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Texts to Art Songs and Choral Works by R. Sowash

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Rick Sowash (b. 1950)

Website: http://www.sowash.com/

(Also see this composer's texts set to music.)

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A grey rectangle like FRE indicates a particular translation (usually one set to music) exists but isn't yet available.

Song Cycles, Collections, Symphonies, etc.:

  • Along the River
    • no. 1. Strings in the earth and air (Text: James Joyce) FRE POL
    • no. 2. I would in that sweet bosom be (Text: James Joyce) FRE
    • no. 3. From dewy dreams, my soul, arise (Text: James Joyce) DUT FRE
    • no. 4. Silently she's combing, (Text: James Joyce) FRE
    • no. 5. This heart that flutters near my heart (Text: James Joyce) FRE SPA
    • no. 6. O cool is the valley now (Text: James Joyce) FRE
    • no. 7. Sleep now, O sleep now, (Text: James Joyce) FRE GER POL
  • Bright April
    • no. 1. A little while (Text: Sara Teasdale) CHI
    • no. 2. A maiden (Text: Sara Teasdale)
    • no. 3. Less than the cloud to the wind (Text: Sara Teasdale)
    • no. 4. I shall not care (Text: Sara Teasdale)
    • no. 5. Grey eyes (Text: Sara Teasdale)
    • no. 6. Gifts (Text: Sara Teasdale)
    • no. 7. Reprise: A little while (Text: Sara Teasdale) CHI
  • Chansonata #1: Philosophical Anecdotes
    • no. 2. The search (Text: Samuel Rowlands)
  • Silvery Songs
    • no. 1. The shepherd (Text: Walter De la Mare)
    • no. 2. Silver (Text: Walter De la Mare) CAT FRE GER
    • no. 3. The snowflake (Text: Walter De la Mare)
    • no. 4. Wanderers (Text: Walter De la Mare)
    • no. 5. Rain (Text: Walter De la Mare)
  • Songs of assiduity
    • no. 1. How very small (Text: Marcius Willson)
    • no. 2. Coral insects (Text: Marcius Willson)
    • no. 3. A thoughtful boy (Text: Marcius Willson)
  • Teasdale Songs for mezzo-soprano and piano
    • no. 1. A June Day (Text: Sara Teasdale)
    • no. 2. Love me (Text: Sara Teasdale)
    • no. 3. The tune (Text: Sara Teasdale) FRE
    • no. 4. Unrequited Love: "Night Song at Amalfi" (Text: Sara Teasdale) GER
    • no. 5. The net (Text: Sara Teasdale)
    • no. 6. The sea lover (Text: Sara Teasdale)
    • no. 7. Let it be you (Text: Sara Teasdale)
  • Three Love Songs on Poems by Sarah Teasdale
    • no. 1. Youthful Love: "Love Me" (Text: Sara Teasdale)
    • no. 2. Unrequited Love: "Night Song at Amalfi" (Text: Sara Teasdale) GER
    • no. 3. Love at the End: "Let it be You" (Text: Sara Teasdale)
  • Three myths for coloratura soprano
    • no. 1. Pan (Text: Elizabeth Barrett Browning)
    • no. 2. Sphere music (Text: Alfred Tennyson, Lord)
    • no. 3. Orpheus (Text: Anne Terry White) *
  • Three Songs from The Harvest of a Quiet Eye
    • no. 1. The elm tree (Text: Odell Shepard) *
    • no. 2. The Town Beyond the Mountain (Text: Odell Shepard) *
    • no. 3. October (Text: Odell Shepard) *
  • Three Whitman Songs for mezzo-soprano and viola (or clarinet)
    • no. 1. The first dandelion (Text: Walt Whitman)
    • no. 2. A noiseless patient spider (Text: Walt Whitman)
    • no. 3. A Farm Picture (Text: Walt Whitman)

