Author: James Agee (1909-1955)

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A Chorale [x] *
D. Diamond: Chorale

A Lullaby (Sleep, child, lie quiet, let be ) - T. Pasatieri, M. Horvit, P. Klein, P. Nelson *
Chorale - D. Diamond [x] *
Description of Elysium (Sure on this shining night) *
S. Barber: Sure on this shining night

[No Title] (For love departed, lover, cease to mourn) - T. Pasatieri [x] *
For love departed, lover, cease to mourn [x] *
T. Pasatieri: For love departed, lover, cease to mourn

How many little children sleep (How many little children sleep) - J. Musto, T. Pasatieri *
How many little children sleep *
J. Musto, T. Pasatieri: How many little children sleep

[No Title] (I have been fashioned on a chain of flesh ) - T. Pasatieri [x] *
I have been fashioned on a chain of flesh [x] *
T. Pasatieri: I have been fashioned on a chain of flesh

[No Title] (Is love then royal on some holy height?) - T. Pasatieri [x] *
Is love then royal on some holy height? [x] *
T. Pasatieri: Is love then royal on some holy height?

Just this: from now on, to go on foot [x] *
T. Pasatieri: Sonnet

Knoxville, Summer of 1915 (We are talking now of summer evenings in Knoxville Tennessee ) - S. Barber *
Morning Fair (Now stands our love on that still verge of day) - J. Carpenter [x] *
Now stands our love on that still verge of day [x] *
J. Carpenter: Morning Fair

[No Title] (Our doom is in our being. We began) - T. Pasatieri [x] *
Our doom is in our being. We began [x] *
T. Pasatieri: Our doom is in our being. We began

Sleep, child (Sleep, child, lie quiet, let be ) - S. Cumberworth *
Sleep, child, lie quiet, let be *
S. Cumberworth: Sleep, child
T. Pasatieri, M. Horvit, P. Klein, P. Nelson: A Lullaby

[No Title] (So it begins. Adam is in his earth) - T. Pasatieri [x] *
So it begins. Adam is in his earth [x] *
T. Pasatieri: So it begins. Adam is in his earth

Sonnet (Just this: from now on, to go on foot) - T. Pasatieri [x] *
Sure on this shining night (Sure on this shining night) - S. Barber *
Sure on this shining night *
S. Barber: Sure on this shining night

[No Title] (The wide earth's orchard of your time of knowing) - T. Pasatieri [x] *
The wide earth's orchard of your time of knowing [x] *
T. Pasatieri: The wide earth's orchard of your time of knowing

The years have passed, and made a perfect wheel [x] *
D. Diamond: Warning

Warning (The years have passed, and made a perfect wheel) - D. Diamond [x] *
We are talking now of summer evenings in Knoxville Tennessee *
S. Barber: Knoxville, Summer of 1915

[No Title] (What dynasties of destinies undreamed) - T. Pasatieri [x] *
What dynasties of destinies undreamed [x] *
T. Pasatieri: What dynasties of destinies undreamed

[No Title] (Why am I here? Why do you look at me) - T. Pasatieri [x] *
Why am I here? Why do you look at me [x] *
T. Pasatieri: Why am I here? Why do you look at me