Texts to Art Songs and Choral Works by L. Grier

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Song Cycles, Collections, Symphonies, etc.:

• 5 Songs For Children
• no. 1. Afternoon on a hill (Text: Edna St. Vincent Millay)
• no. 2. Some one (Text: Walter De la Mare)
• no. 3. The bluebird (Text: Emily Huntington Miller)
• no. 4. The seashell (Text: Amy Lowell)
• no. 5. Who has seen the wind? (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
• A Billy Collins Suite
• no. 1. Forgetfulness (Text: Billy Collins) *
• no. 2. Dancing Towards Bethlehem (Text: Billy Collins) [x]*
• Five Songs from A Shropshire Lad
• no. 1. Oh, when I was in love with you (Text: Alfred Edward Housman) GER
• no. 2. Along the field as we came by (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
• no. 3. Think no more, lad; laugh, be jolly (Text: Alfred Edward Housman) FRE HEB
• no. 4. If it chance your eye offend you (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
• no. 5. When I was one-and-twenty (Text: Alfred Edward Housman) FRE GER HEB
• Reflections of a Peacemaker
• no. 1. As it Was in the Beginning (Text: Matthew Joseph Thaddeus Stepanek) *
• no. 2. Eternal Role Call (Text: Matthew Joseph Thaddeus Stepanek) *
• no. 3. The Pirate Song (Text: Matthew Joseph Thaddeus Stepanek) *
• no. 4. About Living (Part III) (Text: Matthew Joseph Thaddeus Stepanek) *
• no. 5. I AM (Text: Matthew Joseph Thaddeus Stepanek) *
• Songs from Spoon River
• no. 1. The Hill (Part I) (Text: Edgar Lee Masters)
• no. 2. Sarah Brown (Text: Edgar Lee Masters)
• no. 3. Zenas Witt (Text: Edgar Lee Masters)
• no. 4. Lucinda Matlock (Text: Edgar Lee Masters)
• no. 5. Anne Rutledge (Text: Edgar Lee Masters)
• no. 6. Petit the Poet (Text: Edgar Lee Masters)
• no. 7. Margaret Fuller Slack (Text: Edgar Lee Masters)
• no. 8. Fiddler Jones (Text: Edgar Lee Masters)
• no. 9. Rita Matlock Gruenberg (Text: Edgar Lee Masters)
• no. 10. The Hill (Part II) (Text: Edgar Lee Masters)
• Sonnets to Orpheus
• no. 1. Breath, you invisible poem (Text: Rainer Maria Rilke) ENG FRE
• no. 2. Wait--- that tastes good (Text: Rainer Maria Rilke) ENG ENG
• no. 3. Does it really exist, this destroyer – Time? (Text: Rainer Maria Rilke)
• no. 4. Mirrors (Text: Rainer Maria Rilke)
• Three Song Portraits
• no. 1. La Figlia che Piange (Text: T. S. Eliot)
• no. 2. Departure (Text: Edna St. Vincent Millay)
• no. 3. Portrait of Mme St. Ursula (Text: Wallace Stevens) [x]
• Three Songs
• no. 1. When Faces Called Flowers (Text: E. E. Cummings) *
• no. 2. Little Man in a Hurry (Text: E. E. Cummings) *
• no. 3. So Shy (Text: E. E. Cummings)
• Three Songs from Das Buch der Bilder
• no. 1. Der Wahnsinn (Text: Rainer Maria Rilke) FRE
• no. 2. Der Einsame (Text: Rainer Maria Rilke) FRE
• no. 3. Aus Einer Kindheit (Text: Rainer Maria Rilke)
• Two Songs from Emily Dickinson
• no. 1. I cannot live with you (Text: Emily Dickinson)
• no. 2. I taste a liquor never brewed (Text: Emily Dickinson) FRE GER
• Winter Songs
• no. 1. Winter Song (Text: Katherine Mansfield)
• no. 2. Winter Time (Text: Robert Louis Stevenson)
• no. 3. A Winter Ride (Text: Amy Lowell)

