Texts to Art Songs and Choral Works by N. Rorem

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Song Cycles, Collections, Symphonies, etc.:

• 5 Songs to Poems - Texts by Walt Whitman
• no. 1. As Adam, early in the morning (Text: Walt Whitman)
• no. 2. O you whom I often and silently come (Text: Walt Whitman)
• no. 3. To you (Text: Walt Whitman)
• no. 4. Look down, fair moon (Text: Walt Whitman)
• no. 5. Gliding o'er all (Text: Walt Whitman)
• After Long Silence
• The sick rose (Text: William Blake) CAT FRE GER GER IRI NYN RUS SPA
• Aftermath
• no. 1. The drum (Text: John Scott of Amwell )
• no. 2. The tigers of wrath [multi-text setting] (Text: Arnold, Housman, Blake, Marston) CAT FRE
• no. 3. The fury of the aerial bombardment (Text: Richard Eberhart) *
• no. 4. The park (Text: John Hollander) *
• no. 5. Sonnet LXIV (Text: William Shakespeare) FRE
• no. 6. On his seventy-fifth birthday (Text: Walter Savage Landor)
• no. 7. Grief (Text: Elizabeth Barrett Browning)
• no. 8. Remorse for any death (Text: Anonymous after Jorge Luis Borges) [x]*
• no. 9. Losses (Text: Randall Jarrell) *
• no. 10. Then (Text: Muriel Rukeyser) *
• Another Sleep
• no. 15. Night (Text: Anonymous after Sappho) FRE FRE GER GER GER GER ITA ITA RUS SAN SWE
• Ariel: Five Poems of Sylvia Plath
• no. 1. Words (Text: Sylvia Plath)
• no. 2. Poppies in July (Text: Sylvia Plath)
• no. 3. The hanging man (Text: Sylvia Plath)
• no. 4. Poppies in October (Text: Sylvia Plath)
• no. 5. Lady Lazarus (Text: Sylvia Plath)
• Cycle of Holy Songs
• no. 1. Psalm 134 (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts after Bible or other Sacred Texts) FRE
• no. 2. Psalm 142 (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts after Bible or other Sacred Texts) GER
• no. 3. Psalm 148 (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts after Bible or other Sacred Texts) GER GER
• no. 4. Psalm 150 (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts after Bible or other Sacred Texts) FRE GER ICE
• Evidence of Things Not Seen
• no. 1. From whence cometh song (Text: Theodore Roethke) *
• no. 2. The Open Road (Text: Walt Whitman)
• no. 3. O where are you going (Text: W. H. Auden)
• no. 4. The Rainbow (Text: William Wordsworth) GER
• no. 5. How Do I Love Thee (Text: Elizabeth Barrett Browning) CHI GER
• no. 6. Life in a love (Text: Robert Browning)
• no. 7. Their Lonely Betters (Text: W. H. Auden)
• no. 8. His Beauty Sparkles (Text: Paul Goodman) *
• no. 9. Boy with a Baseball Glove (Text: Paul Goodman) *
• no. 10. A glimpse (Text: Walt Whitman)
• no. 11. I am he . . . (Text: Walt Whitman)
• no. 12. Love cannot fill the thickened lung with breath (Text: Edna St. Vincent Millay)
• no. 13. The more loving one (Text: W. H. Auden)
• no. 14. Hymn for Morning (Text: Thomas Ken)
• no. 15. I saw a mass of matter of a dull gloomy color (Text: John Woolman)
• no. 16. The Comfort of Friends (O the rapes) (Text: William Penn)
• no. 17. A dead statesman (Text: Rudyard Kipling)
• no. 18. The Candid Man (Text: Stephen Crane)
• no. 19. Comment on War (Text: Langston Hughes)
• no. 20. A learned man (Text: Stephen Crane)
• no. 21. Dear, though the night is gone (Text: W. H. Auden)
• no. 22. Requiescat (Text: Oscar Wilde) GER GER RUS
• no. 23. Is my team ploughing (Text: Alfred Edward Housman) FRE HEB
• no. 24. As I Walked Out One Evening (Text: W. H. Auden)
• no. 25. The sick wife (Text: Jane Kenyon) *
• no. 26. Now is the dreadful midnight (Text: Paul Goodman) *
• no. 27. Hymn for Evening (Text: Thomas Ken)
• no. 28. He thinks upon his death (Text: Ned Rorem after Julien Green) *
• no. 29. On an echoing road (Text: Anonymous after Colette)
• no. 30. A terrible disaster (Text: Paul Goodman) *
• no. 31. Come In (Text: Robert Frost)
• no. 32. The old men admiring themselves in the water (Text: William Butler Yeats) FRE
• no. 33. End of the Day (Text: Anonymous after Charles Baudelaire) CZE GER
• no. 34. Faith (Text: Mark Doty) *
• no. 35. Even now the night jasmine is pouring (Text: Paul Monette) *
• no. 36. Evidence of Things not seen (Text: William Penn)
• Five Poems of Walt Whitman
• no. 1. Reconciliation (Text: Walt Whitman) FRE
• no. 2. Sometimes with one I love (Text: Walt Whitman)
• no. 3. Look down, fair moon (Text: Walt Whitman)
• no. 4. Gliding o'er all (Text: Walt Whitman)
• no. 5. Gods (Text: Walt Whitman)
• Flight For Heaven
