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Composer: Gary Bachlund

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Website: http://www.bachlund.org/

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Song Cycles, Symphonies, etc.

A Book of Nonsense

no. 1. The Dwarf of Battersea (Text: Mervyn Peake) [x]*
no. 2. Little Spider (Text: Mervyn Peake) [x]*
no. 3. O Little Fly (Text: Mervyn Peake) [x]*
no. 4. 'It Worries Me to Know' (Text: Mervyn Peake) [x]*
no. 5. How Fly the Birds of Heaven (Text: Mervyn Peake) [x]*
no. 6. Of Pygmies, Palms and Pirates (Text: Mervyn Peake) *
no. 7. An Old and Crumbling Parapet (Text: Mervyn Peake) [x]*
no. 8. It Is Most Best (Text: Mervyn Peake) [x]*
no. 9. O'er Seas That Have No Beaches (Text: Mervyn Peake) [x]*
no. 10. 'Come, Break the News to Me, Sweet Horse' (Text: Mervyn Peake) [x]*
no. 11. An Angry Cactus Does No Good (Text: Mervyn Peake) [x]*
no. 12. I Cannot Give You Reasons (Text: Mervyn Peake) *
no. 13. The Trouble With Geraniums (Text: Mervyn Peake) *
no. 14. Crocodiles (Text: Mervyn Peake) *
no. 15. O Love! O Death! O Ecstasy! (Text: Mervyn Peake) [x]*
no. 16. O Here It Is! And There It Is! (Text: Mervyn Peake) [x]*
no. 17. I Have My Price (Text: Mervyn Peake) *
no. 18. Lean Sideways on the Wind (Text: Mervyn Peake) [x]*
no. 19. Tintinnabulum (Text: Mervyn Peake) [x]*
no. 20. The Hideous Root (Text: Mervyn Peake) [x]*
no. 21. The Men in Bowler Hats Are Sweet (Text: Mervyn Peake) [x]*
no. 22. Shrink, Shrink (Text: Mervyn Peake) [x]*
no. 23. Aunty Jane (Text: Mervyn Peake) [x]*
no. 24. Aunty Grace (Text: Mervyn Peake) [x]*
no. 25. Uncle Wog (Text: Mervyn Peake) [x]*
no. 26. Aunty Flo (Text: Mervyn Peake) *
no. 27. Aunty Vi (Text: Mervyn Peake) [x]*
no. 28. Uncle Sam (Text: Mervyn Peake) [x]*
no. 29. Aunty Nag (Text: Mervyn Peake) [x]*
no. 30. Aunty Mig (Text: Mervyn Peake) [x]*
no. 31. Aunty Jill (Text: Mervyn Peake) [x]*
no. 32. Uncle Jake (Text: Mervyn Peake) [x]*
no. 33. Crown Me With Hairpins (Text: Mervyn Peake) [x]*
no. 34. Squat Ursula (Text: Mervyn Peake) [x]*
no. 35. Leave the Stronger (Text: Mervyn Peake) [x]*
no. 36. The Thread Remains (Text: Mervyn Peake) [x]*
no. 37. The Adventures of Footfruit (Text: Mervyn Peake) [x]*

"Alice" Songs

no. 1. Childhood Dreams (Text: Lewis Carroll)
no. 2. The Little Crocodile (Text: Lewis Carroll)
no. 3. Pig and Pepper (Text: Lewis Carroll)
no. 4. The Mock Turtle's Lament (Text: Lewis Carroll)
no. 5. Jabberwocky (Text: Lewis Carroll)
no. 6. Tweedledum and Tweedledee
no. 7. Humpty Dumpty
no. 8. The Lion and the Unicorn
no. 9. Queen Alice (Text: Lewis Carroll)

"Calico Pie" and Other Nonsense

no. 1. Calico Pie (Text: Edward Lear)
no. 2. An Old Man with a Beard (Text: Edward Lear)
no. 3. The Duck and the Kangaroo (Text: Edward Lear)
no. 4. Eyes (Text: Edward Lear)
no. 5. The Daddy Long-Legs and the Fly (Text: Edward Lear)
no. 6. The Birds Sat Upon It (Text: Edward Lear)
no. 7. The Owl and the Pussy-Cat (Text: Edward Lear) RUS
no. 8. An Old Lady (Text: Edward Lear)
no. 9. The Jumblies (Text: Edward Lear)

Chamber Music

no. 1. Make Music Sweet (Text: James Joyce) FRE
no. 2. Twilight (Text: James Joyce) FRE
no. 3. Goldenhair (Text: James Joyce) FRE
no. 4. Where Love Did Sometime Go (Text: James Joyce) FRE
no. 5. Pain (Text: James Joyce) FRE
no. 6. Companion (Text: James Joyce) FRE
no. 7. Gentle Lady (Text: James Joyce) FRE
no. 8. Rain has fallen (Text: James Joyce) FRE
no. 9. I Hear an Army (Text: James Joyce) FRE

chansons innocentes (1923)

no. 1. in Just- (Text: E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings)
no. 2. hist whist (Text: E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings) *
no. 3. Tumbling-hair (Text: E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings) *

chansons innocentes (1925)

no. 1. why did you go (Text: E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings)
no. 2. little tree (Text: E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings) *

"crazy jay blue)" and other poems

no. 1. crazy jay blue (Text: E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings) *
no. 2. dominic has a doll (Text: E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings) *
no. 3. in time of daffodils (Text: E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings) *
no. 4. as joe gould says (Text: E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings) *
no. 5. when mack smacked phyllis (Text: E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings) *
no. 6. the old almost lady (Text: E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings) *
no. 7. when any mortal(even the most odd) (Text: E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings) *
no. 8. what the hell (Text: E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings) *

Das tierische Lied von der Erde

no. 1. Das ästhetische Wiesel (Text: Christian Morgenstern) ENG
no. 2. Das Krokodil (Text: Hermann von Lingg) ENG
no. 3. Eine traurige Geschichte (Text: Joseph Viktor von Scheffel) ENG
no. 4. Der alte Marabu (Text: Edwin Bormann) ENG
no. 5. Ein Wiegenlied (Text: Matthias Claudius) ENG
no. 6. Wassermaus und Kröte ENG

Deux petites chansons

no. 1. Chanson (Text: Jacques Prévert) [x]*
no. 2. Alicante (Text: Jacques Prévert) [x]*

Dos Canciones de Rosalía de Castro

no. 1. La eterna primavera (Text: Rosalia de Castro)
no. 2. No eres vano sueño (Text: Rosalia de Castro)

Drei einfache Lieder von Theodor Storm

no. 1. Noch einmal (Text: Theodor Storm) ENG
no. 2. Zwischen mir und Dir (Text: Theodor Storm) ENG
no. 3. Tag (Text: Theodor Storm) ENG

Drei Kleinigkeiten

no. 1. dreck (Text: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart) ENG
no. 2. eine menge Nobleße (Text: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart) ENG
no. 3. so, ich bitte (Text: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart) ENG

Drei Lieder von Hugo von Hofmannsthal

no. 1. Regen in der Dämmerung (Text: Hugo Hofmann, Edler von Hofmannsthal) ENG
no. 2. Wolken (Text: Hugo Hofmann, Edler von Hofmannsthal) ENG
no. 3. Sturmnacht (Text: Hugo Hofmann, Edler von Hofmannsthal) ENG

Drolleries and Wisdom

no. 1. Wine and water (Text: Gilbert Keith Chesterton)
no. 2. In My Own Nursery (Text: Gilbert Keith Chesterton)
no. 3. The Englishman (Text: Gilbert Keith Chesterton)
no. 4. A Ballade of Suicide (Text: Gilbert Keith Chesterton)
no. 5. The Holy of Holies (Text: Gilbert Keith Chesterton)
no. 6. A Ballade of an Anti-Puritan (Text: Gilbert Keith Chesterton)

e. e.'s songs

no. 1. Jimmie's got a goil (Text: E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings) *
no. 2. raise the shade will youse dearie? (Text: E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings) *
no. 3. mary green (Text: E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings) *
no. 4. says ol man no body - (Text: E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings) *
no. 5. time, be kind (Text: E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings) *
no. 6. plato told him (Text: E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings) *

Echoes from the Cabin

no. 1. Uncle Eph's Banjo Song (Text: James Edwin Campbell)
no. 2. Ol' Doc' Hyar (Text: James Edwin Campbell)
no. 3. When Ol' Sis' Judy Pray (Text: James Edwin Campbell)
no. 4. Negro Serenade (Text: James Edwin Campbell)
no. 5. De Cunjah man (Text: James Edwin Campbell)

Fantaisies Décoratives

no. 1. Le panneau (Text: Oscar Wilde)
no. 2. Les Ballons (Text: Oscar Wilde)

Five Poems of Countée Cullen

no. 1. Saturday's child (Text: Countee Cullen)
no. 2. Incident (Text: Countee Cullen)
no. 3. The loss of love (Text: Countee Cullen)
no. 4. For a poet (Text: Countee Cullen)
no. 5. The wise (Text: Countee Cullen)

Five Sonnets

no. 1. Sonnet VIII - "Music to hear, why hear'st thou music sadly?" (Text: William Shakespeare) RUS HUN ITA FRE FIN
no. 2. Sonnet XVIII - "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?" (Text: William Shakespeare) ITA FIN
no. 3. Sonnet XIX - "Devouring Time" (Text: William Shakespeare) ITA
no. 4. Sonnet XXX - "When to the sessions of sweet silent thought" (Text: William Shakespeare) RUS ITA
no. 5. Sonnet LXVI - "Tir'd with all these, for restful death I cry" (Text: William Shakespeare) RUS ITA

Four Little Cat Songs

no. 1. Saph goes under the bed (Text: Julie Dalton Williamson) *
no. 2. Our Ginger Moggy (Text: Julie Dalton Williamson) *
no. 3. Vin was my cat (Text: Julie Dalton Williamson) *
no. 4. Zoe! Zoe! (Text: Julie Dalton Williamson) *