All titles of vocal settings in Alphabetic order

• About Living (Part III) (in Reflections of a Peacemaker) (Text: Matthew Joseph Thaddeus Stepanek) *
• Afternoon on a hill (in 5 Songs For Children) (Text: Edna St. Vincent Millay)
• Along the field as we came by (in Five Songs from A Shropshire Lad) (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
• Anne Rutledge (in Songs from Spoon River) (Text: Edgar Lee Masters)
• As it Was in the Beginning (in Reflections of a Peacemaker) (Text: Matthew Joseph Thaddeus Stepanek) *
• Aus Einer Kindheit (in Three Songs from Das Buch der Bilder) (Text: Rainer Maria Rilke)
• A Winter Ride (in Winter Songs) (Text: Amy Lowell)
• Breath, you invisible poem (in Sonnets to Orpheus) (Text: Rainer Maria Rilke) ENG FRE
• Dancing Toward Bethlehem (Text: Billy Collins) *
• Dancing Towards Bethlehem (in A Billy Collins Suite) (Text: Billy Collins) [x]*
• Departure (in Three Song Portraits) (Text: Edna St. Vincent Millay)
• Der Einsame (in Three Songs from Das Buch der Bilder) (Text: Rainer Maria Rilke) FRE
• Der Wahnsinn (in Three Songs from Das Buch der Bilder) (Text: Rainer Maria Rilke) FRE
• Does it really exist, this destroyer – Time? (in Sonnets to Orpheus) (Text: Rainer Maria Rilke)
• Eternal Role Call (in Reflections of a Peacemaker) (Text: Matthew Joseph Thaddeus Stepanek) *
• Fiddler Jones (in Songs from Spoon River) (Text: Edgar Lee Masters)
• Forgetfulness (in A Billy Collins Suite) (Text: Billy Collins) *
• I AM (in Reflections of a Peacemaker) (Text: Matthew Joseph Thaddeus Stepanek) *
• I cannot live with you (in Two Songs from Emily Dickinson) (Text: Emily Dickinson)
• If it chance your eye offend you (in Five Songs from A Shropshire Lad) (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
• I taste a liquor never brewed (in Two Songs from Emily Dickinson) (Text: Emily Dickinson) FRE GER
• La Figlia che Piange (in Three Song Portraits) (Text: T. S. Eliot)
• Little Man in a Hurry (in Three Songs) (Text: E. E. Cummings) *
• Lucinda Matlock (in Songs from Spoon River) (Text: Edgar Lee Masters)
• Margaret Fuller Slack (in Songs from Spoon River) (Text: Edgar Lee Masters)
• Mirrors (in Sonnets to Orpheus) (Text: Rainer Maria Rilke)
• Oh, when I was in love with you (in Five Songs from A Shropshire Lad) (Text: Alfred Edward Housman) GER
• Petit the Poet (in Songs from Spoon River) (Text: Edgar Lee Masters)
• Portrait of Mme St. Ursula (in Three Song Portraits) (Text: Wallace Stevens) [x]
• Rita Matlock Gruenberg (in Songs from Spoon River) (Text: Edgar Lee Masters)
• Sarah Brown (in Songs from Spoon River) (Text: Edgar Lee Masters)
• Sneezles (Text: Alan Alexander Milne)
• Some one (in 5 Songs For Children) (Text: Walter De la Mare)
• So Shy (in Three Songs) (Text: E. E. Cummings)
• The bluebird (in 5 Songs For Children) (Text: Emily Huntington Miller)
• The Hill (Part II) (in Songs from Spoon River) (Text: Edgar Lee Masters)
• The Hill (Part I) (in Songs from Spoon River) (Text: Edgar Lee Masters)
• The Pirate Song (in Reflections of a Peacemaker) (Text: Matthew Joseph Thaddeus Stepanek) *
• The seashell (in 5 Songs For Children) (Text: Amy Lowell)
• Think no more, lad; laugh, be jolly (in Five Songs from A Shropshire Lad) (Text: Alfred Edward Housman) FRE HEB
• Wait--- that tastes good (in Sonnets to Orpheus) (Text: Rainer Maria Rilke) ENG ENG
• When Faces Called Flowers (in Three Songs) (Text: E. E. Cummings) *
• When I was one-and-twenty (in Five Songs from A Shropshire Lad) (Text: Alfred Edward Housman) FRE GER HEB
• Who has seen the wind? (in 5 Songs For Children) (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
• Winter Song (in Winter Songs) (Text: Katherine Mansfield)
• Winter Time (in Winter Songs) (Text: Robert Louis Stevenson)
• Zenas Witt (in Songs from Spoon River) (Text: Edgar Lee Masters)

Last update: 2025-11-15 02:28:36