Texts to Art Songs and Choral Works by S. Silver

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.
Note: 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.

Song Cycles, Collections, Symphonies, etc.:

• Beauty Intolerable
• no. 1. First fig (Text: Edna St. Vincent Millay) GER
• no. 2. I, being born a woman (Text: Edna St. Vincent Millay) FRI
• no. 3. Recuerdo (Text: Edna St. Vincent Millay)
• no. 4. Hyacinth (Text: Edna St. Vincent Millay)
• no. 5. Only until this cigarette is ended (Text: Edna St. Vincent Millay)
• no. 6. The Penitent (Text: Edna St. Vincent Millay)
• no. 7. She is Overheard Singing (Text: Edna St. Vincent Millay)
• no. 8. Thursday (Text: Edna St. Vincent Millay)
• no. 9. Tristan [multi-text setting] (Text: Millay)
• no. 10. An Ancient Gesture (Text: Edna St. Vincent Millay)
• no. 11. Aubade (Text: Edna St. Vincent Millay)
• no. 12. A Visit to the Asylum (Text: Edna St. Vincent Millay)
• no. 13. Mindful of you the sodden earth in Spring (Text: Edna St. Vincent Millay)
• no. 14. What lips, my lips have kissed (Text: Edna St. Vincent Millay) FRI GER
• no. 15. Love, Though for This (Text: Edna St. Vincent Millay)
• no. 16. First fig (Text: Edna St. Vincent Millay) GER
• Chariessa. A Cycle of Six Songs on Fragments from Sappho
• no. 1. Leave Crete and come to us (Text: Mary Barnard after Sappho) *
• no. 2. Lament for a maidenhead (Text: Mary Barnard after Sappho) * FRE GER ITA
• no. 3. The full moon is shining (Text: Mary Barnard after Sappho) * FRE GER GER ITA SAN
• no. 4. Gold is God’s child (Text: Mary Barnard after Sappho) *
• no. 5. the moon and then (Text: Mary Barnard after Sappho) * FRE FRE GER GER GER GER ITA ITA ITA RUS SAN SWE
• Three Songs for Diane Kalish; in memoriam
• no. 1. O, she doth teach the torches to burn bright (Text: William Shakespeare)
• no. 2. Mindful of you the sodden earth in Spring (Text: Edna St. Vincent Millay)
• no. 3. Love is a Magic Ray (Text: Khalil Gibran)
• Transcending; Three Songs for Michael Dash in memoriam
• no. 1. The Cat and the Moon (Text: William Butler Yeats) FRE
• no. 2. To be calm, to be serene (Text: Henry David Thoreau)
• no. 3. We Wear the Mask (Text: Paul Laurence Dunbar) GER
• Two Elizabethan Songs
• When Daisies Pied (Text: William Shakespeare) FIN FRE FRE GER GER GER NOR

All titles of vocal settings in Alphabetic order

• An Ancient Gesture (in Beauty Intolerable) (Text: Edna St. Vincent Millay)
• Aubade (in Beauty Intolerable) (Text: Edna St. Vincent Millay)
• A Visit to the Asylum (in Beauty Intolerable) (Text: Edna St. Vincent Millay)
• CANTO (Text: Ezra Pound)
• Ek Ong Kar (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts) [x]
• First fig (in Beauty Intolerable) (Text: Edna St. Vincent Millay) GER
• First fig (in Beauty Intolerable) (Text: Edna St. Vincent Millay) GER
• Gold is God’s child (in Chariessa. A Cycle of Six Songs on Fragments from Sappho) (Text: Mary Barnard after Sappho) *
• Hyacinth (in Beauty Intolerable) (Text: Edna St. Vincent Millay)
• I, being born a woman (in Beauty Intolerable) (Text: Edna St. Vincent Millay) FRI
• If Trees Could Talk (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts)
• Lament for a maidenhead (in Chariessa. A Cycle of Six Songs on Fragments from Sappho) (Text: Mary Barnard after Sappho) * FRE GER ITA
• Leave Crete and come to us (in Chariessa. A Cycle of Six Songs on Fragments from Sappho) (Text: Mary Barnard after Sappho) *
• Love is a Magic Ray (in Three Songs for Diane Kalish; in memoriam) (Text: Khalil Gibran)
• Love, Though for This (in Beauty Intolerable) (Text: Edna St. Vincent Millay)
• Mindful of you the sodden earth in Spring (in Three Songs for Diane Kalish; in memoriam) (in Beauty Intolerable) (Text: Edna St. Vincent Millay)
• Only until this cigarette is ended (in Beauty Intolerable) (Text: Edna St. Vincent Millay)
• O, she doth teach the torches to burn bright (in Three Songs for Diane Kalish; in memoriam) (Text: William Shakespeare)
• Recuerdo (in Beauty Intolerable) (Text: Edna St. Vincent Millay)
• She is Overheard Singing (in Beauty Intolerable) (Text: Edna St. Vincent Millay)
• The Cat and the Moon (in Transcending; Three Songs for Michael Dash in memoriam) (Text: William Butler Yeats) FRE
• The full moon is shining (in Chariessa. A Cycle of Six Songs on Fragments from Sappho) (Text: Mary Barnard after Sappho) * FRE GER GER ITA SAN
• Tonight I’ve watched (in Chariessa. A Cycle of Six Songs on Fragments from Sappho) (Text: Mary Barnard after Sappho) * FRE FRE GER GER GER GER ITA ITA ITA RUS SAN SWE
• The Penitent (in Beauty Intolerable) (Text: Edna St. Vincent Millay)
• Thursday (in Beauty Intolerable) (Text: Edna St. Vincent Millay)
• To be calm, to be serene (in Transcending; Three Songs for Michael Dash in memoriam) (Text: Henry David Thoreau)
• Tristan [multi-text setting] (in Beauty Intolerable) (Text: Millay)
• We Wear the Mask (in Transcending; Three Songs for Michael Dash in memoriam) (Text: Paul Laurence Dunbar) GER
• What lips, my lips have kissed (in Beauty Intolerable) (Text: Edna St. Vincent Millay) FRI GER
• When Daisies Pied (in Two Elizabethan Songs) (Text: William Shakespeare) FIN FRE FRE GER GER GER NOR

Last update: 2026-03-08 19:52:52