Four Seasons

no. 1. Summer (Text: Anton Gill) *
no. 2. Autumn (Text: Anton Gill) *
no. 3. Winter (Text: Anton Gill) *
no. 4. Spring (Text: Anton Gill) *

Four Songs of a Woman

no. 1. I want to die while you love me (Text: Georgia Douglas Johnson)
no. 2. The heart of a woman (Text: Georgia Douglas Johnson)
no. 3. Youth (Text: Georgia Douglas Johnson)
no. 4. My little dreams (Text: Georgia Douglas Johnson)

Four Songs of Gerard Manley Hopkins

no. 1. Pied Beauty (Text: Gerard Manley Hopkins)
no. 2. God's Grandeur (Text: Gerard Manley Hopkins)
no. 3. Spring (Text: Gerard Manley Hopkins)
no. 4. To Call Thee Love (Text: Gerard Manley Hopkins)

From Cautionary Tales for Children

no. 1. Henry King (Text: (Joseph) Hilaire Belloc)
no. 2. Matilda (who told such dreadful lies) (Text: (Joseph) Hilaire Belloc)
no. 3. George (The boy who played with dangerous toys) (Text: (Joseph) Hilaire Belloc)

From the Song of Songs

no. 1. I am black but comely (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts)
no. 2. My Love (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts)
no. 3. I am sick with love (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts)
no. 4. Return! (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts)
no. 5. A Seal Upon Your Heart (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts)

Fünf Fablen

no. 1. Aesopus und der Esel (Text: Gotthold Ephraim Lessing) ENG
no. 2. Eine philosophische Maus (Text: Gotthold Ephraim Lessing) ENG
no. 3. Der Fuchs und der Storch (Text: Gotthold Ephraim Lessing) ENG
no. 4. Der kriegerische Wolf (Text: Gotthold Ephraim Lessing) ENG
no. 5. Die Wasserschlange (Text: Gotthold Ephraim Lessing) ENG

Goethe-lieder

no. 1. Das Alter (Text: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) ENG
no. 2. Ja, schelte nur (Text: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) ENG
no. 3. Das Beste (Text: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) ENG
no. 4. Annonce (Text: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) ENG
no. 5. Lebenslust (Text: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) ENG
no. 6. Was bleibt denn (Text: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) ENG
no. 7. Hab ich nur geschrieben (Text: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) ENG

Harte Songs

no. 1. Mrs. Judge Jenkins (Text: (Francis) Bret(t) Harte)
no. 2. Coyote (Text: (Francis) Bret(t) Harte)
no. 3. Plain Language from Truthful James (Text: (Francis) Bret(t) Harte)

Hot House Ballads

no. 1. Hot and Blue (Text: Gary Bachlund)
no. 2. Heavenly Days (Text: Gary Bachlund)
no. 3. Hot House (Text: Gary Bachlund)
no. 4. No Body Blues (Text: Gary Bachlund)

Injun Summah

no. 1. Injun Summah (Text: Benjamin Franklin King)
no. 2. The River St. Joe (Text: Benjamin Franklin King)
no. 3. The Cow Slips Away (Text: Benjamin Franklin King)
no. 4. Gedder in yo' grain (Text: Benjamin Franklin King)

Kleengedichtjes

no. 1. O Vrije, vlaamsche poësis (Text: Guido (Pieter Theodoor Jozef) Gezelle)
no. 2. Als de ziele luistert (Text: Guido (Pieter Theodoor Jozef) Gezelle)
no. 3. Janneke (Text: Guido (Pieter Theodoor Jozef) Gezelle)
no. 4. De winden (Text: Guido (Pieter Theodoor Jozef) Gezelle)
no. 5. Nar Hem (Text: Guido (Pieter Theodoor Jozef) Gezelle)
no. 6. De snee (Text: Guido (Pieter Theodoor Jozef) Gezelle)
no. 7. In de blijde mei (Text: Guido (Pieter Theodoor Jozef) Gezelle)

Kleine Wesen

no. 1. Einleitung (Text: Joachim Ringelnatz) ENG
no. 2. Die Feder (Text: Joachim Ringelnatz) ENG
no. 3. Der Funke (Text: Joachim Ringelnatz) ENG
no. 4. Der Edelstein (Text: Joachim Ringelnatz) ENG
no. 5. Die Seifenblase (Text: Joachim Ringelnatz) ENG
no. 6. Das Ei (Text: Joachim Ringelnatz) ENG
no. 7. Der Floh (Text: Joachim Ringelnatz) ENG
no. 8. Die Nadel (Text: Joachim Ringelnatz) ENG
no. 9. Das Samenkorn (Text: Joachim Ringelnatz) ENG
no. 10. Der Wassertropfen (Text: Joachim Ringelnatz) ENG
no. 11. Der Knopf (Text: Joachim Ringelnatz) ENG
no. 12. Der Stein (Text: Joachim Ringelnatz) ENG
no. 13. Der kleine Junge (Text: Joachim Ringelnatz) ENG
no. 14. Das kleine Mädchen (Text: Joachim Ringelnatz) ENG

La Mort

no. 1. Prélude
no. 2. La mort des amants (Text: Charles Baudelaire) ENG
no. 3. La mort des pauvres (Text: Charles Baudelaire)
no. 4. La mort des artistes (Text: Charles Baudelaire) ENG
no. 5. La fin de la journée (Text: Charles Baudelaire) ENG
no. 6. La rêve d'un curieux (Text: Charles Baudelaire)
no. 7. Pour l'enfant (Text: Charles Baudelaire)
no. 8. Les vrais Voyageurs (Text: Charles Baudelaire)
no. 9. Interlude
no. 10. Horreur! (Text: Charles Baudelaire)
no. 11. Pour le Voyage (Text: Charles Baudelaire) RUS ENG

Lächerliche Kleinigkeiten

no. 1. Ich bin aus Bern (Text: Andreas Scheidegger) *
no. 2. I bin Tenor (Text: Andreas Scheidegger) *

Las Canciones de Bécquer

no. 1. Hoy creo en Dios (Text: Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer) ENG
no. 2. Un beso (Text: Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer)
no. 3. Olas gigantes (Text: Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer) ENG
no. 4. ¡Qué hermoso (Text: Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer)
no. 5. La luz divina (Text: Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer)

Lausn

no. 1. Sungið, sagt og téð (Text: Hallgrímur Pétursson)
no. 2. Þurfamaður (Text: Hallgrímur Pétursson)
no. 3. Daglega (Text: Hallgrímur Pétursson)
no. 4. Lofa þinn guð (Text: Hallgrímur Pétursson)

Love Songs for Dorothy

no. 1. Romance Novel (Text: Gary Bachlund)
no. 2. Cigarette Smoke (Text: Gary Bachlund)
no. 3. What About It? (Text: Gary Bachlund)
no. 4. Jumbled (Text: Gary Bachlund)
no. 5. A Litany of Symptoms (Text: Gary Bachlund)

Mäuselein, Mauskätzchen und Spätzchen

no. 1. O Mäuselein (Text: August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben)
no. 2. Mauskätzchen (Text: August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben)
no. 3. Spatz und Katze (Text: August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben)

New York Sorrows

no. 1. Central Park at Dusk (Text: Sara Teasdale)
no. 2. Broadway (Text: Sara Teasdale)
no. 3. The kiss (Text: Sara Teasdale)
no. 4. The old maid (Text: Sara Teasdale)
no. 5. Coney Island (Text: Sara Teasdale)
no. 6. Less than the cloud to the wind (Text: Sara Teasdale)
no. 7. Summer night, riverside (Text: Sara Teasdale)

Nursery Rhymes and Children's Prayers

no. 1. Cobbler! Mend my shoe
no. 2. Mary Had a Little Lamb (Text: Mother Goose)
no. 3. The Child and the Star (Text: Mother Goose)
no. 4. Pat-a-cake, Baker's Man (Text: Mother Goose)
no. 5. Little Drops of Water (Text: Julia Abigail Fletcher, Carney)
no. 6. The Rain Is Failing (Text: Gary Bachlund after Robert Louis Stevenson) ENG
no. 7. Rich Man, Poor Man (Text: Mother Goose)
no. 8. Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep

Pieces of Peacock Pie

no. 1. The lost shoe (Text: Walter de la Mare)
no. 2. Tired Tim (Text: Walter de la Mare)
no. 3. The huntsmen (Text: Walter de la Mare)
no. 4. Some one (Text: Walter de la Mare)
no. 5. Miss T. (Text: Walter de la Mare)
no. 6. The cupboard (Text: Walter de la Mare)
no. 7. Hide and seek (Text: Walter de la Mare)
no. 8. Then (Text: Walter de la Mare)
no. 9. Full moon (Text: Walter de la Mare)
no. 10. Poor Henry (Text: Walter de la Mare)
no. 11. Will ever? (Text: Walter de la Mare)
no. 12. Song of the secret (Text: Walter de la Mare)

Poèmes pour la paix

no. 1. Bonjour (Text: Paul Éluard)
no. 2. Splendide! (Text: Paul Éluard)
no. 3. O! mes amis! (Text: Paul Éluard)
no. 4. Près de toi (Text: Paul Éluard)
no. 5. Mon enfant (Text: Paul Éluard)
no. 6. Travaille (Text: Paul Éluard)
no. 7. Ma belle (Text: Paul Éluard)
no. 8. Pour être heureux (Text: Paul Éluard)
no. 9. Une amoureuse (Text: Paul Éluard)
no. 10. Je rêve (Text: Paul Éluard)
no. 11. Mon jardin (Text: Paul Éluard)

Poets on Pigs

no. 1. The pig (Text: Ogden Nash) *
no. 2. The Pig - A Fable (Text: Christopher Smart)
no. 3. This Pig Went to Market
no. 4. Dickory, dickory, dare (Text: Mother Goose)
no. 5. Three Little Pigs (Text: Sian Davies) *
no. 6. The Spectre Pig - A Ballad (Text: Oliver Wendell Holmes)
no. 7. Piggy Patter, Piggy Platter (Text: Mary (Mrs. Walter) Buchanan)
no. 8. The Star and the Pig (Text: Sara Teasdale) FRE
no. 9. Politics is where the pig (Text: Gary Bachlund)
no. 10. The Three Little Pigs (Text: Alfred Scott Gatty)
no. 11. Early Bacon (Text: Archibald Stodart-Walker)
no. 12. Any Part of Piggy (Text: Noel Coward)