• no. 1. To Music, to becalm his Fever (Text: Robert Herrick)
• no. 2. Cherry-ripe (Text: Robert Herrick)
• no. 3. Upon Julia's clothes (Text: Robert Herrick)
• no. 4. To daisies, not to shut so soon (Text: Robert Herrick)
• no. 5. Epitaph (upon a Child that died) (Text: Robert Herrick)
• no. 6. Another Epitaph (Text: Robert Herrick)
• no. 7. To the Willow-tree (Text: Robert Herrick)
• no. 8. Comfort to a Youth that had lost his Love (Text: Robert Herrick) GER
• no. 9. Piano Interlude
• no. 10. To Anthea, who may command him anything (Text: Robert Herrick) FRE
• Four Dialogues for 2 Voices and 2 Pianos
• no. 1. The sub (Text: Frank O'Hara) [x]*
• no. 2. The airport (Text: Frank O'Hara) [x]*
• no. 3. The apartment (Text: Frank O'Hara) [x]*
• no. 4. In New York and Spain (Text: Frank O'Hara) [x]*
• Four Madrigals
• no. 1. Parting (Text: Anonymous after Sappho) [x]
• no. 2. Flowers for the Graces (Text: Anonymous after Sappho) [x]*
• no. 3. Love (Text: Anonymous after Sappho) [x]*
• no. 4. An absent friend (Text: Anonymous after Sappho) [x]*
• Four Poems of Tennyson
• Far-Far-Away (Text: Alfred Tennyson, Lord)
• The sleeping palace (Text: Alfred Tennyson, Lord)
• Four songs
• The tulip tree (Text: Paul Goodman) *
• The midnight sun (Text: Paul Goodman) [x]*
• Last Poems of Wallace Stevens
• no. 1. Not ideas about the thing but the thing itself (Text: Wallace Stevens)
• no. 2. The River of Rivers in Connecticut (Text: Wallace Stevens)
• no. 3. A child asleep in its own life (Text: Wallace Stevens) *
• no. 4. The Planet on the Table (Text: Wallace Stevens)
• no. 5. The Dove in Spring (Text: Wallace Stevens)
• no. 6. Of mere being (Text: Wallace Stevens)
• no. 7. A clear day and no memories (Text: Wallace Stevens)
• Little Prayers
• no. 1. Rest well (Text: Paul Goodman) [x]*
• no. 2. Creator of the worlds, O Joy (Text: Paul Goodman) [x]*
• no. 3. God, I prayed, to me restore (Text: Paul Goodman) [x]*
• no. 4. Creator spirit, please (Text: Paul Goodman) *
• no. 5. Novices of art understate (Text: Paul Goodman) [x]*
• no. 6. O God of fire and the secret (Text: Paul Goodman) [x]*
• no. 7. Father, guide and lead me (Text: Paul Goodman) *
• no. 8. Long lines (Text: Paul Goodman) [x]*
• no. 9. Creator spirit who dost (Text: Paul Goodman) *
• no. 10. On all, the wicked and (Text: Paul Goodman) [x]*
• no. 11. Rest well (Text: Paul Goodman) [x]*
• no. 12. God bless my small home (Text: Paul Goodman) [x]*
• no. 13. I waited in the parlor (Text: Paul Goodman) [x]*
• no. 14. Rest well thy weary heart (Text: Paul Goodman) [x]*
• no. 15. A prayer to Saint Harmony (Text: Paul Goodman) [x]*
• Poèmes pour la Paix
• no. 1. Lay (Text: Jehan Regnier)
• no. 2. Ode (Text: Pierre de Ronsard) ENG
• no. 3. Sonnet I (Text: Olivier de Magny)
• no. 4. Sonnet II (Text: Olivier de Magny)
• no. 5. Sonnet (Text: Jean Daurat)
• no. 6. L'hymne de la paix (Text: Jean-Antoine de Baïf) [x]
• Poems of Love and the Rain
• no. 1. Prologue: From The Rain (Text: Donald Windham) [x]*
• no. 2. Stop all the clocks (Text: W. H. Auden)
• no. 3. The air is the only (Text: Howard Moss) [x]*
• no. 4. Love's stricken 'why' (Text: Emily Dickinson)
• no. 5. The apparition (Text: Theodore Roethke) [x]*
• no. 6. Do I love you more than a day? (Text: Jack Larson) *
• no. 7. in the rain (Text: E. E. Cummings)
• no. 8. Song for lying in bed during a night rain (Text: Kenneth Pitchford) [x]*
• no. 9. Interlude (Text: Theodore Roethke) [x]*
• no. 10. Song for lying in bed during a night rain (Text: Kenneth Pitchford) [x]*
• no. 11. in the rain (Text: E. E. Cummings)
• no. 12. Do I love you more than a day? (Text: Jack Larson) *
• no. 13. The apparition (Text: Theodore Roethke) [x]*
• no. 14. Love's stricken 'why' (Text: Emily Dickinson)
• no. 15. The air is the only (Text: Howard Moss) [x]*
• no. 16. Stop all the clocks (Text: W. H. Auden)
• no. 17. Epiglogue: From The Rain (Text: Donald Windham) [x]*
• Santa Fe Songs
• no. 1. Santa Fe (Text: Witter Bynner) [x]
• no. 2. Opus 101 (Text: Witter Bynner)
• no. 3. Any other time (Text: Witter Bynner) [x]
• no. 4. Sonnet (Text: Witter Bynner)
• no. 5. Coming down the stairs (Text: Witter Bynner) [x]
• no. 6. He never knew (Text: Witter Bynner) [x]
• no. 7. El musico (Text: Witter Bynner) [x]
• no. 8. The wintry mind (Text: Witter Bynner)
• no. 9. Water-hyacinths (Text: Witter Bynner) [x]
• no. 10. Moving leaves (Text: Witter Bynner) [x]
