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Author: James Agee (1909-1955)

Text collections / compilations [warning - not necessarily comprehensive]

Permit Me Voyage
The Collected Poems of James Agee

Texts set to music [warning - not necessarily comprehensive]

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Note: titles are in bold and first lines are in italics

A Chorale (from Permit Me Voyage) [x] *
D. Diamond: Chorale

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

[No Title] (For love departed, lover, cease to mourn) (from Permit Me Voyage) - T. Pasatieri [x] *
For love departed, lover, cease to mourn (from Permit Me Voyage) [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 ) (from Permit Me Voyage) - T. Pasatieri [x] *
I have been fashioned on a chain of flesh (from Permit Me Voyage) [x] *
T. Pasatieri: I have been fashioned on a chain of flesh

In memory of my father - D. Welcher [x] *
[No Title] (Is love then royal on some holy height?) (from Permit Me Voyage) - T. Pasatieri [x] *
Is love then royal on some holy height? (from Permit Me Voyage) [x] *
T. Pasatieri: Is love then royal on some holy height?

Just this: from now on, to go on foot (from The Collected Poems of James Agee) [x] *
T. Pasatieri: Sonnet

Knoxville, Summer of 1915 (We are talking now of summer evenings in Knoxville Tennessee ) - S. Barber *
Lullaby (Sleep, child, lie quiet, let be ) - T. Pasatieri, P. Moravec *
Morning Fair (Now stands our love on that still verge of day) (from Permit Me Voyage) - J. Carpenter [x] *
Now stands our love on that still verge of day (from Permit Me Voyage) [x] *
J. Carpenter: Morning Fair

Open All Night (Wake up Threeish) - R. Gordon *
[No Title] (Our doom is in our being. We began) (from Permit Me Voyage) - T. Pasatieri [x] *
Our doom is in our being. We began (from Permit Me Voyage) [x] *
T. Pasatieri: Our doom is in our being. We began

Permit me voyage (from Permit Me Voyage) - T. Pasatieri [x] *
Sleep, child (Sleep, child, lie quiet, let be ) - S. Cumberworth *
Sleep, child, lie quiet, let be *
T. Pasatieri, P. Moravec: Lullaby
S. Cumberworth: Sleep, child
M. Horvit, P. Klein, P. Nelson: A Lullaby
D. Welcher: A lullabye

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

Sonnet (Just this: from now on, to go on foot) (from The Collected Poems of James Agee) - T. Pasatieri [x] *
Sure on this shining night (Sure on this shining night ) (from Permit Me Voyage) - S. Barber *
Sure on this shining night (from Permit Me Voyage) *
S. Barber: Sure on this shining night

The storm - D. Welcher [x] *
[No Title] (The wide earth's orchard of your time of knowing) (from Permit Me Voyage) - T. Pasatieri [x] *
The wide earth's orchard of your time of knowing (from Permit Me Voyage) [x] *
T. Pasatieri: The wide earth's orchard of your time of knowing

The years have passed, and made a perfect wheel (from The Collected Poems of James Agee) [x] *
D. Diamond: Warning

Wake up Threeish *
R. Gordon: Open All Night

Warning (The years have passed, and made a perfect wheel) (from The Collected Poems of James Agee) - 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) (from Permit Me Voyage) - T. Pasatieri [x] *
What dynasties of destinies undreamed (from Permit Me Voyage) [x] *
T. Pasatieri: What dynasties of destinies undreamed

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

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