Seven Presidential Pardons

no. 1. I'm not a crook (Text: Richard Milhouse Nixon)
no. 2. American efficiency (Text: Gerald Rudolph Ford, Jr.)
no. 3. To drown my troubles (Text: James (Jimmy) Earl Carter)
no. 4. The second-oldest profession (Text: Ronald Wilson Reagan)
no. 5. No exaggeration (Text: George Herbert Walker Bush)
no. 6. It depends upon what the meaning of the word 'is' is (Text: William (Bill) Jefferson Clinton)
no. 7. The strategery (Text: George W. Bush)

Songs for the Victims of AIDS

no. 1. Clever Death, Stupid Death (Text: Gary Bachlund)
no. 2. It was a cross (Text: Gary Bachlund)
no. 3. Room A-460 (Text: Gary Bachlund)
no. 4. Yesterday (Text: Gary Bachlund)
no. 5. A Litany of Finger Pointing (Text: Gary Bachlund)
no. 6. The Quilt (Text: Gary Bachlund)

Songs of War

no. 1. In Time of 'The Breaking of Nations' (Text: Thomas Hardy)
no. 2. The Send-Off (Text: Wilfred Owen)
no. 3. Attack (Text: Siegfried Lorraine Sassoon)
no. 4. Dead Man's Dump (Text: Isaac Rosenberg)
no. 5. Gethsemane (Text: Rudyard Kipling)
no. 6. Danny Deever (Text: Rudyard Kipling)
no. 7. The dead (Text: Rupert Brooke) ITA

"spoke joe to jack" and other songs

no. 1. spoke joe to jack (Text: E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings) *
no. 2. red-rag and pink-flag (Text: E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings) *
no. 3. the way to hump a cow is not (Text: E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings) *
no. 4. there are possibly 2½ or impossibly 3 (Text: E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings) *
no. 5. these children singing in stone (Text: E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings) *
no. 6. love is the every only god (Text: E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings) *
no. 7. up into the silence (Text: E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings) *
no. 8. love is more thicker than forget (Text: E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings) *

Strumpfsinn Lieder

no. 1. Die Schnupftabaksdose (Text: Joachim Ringelnatz) ENG
no. 2. Ein männlicher Briefmark (Text: Joachim Ringelnatz) ENG
no. 3. Ein große Genie (Text: Joachim Ringelnatz) ENG
no. 4. Eine gelbe Zitrone (Text: Joachim Ringelnatz) ENG
no. 5. Unterm Tisch (Text: Joachim Ringelnatz) ENG

The Circus Band and Other Delights

no. 1. The Circus Band (Text: Charles Edward Ives) SPA
no. 2. The see'r (Text: Charles Edward Ives)
no. 3. The cage (Text: Charles Edward Ives)
no. 4. The Side Show (Text: Charles Edward Ives after P. Rooney) ENG SPA
no. 5. Waltz (Text: Charles Edward Ives)
no. 6. 1, 2, 3 (Text: Charles Edward Ives)

The Sum of Life

no. 1. If I Should Die (Text: Benjamin Franklin King)
no. 2. The Hair-Tonic Bottle (Text: Benjamin Franklin King)
no. 3. The Pessimist (Text: Benjamin Franklin King)

This Perfect World

no. 1. Memories (Text: David Fries) *
no. 2. Friends (Text: David Fries) *
no. 3. The Dance (Text: David Fries) *

Three Abortion Carols

no. 1. Away in a basin (Text: Gary Bachlund)
no. 2. O little child unwanted (Text: Gary Bachlund)
no. 3. Silent child, wholly defiled (Text: Gary Bachlund)

Three Airs from the Beggar's Opera

no. 1. A fox may steal your hens, sir (Text: John Gay)
no. 2. If the heart of a man (Text: John Gay)
no. 3. Youth's the season made for joys (Text: John Gay)

Three Blake Settings

no. 1. The sick rose (Text: William Blake) NYN RUS
no. 2. The lily (Text: William Blake)
no. 3. Ah, Sunflower (Text: William Blake) FRE

Three Cummings Songs

no. 1. may i feel said he (Text: E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings) *
no. 2. if i believe (Text: E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings) *
no. 3. buy me an ounce and i'll sell you a pound (Text: E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings) *

Three Little Americana Songs

no. 1. Nature
no. 2. Ann Street (Text: Maurice Morris)
no. 3. Like a Sick Eagle (Text: John Keats)

Three Magical Songs

no. 1. The stolen child (Text: William Butler Yeats)
no. 2. The Song of Wandering Aengus (Text: William Butler Yeats)
no. 3. The Second Coming (Text: William Butler Yeats)

Three Poems of Walter de la Mare

no. 1. Alas, alack! (Text: Walter de la Mare)
no. 2. The song of shadows (Text: Walter de la Mare)
no. 3. Silver (Text: Walter de la Mare)

Three Psalms

no. 1. A Tree By the River Side (Text: Thomas Sternhold after Bible or other Sacred Texts) ENG GER FRE
no. 2. Like as the Hart (Text: John Hopkins after Bible or other Sacred Texts) ENG
no. 3. Give Laud unto the Lord (Text: John Pullain after Bible or other Sacred Texts) ENG GER

Three Songs for Roger

no. 1. Life (Text: Gary Bachlund)
no. 2. Who Am I? (Text: Gary Bachlund)
no. 3. Love (Text: Gary Bachlund)

Tres Canciones de Ana María Fagundo

no. 1. Malvas en la pradera (Text: Ana María Fagundo) *
no. 2. A la poesía (Text: Ana María Fagundo) *
no. 3. Rosas en diciembre (Text: Ana María Fagundo) *

Trois Chansons de Gidé

no. 1. Si le jour est passé (Text: André Gide after Rabindranath Tagore) ENG FRE
no. 2. À mes côtés, il est venu s'asseoir (Text: André Gide after Rabindranath Tagore) ENG ITA FRE GER
no. 3. Lumière! ma lumière! (Text: André Gide after Rabindranath Tagore) ENG FRE

Two Poems of Louis Untermeyer

no. 1. With a Volume of Heine (Text: Louis Untermeyer)
no. 2. Matinée (Text: Louis Untermeyer)

Two Simple Songs

no. 1. Renaissance (Text: Virginia Ann Bachlund) *
no. 2. A Seeking Heart (Text: Virginia Ann Bachlund)

Unsinn Poesie

no. 1. Ein Zungenzerfitzler (Text: Brigitte Peter)
no. 2. sonnett (Text: Gerhard Rühm)
no. 3. Professoren-Liedchen (Text: Martin Walser) ITA

Vier Lieder von Else Lasker-Schüler

no. 1. Nun schlummert meine Seele (Text: Else Lasker-Schüler) ENG
no. 2. Ich träume so leise von Dir (Text: Else Lasker-Schüler) ENG
no. 3. Weltende (Text: Else Lasker-Schüler) ENG
no. 4. Versöhnung (Text: Else Lasker-Schüler) ENG

Wiegenlieder

no. 1. Alles still in süßer Ruh (Text: August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben) ENG ITA
no. 2. Schlaf auch du! (Text: August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben)
no. 3. Dein Sternlein wacht (Text: August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben)

Zwei Rilke-lieder

no. 1. Herbst (Text: Rainer Maria Rilke) ENG
no. 2. Frühling (Text: Rainer Maria Rilke) ENG