• no. 11. Yes I hear them (Text: Witter Bynner) [x]
• no. 12. The sowers (Text: Witter Bynner)
• Seven Motets for the Church Year
• no. 1. While all things were in quiet silence (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts)
• no. 2. Before the morning star begotten (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts)
• no. 3. Lay up for yourselves (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts)
• no. 4. Praise him who was crucified (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts)
• no. 5. God is gone up (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts)
• no. 6. Today the Holy Spirit appeared (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts)
• no. 7. Rejoice we all in the Lord (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts)
• Six Songs for High Voice
• no. 1. Pippa's song (Text: Robert Browning) GER ITA
• no. 2. Cradle song (Text: The brothers Wedderburn after Martin Luther) DUT FRE GER
• no. 3. Song for a girl (Text: John Dryden)
• no. 4. Rondelay (Text: John Dryden)
• no. 5. In a gondola (Text: Robert Browning)
• no. 6. Song to a fair young lady, going out of town in the spring (Text: John Dryden)
• Some Trees
• no. 1. Some Trees (Text: John Ashbery) [x]*
• no. 2. The grapevine (Text: John Ashbery) [x]*
• no. 3. Our youth (Text: John Ashbery) [x]*
• Sun
• no. ?. Sun of the sleepless (Text: George Gordon Noel Byron, Lord Byron) CAT CHI FRE GER GER GER GER GER GER ITA RUS
• no. ?. Dawn (Text: Paul Goodman) [x]*
• no. 4. Day (Text: William Blake) RUS
• The AIDS Quilt Songbook [multi-composer]
• no. 1. Fury, composed by David Wheelock (Text: Susan Snively) [x]*
• no. 2. Blues for an imaginary valentine, composed by Fred Hersch (Text: Fred Hersch) [x]*
• no. 3. Heartbeats, composed by John Musto (Text: Melvin Dixon) [x]*
• no. 4. A dream of nightingales, composed by Ned Rorem (Text: David Bergman) [x]*
• no. 5. Walt Whitman in 1989, composed by Chris DeBlasio (Text: Perry Brass) [x]*
• no. 6. The 80's miracle diet, composed by David Krakauer (Text: Melvin Dixon) [x]*
• no. 7. For Richard, composed by Annea Lockwood (Text: Eve Ensler) [x]*
• no. 8. Fairy book lines, composed by Donald St. Pierre (Text: Charles Barber) [x]*
• no. 9. Vaslav's song, composed by William Bolcom (Text: Ethyl Eichelberger) [x]
• no. 10. AIDS anxiety, composed by Richard Pearson Thomas (Text: Richard Pearson Thomas) [x]*
• no. 11. The flute of interior time, composed by John H. Harbison (Text: Robert Bly after Kabir) *
• no. 12. The birds of sorrow, composed by Carl Byron (Text: Ron Schreiber) [x]*
• no. 13. Investiture at Cecconi's, composed by Lee Hoiby (Text: James Ingram Merrill) [x]*
• no. 14. A certain light, composed by Elizabeth C. Brown (Text: Marie Howe) [x]*
• no. 15. I never knew, composed by Ricky Ian Gordon (Text: Ricky Ian Gordon) [x]*
• no. 16. The second law, composed by Richard Wilson (Text: Stephen Sandy) [x]*
• no. 17. Perineo, composed by Libby Larsen (Text: Roberto Echavarren) [x]*
• no. 18. The enticing lane, composed by Steven Houtz (Text: Christopher Hewitt) [x]*
• The Nantucket Songs
• no. 1. Song (Text: Theodore Roethke) *
• no. 2. The Dance (Text: William Carlos Williams) *
• no. 3. Nantucket (Text: William Carlos Williams) *
• no. 4. Song (Text: Edmund Waller; Henry Kirke White) SPA
• no. 5. Up-hill (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
• no. 6. Mother, I cannot mind my wheel (Text: Walter Savage Landor after Sappho) FRE GER GER RUS
• no. 7. Fear of death (Text: John Ashbery) *
• no. 8. Thoughts of a young girl (Text: John Ashbery) *
• no. 9. Ferry me across the water (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti) GER
• no. 10. The dancer (Text: Edmund Waller)
• The Poet's Requiem
• no. 1. Friends, let us mourn (Text: Paul Goodman after Franz Kafka) [x]*
• no. 2. Make me, my streaming face (Text: Paul Goodman after Rainer Maria Rilke) *
• no. 3. Look, Segramor (Text: Paul Goodman after Jean Cocteau) [x]*
• no. 4. Vast gulph! (Text: Paul Goodman after Stéphane Mallarmé) [x]*
• no. 5. Our own death is unimaginable (Text: Paul Goodman after Sigmund Freud) *
• no. 6. Of the millions, I know, who have gone to the grave (Text: Paul Goodman) *
• no. 7. The hare or the deer (Text: Paul Goodman after André Gide) [x]*
• no. 8. All eyes (Text: Paul Goodman after Rainer Maria Rilke) *
