Texts by R. Wilbur set in Art Songs and Choral Works

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Richard Wilbur (1921 - 2017)

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

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A Christmas Hymn (A stable-lamp is lighted) (from Advice to a Prophet and Other Poems) - H. de Lange, A. Wynton *
All teeth from head to foot, yet friend to men - E. Vercoe *
A stable-lamp is lighted (from Advice to a Prophet and Other Poems) - H. de Lange, P. Tollefson, A. Wynton (A Christmas Hymn) *
A stable lamp is lighted (A stable-lamp is lighted) (from Advice to a Prophet and Other Poems) - P. Tollefson *
Beasts () (from Things of this World) - R. Cucinotta [x] *
Boy at the window (Seeing the snowman standing all alone) - H. de Lange *
Chain (To me, and through me fortune is unkind) - E. Vercoe *
Chick in the Egg (Mine was the strangest birth under the sun) - E. Vercoe *
Dream fluently, still brothers, who when young - H. de Lange *
Exeunt (Piecemeal the summer dies) (from Things of this World) - Y. Wyner *
Flying (Treetops are not so high) - E. Windels [x] *
Hobnail (Hung from a foot, I walk upon my head) - E. Vercoe *
Hung from a foot, I walk upon my head - E. Vercoe *
I bite when bitten; but because I lack - E. Vercoe *
I have borne more than a body ought to bear - E. Vercoe *
In her room at the prow of the house - A. Henderson (The writer) *
It must be me (My master told me that men are loving-kind) - L. Bernstein *
Mine was the strangest birth under the sun - E. Vercoe *
Mother of Twins (I have borne more than a body ought to bear) - E. Vercoe *
My master told me that men are loving-kind - L. Bernstein *
Of cheese () (from Opposites) - H. Clarke [x] *
Of Earth () (from Opposites) - H. Clarke [x] *
Of nuts () (from Opposites) - H. Clarke [x] *
Of standing still () (from Opposites) - H. Clarke [x] *
One wading a Fall meadow finds on all sides (from The Beautiful Changes and Other Poems) - G. Binkerd, H. de Lange (The beautiful changes) *
Onion (I bite when bitten; but because I lack) - E. Vercoe *
Piecemeal the summer dies (from Things of this World) - Y. Wyner (Exeunt) *
River and Fish (Sweet purlings in an earth-walled inn resound) - E. Vercoe *
Saw (All teeth from head to foot, yet friend to men) - E. Vercoe *
Seeing the snowman standing all alone - H. de Lange *
Stairs (Unequal in degree, alike in size) - E. Vercoe *
Sweet purlings in an earth-walled inn resound - E. Vercoe *
The beautiful changes (One wading a Fall meadow finds on all sides) (from The Beautiful Changes and Other Poems) - G. Binkerd, H. de Lange *
The horse beneath me seemed - H. de Lange *
The ride (The horse beneath me seemed) - H. de Lange *
The writer (In her room at the prow of the house) - A. Henderson *
To me, and through me fortune is unkind - E. Vercoe *
To the Etruscan poets (Dream fluently, still brothers, who when young) - H. de Lange *
Treetops are not so high - E. Windels [x] *
Unequal in degree, alike in size - E. Vercoe *
Your prudence, Madam, must have drowsed *

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