All titles of vocal settings in our database, in alphabetic order

1, 2, 3 (in The Circus Band and Other Delights) (Text: Charles Edward Ives)
A Ballade of an Anti-Puritan (in Drolleries and Wisdom) (Text: Gilbert Keith Chesterton)
A Ballade of Suicide (in Drolleries and Wisdom) (Text: Gilbert Keith Chesterton)
A Banjo Song (Text: Paul Laurence Dunbar)
A Chorus Girl (Text: E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings)
A fox may steal your hens, sir (in Three Airs from the Beggar's Opera) (Text: John Gay)
A frolic (Text: Paul Laurence Dunbar)
A golden day (Text: Paul Laurence Dunbar)
A Government Song (Text: Gary Bachlund)
A Hymn to God the Father (Text: John Donne)
A la poesía (in Tres Canciones de Ana María Fagundo) (Text: Ana María Fagundo) *
A Litany of Finger Pointing (in Songs for the Victims of AIDS) (Text: Gary Bachlund)
A Litany of Symptoms (in Love Songs for Dorothy) (Text: Gary Bachlund)
À mes côtés, il est venu s'asseoir (in Trois Chansons de Gidé) (Text: André Gide after Rabindranath Tagore) ENG ITA FRE GER
a politician is an arse upon (Text: E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings) [x]*
A prayer (Text: Joseph S. Cotter, Jr.)
A Prayer for Today (Text: Ambrose Bierce)
A Rational Anthem (Text: Ambrose Bierce)
A regular sort of a guy (Text: Eugene O'Neill)
a salesman is an it that stinks Excuse (Text: E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings) [x]*
A Seal Upon Your Heart (in From the Song of Songs) (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts)
A Seeking Heart (in Two Simple Songs) (Text: Virginia Ann Bachlund)
A Solitary Triumph (Text: Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse KBE)
A son of a Gambolier (Text: Charles Edward Ives)
A sword-great story (Text: E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings)
A Tree By the River Side (in Three Psalms) (Text: Thomas Sternhold after Bible or other Sacred Texts) ENG GER FRE
À une femme (Text: Victor Marie Hugo) ENG GER CHI SPA
A Young Man and His Sister (Text: Lewis Carroll)
Abel (Text: Else Lasker-Schüler) ENG
Accountability (Text: Paul Laurence Dunbar)
Advice to Little Girls (Text: Samuel Langhorne Clemens)
Aesopus und der Esel (in Fünf Fablen) (Text: Gotthold Ephraim Lessing) ENG
After Apple-picking (Text: Robert Frost)
After love (Text: Sara Teasdale)
Ah, Sunflower (in Three Blake Settings) (Text: William Blake) FRE
Alas, alack! (in Three Poems of Walter de la Mare) (Text: Walter de la Mare)
Alicante (in Deux petites chansons) (Text: Jacques Prévert) [x]*
All Lovely Things (Text: Conrad Aiken)
All that's past (Text: Walter de la Mare)
all the girls (Text: E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings) [x]*
Alles ist Eins (Text: Rainer Maria Rilke)
Alles still in süßer Ruh (in Wiegenlieder) (Text: August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben) ENG ITA
Als de ziele luistert (in Kleengedichtjes) (Text: Guido (Pieter Theodoor Jozef) Gezelle)
Altes Lied (Text: Frank Wedekind) ENG
American efficiency (in Seven Presidential Pardons) (Text: Gerald Rudolph Ford, Jr.)
An Angry Cactus Does No Good (in A Book of Nonsense) (Text: Mervyn Peake) [x]*
An Easy Goin' Feller (Text: Paul Laurence Dunbar)
An elegy on the death of a mad dog (Text: Oliver Goldsmith)
An Old and Crumbling Parapet (in A Book of Nonsense) (Text: Mervyn Peake) [x]*
An old Fellow of Trinity (Text: Arthur Clement Hilton)
An Old Lady (in "Calico Pie" and Other Nonsense) (Text: Edward Lear)
An Old Man with a Beard (in "Calico Pie" and Other Nonsense) (Text: Edward Lear)
Ancient Music (Text: Ezra Pound after Anonymous/Unidentified Artist) ENG LAT
And What Shall You Say? (Text: Joseph S. Cotter, Jr.)
Ann Street (in Three Little Americana Songs) (Text: Maurice Morris)
Annonce (in Goethe-lieder) (Text: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) ENG
Anoche cuando dormía (Text: António Machado) ENG
Any Part of Piggy (in Poets on Pigs) (Text: Noel Coward)
anyone lived in a pretty how town (Text: E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings) [x]*
April's lambs (Text: William Henry Davies)
Arie des Orpheus (Text: Carl Meisl) ENG
as freedom is a breakfastfood (Text: E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings) *
as joe gould says (in "crazy jay blue)" and other poems) (Text: E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings) *
Ashes and Eyes (Text: Anton Gill) *
At tea (Text: Thomas Hardy)
Attack (in Songs of War) (Text: Siegfried Lorraine Sassoon)
Aubade (Text: Edith Sitwell)
Auf den Berge Sinai ENG
Aufgegeben Endreime (Text: Friedrich Rückert) ENG
Aunty Flo (in A Book of Nonsense) (Text: Mervyn Peake) *
Aunty Grace (in A Book of Nonsense) (Text: Mervyn Peake) [x]*
Aunty Jane (in A Book of Nonsense) (Text: Mervyn Peake) [x]*
Aunty Jill (in A Book of Nonsense) (Text: Mervyn Peake) [x]*
Aunty Mig (in A Book of Nonsense) (Text: Mervyn Peake) [x]*
Aunty Nag (in A Book of Nonsense) (Text: Mervyn Peake) [x]*
Aunty Vi (in A Book of Nonsense) (Text: Mervyn Peake) [x]*
Autumn (in Four Seasons) (Text: Anton Gill) *
Away in a basin (in Three Abortion Carols) (Text: Gary Bachlund)
Ballade aus dem 15. Jahrhundert
Beautiful Women (Text: Ezra Pound)
Because I could not stop for death (Text: Emily Dickinson) FRE
Beer (Text: George Arnold)
Belsazar (Text: Heinrich Heine) ENG ITA
Between the Sunken Sun and the New Moon (Text: Paul Hamilton Hayne)
Beyond Debate (Text: Hervey Allen)
Blindekuh (Text: August Kopisch after Volkslieder (Folksongs) ENG GER FIN
Bonjour (in Poèmes pour la paix) (Text: Paul Éluard)
Broadway (in New York Sorrows) (Text: Sara Teasdale)
Buffalo Bill's (Text: E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings)
Bürokratismus (Text: Joachim Ringelnatz) ENG
but the other (Text: E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings)
buy me an ounce and i'll sell you a pound (in Three Cummings Songs) (Text: E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings) *
Caliban's Song (Text: William Shakespeare)
Calico Pie (in "Calico Pie" and Other Nonsense) (Text: Edward Lear)
Calling the Doctor (Text: John Wesley Holloway)
Central Park at Dusk (in New York Sorrows) (Text: Sara Teasdale)
Chanson (in Deux petites chansons) (Text: Jacques Prévert) [x]*
Chanson des escargots qui vont à l'enterrement (Text: Jacques Prévert) * ENG
Chanson des peintres (Text: Charles Cros)
Chicken Little (Text: Margaret Free)
Childhood Dreams (in "Alice" Songs) (Text: Lewis Carroll)
Chrismus Is A-Comin' (Text: Paul Laurence Dunbar)
Chutspeh (חוצפה) ENG
Cigarette Smoke (in Love Songs for Dorothy) (Text: Gary Bachlund)
Clever Death, Stupid Death (in Songs for the Victims of AIDS) (Text: Gary Bachlund)
Cobbler! Mend my shoe (in Nursery Rhymes and Children's Prayers)
'Come, Break the News to Me, Sweet Horse' (in A Book of Nonsense) (Text: Mervyn Peake) [x]*
Come unto these yellow sands (Text: William Shakespeare) FRE
Companion (in Chamber Music) (Text: James Joyce) FRE
Companion to the other (Text: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
Compensation (Text: Paul Laurence Dunbar)
Complete Destruction (Text: William Carlos Williams)
Coney Island (in New York Sorrows) (Text: Sara Teasdale)
Consolation (Text: Ambrose Bierce)
Coyote (in Harte Songs) (Text: (Francis) Bret(t) Harte)
crazy jay blue (in "crazy jay blue)" and other poems) (Text: E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings) *
Crocodiles (in A Book of Nonsense) (Text: Mervyn Peake) *
Crown Me With Hairpins (in A Book of Nonsense) (Text: Mervyn Peake) [x]*
Daffodils (Text: William Wordsworth) ENG GER
Daglega (in Lausn) (Text: Hallgrímur Pétursson)
Danny Deever (in Songs of War) (Text: Rudyard Kipling)
Das Alter (in Goethe-lieder) (Text: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) ENG
Das ästhetische Wiesel (in Das tierische Lied von der Erde) (Text: Christian Morgenstern) ENG
Das Beste (in Goethe-lieder) (Text: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) ENG
Das Ei (in Kleine Wesen) (Text: Joachim Ringelnatz) ENG
Das Häschen (Text: Wilhelm Busch) ENG
Das Karussell (Text: Rainer Maria Rilke)
Das kleine Mädchen (in Kleine Wesen) (Text: Joachim Ringelnatz) ENG
Das Krokodil (in Das tierische Lied von der Erde) (Text: Hermann von Lingg) ENG
Das Samenkorn (in Kleine Wesen) (Text: Joachim Ringelnatz) ENG
Dawn (Text: Paul Laurence Dunbar)
Daybreak (Text: John Ernst Steinbeck) *
De Cunjah man (in Echoes from the Cabin) (Text: James Edwin Campbell)
De snee (in Kleengedichtjes) (Text: Guido (Pieter Theodoor Jozef) Gezelle)
De winden (in Kleengedichtjes) (Text: Guido (Pieter Theodoor Jozef) Gezelle)
Dead Man's Dump (in Songs of War) (Text: Isaac Rosenberg)
Death snips proud men by the nose (Text: Carl Sandburg)
Decoration (Text: Samuel Foster Damon)
Dein Sternlein wacht (in Wiegenlieder) (Text: August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben)
Demain, dès l'aube (Text: Victor Marie Hugo)
Der alte Marabu (in Das tierische Lied von der Erde) (Text: Edwin Bormann) ENG
Der Edelstein (in Kleine Wesen) (Text: Joachim Ringelnatz) ENG
Der Esel (Text: Matthias Claudius) ENG
Der Floh (in Kleine Wesen) (Text: Joachim Ringelnatz) ENG
Der Fuchs und der Storch (in Fünf Fablen) (Text: Gotthold Ephraim Lessing) ENG
Der Funke (in Kleine Wesen) (Text: Joachim Ringelnatz) ENG
Der grosse und der kleine Hund (Text: Matthias Claudius) ENG