• Three Calamus Songs
• no. 1. Of him I love day and night (Text: Walt Whitman)
• no. 2. I saw in Louisiana a live-oak growing (Text: Walt Whitman)
• no. 3. To a common prostitute (Text: Walt Whitman)
• Three Motets on Texts by Gerard Manley Hopkins
• no. 3. Thee, God (Text: Gerard Manley Hopkins)
• Three Poems of Demetrios Capetanakis
• no. 1. Abel (Text: Demetrios Capetanakis) [x]
• no. 2. Guilt (Text: Demetrios Capetanakis) [x]
• no. 3. The land (Text: Demetrios Capetanakis) [x]
• Three Poems of Paul Goodman
• no. 1. For Susan (Text: Paul Goodman) *
• no. 2. Clouds (Text: Paul Goodman) *
• no. 3. What sparks and wiry cries (Text: Paul Goodman) *
• Three Prayers
• no. 1. Creator spirit who dost lightly hover (Text: Paul Goodman) *
• no. 2. Father, guide and lead me (Text: Paul Goodman) *
• no. 3. Creator spirit, please (Text: Paul Goodman) *
• Two Poems of Theodore Roethke
• no. 1. Orchids (Text: Theodore Roethke) *
• no. 1. I strolled across an open field (Text: Theodore Roethke) *
• Two songs
• no. 1. Little elegy (Text: Elinor Wylie) GER
• no. 2. On a singing girl (Text: Elinor Wylie)
• War Scenes
• no. 1. A night battle (Text: Walt Whitman)
• no. 2. A specimen case (Text: Walt Whitman)
• no. 3. An incident (Text: Walt Whitman)
• no. 4. Inauguration Ball (Text: Walt Whitman)
• no. 5. The real war will never get in the books (Text: Walt Whitman)
• Whitman Cantata
• That shadow, my likeness (Text: Walt Whitman)
• Women's Voices
• no. 1. Now let no charitable hope (Text: Elinor Wylie)
• no. 2. A birthday (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
• no. 3. To my dear and loving husband (Text: Anne Bradstreet)
• no. 4. To the ladies (Text: Mary Lee, Lady Chudleigh)
• no. 5. If ever hapless woman had a cause (Text: Mary Herbert, Countess of Pembroke, née Sidney)
• no. 6. We never said farewell (Text: Mary Coleridge)
• no. 7. The stranger (Text: Adrienne Rich) [x]*
• no. 8. What inn is this (Text: Emily Dickinson) GER
• no. 9. Defiled is my name
• no. 10. Electrocution (Text: Lola Ridge)
• no. 11. Smile, Death (Text: Charlotte Mew)

All titles of vocal settings in Alphabetic order

• Abel (in Three Poems of Demetrios Capetanakis) (Text: Demetrios Capetanakis) [x]
• A birthday (in Women's Voices) (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
• Absalom (Text: Paul Goodman) *
• A child asleep in its own life (in Last Poems of Wallace Stevens) (Text: Wallace Stevens) *
• A clear day and no memories (in Last Poems of Wallace Stevens) (Text: Wallace Stevens)
• A dead statesman (in Evidence of Things Not Seen) (Text: Rudyard Kipling)
• A dream of nightingales (in The AIDS Quilt Songbook) (Text: David Bergman) [x]*
• A glimpse (in Evidence of Things Not Seen) (Text: Walt Whitman)
• A journey (Text: Andrew Glaze)
• A learned man (in Evidence of Things Not Seen) (Text: Stephen Crane)
• All eyes (in The Poet's Requiem) (Text: Paul Goodman after Rainer Maria Rilke) *
• An absent friend (in Four Madrigals) (Text: Anonymous after Sappho) [x]*
• A night battle (in War Scenes) (Text: Walt Whitman)
• An incident (in War Scenes) (Text: Walt Whitman)
• Another Epitaph (in Flight For Heaven) (Text: Robert Herrick)
• Any other time (in Santa Fe Songs) (Text: Witter Bynner) [x]
• A prayer to Saint Harmony (in Little Prayers) (Text: Paul Goodman) [x]*
• Are you the new person? (Text: Walt Whitman)
• As Adam, early in the morning (in 5 Songs to Poems - Texts by Walt Whitman) (Text: Walt Whitman)
• A sermon on miracles (Text: Paul Goodman) [x]*
• As I Walked Out One Evening (in Evidence of Things Not Seen) (Text: W. H. Auden)
• Ask me no more (Text: Alfred Tennyson, Lord)
• A specimen case (in War Scenes) (Text: Walt Whitman)
• A terrible disaster (in Evidence of Things Not Seen) (Text: Paul Goodman) *
• Bedlam (Text: Elizabeth Bishop) [x]*
• Before the morning star begotten (in Seven Motets for the Church Year) (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts)
• Boy with a Baseball Glove (in Evidence of Things Not Seen) (Text: Paul Goodman) *
• Catullus: On the burial of his brother (Text: Aubrey Vincent Beardsley after Gaius Valerius Catullus) ITA
• Cherry-ripe (in Flight For Heaven) (Text: Robert Herrick)
• Chromatic Fantasy (Text: Anthony Evan Hecht) *
• Clouds (in Three Poems of Paul Goodman) (Text: Paul Goodman) *
• Come In (in Evidence of Things Not Seen) (Text: Robert Frost)
