Composer: Gary Bachlund

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

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Song Cycles, Symphonies, etc.

"Alice" Songs

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

Blue Mountain Ballads

no. 1. Sugar in the Cane (Tennessee Williams) *
no. 2. Heavenly Grass (Tennessee Williams) *
no. 3. Cabin (Tennessee Williams) *
no. 4. Lonesome Man (Tennessee Williams) *

"Calico Pie" and Other Nonsense

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

Chamber Music

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

chansons innocentes (1923)

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

chansons innocentes (1925)

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

"crazy jay blue)" and other poems

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

Das tierische Lied von der Erde

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

Deux petites chansons

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

Drei einfache Lieder von Theodor Storm

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

Drei Kleinigkeiten

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

Drei Lieder von Hugo von Hofmannsthal

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

Drolleries and Wisdom

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

e. e.'s songs

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

Echoes from the Cabin

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

Fantaisies Décoratives

no. 1. Le Panneau (Oscar Wilde)
no. 2. Les Ballons (Oscar Wilde)

Five Poems of Countée Cullen

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

Five Sonnets

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

Four Seasons

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

Four Songs of a Woman

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

Four Songs of Gerard Manley Hopkins

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

From Cautionary Tales for Children

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

From "In the Winter of Cities"

no. 1. Old men are fond (Tennessee Williams) [x]*
no. 2. Which is my little boy? (Tennessee Williams) [x]*
no. 3. Covenant (Tennessee Williams) [x]*
no. 4. Across the space (Tennessee Williams) [x]*
no. 5. Death is high (Tennessee Williams) [x]*

From the Song of Songs

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

Goethe-lieder

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

Harte Songs

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

Injun Summah

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

Kleengedichtjes

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

La Mort

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

Lächerliche Kleinigkeiten

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

Las Canciones de Bécquer

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

Lausn

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

Love Songs of Dorothy Parker

no. 1. Two-Volume Novel (Dorothy Parker) *
no. 2. Pictures in the Smoke (Dorothy Parker) *
no. 3. General Review of the Sex Situation (Dorothy Parker) *
no. 4. Theory (Dorothy Parker) *
no. 5. Symptom Recital (Dorothy Parker) *

Mäuselein, Mauskätzchen und Spätzchen

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

New York Sorrows

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

Nursery Rhymes and Children's Prayers

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

Pieces of Peacock Pie

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

Poèmes pour la paix

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

Poets on Pigs

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

Seven Presidential Pardons

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

Songs for the Victims of AIDS

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

Songs of War

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

"spoke joe to jack" and other songs

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

Strumpfsinn Lieder

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

The Circus Band and Other Delights

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

The Sum of Life

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

This Perfect World

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

Three Abortion Carols

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

Three Airs from the Beggar's Opera

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

Three Blake Settings

no. 1. The Sick Rose (William Blake) NYN RUS
no. 2. The lily (William Blake)
no. 3. Ah, Sunflower (William Blake)

Three Cummings Songs

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

Three Little Americana Songs

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

Three Magical Songs

no. 1. The Stolen Child (William Butler Yeats)
no. 2. The Song of Wandering Aengus (William Butler Yeats)
no. 3. The Second Coming (William Butler Yeats)