Der gute Hirte (Text: Martin Luther after Bible or other Sacred Texts) ENG GER FRE
Der kleine Junge (in Kleine Wesen) (Text: Joachim Ringelnatz) ENG
Der Knopf (in Kleine Wesen) (Text: Joachim Ringelnatz) ENG
Der kriegerische Wolf (in Fünf Fablen) (Text: Gotthold Ephraim Lessing) ENG
Der letzte Weg (Text: Joachim Ringelnatz) ENG
Der Seufzer (Text: Christian Morgenstern) ENG
Der Stein (in Kleine Wesen) (Text: Joachim Ringelnatz) ENG
Der Wassertropfen (in Kleine Wesen) (Text: Joachim Ringelnatz) ENG
Dickory, dickory, dare (in Poets on Pigs) (Text: Mother Goose)
Die Feder (in Kleine Wesen) (Text: Joachim Ringelnatz) ENG
Die Heinzelmännchen zu Köln (Text: August Kopisch) ENG
Die Moral (Text: Joachim Ringelnatz) ENG
Die Nadel (in Kleine Wesen) (Text: Joachim Ringelnatz) ENG
Die Schnupftabaksdose (in Strumpfsinn Lieder) (Text: Joachim Ringelnatz) ENG
Die Seifenblase (in Kleine Wesen) (Text: Joachim Ringelnatz) ENG
Die Wasserschlange (in Fünf Fablen) (Text: Gotthold Ephraim Lessing) ENG
Die Zärtlichkeiten (Text: Stefan Zweig) ENG
Die Zeit ist hin (Text: Theodor Storm) ENG
Directions for Singing (Text: John Wesley)
Disillusionment of ten o'clock (Text: Wallace Stevens)
Doll's boy's asleep (Text: E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings) *
dominic has a doll (in "crazy jay blue)" and other poems) (Text: E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings) *
Dora's Girls (Text: John Ernst Steinbeck) *
dreck (in Drei Kleinigkeiten) (Text: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart) ENG
Du armer Vater Adam (Text: Matthias Claudius)
Du lieblicher Stern (Text: August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben) ENG
dying is fine)but Death (Text: E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings) [x]*
Early Bacon (in Poets on Pigs) (Text: Archibald Stodart-Walker)
Ein große Genie (in Strumpfsinn Lieder) (Text: Joachim Ringelnatz) ENG
Ein kleines Lied (Text: Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) ENG
Ein Liebeslied (Text: Else Lasker-Schüler) [x]*
Ein männlicher Briefmark (in Strumpfsinn Lieder) (Text: Joachim Ringelnatz) ENG
Ein Wiegenlied (in Das tierische Lied von der Erde) (Text: Matthias Claudius) ENG
Ein Zungenzerfitzler (in Unsinn Poesie) (Text: Brigitte Peter)
Eine gelbe Zitrone (in Strumpfsinn Lieder) (Text: Joachim Ringelnatz) ENG
eine menge Nobleße (in Drei Kleinigkeiten) (Text: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart) ENG
Eine philosophische Maus (in Fünf Fablen) (Text: Gotthold Ephraim Lessing) ENG
Eine traurige Geschichte (in Das tierische Lied von der Erde) (Text: Joseph Viktor von Scheffel) ENG
Einleitung (in Kleine Wesen) (Text: Joachim Ringelnatz) ENG
En El Entierro de Un Amigo (Text: António Machado)
End of the Comedy (Text: Louis Untermeyer)
Es stot ein lind in himelreich (Text: Heinrich Loufenberg)
Every man (Text: George Reginald Margetson)
Eyes (in "Calico Pie" and Other Nonsense) (Text: Edward Lear)
Felix Randal (Text: Gerard Manley Hopkins)
Fisches Nachtgesang (Text: Christian Morgenstern) ENG
Fliege und Wanze (Text: Joachim Ringelnatz) ENG
For a poet (in Five Poems of Countée Cullen) (Text: Countee Cullen)
Freedom (Text: Ambrose Bierce)
Freude (Text: Joachim Ringelnatz) ENG
Friends (in This Perfect World) (Text: David Fries) *
Frühling (in Zwei Rilke-lieder) (Text: Rainer Maria Rilke) ENG
Frühlingsglaube (Text: Johann Ludwig Uhland) DUT ENG ITA FRE SPA
Fuchs und Bär (Text: Matthias Claudius)
Full moon (in Pieces of Peacock Pie) (Text: Walter de la Mare)
Gebet (Text: Eduard Mörike) ENG ITA
Gedder in yo' grain (in Injun Summah) (Text: Benjamin Franklin King)
Gentle Lady (in Chamber Music) (Text: James Joyce) FRE
George (The boy who played with dangerous toys) (in From Cautionary Tales for Children) (Text: (Joseph) Hilaire Belloc)
Gesang der Ungeborenen (Text: Hugo Hofmann, Edler von Hofmannsthal) ENG
Gethsemane (in Songs of War) (Text: Rudyard Kipling)
Give Laud unto the Lord (in Three Psalms) (Text: John Pullain after Bible or other Sacred Texts) ENG GER
God's Bottles
God's Grandeur (in Four Songs of Gerard Manley Hopkins) (Text: Gerard Manley Hopkins)
God's Will (Text: Mildred Howells)
Gold leaves (Text: Gilbert Keith Chesterton)
Goldenhair (in Chamber Music) (Text: James Joyce) FRE
Good and Clever (Text: Dame Elizabeth Wordsworth)
Good morning, Life (Text: William Henry Davies)
Government (Text: Carl Sandburg)
Green (Text: Paul Verlaine) ENG ITA
Hab ich nur geschrieben (in Goethe-lieder) (Text: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) ENG
Halbe Arbeit (Text: Theodor Storm) ENG
Happiness (Text: Carl Sandburg)
He wishes for the cloths of heaven (Text: William Butler Yeats)
Heavenly Days (in Hot House Ballads) (Text: Gary Bachlund)
Heidenröslein (Text: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) DUT ENG ITA FRE CHI SPA
Henry King (in From Cautionary Tales for Children) (Text: (Joseph) Hilaire Belloc)
Herbst (in Zwei Rilke-lieder) (Text: Rainer Maria Rilke) ENG
Hide and seek (in Pieces of Peacock Pie) (Text: Walter de la Mare)
Hinz und Kunz (Text: Matthias Claudius) ENG
hist whist (in chansons innocentes (1923)) (Text: E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings) *
Hog Meat (Text: Daniel Webster Davis)
Hokku (Text: E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings)
Hollywood (Text: Michael Hamburger after Bertolt Brecht) * ENG
Honky Tonk (Text: Carl Sandburg)
Hope won't survive (Text: Julie Dalton Williamson) *
Horreur! (in La Mort) (Text: Charles Baudelaire)
Hot and Blue (in Hot House Ballads) (Text: Gary Bachlund)
Hot House (in Hot House Ballads) (Text: Gary Bachlund)
How Fly the Birds of Heaven (in A Book of Nonsense) (Text: Mervyn Peake) [x]*
How pleasant to know Mr. Lear (Text: Edward Lear)
Hoy creo en Dios (in Las Canciones de Bécquer) (Text: Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer) ENG
Hugo der Finstere (Text: Ludwig Kalisch) ENG
Humpty Dumpty (in "Alice" Songs)
Hymn (Text: C. S. (Clive Staples) Lewis)
I am black but comely (in From the Song of Songs) (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts)
I Am Freedom's Fool (Text: Robert Service) *
I am sick with love (in From the Song of Songs) (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts)
I am the one (Text: Thomas Hardy) *
I bin Tenor (in Lächerliche Kleinigkeiten) (Text: Andreas Scheidegger) *
I Can Trust (Text: Daniel Webster Davis)
I Cannot Give You Reasons (in A Book of Nonsense) (Text: Mervyn Peake) *
I Have My Price (in A Book of Nonsense) (Text: Mervyn Peake) *
I Hear an Army (in Chamber Music) (Text: James Joyce) FRE
I like Americans (Text: Ernest Hemingway)
I like pigs (Text: Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill, Sir,)
i sing of Olaf glad and big (Text: E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings) *
I want to die while you love me (in Four Songs of a Woman) (Text: Georgia Douglas Johnson)
Ich bin aus Bern (in Lächerliche Kleinigkeiten) (Text: Andreas Scheidegger) *
Ich liebe dich (Text: Karl Friedrich Wilhelm Herrosee) ENG ITA SPA
Ich liebe dich, weil ich dich lieben muß (Text: Friedrich Rückert) ENG
Ich träume so leise von Dir (in Vier Lieder von Else Lasker-Schüler) (Text: Else Lasker-Schüler) ENG
If freckles were lovely (Text: E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings)
if i believe (in Three Cummings Songs) (Text: E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings) *
If I Should Die (in The Sum of Life) (Text: Benjamin Franklin King)
If the heart of a man (in Three Airs from the Beggar's Opera) (Text: John Gay)
Igel und Agel (Text: Christian Morgenstern) ENG FIN
I'm not a crook (in Seven Presidential Pardons) (Text: Richard Milhouse Nixon)
i'm so drunGk, dear (Text: E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings) [x]*
i'm very fond of black bean soup (Text: E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings) *
In de blijde mei (in Kleengedichtjes) (Text: Guido (Pieter Theodoor Jozef) Gezelle)
In Flanders Fields (Text: John McCrae)
in Just- (in chansons innocentes (1923)) (Text: E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings)
In meinem Schrank (Text: Victor Schapìel) ENG
In My Grave (Text: Frances Ginzer) *
In My Own Nursery (in Drolleries and Wisdom) (Text: Gilbert Keith Chesterton)
In the forest (Text: Oscar Wilde)
in time of daffodils (in "crazy jay blue)" and other poems) (Text: E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings) *
In Time of 'The Breaking of Nations' (in Songs of War) (Text: Thomas Hardy)
Incident (in Five Poems of Countée Cullen) (Text: Countee Cullen)
Injun Summah (in Injun Summah) (Text: Benjamin Franklin King)
Interlude (in La Mort)
into the strenuous briefness (Text: E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings)
Ironic Poem about Prostitution (Text: Eric Blair)
It depends upon what the meaning of the word 'is' is (in Seven Presidential Pardons) (Text: William (Bill) Jefferson Clinton)
it is at moments after i have dreamed (Text: E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings)
It Is Most Best (in A Book of Nonsense) (Text: Mervyn Peake) [x]*
it may not always be so; and i say (Text: E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings)
It was a cross (in Songs for the Victims of AIDS) (Text: Gary Bachlund)
'It Worries Me to Know' (in A Book of Nonsense) (Text: Mervyn Peake) [x]*