• Comfort to a Youth that had lost his Love (in Flight For Heaven) (Text: Robert Herrick) GER
• Coming down the stairs (in Santa Fe Songs) (Text: Witter Bynner) [x]
• Comment on War (in Evidence of Things Not Seen) (Text: Langston Hughes)
• Conversation (Text: Elizabeth Bishop) *
• Cradle song (in Six Songs for High Voice) (Text: The brothers Wedderburn after Martin Luther) DUT FRE GER
• Creator of the worlds, O Joy (in Little Prayers) (Text: Paul Goodman) [x]*
• Creator spirit, please (in Little Prayers) (Text: Paul Goodman) *
• Creator spirit, please (in Three Prayers) (Text: Paul Goodman) *
• Creator spirit who dost lightly hover (in Three Prayers) (Text: Paul Goodman) *
• Creator spirit who dost (in Little Prayers) (Text: Paul Goodman) *
• Dawn (in Sun) (Text: Paul Goodman) [x]*
• Day (in Sun) (Text: William Blake) RUS
• Dear, though the night is gone (in Evidence of Things Not Seen) (Text: W. H. Auden)
• Defiled is my name (in Women's Voices)
• Do I love you more than a day? (in Poems of Love and the Rain) (Text: Jack Larson) *
• Do I love you more than a day? (in Poems of Love and the Rain) (Text: Jack Larson) *
• Doll's boy (Text: E. E. Cummings) *
• Early in the Morning (Text: Robert Silliman Hillyer) *
• Echo's song (Text: Ben Jonson)
• Electrocution (in Women's Voices) (Text: Lola Ridge)
• El musico (in Santa Fe Songs) (Text: Witter Bynner) [x]
• End of the Day (in Evidence of Things Not Seen) (Text: Anonymous after Charles Baudelaire) CZE GER
• Epiglogue: From The Rain (in Poems of Love and the Rain) (Text: Donald Windham) [x]*
• Epitaph (upon a Child that died) (in Flight For Heaven) (Text: Robert Herrick)
• Even now the night jasmine is pouring (in Evidence of Things Not Seen) (Text: Paul Monette) *
• Evidence of Things not seen (in Evidence of Things Not Seen) (Text: William Penn)
• Faith (in Evidence of Things Not Seen) (Text: Mark Doty) *
• Far-Far-Away (in Four Poems of Tennyson) (Text: Alfred Tennyson, Lord)
• Father, guide and lead me (in Three Prayers) (Text: Paul Goodman) *
• Father, guide and lead me (in Little Prayers) (Text: Paul Goodman) *
• Fear of death (in The Nantucket Songs) (Text: John Ashbery) *
• Ferry me across the water (in The Nantucket Songs) (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti) GER
• Flowers for the Graces (in Four Madrigals) (Text: Anonymous after Sappho) [x]*
• For Poulenc (Text: Frank O'Hara) *
• For Susan (in Three Poems of Paul Goodman) (Text: Paul Goodman) *
• Friends, let us mourn (in The Poet's Requiem) (Text: Paul Goodman after Franz Kafka) [x]*
• From whence cometh song (in Evidence of Things Not Seen) (Text: Theodore Roethke) *
• Full of life now (Text: Walt Whitman)
• Gliding o'er all (in 5 Songs to Poems - Texts by Walt Whitman) (Text: Walt Whitman)
• Gliding o'er all (in Five Poems of Walt Whitman) (Text: Walt Whitman)
• God bless my small home (in Little Prayers) (Text: Paul Goodman) [x]*
• God, I prayed, to me restore (in Little Prayers) (Text: Paul Goodman) [x]*
• God is gone up (in Seven Motets for the Church Year) (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts)
• Gods (in Five Poems of Walt Whitman) (Text: Walt Whitman)
• Grief (in Aftermath) (Text: Elizabeth Barrett Browning)
• Guilt (in Three Poems of Demetrios Capetanakis) (Text: Demetrios Capetanakis) [x]
• He never knew (in Santa Fe Songs) (Text: Witter Bynner) [x]
• He thinks upon his death (in Evidence of Things Not Seen) (Text: Ned Rorem after Julien Green) *
• His Beauty Sparkles (in Evidence of Things Not Seen) (Text: Paul Goodman) *
• How Do I Love Thee (in Evidence of Things Not Seen) (Text: Elizabeth Barrett Browning) CHI GER
• Hymn for Evening (in Evidence of Things Not Seen) (Text: Thomas Ken)
• Hymn for Morning (in Evidence of Things Not Seen) (Text: Thomas Ken)
• I am he . . . (in Evidence of Things Not Seen) (Text: Walt Whitman)
• I am Rose (Text: Gertrude Stein)
• If ever hapless woman had a cause (in Women's Voices) (Text: Mary Herbert, Countess of Pembroke, née Sidney)
• In a gondola (in Six Songs for High Voice) (Text: Robert Browning)
• Inauguration Ball (in War Scenes) (Text: Walt Whitman)
• In New York and Spain (in Four Dialogues for 2 Voices and 2 Pianos) (Text: Frank O'Hara) [x]*
• Interlude (in Poems of Love and the Rain) (Text: Theodore Roethke) [x]*
• in the rain (in Poems of Love and the Rain) (Text: E. E. Cummings)
