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Author: Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979)

Text collections / compilations [warning - not necessarily comprehensive]

North and South
Poems : North and South / A Cold Spring
Questions of Travel

Texts set to music [warning - not necessarily comprehensive]

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Note: titles are in bold and first lines are in italics.
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A pocket of time (We lived in a pocket of Time. ) - L. Hoiby
A washing hangs upon the line (from North and South - Songs for a Colored Singer) *
J. Harbison: Ballad for Billie I

Across the floor flits the mechanical toy *
J. Harbison: Cirque d'hiver

Alone on the railroad track *
J. Harbison: Chemin de Fer

Anaphora (Each day with so much ceremony ) (from Poems : North and South / A Cold Spring) - E. Carter *
Argument (Days that cannot bring you near ) (from Poems : North and South / A Cold Spring) - E. Carter *
Ballad for Billie I (A washing hangs upon the line ) (from North and South - Songs for a Colored Singer) - J. Harbison *
Ballad for Billie II (The time has come to call a halt; ) (from North and South - Songs for a Colored Singer) - J. Harbison *
Bedlam (from Questions of Travel) - N. Rorem [x] *
Beneath that loved and celebrated breast (from Poems : North and South / A Cold Spring - Four Poems) *
E. Carter: O breath

Breakfast song (My love, my saving grace) (from North and South) - J. Harbison *
Caught -- the bubble *
A. Thomas: Sonnet

Chemin de Fer (Alone on the railroad track ) - J. Harbison *
Cirque d'hiver (Across the floor flits the mechanical toy) - J. Harbison *
Conversation (The tumult in the heart ) (from Poems : North and South / A Cold Spring - Four Poems) - N. Rorem *
Days that cannot bring you near (from Poems : North and South / A Cold Spring) *
E. Carter: Argument

Dear, my compass... (Dear, my compass ) - J. Harbison *
Dear, my compass *
J. Harbison: Dear, my compass...

Each day with so much ceremony (from Poems : North and South / A Cold Spring) *
E. Carter: Anaphora

Filling Station (Oh, but it is dirty!) - L. Hoiby *
From a magician's midnight sleeve (from North and South) *
J. Harbison: Late air

Giant snail (The rain has stopped. The waterfall will roar like that all night) - L. Hoiby *
Giant Toad (I am too big. Too big by far. Pity me ) - L. Hoiby *
I am in need of music (I am in need of music that would flow ) - B. Moore, T. Picker, A. Henderson *
I am in need of music that would flow *
J. Cloud: Sonnet (1928)
B. Moore, T. Picker, A. Henderson: I am in need of music

I am too big. Too big by far. Pity me *
L. Hoiby: Giant Toad

I caught a tremendous fish *
W. Bolcom: The fish

Insomnia (The moon in the bureau mirror ) (from Poems : North and South / A Cold Spring) - E. Carter, L. Hoiby *
Late air (From a magician's midnight sleeve ) (from North and South) - J. Harbison *
Manners (My grandfather said to me) - L. Hoiby *
Moving from left to left, the light (from Poems : North and South / A Cold Spring) *
E. Carter: View of the Capitol from the Library of Congress

My grandfather said to me *
L. Hoiby: Manners

My love, my saving grace (from North and South) *
J. Harbison: Breakfast song

O breath (Beneath that loved and celebrated breast ) (from Poems : North and South / A Cold Spring - Four Poems) - E. Carter *
Oh, but it is dirty! *
L. Hoiby: Filling Station

Sandpiper (The roaring alongside he takes for granted ) (from Questions of Travel) - E. Carter, L. Hoiby *
Song (Summer is over upon the sea) (from North and South) - J. Harbison *
Sonnet (I am in need of music that would flow ) *
J. Cloud: Sonnet (1928)
B. Moore, T. Picker, A. Henderson: I am in need of music

Sonnet (Caught -- the bubble ) - A. Thomas *
Sonnet (1928) (I am in need of music that would flow ) - J. Cloud *
Strayed crab (This is not my home. How did I get so far from water?) - L. Hoiby *
Summer is over upon the sea (from North and South) *
J. Harbison: Song

The fish (I caught a tremendous fish ) - W. Bolcom *
The moon in the bureau mirror (from Poems : North and South / A Cold Spring) *
E. Carter, L. Hoiby: Insomnia

The rain has stopped. The waterfall will roar like that all night *
L. Hoiby: Giant snail

The roaring alongside he takes for granted (from Questions of Travel) *
E. Carter, L. Hoiby: Sandpiper

The time has come to call a halt; (from North and South - Songs for a Colored Singer) *
J. Harbison: Ballad for Billie II

The tumult in the heart (from Poems : North and South / A Cold Spring - Four Poems) *
N. Rorem: Conversation

This is not my home. How did I get so far from water? *
L. Hoiby: Strayed crab

View of the Capitol from the Library of Congress (Moving from left to left, the light ) (from Poems : North and South / A Cold Spring) - E. Carter *
Visits to St. Elizabeth's (from Questions of Travel) [x] *
N. Rorem: Visits to St. Elizabeth's

We lived in a pocket of Time.
L. Hoiby: A pocket of time

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