Crumb, V. Fine FRE
• When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd (from Memories of President Lincoln - When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd) FRE - G. Crumb, V. Fine, K. Hartmann
• Whereto answering, the sea (from Leaves of Grass - Sea-Drift)
• While I live (O to make the most jubilant song!) - R. Starer
• Whispers from heavenly death (Darest thou now O Soul) - H. Henze FRE GER FRE FRE
• Whispers of heavenly death murmur'd I hear (from Leaves of Grass) CAT FRE FRE - E. Bacon, E. Bonner, L. Kastle, R. Luedeke, R. Vaughan Williams, D. Williams (Whispers of Heavenly Death)
• Whispers of heavenly death (Darest thou now O Soul) - E. Bacon FRE GER FRE FRE
• Whispers of heavenly death (Whispers of heavenly death murmur'd I hear) (from Leaves of Grass) - E. Bacon, E. Bonner, L. Kastle, R. Luedeke, D. Williams CAT FRE FRE
• Whispers (Whispers of heavenly death murmur'd I hear) (from Leaves of Grass) - E. Bacon CAT FRE FRE
• Whitman interlude (A noiseless, patient spider) (from Leaves of Grass) - D. Mason
• Whitman () - T. Verbey [x]
• Whitman () - P. Creston [x]
• Who are you dusky woman, so ancient hardly human - H. Burleigh, C. Wood
• Who goes there? hankering, gross, mystical, and nude (from Song of Myself) - C. Ives, H. Norris
• Who goes there? Hankering, gross, mystical, nude (from Song of Myself)
• Wild, wild the storm, and the sea high running (from Leaves of Grass - Sea-Drift) - J. LoCascio
• With music strong I come, with my cornets and my drums (from Song of Myself) - H. Gaul
• With stammering lips and insufficient sound - S. Coleridge-Taylor (The soul's expression)
• Women sit, or move to and fro—some old, some young (from Leaves of Grass) - R. Beckett (Beautiful women)
• Word over all, beautiful as the sky! (from Leaves of Grass) FRE - V. Fine, N. Rorem, J. Van, R. Vaughan Williams (Reconciliation)
• World, take good notice, silver stars fading - E. Bacon, E. Bryson (World, take good notice)
• World, take good notice (World, take good notice, silver stars fading) - E. Bacon
• Wurzeln und Halme sind dies nur - F. Schreker
• Wurzeln und Halme (Wurzeln und Halme sind dies nur) - F. Schreker
• Years of the modern! years of the unperform'd! (Years of the modern) -
• Years of the modern (Years of the modern! years of the unperform'd!)
• Years of the modern () - N. Dello Joio [x]
• Year that trembled and reel'd beneath me! - R. Harris (Year that trembled)
• Year that trembled (Year that trembled and reel'd beneath me!)
• Yes, when the stars glisten'd (from Leaves of Grass - Sea-Drift)
• Yet each I keep and all, retrievements out of the night (from Memories of President Lincoln - When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd) - J. Hawkins
• Yet each to keep and all, retrievements out of the night (from Memories of President Lincoln - When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd)
• You sea! I resign myself to you also--I guess what you mean (from Song of Myself) - B. Lees
• You sea! (You sea! I resign myself to you also--I guess what you mean) (from Song of Myself) - B. Lees
• Youth, Day, Old Age, and Night (Youth, large, lusty, loving) (from Leaves of Grass - Great are the Myths) - D. Hagen, N. Rorem, E. Spalding, W. Wijdeveld FRE GER
• Youth, large, lusty, loving -- youth full of grace, force, fascination (from Leaves of Grass - Great are the Myths) FRE GER
• Youth, large, lusty, loving (from Leaves of Grass - Great are the Myths) FRE GER - D. Hagen, N. Rorem, E. Spalding, W. Wijdeveld
• You who celebrate bygones! (from Leaves of Grass) - V. Persichetti (To a Historian)
• You who celebrate bygones (You who celebrate bygones!) (from Leaves of Grass) - V. Persichetti

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