• in the rain (in Poems of Love and the Rain) (Text: E. E. Cummings)
• I saw a mass of matter of a dull gloomy color (in Evidence of Things Not Seen) (Text: John Woolman)
• I saw in Louisiana a live-oak growing (in Three Calamus Songs) (Text: Walt Whitman)
• Is my team ploughing (in Evidence of Things Not Seen) (Text: Alfred Edward Housman) FRE HEB
• I strolled across an open field (in Two Poems of Theodore Roethke) (Text: Theodore Roethke) *
• I waited in the parlor (in Little Prayers) (Text: Paul Goodman) [x]*
• I will always love you (Text: Frank O'Hara) *
• Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair (Text: Stephen Collins Foster)
• Lady Lazarus (in Ariel: Five Poems of Sylvia Plath) (Text: Sylvia Plath)
• Lay up for yourselves (in Seven Motets for the Church Year) (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts)
• Lay (in Poèmes pour la Paix) (Text: Jehan Regnier)
• L'hymne de la paix (in Poèmes pour la Paix) (Text: Jean-Antoine de Baïf) [x]
• Life in a love (in Evidence of Things Not Seen) (Text: Robert Browning)
• Little elegy (in Two songs) (Text: Elinor Wylie) GER
• Little lamb, who made thee? (Text: William Blake) CAT GER GER RUS
• Long lines (in Little Prayers) (Text: Paul Goodman) [x]*
• Look down, fair moon (in 5 Songs to Poems - Texts by Walt Whitman) (Text: Walt Whitman)
• Look down, fair moon (in Five Poems of Walt Whitman) (Text: Walt Whitman)
• Look, Segramor (in The Poet's Requiem) (Text: Paul Goodman after Jean Cocteau) [x]*
• Losses (in Aftermath) (Text: Randall Jarrell) *
• Love cannot fill the thickened lung with breath (in Evidence of Things Not Seen) (Text: Edna St. Vincent Millay)
• Love in a Life (Text: Robert Browning)
• Love's stricken 'why' (in Poems of Love and the Rain) (Text: Emily Dickinson)
• Love's stricken 'why' (in Poems of Love and the Rain) (Text: Emily Dickinson)
• Love (in Four Madrigals) (Text: Anonymous after Sappho) [x]*
• Love (Text: Thomas Lodge)
• Lullaby of the Woman of the Mountain (Text: Patrick Henry Pearse)
• Make me, my streaming face (in The Poet's Requiem) (Text: Paul Goodman after Rainer Maria Rilke) *
• Memory (Text: Theodore Roethke) [x]*
• Mother, I cannot mind my wheel (in The Nantucket Songs) (Text: Walter Savage Landor after Sappho) FRE GER GER RUS
• Moving leaves (in Santa Fe Songs) (Text: Witter Bynner) [x]
• My papa's waltz (Text: Theodore Roethke) *
• Nantucket (in The Nantucket Songs) (Text: William Carlos Williams) *
• Night crow (Text: Theodore Roethke) [x]*
• Night (in Another Sleep) (Text: Anonymous after Sappho) FRE FRE GER GER GER GER ITA ITA RUS SAN SWE
• Not ideas about the thing but the thing itself (in Last Poems of Wallace Stevens) (Text: Wallace Stevens)
• Novices of art understate (in Little Prayers) (Text: Paul Goodman) [x]*
• Now is the dreadful midnight (in Evidence of Things Not Seen) (Text: Paul Goodman) *
• Now let no charitable hope (in Women's Voices) (Text: Elinor Wylie)
• Now sleeps the crimson petal (Text: Alfred Tennyson, Lord) CAT GER SPA
• Ode (in Poèmes pour la Paix) (Text: Pierre de Ronsard) ENG
• O do not love too long (Text: William Butler Yeats) FRE
• Of him I love day and night (in Three Calamus Songs) (Text: Walt Whitman)
• Of mere being (in Last Poems of Wallace Stevens) (Text: Wallace Stevens)
• Of the millions, I know, who have gone to the grave (in The Poet's Requiem) (Text: Paul Goodman) *
• O God of fire and the secret (in Little Prayers) (Text: Paul Goodman) [x]*
• On all, the wicked and (in Little Prayers) (Text: Paul Goodman) [x]*
• On an echoing road (in Evidence of Things Not Seen) (Text: Anonymous after Colette)
• On a singing girl (in Two songs) (Text: Elinor Wylie)
• On his seventy-fifth birthday (in Aftermath) (Text: Walter Savage Landor)
• Opus 101 (in Santa Fe Songs) (Text: Witter Bynner)
• Orchids (in Two Poems of Theodore Roethke) (Text: Theodore Roethke) *
• Our own death is unimaginable (in The Poet's Requiem) (Text: Paul Goodman after Sigmund Freud) *
• Our youth (in Some Trees) (Text: John Ashbery) [x]*
• O where are you going (in Evidence of Things Not Seen) (Text: W. H. Auden)
• O you whom I often and silently come (in 5 Songs to Poems - Texts by Walt Whitman) (Text: Walt Whitman)
• Parting (in Four Madrigals) (Text: Anonymous after Sappho) [x]
• Piano Interlude (in Flight For Heaven)
• Pippa's song (in Six Songs for High Voice) (Text: Robert Browning) GER ITA