Three Poems of Walter de la Mare

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

Three Psalms

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

Trois Chansons de Gidé

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

Two Simple Songs

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

Unsinn Poesie

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

Vier Lieder von Else Lasker-Schüler

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

Wiegenlieder

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

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

1, 2, 3 (Charles Edward Ives)
A Ballade of an Anti-Puritan (Gilbert Keith Chesterton)
A Ballade of Suicide (Gilbert Keith Chesterton)
A fox may steal your hens, sir (John Gay)
A Hymn to God the Father (John Donne)
A Litany of Finger Pointing (Gary Bachlund)
À mes côtés, il est venu s'asseoir (André Gidé after Rabindranath Tagore) ENG FRE
a politician is an arse upon (E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings) [x]*
A prayer (Joseph S. Cotter, Jr.)
A Prayer for Today (Ambrose Bierce)
A Rational Anthem (Ambrose Bierce)
A regular sort of a guy (Eugene O'Neill)
a salesman is an it that stinks Excuse (E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings) [x]*
A Seal Upon Your Heart (Bible or other Sacred Texts)
A Seeking Heart (Virginia Ann Bachlund)
A Tree By the River Side (Thomas Sternhold after Bible or other Sacred Texts) ENG LAT
Across the space (Tennessee Williams) [x]*
After Apple-picking (Robert Frost)
Ah, Sunflower (William Blake)
Alas, alack! (Walter de la Mare)
Alicante (Jacques Prévert) [x]*
All Lovely Things (Conrad Aiken)
All that's past (Walter de la Mare)
all the girls (E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings) [x]*
Alles still in süßer Ruh (August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben) ENG ITA
Als de ziele luistert (Guido (Pieter Theodoor Jozef) Gezelle)
American efficiency (Gerald Rudolph Ford, Jr.)
An elegy on the death of a mad dog (Oliver Goldsmith)
An Old Lady (Edward Lear)
An Old Man with a Beard (Edward Lear)
Ancient Music (Ezra Pound after Anonymous/Unidentified Artist) ENG LAT
Ann Street (Maurice Morris)
Annonce (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
Any Part of Piggy (Noel Coward)
anyone lived in a pretty how town (E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings) [x]*
Arie des Orpheus (Carl Meisl)
as freedom is a breakfastfood (E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings) *
as joe gould says (E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings) *
Ashes and Eyes (Anton Gill) *
At tea (Thomas Hardy)
Attack (Siegfried Lorraine Sassoon)
Aufgegeben Endreime (Friedrich Rückert)
Autumn (Anton Gill) *
Away in a basin (Gary Bachlund) *
Ballade aus dem 15. Jahrhundert
Because I could not stop for death (Emily Dickinson)
Belsazar (Heinrich Heine) ENG ITA
Between the Sunken Sun and the New Moon (Paul Hamilton Hayne)
Bonjour (Paul Éluard)
Broadway (Sara Teasdale)
Buffalo Bill's (E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings)
buy me an ounce and i'll sell you a pound (E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings) *
Cabin (Tennessee Williams) *
Caliban's Song (William Shakespeare)
Calico Pie (Edward Lear)
Central Park at Dusk (Sara Teasdale)
Chanson (Jacques Prévert) [x]*
Chanson des escargots qui vont à l'enterrement (Jacques Prévert) * ENG
Chanson des peintres (Charles Cros)
Chicken Little (Margaret Free)
Childhood Dreams (Lewis Carroll)
Clever Death, Stupid Death (Gary Bachlund)
Cobbler! Mend my shoe
Come unto these yellow sands (William Shakespeare) FRE
Companion (James Joyce) HUN
Companion to the other (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
Coney Island (Sara Teasdale)
Consolation (Ambrose Bierce)
Covenant (Tennessee Williams) [x]*
Coyote (Bret Harte)
crazy jay blue (E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings) *
Daffodils (William Wordsworth) GER
Daglega (Hallgrímur Pétursson)
Danny Deever (Rudyard Kipling)