It's drink that uplifts (Text: Turlough O'Carolan)
It's Great When You Get In (Text: Eugene O'Neill)
Ja, schelte nur (in Goethe-lieder) (Text: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) ENG
Jabberwocky (in "Alice" Songs) (Text: Lewis Carroll)
Janneke (in Kleengedichtjes) (Text: Guido (Pieter Theodoor Jozef) Gezelle)
Je rêve (in Poèmes pour la paix) (Text: Paul Éluard)
Jim (Text: (Francis) Bret(t) Harte)
Jimmie's got a goil (in e. e.'s songs) (Text: E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings) *
Joy (Text: Carl Sandburg)
Jumbled (in Love Songs for Dorothy) (Text: Gary Bachlund)
Kartoffellied (Text: Matthias Claudius) ENG
Kein Elend (Text: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) ENG
Kurze Freude (Text: August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben)
La eterna primavera (in Dos Canciones de Rosalía de Castro) (Text: Rosalia de Castro)
La fin de la journée (in La Mort) (Text: Charles Baudelaire) ENG
La luz divina (in Las Canciones de Bécquer) (Text: Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer)
La mort des amants (in La Mort) (Text: Charles Baudelaire) ENG
La mort des artistes (in La Mort) (Text: Charles Baudelaire) ENG
La mort des pauvres (in La Mort) (Text: Charles Baudelaire)
La noria (Text: António Machado)
La rêve d'un curieux (in La Mort) (Text: Charles Baudelaire)
Le faune (Text: Paul Verlaine) ENG
Le panneau (in Fantaisies Décoratives) (Text: Oscar Wilde)
Le silence (Text: Comte Alfred Victor de Vigny)
Lead gently, lord (Text: Paul Laurence Dunbar)
Lean Sideways on the Wind (in A Book of Nonsense) (Text: Mervyn Peake) [x]*
Leave the Stronger (in A Book of Nonsense) (Text: Mervyn Peake) [x]*
Lebenslust (in Goethe-lieder) (Text: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) ENG
Les Ballons (in Fantaisies Décoratives) (Text: Oscar Wilde)
Les vrais Voyageurs (in La Mort) (Text: Charles Baudelaire)
Less than the cloud to the wind (in New York Sorrows) (Text: Sara Teasdale)
Letter to Saint Andrew (Text: Samuel Langhorne Clemens)
Letztes Lied (Text: Johann Wilhelm Ludwig Gleim) ENG
Lied der Rosa (Text: Susanne Paasch) *
Life (in Three Songs for Roger) (Text: Gary Bachlund)
Life (Text: Paul Laurence Dunbar)
Like a Sick Eagle (in Three Little Americana Songs) (Text: John Keats)
Like as the Hart (in Three Psalms) (Text: John Hopkins after Bible or other Sacred Texts) ENG
Lions and Ants (Text: Walt Mason)
Little Drops of Water (in Nursery Rhymes and Children's Prayers) (Text: Julia Abigail Fletcher, Carney)
little man (Text: E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings) *
Little Questions (Text: Gary Bachlund)
Little Spider (in A Book of Nonsense) (Text: Mervyn Peake) [x]*
little tree (in chansons innocentes (1925)) (Text: E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings) *
Lofa þinn guð (in Lausn) (Text: Hallgrímur Pétursson)
Lore Lay (Text: Clemens Maria Wenzeslaus von Brentano) ENG FRE
Love (in Three Songs for Roger) (Text: Gary Bachlund)
love is more thicker than forget (in "spoke joe to jack" and other songs) (Text: E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings) *
love is the every only god (in "spoke joe to jack" and other songs) (Text: E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings) *
Lügenmärchen ENG
Lullaby (Text: Paul Laurence Dunbar)
Lumière! ma lumière! (in Trois Chansons de Gidé) (Text: André Gide after Rabindranath Tagore) ENG FRE
Ma belle (in Poèmes pour la paix) (Text: Paul Éluard)
Make Music Sweet (in Chamber Music) (Text: James Joyce) FRE
Malvas en la pradera (in Tres Canciones de Ana María Fagundo) (Text: Ana María Fagundo) *
mary green (in e. e.'s songs) (Text: E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings) *
Mary Had a Little Lamb (in Nursery Rhymes and Children's Prayers) (Text: Mother Goose)
Matilda (who told such dreadful lies) (in From Cautionary Tales for Children) (Text: (Joseph) Hilaire Belloc)
Matinée (in Two Poems of Louis Untermeyer) (Text: Louis Untermeyer)
Mauskätzchen (in Mäuselein, Mauskätzchen und Spätzchen) (Text: August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben)
may i feel said he (in Three Cummings Songs) (Text: E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings) *
Mein blaues Klavier (Text: Else Lasker-Schüler) [x]*
Mein kleinster Fehler (Text: Wilhelm Busch) ENG
Memories (in This Perfect World) (Text: David Fries) *
Memories (Text: Charles Edward Ives) SPA
Metaphysics (Text: Oliver Herford)
Mietvertrag (Text: Olivia Melton) *
Miss T. (in Pieces of Peacock Pie) (Text: Walter de la Mare)
Mon bras pressait ta taille frêle (Text: Victor Marie Hugo) ENG
Mon enfant (in Poèmes pour la paix) (Text: Paul Éluard)
Mon jardin (in Poèmes pour la paix) (Text: Paul Éluard)
Montparnasse (Text: Ernest Hemingway)
Mors et Vita (Text: James Edwin Campbell)
Mortality (Text: Paul Laurence Dunbar)
mr youse needn't be so spry (Text: E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings) *
Mrs. Judge Jenkins (in Harte Songs) (Text: (Francis) Bret(t) Harte)
Music (Text: Walter de la Mare)
Music, when soft voices die (Text: Percy Bysshe Shelley) RUS GER
Mutter (Text: Else Lasker-Schüler) ENG
My heart, waiting (Text: Harmony Twitchell (Mrs. Charles Ives) after Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) DUT RUS ENG ITA FRE FIN SPA
My little dreams (in Four Songs of a Woman) (Text: Georgia Douglas Johnson)
My Love (in From the Song of Songs) (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts)
My Sweet Mistress (Text: William Shakespeare)
Nar Hem (in Kleengedichtjes) (Text: Guido (Pieter Theodoor Jozef) Gezelle)
Nature (in Three Little Americana Songs)
Negro Serenade (in Echoes from the Cabin) (Text: James Edwin Campbell)
Nehm ich Abscheid (Text: Heinrich Heine) ENG ITA FRE
Nein! (Text: Christian Morgenstern) ENG
No Aigs fo Breakfast (Text: William Chambers Barnett II) *
No Body Blues (in Hot House Ballads) (Text: Gary Bachlund)
No eres vano sueño (in Dos Canciones de Rosalía de Castro) (Text: Rosalia de Castro)
No exaggeration (in Seven Presidential Pardons) (Text: George Herbert Walker Bush)
nobody loses all the time (Text: E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings) *
Noch einmal (in Drei einfache Lieder von Theodor Storm) (Text: Theodor Storm) ENG
Not All There (Text: Robert Frost)
Nothing to Do (Text: James Ephriam McGirt)
Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep (in Nursery Rhymes and Children's Prayers)
Nun schlummert meine Seele (in Vier Lieder von Else Lasker-Schüler) (Text: Else Lasker-Schüler) ENG
o by the by (Text: E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings) *
O Here It Is! And There It Is! (in A Book of Nonsense) (Text: Mervyn Peake) [x]*
O lieber Gott (Text: Clemens Maria Wenzeslaus von Brentano)
O little child unwanted (in Three Abortion Carols) (Text: Gary Bachlund)
O Little Fly (in A Book of Nonsense) (Text: Mervyn Peake) [x]*
O Love! O Death! O Ecstasy! (in A Book of Nonsense) (Text: Mervyn Peake) [x]*
O Mäuselein (in Mäuselein, Mauskätzchen und Spätzchen) (Text: August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben)
O sweet spontaneous earth (Text: E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings)
O Vrije, vlaamsche poësis (in Kleengedichtjes) (Text: Guido (Pieter Theodoor Jozef) Gezelle)
O! mes amis! (in Poèmes pour la paix) (Text: Paul Éluard)
October (Text: Robert Frost)
Ode to Stephen Dowling Bots, dec'd (Text: Samuel Langhorne Clemens)
O'er Seas That Have No Beaches (in A Book of Nonsense) (Text: Mervyn Peake) [x]*
Of Pygmies, Palms and Pirates (in A Book of Nonsense) (Text: Mervyn Peake) *
oil tel duh woil doi sez (Text: E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings) *
Ol' Doc' Hyar (in Echoes from the Cabin) (Text: James Edwin Campbell)
Olas gigantes (in Las Canciones de Bécquer) (Text: Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer) ENG
On the Mississippi (Text: Hamlin Garland)
One's-Self I sing (Text: Walt Whitman)
Opera, n. (Text: Ambrose Bierce)
Oración de Abuelita ENG
Oui, je le sais bien (Text: André Gide after Rabindranath Tagore) ENG ITA FRE
Our Ginger Moggy (in Four Little Cat Songs) (Text: Julie Dalton Williamson) *
Over silent waters (Text: E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings)
Owls - an Epitaph (Text: Sir Edward Elgar)
Pain (in Chamber Music) (Text: James Joyce) FRE
Pat-a-cake, Baker's Man (in Nursery Rhymes and Children's Prayers) (Text: Mother Goose)
Philosophy (Text: Paul Laurence Dunbar)
Pied Beauty (in Four Songs of Gerard Manley Hopkins) (Text: Gerard Manley Hopkins)
Pierrot (Text: Sara Teasdale)
Pig and Pepper (in "Alice" Songs) (Text: Lewis Carroll)
Piggy Patter, Piggy Platter (in Poets on Pigs) (Text: Mary (Mrs. Walter) Buchanan)
Pigs is Pigs (Text: Ellis Parker Butler)
Plain Language from Truthful James (in Harte Songs) (Text: (Francis) Bret(t) Harte)
plato told him (in e. e.'s songs) (Text: E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings) *
Politics (Text: Gary Bachlund)
Politics is where the pig (in Poets on Pigs) (Text: Gary Bachlund)
Poor Henry (in Pieces of Peacock Pie) (Text: Walter de la Mare)
Portrait of a Barmaid (Text: Edith Sitwell)
Pour être heureux (in Poèmes pour la paix) (Text: Paul Éluard)
Pour le Voyage (in La Mort) (Text: Charles Baudelaire) RUS ENG
Pour l'enfant (in La Mort) (Text: Charles Baudelaire)