• Poppies in July (in Ariel: Five Poems of Sylvia Plath) (Text: Sylvia Plath)
• Poppies in October (in Ariel: Five Poems of Sylvia Plath) (Text: Sylvia Plath)
• Praise him who was crucified (in Seven Motets for the Church Year) (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts)
• Prologue: From The Rain (in Poems of Love and the Rain) (Text: Donald Windham) [x]*
• Psalm 134 (in Cycle of Holy Songs) (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts after Bible or other Sacred Texts) FRE
• Psalm 142 (in Cycle of Holy Songs) (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts after Bible or other Sacred Texts) GER
• Psalm 148 (in Cycle of Holy Songs) (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts after Bible or other Sacred Texts) GER GER
• Psalm 150 (in Cycle of Holy Songs) (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts after Bible or other Sacred Texts) FRE GER ICE
• Rain in spring (Text: Paul Goodman) *
• Reconciliation (in Five Poems of Walt Whitman) (Text: Walt Whitman) FRE
• Rejoice we all in the Lord (in Seven Motets for the Church Year) (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts)
• Remorse for any death (in Aftermath) (Text: Anonymous after Jorge Luis Borges) [x]*
• Requiem (Text: Robert Louis Stevenson) GER ITA
• Requiescat (in Evidence of Things Not Seen) (Text: Oscar Wilde) GER GER RUS
• Rest well thy weary heart (in Little Prayers) (Text: Paul Goodman) [x]*
• Rest well (in Little Prayers) (Text: Paul Goodman) [x]*
• Rest well (in Little Prayers) (Text: Paul Goodman) [x]*
• Rondelay (in Six Songs for High Voice) (Text: John Dryden)
• Root cellar (Text: Theodore Roethke) [x]*
• Sally's smile (Text: Paul Goodman) [x]*
• Santa Fe (in Santa Fe Songs) (Text: Witter Bynner) [x]
• See how they love me (Text: Howard Moss) [x]*
• Smile, Death (in Women's Voices) (Text: Charlotte Mew)
• Snake (Text: Theodore Roethke) *
• Sometimes with one I love (in Five Poems of Walt Whitman) (Text: Walt Whitman)
• Some Trees (in Some Trees) (Text: John Ashbery) [x]*
• Song for a girl (in Six Songs for High Voice) (Text: John Dryden)
• Song for lying in bed during a night rain (in Poems of Love and the Rain) (Text: Kenneth Pitchford) [x]*
• Song for lying in bed during a night rain (in Poems of Love and the Rain) (Text: Kenneth Pitchford) [x]*
• Song to a fair young lady, going out of town in the spring (in Six Songs for High Voice) (Text: John Dryden)
• Song (in The Nantucket Songs) (Text: Theodore Roethke) *
• Song (in The Nantucket Songs) (Text: Edmund Waller; Henry Kirke White) SPA
• Sonnet I (in Poèmes pour la Paix) (Text: Olivier de Magny)
• Sonnet II (in Poèmes pour la Paix) (Text: Olivier de Magny)
• Sonnet LXIV (in Aftermath) (Text: William Shakespeare) FRE
• Sonnet (in Poèmes pour la Paix) (Text: Jean Daurat)
• Sonnet (in Santa Fe Songs) (Text: Witter Bynner)
• Spring (Text: Gerard Manley Hopkins)
• Stop all the clocks (in Poems of Love and the Rain) (Text: W. H. Auden)
• Stop all the clocks (in Poems of Love and the Rain) (Text: W. H. Auden)
• Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening (Text: Robert Frost) GER
• Such beauty as hurts to behold (Text: Paul Goodman) [x]*
• Sun of the sleepless (in Sun) (Text: George Gordon Noel Byron, Lord Byron) CAT CHI FRE GER GER GER GER GER GER ITA RUS
• That shadow, my likeness (in Whitman Cantata) (Text: Walt Whitman)
• That shadow, my likeness (Text: Walt Whitman)
• The air is the only (in Poems of Love and the Rain) (Text: Howard Moss) [x]*
• The air is the only (in Poems of Love and the Rain) (Text: Howard Moss) [x]*
• The airport (in Four Dialogues for 2 Voices and 2 Pianos) (Text: Frank O'Hara) [x]*
• The apartment (in Four Dialogues for 2 Voices and 2 Pianos) (Text: Frank O'Hara) [x]*
• The apparition (in Poems of Love and the Rain) (Text: Theodore Roethke) [x]*
• The apparition (in Poems of Love and the Rain) (Text: Theodore Roethke) [x]*
• The Candid Man (in Evidence of Things Not Seen) (Text: Stephen Crane)
• The Comfort of Friends (O the rapes) (in Evidence of Things Not Seen) (Text: William Penn)
• The dancer (in The Nantucket Songs) (Text: Edmund Waller)
• The Dance (in The Nantucket Songs) (Text: William Carlos Williams) *
• The Dove in Spring (in Last Poems of Wallace Stevens) (Text: Wallace Stevens)
• The drum (in Aftermath) (Text: John Scott of Amwell )