Das Alter (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
Das ästhetische Wiesel (Christian Morgenstern)
Das Beste (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
Das Häschen (Wilhelm Busch)
Das Karussell (Rainer Maria Rilke)
Das Krokodil (Hermann von Lingg)
Daybreak (John Ernst Steinbeck) *
De Cunjah man (James Edwin Campbell)
De snee (Guido (Pieter Theodoor Jozef) Gezelle)
De winden (Guido (Pieter Theodoor Jozef) Gezelle)
Dead Man's Dump (Isaac Rosenberg)
Death is high (Tennessee Williams) [x]*
Dein Sternlein wacht (August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben)
Demain, dès l'aube (Vicomte Victor Marie Hugo)
Der alte Marabu (Edwin Bormann)
Der grosse und der kleine Hund (Matthias Claudius)
Der gute Hirte (Martin Luther after Bible or other Sacred Texts) ENG LAT GER
Der Seufzer (Christian Morgenstern)
Dickory, dickory, dare (Mother Goose)
Die Heinzelmännchen zu Köln (August Kopisch)
Die Schnupftabaksdose (Joachim Ringelnatz)
Die Zärtlichkeiten (Stefan Zweig)
Disillusionment of ten o'clock (Wallace Stevens)
Doll's boy's asleep (E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings)
dominic has a doll (E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings) *
Dora's Girls (John Ernst Steinbeck) *
dreck (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart)
Du armer Vater Adam (Matthias Claudius)
dying is fine)but Death (E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings) [x]*
Early Bacon (Archibald Stodart-Walker)
Ein große Genie (Joachim Ringelnatz)
Ein Liebeslied (Else Lasker-Schüler) [x]*
Ein männlicher Briefmark (Joachim Ringelnatz)
Ein Wiegenlied (Matthias Claudius)
Ein Zungenzerfitzler (Brigitte Peter)
Eine gelbe Zitrone (Joachim Ringelnatz)
eine menge Nobleße (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart)
Eine traurige Geschichte (Joseph Viktor von Scheffel)
Es stot ein lind in himelreich (Heinrich Loufenberg)
Everyman (Tennessee Williams) [x]*
Eyes (Edward Lear)
Felix Randal (Gerard Manley Hopkins)
Fliege und Wanze (Joachim Ringelnatz)
For a poet (Countee Cullen)
Friends (David Fries) *
Frühlingsglaube (Johann Ludwig Uhland) DUT ENG ITA SPA
Fuchs und Bär (Matthias Claudius)
Full moon (Walter de la Mare)
Gebet (Eduard Mörike) ENG ITA
Gedder in yo' grain (Benjamin Franklin King)
General Review of the Sex Situation (Dorothy Parker) *
Gentle Lady (James Joyce)
George (The boy who played with dangerous toys) (Hilaire Belloc)
Gethsemane (Rudyard Kipling)
Give Laud unto the Lord (John Pullain after Bible or other Sacred Texts) ENG LAT
God's Bottles
God's Grandeur (Gerard Manley Hopkins)
Gold leaves (Gilbert Keith Chesterton)
Goldenhair (James Joyce)
Good and Clever (Dame Elizabeth Wordsworth)
Green (Paul Verlaine) ENG
Hab ich nur geschrieben (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
Happiness (Carl Sandburg)
He wishes for the cloths of heaven (William Butler Yeats)
Heavenly Grass (Tennessee Williams) *
Heidenröslein (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) DUT ENG ITA SPA
Henry King (Hilaire Belloc)
Hide and seek (Walter de la Mare)
hist whist (E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings)
Hog Meat (Daniel Webster Davis)
Hokku (E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings)
Hollywood (Michael Hamburger after Bertolt Brecht) * ENG GER
Horreur! (Charles Baudelaire)
Hoy creo en Dios (Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer) ENG
Humpty Dumpty
I am black but comely (Bible or other Sacred Texts)
I am sick with love (Bible or other Sacred Texts)
I am the one (Thomas Hardy) *
I bin Tenor (Andreas Scheidegger) *
I Hear an Army (James Joyce) GER
I like Americans (Ernest Hemingway)
i sing of Olaf glad and big (E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings) *
I want to die while you love me (Georgia Douglas Johnson)
Ich bin aus Bern (Andreas Scheidegger) *
Ich liebe dich, weil ich dich lieben muß (Friedrich Rückert) ENG
Ich träume so leise von Dir (Else Lasker-Schüler)
if i believe (E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings)