Pray tell, my brother, why (Text: Rudolph J. Rummel) *
Prélude (in La Mort)
Près de toi (in Poèmes pour la paix) (Text: Paul Éluard)
Primer Lesson (Text: Carl Sandburg)
Professoren-Liedchen (in Unsinn Poesie) (Text: Martin Walser) ITA
Punch, Brothers, Punch (Text: Samuel Langhorne Clemens)
Quand je te vois (Text: Pierre de Ronsard) ENG
¡Qué hermoso (in Las Canciones de Bécquer) (Text: Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer)
Queen Alice (in "Alice" Songs) (Text: Lewis Carroll)
Question (Text: (James Mercer) Langston Hughes)
Quodlibet (Text: Philipp Hafner) ENG
Rain has fallen (in Chamber Music) (Text: James Joyce) FRE
raise the shade will youse dearie? (in e. e.'s songs) (Text: E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings) *
Raise those taxes! (Text: Gary Bachlund)
Raisin Pie (Text: Edgar Guest)
Rätsel (Text: August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben) ENG
Red-Headed Girl (Text: Carl Sandburg)
red-rag and pink-flag (in "spoke joe to jack" and other songs) (Text: E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings) *
Regen in der Dämmerung (in Drei Lieder von Hugo von Hofmannsthal) (Text: Hugo Hofmann, Edler von Hofmannsthal) ENG
Renaissance (in Two Simple Songs) (Text: Virginia Ann Bachlund) *
Requiescat (Text: Oscar Wilde) GER
Return! (in From the Song of Songs) (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts)
Rezept (Text: Joachim Ringelnatz) ENG
Rich Man, Poor Man (in Nursery Rhymes and Children's Prayers) (Text: Mother Goose)
Romance Novel (in Love Songs for Dorothy) (Text: Gary Bachlund)
Room A-460 (in Songs for the Victims of AIDS) (Text: Gary Bachlund)
Rosas en diciembre (in Tres Canciones de Ana María Fagundo) (Text: Ana María Fagundo) *
Ruhest du auch (Text: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) DUT RUS ENG ITA FRE FIN SPA
Saph goes under the bed (in Four Little Cat Songs) (Text: Julie Dalton Williamson) *
Sarah and Sandy and Sally and Sue (Text: Gary Bachlund)
Saturday's child (in Five Poems of Countée Cullen) (Text: Countee Cullen)
says ol man no body - (in e. e.'s songs) (Text: E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings) *
Schein und Sein (Text: Wilhelm Busch) ENG
Schlaf auch du! (in Wiegenlieder) (Text: August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben)
seeker of truth (Text: E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings) *
Seliger Tod (Text: Johann Ludwig Uhland) SPA
Sence You Went Away (Text: James Weldon Johnson)
Septembermorgen (Text: Eduard Mörike) ENG FRE
Shrink, Shrink (in A Book of Nonsense) (Text: Mervyn Peake) [x]*
Si le jour est passé (in Trois Chansons de Gidé) (Text: André Gide after Rabindranath Tagore) ENG FRE
Si mundus vult decipi (Text: Gary Bachlund)
Sie war ein Blümlein hübsch und fein (Text: Wilhelm Busch) ENG
Silent child, wholly defiled (in Three Abortion Carols) (Text: Gary Bachlund)
Silver (in Three Poems of Walter de la Mare) (Text: Walter de la Mare)
Sir I Exist (Text: Stephen Crane)
Small Homes (Text: Carl Sandburg) *
so, ich bitte (in Drei Kleinigkeiten) (Text: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart) ENG
Sobs en route to a Penitentiary (Text: Carl Sandburg)
Solch ein lauer weißer Tag (Text: Max Dauthendey) ENG
Sole e amore
Some one (in Pieces of Peacock Pie) (Text: Walter de la Mare)
Sometimes I wonder (Text: Samuel Langhorne Clemens)
Song in a Minor Key (Text: Dorothy Parker)
Song of the secret (in Pieces of Peacock Pie) (Text: Walter de la Mare)
Sonnet VIII - "Music to hear, why hear'st thou music sadly?" (in Five Sonnets) (Text: William Shakespeare) RUS HUN ITA FRE FIN
Sonnet XVIII - "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?" (in Five Sonnets) (Text: William Shakespeare) ITA FIN
Sonnet XIX - "Devouring Time" (in Five Sonnets) (Text: William Shakespeare) ITA
Sonnet XXX - "When to the sessions of sweet silent thought" (in Five Sonnets) (Text: William Shakespeare) RUS ITA
Sonnet LXVI - "Tir'd with all these, for restful death I cry" (in Five Sonnets) (Text: William Shakespeare) RUS ITA
Sonnet 116 (Text: William Shakespeare) ITA GER
sonnett (in Unsinn Poesie) (Text: Gerhard Rühm)
Southern Pacific (Text: Carl Sandburg)
Spatz und Katze (in Mäuselein, Mauskätzchen und Spätzchen) (Text: August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben)
Spiritual Love Song (Text: Roger Bourland) *
Splendide! (in Poèmes pour la paix) (Text: Paul Éluard)
spoke joe to jack (in "spoke joe to jack" and other songs) (Text: E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings) *
Spring (in Four Seasons) (Text: Anton Gill) *
Spring (in Four Songs of Gerard Manley Hopkins) (Text: Gerard Manley Hopkins)
spring omnipotent goddess (Text: E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings)
Squat Ursula (in A Book of Nonsense) (Text: Mervyn Peake) [x]*
Stephano's Song (Text: William Shakespeare)
Strictly Germ-Proof (Text: Arthur Guiterman)
Stufen (Text: Hermann Hesse) ENG
Stupidity Street (Text: Ralph Hodgson)
Sturmnacht (in Drei Lieder von Hugo von Hofmannsthal) (Text: Hugo Hofmann, Edler von Hofmannsthal) ENG
Summer (in Four Seasons) (Text: Anton Gill) *
Summer night, riverside (in New York Sorrows) (Text: Sara Teasdale)
Summer silence (Text: E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings)
Sungið, sagt og téð (in Lausn) (Text: Hallgrímur Pétursson)
Sweeney among the nightingales (Text: T. S. (Thomas Stearns) Eliot)
Tag (in Drei einfache Lieder von Theodor Storm) (Text: Theodor Storm) ENG
Talent (Text: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) ENG
Tante Qualle und der Elefant (Text: Joachim Ringelnatz) ENG
Tes Souvenirs (Text: Kundry Van Mechelen) *
...that better things might be (Text: Charles Edward Ives)
The Adventures of Footfruit (in A Book of Nonsense) (Text: Mervyn Peake) [x]*
The Bear Hunt (Text: Abraham Lincoln)
The bells of Hell (Text: dates 1900-1945)
The Big Bell in Zion (Text: Theodore Henry Shackelford)
the bigness of cannon (Text: E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings)
The Birds Sat Upon It (in "Calico Pie" and Other Nonsense) (Text: Edward Lear)
The Broken Heart (Text: Thomas Moore)
The Broom, the Shovel, the Poker and Tongs (Text: Edward Lear)
The cage (in The Circus Band and Other Delights) (Text: Charles Edward Ives)
the Cambridge ladies (Text: E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings)
The Child and the Star (in Nursery Rhymes and Children's Prayers) (Text: Mother Goose)
The Circus Band (in The Circus Band and Other Delights) (Text: Charles Edward Ives) SPA
The Cow Slips Away (in Injun Summah) (Text: Benjamin Franklin King)
The Cudgel'd Husband (Text: Jonathan Swift)
The cupboard (in Pieces of Peacock Pie) (Text: Walter de la Mare)
The Daddy Long-Legs and the Fly (in "Calico Pie" and Other Nonsense) (Text: Edward Lear)
The Dance (in This Perfect World) (Text: David Fries) *
The dead (in Songs of War) (Text: Rupert Brooke) ITA
The Debt Unpayable (Text: Francis William Bourdillon)
The divine image (Text: William Blake) RUS
The Double Standard Song (Text: Gary Bachlund)
The Duck and the Kangaroo (in "Calico Pie" and Other Nonsense) (Text: Edward Lear)
The Dwarf of Battersea (in A Book of Nonsense) (Text: Mervyn Peake) [x]*
The Emperor of Ice-Cream (Text: Wallace Stevens)
The Englishman (in Drolleries and Wisdom) (Text: Gilbert Keith Chesterton)
The ghost (Text: Walter de la Mare)
The girl in the tea shop (Text: Ezra Pound)
The Gourmet's Love Song (Text: Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse KBE)
The Hair-Tonic Bottle (in The Sum of Life) (Text: Benjamin Franklin King)
The Hammer (Text: Carl Sandburg)
The Harlem Dancer (Text: Claude Mckay) GER
The Harlot's House (Text: Oscar Wilde)
The hearse song
The heart of a woman (in Four Songs of a Woman) (Text: Georgia Douglas Johnson)
The Hideous Root (in A Book of Nonsense) (Text: Mervyn Peake) [x]*
The hoard of the Gibbelins (Text: Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, 18th Baron Dunsany)
The Holy of Holies (in Drolleries and Wisdom) (Text: Gilbert Keith Chesterton)
The Horrible History of Jones (Text: Gilbert Keith Chesterton)
The huntsmen (in Pieces of Peacock Pie) (Text: Walter de la Mare)
The Idol-Maker Prays (Text: Arthur Guiterman)
The Jumblies (in "Calico Pie" and Other Nonsense) (Text: Edward Lear)
The King-fisher Song (Text: Lewis Carroll)
The kiss (in New York Sorrows) (Text: Sara Teasdale)
The Late Singer (Text: William Carlos Williams)
The Law the Lawyers Know About (Text: Harry (later Hilary) Douglas Clark Pepler)
The Lawyers Know Too Much (Text: Carl Sandburg)
The Lawyers' Way (Text: Paul Laurence Dunbar)
The lily (in Three Blake Settings) (Text: William Blake)
The Lion and the Unicorn (in "Alice" Songs)
The lip and the heart (Text: John Quincy Adams)
The Little Crocodile (in "Alice" Songs) (Text: Lewis Carroll)
The Lord Is My Shepherd (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts after Bible or other Sacred Texts) ENG GER FRE
The loss of love (in Five Poems of Countée Cullen) (Text: Countee Cullen)
The lost shoe (in Pieces of Peacock Pie) (Text: Walter de la Mare)
The Mad Gardener's Song (Text: Lewis Carroll)
The Margaret Sanger Song (Text: Margaret Sanger)
The Men in Bowler Hats Are Sweet (in A Book of Nonsense) (Text: Mervyn Peake) [x]*
The Mock Turtle's Lament (in "Alice" Songs) (Text: Lewis Carroll)