All titles of vocal settings in Alphabetic order

  • A Farm Picture (in Three Whitman Songs for mezzo-soprano and viola (or clarinet)) (Text: Walt Whitman)
  • A Hawthorne Berry (Text: Mary Gladys Meredith Webb)
  • A June Day (in Teasdale Songs for mezzo-soprano and piano) (Text: Sara Teasdale)
  • Alexander Throckmorton (Text: Edgar Lee Masters)
  • A little while (in Bright April) (Text: Sara Teasdale) CHI
  • Alone (Text: James Joyce) FRE GER
  • A maiden (in Bright April) (Text: Sara Teasdale)
  • American Sampler Song
  • A noiseless patient spider (in Three Whitman Songs for mezzo-soprano and viola (or clarinet)) (Text: Walt Whitman)
  • A pavane for the nursery (Text: William Jay Smith) *
  • A Seal's Lullabye (Text: Rudyard Kipling) FRE
  • A thoughtful boy (in Songs of assiduity) (Text: Marcius Willson)
  • Bid adieu (Text: James Joyce) FRE
  • Buffalo Bills defunct (Text: E. E. Cummings)
  • Can't help I'm feelin' so blue (Text: Rick Sowash) [x]*
  • Carol of the golden lamb (Text: Kathleen Addlesperger) [x]*
  • Cat (Text: John Ronald Reuel Tolkien , as J.R.R. Tolkien) *
  • Christmas farewell (Text: Thornton Niven Wilder) [x]*
  • Coral insects (in Songs of assiduity) (Text: Marcius Willson)
  • Creation (Text: Joseph Addison)
  • Dear to me, this soil (Text: Henry David Thoreau) [x]
  • Earth song (Text: Walt Whitman) [x]
  • Epitaph for a Kickapoo friend (Text: Abraham Lincoln)
  • Everyone sang (Text: Siegfried Lorraine Sassoon)
  • From dewy dreams, my soul, arise (in Along the River) (Text: James Joyce) DUT FRE
  • From 'The Enchanted April' (Text: Mary Annette 'Elizabeth' von Arnim)
  • Gifts (in Bright April) (Text: Sara Teasdale)
  • Give me the splendid silent sun (Text: Walt Whitman)
  • Grey eyes (in Bright April) (Text: Sara Teasdale)
  • High-bouncing lover (Text: Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald , as Thomas Parke D'Invilliers)
  • How very small (in Songs of assiduity) (Text: Marcius Willson)
  • Hunting Song (Text: Donald Finkel) *
  • Hymn: Advent Hymn
  • I hear America singing (Text: Walt Whitman)
  • I hear America singing (Text: Walt Whitman)
  • I shall not care (in Bright April) (Text: Sara Teasdale)
  • i thank You God for most this amazing (Text: E. E. Cummings) *
  • It's not (Text: Anonymous) [x]
  • I was remembering this morning (Text: Thornton Niven Wilder) [x]*
  • I would in that sweet bosom be (in Along the River) (Text: James Joyce) FRE
  • Joy in the morning FRE POL
  • Less than the cloud to the wind (in Bright April) (Text: Sara Teasdale)
  • Let it be you (in Teasdale Songs for mezzo-soprano and piano) (Text: Sara Teasdale)
  • Light is her step (Text: Thornton Niven Wilder) [x]*
  • Lo, 'tis autumn (Text: Walt Whitman)
  • Love at the End: "Let it be You" (in Three Love Songs on Poems by Sarah Teasdale) (Text: Sara Teasdale)
  • Love me (in Teasdale Songs for mezzo-soprano and piano) (Text: Sara Teasdale)
  • Love song (Text: William Carlos Williams)
  • Lucinda Matlock (Text: Edgar Lee Masters)
  • Lullaby (Text: James Agee) *
  • Mr Franklin Proffers Thanks (Text: Benjamin Franklin)
  • My Love in her attire (Text: 17th century)
  • Newborn baby (Text: William Buckland Ignatius) *
  • Night clouds (Text: Amy Lowell)
  • Nothing gold can stay (Text: Robert Frost)
  • Nothing gold can stay (Text: Robert Frost)
  • O cool is the valley now (in Along the River) (Text: James Joyce) FRE
  • October (in Three Songs from The Harvest of a Quiet Eye) (Text: Odell Shepard) *
  • Ohio Farmer (Text: Carl Sandburg)
  • On a night of snow (Text: Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth) *