If I Should Die (Benjamin Franklin King)
If the heart of a man (John Gay)
I'm not a crook (Richard Milhouse Nixon)
i'm so drunGk, dear (E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings) [x]*
i'm very fond of black bean soup (E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings) *
In de blijde mei (Guido (Pieter Theodoor Jozef) Gezelle)
in Just- (E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings)
In meinem Schrank (Victor Schapìel)
In My Grave (Frances Ginzer) *
In My Own Nursery (Gilbert Keith Chesterton)
in time of daffodils (E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings) *
In Time of 'The Breaking of Nations' (Thomas Hardy)
Incident (Countee Cullen)
Injun Summah (Benjamin Franklin King)
Interlude
It depends upon what the meaning of the word 'is' is (William (Bill) Jefferson Clinton)
it may not always be so; and i say (E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings)
It was a cross (Gary Bachlund)
It's drink that uplifts (Turlough O'Carolan)
Ja, schelte nur (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
Jabberwocky (Lewis Carroll)
Janneke (Guido (Pieter Theodoor Jozef) Gezelle)
Je rêve (Paul Éluard)
Jimmie's got a goil (E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings) *
Kein Elend (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) ENG
Kitchen Door Blues (Tennessee Williams) [x]*
La fin de la journée (Charles Baudelaire) ENG
La luz divina (Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer)
La mort des amants (Charles Baudelaire) ENG
La mort des artistes (Charles Baudelaire) ENG
La mort des pauvres (Charles Baudelaire)
La rêve d'un curieux (Charles Baudelaire)
Le faune (Paul Verlaine) ENG
Le Panneau (Oscar Wilde)
Le silence (Comte Alfred Victor de Vigny)
Lebenslust (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
Les Ballons (Oscar Wilde)
Les vrais Voyageurs (Charles Baudelaire)
Less than the cloud to the wind (Sara Teasdale)
Lied der Rosa (Susanne Paasch) *
Like a Sick Eagle (John Keats)
Like as the Hart (John Hopkins after Bible or other Sacred Texts) ENG LAT
Lions and Ants (Walt Mason)
Little Drops of Water (Julia Abigail Fletcher, Carney)
little man (E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings) *
Little Questions (Gary Bachlund)
little tree (E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings) *
Lofa þinn guð (Hallgrímur Pétursson)
Lonesome Man (Tennessee Williams) *
Lore Lay (Clemens Maria Wenzeslaus von Brentano)
love is more thicker than forget (E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings) *
love is the every only god (E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings) *
Lügenmärchen
Lumière! ma lumière! (André Gidé after Rabindranath Tagore) ENG FRE
Ma belle (Paul Éluard)
maggie and milly and molly and may (E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings) *
Make Music Sweet (James Joyce) HUN
mary green (E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings) *
Mary Had a Little Lamb (Mother Goose)
Matilda (who told such dreadful lies) (Hilaire Belloc)
Mauskätzchen (August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben)
may i feel said he (E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings) *
Mein kleinster Fehler (Wilhelm Busch)
Memories (David Fries) *
Metaphysics (Oliver Herford)
Mietvertrag (Olivia Melton) *
Miss T. (Walter de la Mare)
Mon enfant (Paul Éluard)
Mon jardin (Paul Éluard)
Montparnasse (Ernest Hemingway)
mr youse needn't be so spry (E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings) *
Mrs. Judge Jenkins (Bret Harte)
Music (Walter de la Mare)
My little dreams (Georgia Douglas Johnson)
My Love (Bible or other Sacred Texts)
My Sweet Mistress (William Shakespeare)
Nar Hem (Guido (Pieter Theodoor Jozef) Gezelle)
Nature
Negro Serenade (James Edwin Campbell)
Nehm ich Abscheid (Heinrich Heine) ENG ITA FRE
No exaggeration (George Herbert Walker Bush)
nobody loses all the time (E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings)
Noch einmal (Theodor Storm)
Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep
Nun schlummert meine Seele (Else Lasker-Schüler)
o by the by (E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings) *
O little child unwanted (Gary Bachlund) *
O Mäuselein (August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben)
O sweet spontaneous earth (E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings)
O Vrije, vlaamsche poësis (Guido (Pieter Theodoor Jozef) Gezelle)
O! mes amis! (Paul Éluard)
October (Robert Frost)
Ode to Stephen Dowling Bots, dec'd (Samuel Langhorne Clemens)
oil tel duh woil doi sez (E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings) *
Ol' Doc' Hyar (James Edwin Campbell)
Olas gigantes (Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer) ENG
Old men are fond (Tennessee Williams) [x]*
On the Mississippi (Hamlin Garland)
Oui, je le sais bien (André Gidé after Rabindranath Tagore) ENG FRE
Owls - an Epitaph (Sir Edward Elgar)
Pain (James Joyce)
Pat-a-cake, Baker's Man (Mother Goose)
Pictures in the Smoke (Dorothy Parker) *
Pied Beauty (Gerard Manley Hopkins)
Pig and Pepper (Lewis Carroll)
Piggy Patter, Piggy Platter (Mary (Mrs. Walter) Buchanan)
Plain Language from Truthful James (Bret Harte)
plato told him (E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings) *
Politics is where the pig (Gary Bachlund)
Poor Henry (Walter de la Mare)
Pour être heureux (Paul Éluard)
Pour le Voyage (Charles Baudelaire) RUS ENG GER
Pour l'enfant (Charles Baudelaire)
Prélude
Près de toi (Paul Éluard)
Professoren-Liedchen (Martin Walser) ITA
Quand je te vois (Pierre de Ronsard) ENG
¡Qué hermoso (Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer)
Queen Alice (Lewis Carroll)
Rain has fallen (James Joyce)
raise the shade will youse dearie? (E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings) *
red-rag and pink-flag (E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings) *
Regen in der Dämmerung (Hugo Hofmann, Edler von Hofmannsthal)
Renaissance (Virginia Ann Bachlund) *
Return! (Bible or other Sacred Texts)
Rich Man, Poor Man (Mother Goose)
Room A-460 (Gary Bachlund)
Saturday's child (Countee Cullen)
says ol man no body - (E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings) *
Schlaf auch du! (August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben)
seeker of truth (E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings) *
Septembermorgen (Eduard Mörike) ENG
Si le jour est passé (André Gidé after Rabindranath Tagore) ENG FRE
Silent child, wholly defiled (Gary Bachlund) *
Silver (Walter de la Mare)
Small Homes (Carl Sandburg) *
so, ich bitte (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart)
Sole e amore
Some one (Walter de la Mare)
Song of the secret (Walter de la Mare)
Sonnet VIII - "Music to hear, why hear'st thou music sadly?" (William Shakespeare) DUT RUS HUN ROM
Sonnet XVIII - "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?" (William Shakespeare) ITA
Sonnet XIX - "Devouring Time" (William Shakespeare) ITA
Sonnet XXX - "When to the sessions of sweet silent thought" (William Shakespeare) RUS
Sonnet LXVI - "Tir'd with all these, for restful death I cry" (William Shakespeare) RUS ITA
Sonnet 116 (William Shakespeare) CZE ITA GER
sonnett (Gerhard Rühm)
Southern Pacific (Carl Sandburg)
Spatz und Katze (August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben)
Splendide! (Paul Éluard)
spoke joe to jack (E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings) *
Spring (Anton Gill) *
Spring (Gerard Manley Hopkins)
Stephano's Song (William Shakespeare)
Stufen (Hermann Hesse) *
Sturmnacht (Hugo Hofmann, Edler von Hofmannsthal)
Sugar in the Cane (Tennessee Williams) *
Summer (Anton Gill) *
Summer night, riverside (Sara Teasdale)
Sungið, sagt og téð (Hallgrímur Pétursson)
Sweeney among the nightingales (T. S. (Thomas Stearns) Eliot)
Symptom Recital (Dorothy Parker) *
Tag (Theodor Storm) ENG
Talent (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
Tes Souvenirs (Kundry Van Mechelen) *
The bells of Hell (dates 1900-1945)
The Birds Sat Upon It (Edward Lear)
