Author: Mary Oliver (b. 1935)
Text Compilations
Texts set to music as art song or choral works [warning - not necessarily comprehensive]
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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.
- Across the wide waters [x] * - David Evan Thomas (The swan)
- And the speck of my heart (from West Wind) [x] * - David Evan Thomas (Oh Tiger)
- And the speck of my heart (from West Wind) [x] * (Prose poem No. 3)
- But how did you come burning down like a * - David Leisner (Wild Needle)
- Come with me (If there is life after the earth-life, will you come with me?) - David Leisner *
- Dark is as dark does (Dark is as dark does) - David Leisner *
- Dark is as dark does * - David Leisner (Dark is as dark does)
- Every morning (from Dream Work) * (Morning poem)
- Every morning (from Dream Work) * - Michael Alec Rose (Morning poem)
- First snow (The snow/ began here) *
- First snow (The snow/ began here) - Michael Alec Rose *
- Harvest moon -- The mockingbird sings in the night () - Emma Lou Diemer [x] *
- If there is life after the earth-life, will you come with me? * - David Leisner (Come with me)
- In Blackwater Woods (Look, the trees) *
- In Blackwater Woods (Look, the trees) - Michael Alec Rose, David Evan Thomas *
- I thought the earth * (Sleeping in the forest)
- I thought the earth * - Michael Alec Rose (Sleeping in the forest)
- It is midnight, or almost * - David Leisner (West Wind)
- Look, the trees * (In Blackwater Woods)
- Look, the trees * - Michael Alec Rose, David Evan Thomas (In Blackwater Woods)
- Morning poem (Every morning) (from Dream Work) *
- Morning poem (Every morning) (from Dream Work) - Michael Alec Rose *
- Night birds (There are night birds, in the garden below us, singing) - David Leisner *
- Oh Tiger (And the speck of my heart) (from West Wind) - David Evan Thomas [x] *
- Prose poem No. 3 (And the speck of my heart) (from West Wind) [x] *
- Row for your life (You are young. So you know everything. You leap) - David Leisner *
- Sleeping in the forest (I thought the earth) *
- Sleeping in the forest (I thought the earth) - Michael Alec Rose *
- There are night birds, in the garden below us, singing * - David Leisner (Night birds)
- The snow/ began here * (First snow)
- The snow/ began here * - Michael Alec Rose (First snow)
- The swan (Across the wide waters) - David Evan Thomas [x] *
- West Wind (It is midnight, or almost) - David Leisner *
- Wild Needle (But how did you come burning down like a) - David Leisner *
- You are young. So you know everything. You leap * - David Leisner (Row for your life)
Last update: 2018-08-28 21:57:28