  • Orpheus (in Three myths for coloratura soprano) (Text: Anne Terry White) *
  • Out of Africa (Text: Karen von Blixen-Finecke, née Karen Dinesen, Baroness , as Isak Dinesen) [x]*
  • Pan (in Three myths for coloratura soprano) (Text: Elizabeth Barrett Browning)
  • Prairie Prayer (Text: Kathryn Jackson; Byron Jackson)
  • Rain (in Silvery Songs) (Text: Walter De la Mare)
  • Reprise: A little while (in Bright April) (Text: Sara Teasdale) CHI
  • Silently she's combing, (in Along the River) (Text: James Joyce) FRE
  • Silver (in Silvery Songs) (Text: Walter De la Mare) CAT FRE GER
  • Sleep now, O sleep now, (in Along the River) (Text: James Joyce) FRE GER POL
  • Song of the Marsh (Text: Odell Shepard) *
  • Sphere music (in Three myths for coloratura soprano) (Text: Alfred Tennyson, Lord)
  • Strings in the earth and air (in Along the River) (Text: James Joyce) FRE POL
  • Summer is gone (Text: Odell Shepard)
  • Swift things are beautiful (Text: Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth) [x]*
  • The Banks of the Devon (Text: Robert Burns)
  • The black swan (Text: Randall Jarrell) [x]*
  • The days of our glory (Text: George Gordon Noel Byron, Lord Byron)
  • The elm tree (in Three Songs from The Harvest of a Quiet Eye) (Text: Odell Shepard) *
  • The first dandelion (in Three Whitman Songs for mezzo-soprano and viola (or clarinet)) (Text: Walt Whitman)
  • The flower-fed buffaloes (Text: Vachel Lindsay)
  • The forgotten butterfly of revelation (Text: Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov) [x]*
  • The humble heart (Text: Anonymous) [x]
  • The King shall come (Text: Charles Wesley) [x]
  • The Lake Isle of Innisfree (Text: William Butler Yeats) CHI FRE HUN ITA
  • The man who loves nature (Text: Louis Bromfield) [x]*
  • The moth and the star (Text: James Grover Thurber) [x]*
  • The net (in Teasdale Songs for mezzo-soprano and piano) (Text: Sara Teasdale)
  • The Owl and the Pussycat (Text: Edward Lear) GER RUS
  • The Picture (Text: Frederick Oakes Sylvester)
  • The planting of the apple tree (Text: William Cullen Bryant)
  • The sea lover (in Teasdale Songs for mezzo-soprano and piano) (Text: Sara Teasdale)
  • The search (in Chansonata #1: Philosophical Anecdotes ) (Text: Samuel Rowlands)
  • The shepherd (in Silvery Songs) (Text: Walter De la Mare)
  • The snowflake (in Silvery Songs) (Text: Walter De la Mare)
  • The Town Beyond the Mountain (in Three Songs from The Harvest of a Quiet Eye) (Text: Odell Shepard) *
  • The tune (in Teasdale Songs for mezzo-soprano and piano) (Text: Sara Teasdale) FRE
  • This heart that flutters near my heart (in Along the River) (Text: James Joyce) FRE SPA
  • Thoreau (Text: Henry David Thoreau) [x]
  • Twig of willow (Text: Edna St. Vincent Millay) CHI
  • Twilight (Text: James Joyce) FRE
  • Unrequited Love: "Night Song at Amalfi" (in Three Love Songs on Poems by Sarah Teasdale) (in Teasdale Songs for mezzo-soprano and piano) (Text: Sara Teasdale) GER
  • Velvet shoes (Text: Elinor Wylie) GER
  • Walking in the Valley of the Shadow (Text: Odell Shepard) *
  • Wanderers (in Silvery Songs) (Text: Walter De la Mare)
  • Western wind (Text: Anonymous) [x]
  • What any lover learns (Text: Archibald MacLeish) *
  • When thou commandest me to sing (Text: Rabindranath Tagore after Rabindranath Tagore) ⊗ DUT FRE GER
  • When you are old and grey (Text: William Butler Yeats) CHI FRE GER HUN ITA
  • Yellow leaves (Text: William Shakespeare) DUT FRE FRI HUN ITA RUS RUS
  • Youthful Love: "Love Me" (in Three Love Songs on Poems by Sarah Teasdale) (Text: Sara Teasdale)

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