by Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892)
Gliding o'er all
Language: English
Gliding o'er all, through all, Through Nature, Time, and Space, As a ship on the waters advancing, The voyage of the soul--not life alone, Death, many deaths I'll sing.
Authorship:
- by Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892) [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Michael Hennagin (1936 - 1993), "Gliding o'er all", published 1979 [ SATB chorus a cappella ], from By the Roadside [sung text not yet checked]
- by Otto Luening (1900 - 1996), "Gliding o'er all", 1928, published c1944 [ high voice and piano ], from Three Songs for High Voice and Piano, no. 1, New York, G. Schirmer [sung text not yet checked]
- by Klaus Miehling (b. 1963), "Gliding o'er all ", op. 294 no. 7 (2019) [ voice and piano ], from Sieben Lieder nach Walt Whitman, no. 7 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Ned Rorem (1923 - 2022), "Gliding o'er all", published 1970, from 5 Songs to Poems - Texts by Walt Whitman, no. 5 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Ned Rorem (1923 - 2022), "Gliding o'er all", from Five Poems of Walt Whitman, no. 4 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Peter Pindar Stearns (b. 1931), "Gliding o'er all", published 1959, from Whitman Cycle IV [sung text not yet checked]
Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 5
Word count: 29