The Broken Heart (Thomas Moore)
The cage (Charles Edward Ives)
the Cambridge ladies (E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings)
The Child and the Star (Mother Goose)
The Circus Band (Charles Edward Ives) SPA
The Cow Slips Away (Benjamin Franklin King)
The Cudgel'd Husband (Jonathan Swift)
The cupboard (Walter de la Mare)
The Daddy Long-Legs and the Fly (Edward Lear)
The Dance (David Fries) *
The Dead (Rupert Brooke) ITA
The divine image (William Blake) RUS
The Duck and the Kangaroo (Edward Lear)
The Emperor of Ice-Cream (Wallace Stevens)
The Englishman (Gilbert Keith Chesterton)
The ghost (Walter de la Mare)
The Gourmet's Love Song (Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse KBE)
The Hair-Tonic Bottle (Benjamin Franklin King)
The Harlot's House (Oscar Wilde)
The hearse song
The heart of a woman (Georgia Douglas Johnson)
The hoard of the Gibbelins (Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, 18th Baron Dunsany)
The Holy of Holies (Gilbert Keith Chesterton)
The Horrible History of Jones (Gilbert Keith Chesterton)
The huntsmen (Walter de la Mare)
The Jumblies (Edward Lear)
The kiss (Sara Teasdale)
The lily (William Blake)
The Lion and the Unicorn
The lip and the heart (John Quincy Adams)
The Little Crocodile (Lewis Carroll)
The loss of love (Countee Cullen)
The lost shoe (Walter de la Mare)
The Mad Gardener's Song (Lewis Carroll)
The Margaret Sanger Song (Margaret Sanger)
The Mock Turtle's Lament (Lewis Carroll)
The new road (Anne Lafeber) *
the old almost lady (E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings) *
The old maid (Sara Teasdale)
The Owl and the Pussy-Cat (Edward Lear) RUS
The Pessimist (Benjamin Franklin King)
The Pig (Ogden Nash)
The Pig - A Fable (Christopher Smart)
The Pilgrim Soul (William Butler Yeats)
The Place of the Damned (Jonathan Swift)
The Prism of Life (John Addington Symonds)
The Quilt (Gary Bachlund)
The Rain Is Failing (Robert Louis Stevenson)
The River St. Joe (Benjamin Franklin King)
The Second Coming (William Butler Yeats)
The second-oldest profession (Ronald Wilson Reagan)
the secrets of living (E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings) *
The see'r (Charles Edward Ives)
The Send-Off (Wilfred Owen)
The Sick Rose (William Blake) NYN RUS
The Side Show (Charles Edward Ives after P. Rooney) ENG SPA
the sky was (E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings)
The snow man (Wallace Stevens)
The song of shadows (Walter de la Mare)
The Song of the Quoodle (Gilbert Keith Chesterton)
The Song of Wandering Aengus (William Butler Yeats)
The Spectre Pig - A Ballad (Oliver Wendell Holmes)
The Star and the Pig (Sara Teasdale)
The Stolen Child (William Butler Yeats)
The strategery (George W. Bush)
The Three Little Pigs (Alfred Scott Gatty)
The Town Rabbit in the Country (Camilla Doyle)
The Wanderer (Beulah May)
the way to hump a cow is not (E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings) *
The Wild Horse Travels (Gordon Bachlund) *
The Wine-Drinkers (Tennessee Williams) *
The wise (Countee Cullen)
Then (Walter de la Mare)
Theory (Dorothy Parker) *
there are possibly 2½ or impossibly 3 (E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings) *
these children singing in stone (E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings) *
this is the garden (E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings) *
This Pig Went to Market
Thought For A Sunshiny Morning (Dorothy Parker) *
Three Little Pigs (Sian Davies) *
Þurfamaður (Hallgrímur Pétursson)
time, be kind (E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings) *
Tired Tim (Walter de la Mare)
To Call Thee Love (Gerard Manley Hopkins)
To drown my troubles (James (Jimmy) Earl Carter)
To Lizbie Browne (Thomas Hardy)
To the States (Walt Whitman)
To Women As Far As I'm Concerned (D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence)
Travaille (Paul Éluard)
Tumbling-hair (E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings)
Tweedledum and Tweedledee
Twilight (James Joyce)
Two-Volume Novel (Dorothy Parker