• Thee, God (in Three Motets on Texts by Gerard Manley Hopkins) (Text: Gerard Manley Hopkins)
• The end (Text: Dana Gioia) *
• The fury of the aerial bombardment (in Aftermath) (Text: Richard Eberhart) *
• The grapevine (in Some Trees) (Text: John Ashbery) [x]*
• The hanging man (in Ariel: Five Poems of Sylvia Plath) (Text: Sylvia Plath)
• The hare or the deer (in The Poet's Requiem) (Text: Paul Goodman after André Gide) [x]*
• Their Lonely Betters (in Evidence of Things Not Seen) (Text: W. H. Auden)
• The land (in Three Poems of Demetrios Capetanakis) (Text: Demetrios Capetanakis) [x]
• The Little Pretty Nightingale (Text: Anonymous)
• The Lordly Hudson (Text: Paul Goodman) *
• The midnight sun (in Four songs) (Text: Paul Goodman) [x]*
• The more loving one (in Evidence of Things Not Seen) (Text: W. H. Auden)
• Then (in Aftermath) (Text: Muriel Rukeyser) *
• The old men admiring themselves in the water (in Evidence of Things Not Seen) (Text: William Butler Yeats) FRE
• The Open Road (in Evidence of Things Not Seen) (Text: Walt Whitman)
• The park (in Aftermath) (Text: John Hollander) *
• The Planet on the Table (in Last Poems of Wallace Stevens) (Text: Wallace Stevens)
• The Rainbow (in Evidence of Things Not Seen) (Text: William Wordsworth) GER
• The real war will never get in the books (in War Scenes) (Text: Walt Whitman)
• The River of Rivers in Connecticut (in Last Poems of Wallace Stevens) (Text: Wallace Stevens)
• The serpent (Text: Theodore Roethke) *
• The sick rose (in After Long Silence) (Text: William Blake) CAT FRE GER GER IRI NYN RUS SPA
• The sick rose (Text: William Blake) CAT FRE GER GER IRI NYN RUS SPA
• The sick wife (in Evidence of Things Not Seen) (Text: Jane Kenyon) *
• The silver swan (Text: Anonymous) FRE GER
• The sleeping palace (in Four Poems of Tennyson) (Text: Alfred Tennyson, Lord)
• The sowers (in Santa Fe Songs) (Text: Witter Bynner)
• The stranger (in Women's Voices) (Text: Adrienne Rich) [x]*
• The sub (in Four Dialogues for 2 Voices and 2 Pianos) (Text: Frank O'Hara) [x]*
• The tigers of wrath [multi-text setting] (in Aftermath) (Text: Blake, Marston, Arnold, Housman) CAT FRE
• The tulip tree (in Four songs) (Text: Paul Goodman) *
• The waking (Text: Theodore Roethke) *
• The wintry mind (in Santa Fe Songs) (Text: Witter Bynner)
• The youth with the red-gold hair (Text: Edith Sitwell)
• Thoughts of a young girl (in The Nantucket Songs) (Text: John Ashbery) *
• To a common prostitute (in Three Calamus Songs) (Text: Walt Whitman)
• To Anthea, who may command him anything (in Flight For Heaven) (Text: Robert Herrick) FRE
• To a young girl (Text: William Butler Yeats) FRE
• To daisies, not to shut so soon (in Flight For Heaven) (Text: Robert Herrick)
• Today the Holy Spirit appeared (in Seven Motets for the Church Year) (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts)
• To Jane (Text: Percy Bysshe Shelley)
• To Music, to becalm his Fever (in Flight For Heaven) (Text: Robert Herrick)
• To my dear and loving husband (in Women's Voices) (Text: Anne Bradstreet)
• To the ladies (in Women's Voices) (Text: Mary Lee, Lady Chudleigh)
• To the Willow-tree (in Flight For Heaven) (Text: Robert Herrick)
• To you (in 5 Songs to Poems - Texts by Walt Whitman) (Text: Walt Whitman)
• Up-hill (in The Nantucket Songs) (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
• Upon Julia's clothes (in Flight For Heaven) (Text: Robert Herrick)
• Vast gulph! (in The Poet's Requiem) (Text: Paul Goodman after Stéphane Mallarmé) [x]*
• Visits to St. Elizabeth's (Text: Elizabeth Bishop) [x]*
• Water-hyacinths (in Santa Fe Songs) (Text: Witter Bynner) [x]
• We never said farewell (in Women's Voices) (Text: Mary Coleridge)
• What can I tell my bones (Text: Theodore Roethke) [x]*
• What if some little pain (Text: Edmund Spenser)
• What inn is this (in Women's Voices) (Text: Emily Dickinson) GER
• What sparks and wiry cries (in Three Poems of Paul Goodman) (Text: Paul Goodman) *
• While all things were in quiet silence (in Seven Motets for the Church Year) (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts)
• Words (in Ariel: Five Poems of Sylvia Plath) (Text: Sylvia Plath)
• Yes I hear them (in Santa Fe Songs) (Text: Witter Bynner) [x]
• Youth, Day, Old Age, and Night (Text: Walt Whitman) FRE GER
• You, the Young Rainbow (Text: Edith Sitwell) [x]

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