The Negro Speaks of Rivers (Text: (James Mercer) Langston Hughes)
The new river (Text: Charles Edward Ives)
The new road (Text: Anne Lafeber) *
the old almost lady (in "crazy jay blue)" and other poems) (Text: E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings) *
The old maid (in New York Sorrows) (Text: Sara Teasdale)
The Old Men (Text: William Carlos Williams)
The Opening Game (Text: Ernest Hemmingway)
The Owl and the Pussy-Cat (in "Calico Pie" and Other Nonsense) (Text: Edward Lear) RUS
The Pelican Chorus (Text: Edward Lear)
The Pessimist (in The Sum of Life) (Text: Benjamin Franklin King)
The pig (in Poets on Pigs) (Text: Ogden Nash) *
The Pig - A Fable (in Poets on Pigs) (Text: Christopher Smart)
The Pilgrim Soul (Text: William Butler Yeats) ITA
The Place of the Damned (Text: Jonathan Swift)
The prism of life (Text: John Addington Symonds)
The Quilt (in Songs for the Victims of AIDS) (Text: Gary Bachlund)
The Rain Is Failing (in Nursery Rhymes and Children's Prayers) (Text: Gary Bachlund after Robert Louis Stevenson) ENG
The red wheelbarrow (Text: William Carlos Williams)
The River St. Joe (in Injun Summah) (Text: Benjamin Franklin King)
The Sand-Man (Text: Paul Laurence Dunbar)
The Second Coming (in Three Magical Songs) (Text: William Butler Yeats)
The second-oldest profession (in Seven Presidential Pardons) (Text: Ronald Wilson Reagan)
the secrets of living (Text: E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings) *
The see'r (in The Circus Band and Other Delights) (Text: Charles Edward Ives)
The Send-Off (in Songs of War) (Text: Wilfred Owen)
The sick rose (in Three Blake Settings) (Text: William Blake) NYN RUS
The Side Show (in The Circus Band and Other Delights) (Text: Charles Edward Ives after P. Rooney) ENG SPA
The silver swan GER FRE
the sky was (Text: E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings) *
The snow man (Text: Wallace Stevens)
The Snow-Blossoms (Text: Clark Ashton Smith)
The Social Democrat's Song (Text: Gary Bachlund)
The song of shadows (in Three Poems of Walter de la Mare) (Text: Walter de la Mare)
The Song of the Quoodle (Text: Gilbert Keith Chesterton)
The Song of Wandering Aengus (in Three Magical Songs) (Text: William Butler Yeats)
The Spectre Pig - A Ballad (in Poets on Pigs) (Text: Oliver Wendell Holmes)
The Star and the Pig (in Poets on Pigs) (Text: Sara Teasdale) FRE
The stolen child (in Three Magical Songs) (Text: William Butler Yeats)
The strategery (in Seven Presidential Pardons) (Text: George W. Bush)
The sum (Text: Paul Laurence Dunbar)
The things our fathers loved (Text: Charles Edward Ives)
The Thread Remains (in A Book of Nonsense) (Text: Mervyn Peake) [x]*
The Three Little Pigs (in Poets on Pigs) (Text: Alfred Scott Gatty)
The Town Rabbit in the Country (Text: Camilla Doyle)
The Trouble With Geraniums (in A Book of Nonsense) (Text: Mervyn Peake) *
The Virgin's Cradle Hymn ENG FRE
The Wanderer (Text: Beulah May)
the way to hump a cow is not (in "spoke joe to jack" and other songs) (Text: E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings) *
The Wild Horse Travels (Text: Gordon Bachlund) *
The wise (in Five Poems of Countée Cullen) (Text: Countee Cullen)
The Young Housewife (Text: William Carlos Williams)
Then (in Pieces of Peacock Pie) (Text: Walter de la Mare)
Theology (Text: Paul Laurence Dunbar)
there are possibly 2½ or impossibly 3 (in "spoke joe to jack" and other songs) (Text: E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings) *
these children singing in stone (in "spoke joe to jack" and other songs) (Text: E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings) *
this is the garden (Text: E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings) *
This Pig Went to Market (in Poets on Pigs)
Three Little Pigs (in Poets on Pigs) (Text: Sian Davies) *
Þurfamaður (in Lausn) (Text: Hallgrímur Pétursson)
time, be kind (in e. e.'s songs) (Text: E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings) *
Tintinnabulum (in A Book of Nonsense) (Text: Mervyn Peake) [x]*
Tired Tim (in Pieces of Peacock Pie) (Text: Walter de la Mare)
To Call Thee Love (in Four Songs of Gerard Manley Hopkins) (Text: Gerard Manley Hopkins)
To drown my troubles (in Seven Presidential Pardons) (Text: James (Jimmy) Earl Carter)
To Lizbie Browne (Text: Thomas Hardy)
To Rosa (Text: Abraham Lincoln)
To the States (Text: Walt Whitman)
To Women As Far As I'm Concerned (Text: D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence)
Travaille (in Poèmes pour la paix) (Text: Paul Éluard)
Tumbling-hair (in chansons innocentes (1923)) (Text: E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings) *
Tweedledum and Tweedledee (in "Alice" Songs)
Twilight (in Chamber Music) (Text: James Joyce) FRE
Un beso (in Las Canciones de Bécquer) (Text: Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer)
Uncle Eph's Banjo Song (in Echoes from the Cabin) (Text: James Edwin Campbell)
Uncle Jake (in A Book of Nonsense) (Text: Mervyn Peake) [x]*
Uncle Sam (in A Book of Nonsense) (Text: Mervyn Peake) [x]*
Uncle Wog (in A Book of Nonsense) (Text: Mervyn Peake) [x]*
Une amoureuse (in Poèmes pour la paix) (Text: Paul Éluard)
Unerhört (Text: Ludwig Kalisch) ENG
Union Square (Text: Sara Teasdale)
Unterm Tisch (in Strumpfsinn Lieder) (Text: Joachim Ringelnatz) ENG
up into the silence (in "spoke joe to jack" and other songs) (Text: E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings) *
Venez à lui (Text: Victor Marie Hugo) ENG
Verborgenheit (Text: Eduard Mörike) ENG ITA FRE
Verona (Text: Rudolf Hagelstange) ENG
Versöhnung (in Vier Lieder von Else Lasker-Schüler) (Text: Else Lasker-Schüler) ENG
Vin was my cat (in Four Little Cat Songs) (Text: Julie Dalton Williamson) *
Volkslied (Text: Joachim Ringelnatz) ENG
Waltz (in The Circus Band and Other Delights) (Text: Charles Edward Ives)
wanta spend six dollars kid (Text: E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings)
Warm summer sun (Text: Samuel Langhorne Clemens)
Wärst du ein Bächlein (Text: Wilhelm Busch)
Was? (Text: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart)
Was bleibt denn (in Goethe-lieder) (Text: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) ENG
Was ist ein Original? (Text: Paul Scheerbart) ENG
Wasser und Wein (Text: August Kopisch) ENG
Wassermaus und Kröte (in Das tierische Lied von der Erde) ENG
We all declare for liberty (Text: Abraham Lincoln)
We two boys (Text: Walt Whitman)
We wear the mask (Text: Paul Laurence Dunbar)
Wedlock (Text: Benjamin Franklin)
Weltende (in Vier Lieder von Else Lasker-Schüler) (Text: Else Lasker-Schüler) ENG
Wettstreit (Text: August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben) ENG
What About It? (in Love Songs for Dorothy) (Text: Gary Bachlund)
What could I do? (Text: Richard Le Gallienne)
What lips my lips have kissed (Text: Edna St. Vincent Millay)
what the hell (in "crazy jay blue)" and other poems) (Text: E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings) *
What's The Use (Text: Paul Laurence Dunbar)
When A Feller's Itchin' To Be Spanked (Text: Paul Laurence Dunbar)
when any mortal(even the most odd) (in "crazy jay blue)" and other poems) (Text: E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings) *
when god lets my body be (Text: E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings) *
when life is quite through with (Text: E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings)
when mack smacked phyllis (in "crazy jay blue)" and other poems) (Text: E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings) *
When Ol' Sis' Judy Pray (in Echoes from the Cabin) (Text: James Edwin Campbell)
Where Love Did Sometime Go (in Chamber Music) (Text: James Joyce) FRE
Where the Bee Sucks (Text: William Shakespeare) FRE
Where the mind is without fear (Text: Rabindranath Tagore after Rabindranath Tagore) ENG
Where's Madge then (Text: E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings) [x]*
Who Am I? (in Three Songs for Roger) (Text: Gary Bachlund)
why did you go (in chansons innocentes (1925)) (Text: E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings)
Wie nah? (Text: Rachel Harnisch) *
Wiegenlied (Text: Clemens Maria Wenzeslaus von Brentano) ENG FRE
Wiegenlied (Text: Ludwig I, König von Bayern)
Will ever? (in Pieces of Peacock Pie) (Text: Walter de la Mare)
Wine and water (in Drolleries and Wisdom) (Text: Gilbert Keith Chesterton)
Winter (in Four Seasons) (Text: Anton Gill) *
Winter (Text: Walter de la Mare)
Winter Is Coming (Text: Waverley Turner Carmichael)
Winterweihe (Text: Karl Friedrich Henckell) ENG ITA SPA
With a Volume of Heine (in Two Poems of Louis Untermeyer) (Text: Louis Untermeyer)
Wolken (in Drei Lieder von Hugo von Hofmannsthal) (Text: Hugo Hofmann, Edler von Hofmannsthal) ENG
Wynken, Blynken and Nod (Text: Eugene Field)
Xanthippe (Text: Frank Wedekind) ENG
Yesterday (in Songs for the Victims of AIDS) (Text: Gary Bachlund)
Youth (in Four Songs of a Woman) (Text: Georgia Douglas Johnson)
Youth's the season made for joys (in Three Airs from the Beggar's Opera) (Text: John Gay)
Zoe! Zoe! (in Four Little Cat Songs) (Text: Julie Dalton Williamson) *
Zwei Ritter (Text: Heinrich Heine) ENG
Zwischen mir und Dir (in Drei einfache Lieder von Theodor Storm) (Text: Theodor Storm) ENG

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