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Author: Paul Goodman (1911-1972)

Text collections / compilations [warning - not necessarily comprehensive]

A Warning/At My Leisure
Empire City
Hawkweed
Homespun of Oatmeal Gray
The Lordly Hudson

Texts set to music [warning - not necessarily comprehensive]

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A prayer to Saint Harmony (from Homespun of Oatmeal Gray) - N. Rorem [x] *
A sermon on miracles - N. Rorem [x] *
A terrible disaster (A terrible disaster befell me ) - N. Rorem *
A terrible disaster befell me *
N. Rorem: A terrible disaster

Absalom (In the roomy oak among the fluttering leaves ) (from The Lordly Hudson) - N. Rorem *
Boy with a Baseball Glove (See now the beauty with the glove ) (from A Warning/At My Leisure) - N. Rorem *
Clouds (So effortlessly we are not given) - N. Rorem *
Creator of the worlds, O Joy (Creator of the worlds, O Joy ) (from The Lordly Hudson - Little Prayers) - N. Rorem [x] *
Creator of the worlds, O Joy (from The Lordly Hudson - Little Prayers) [x] *
N. Rorem: Creator of the worlds, O Joy

Creator spirit, please (Creator spirit, please let your soft lamp) (from Hawkweed) - N. Rorem, N. Rorem *
Creator spirit, please let your soft lamp (from Hawkweed) *
N. Rorem, N. Rorem: Creator spirit, please

Creator spirit who dost (Creator spirit, who dost lightly hover whence I know not ) (from The Lordly Hudson - Little Prayers) - N. Rorem *
Creator spirit who dost lightly hover (Creator spirit, who dost lightly hover whence I know not ) (from The Lordly Hudson - Little Prayers) - N. Rorem *
Creator spirit, who dost lightly hover whence I know not (from The Lordly Hudson - Little Prayers) *
N. Rorem, N. Rorem: Creator spirit who dost

Dawn (from The Lordly Hudson) - N. Rorem [x] *
Driver, what stream is it?" I asked, well knowing (from The Lordly Hudson) *
N. Rorem: The Lordly Hudson

Father, guide and lead me (Father, guide and lead me stray) (from Empire City) - N. Rorem, N. Rorem *
Father, guide and lead me stray (from Empire City) *
N. Rorem, N. Rorem: Father, guide and lead me

For Susan (How like a wild flower untended ) - N. Rorem *
Four Senseless Little Prayers of Convalescence (On all, the wicked and) (from Homespun of Oatmeal Gray) [x] *
N. Rorem: On all, the wicked and

God bless my small home (God bless this small home that) (from Hawkweed) - N. Rorem [x] *
God bless this small home that (from Hawkweed) [x] *
N. Rorem: God bless my small home

God, I prayed, to me restore (God, I prayed, to me restore) (from Hawkweed) - N. Rorem [x] *
God, I prayed, to me restore (from Hawkweed) [x] *
N. Rorem: God, I prayed, to me restore

His Beauty Sparkles (His beauty sparkles, his big eyes blaze) - N. Rorem *
His beauty sparkles, his big eyes blaze *
N. Rorem: His Beauty Sparkles

How like a wild flower untended *
N. Rorem: For Susan

I opened with my key, to my astonished joy (from Hawkweed) [x] *
N. Rorem: Long lines

I thought I woke: the midnight sun (from The Lordly Hudson) [x] *
N. Rorem: The midnight sun

I waited in the parlor (I waited in the parlor, Lord) (from Hawkweed) - N. Rorem [x] *
I waited in the parlor, Lord (from Hawkweed) [x] *
N. Rorem: I waited in the parlor

In the roomy oak among the fluttering leaves (from The Lordly Hudson) *
N. Rorem: Absalom

Long lines (I opened with my key, to my astonished joy) (from Hawkweed) - N. Rorem [x] *
[No Title] (My world, my only! as I see) (from The Lordly Hudson - Little Prayers) - J. Powell [x] *
My world, my only! as I see (from The Lordly Hudson - Little Prayers) [x] *
J. Powell: My world, my only! as I see

1943 (What sparks and wiry cries ) (from The Lordly Hudson) *
N. Rorem: What sparks and wiry cries

Novices of art understate (We see that novices of art) (from The Lordly Hudson - Little Prayers) - N. Rorem [x] *
Now is the dreadful midnight (Now is the dreadful midnight you) - N. Rorem *
Now is the dreadful midnight you *
N. Rorem: Now is the dreadful midnight

O God of fire and the secret (O God of fire and the secret mus-) (from The Lordly Hudson - Little Prayers) - N. Rorem [x] *
O God of fire and the secret mus- (from The Lordly Hudson - Little Prayers) [x] *
N. Rorem: O God of fire and the secret

[No Title] (Of the millions, I know, who have gone to the grave) (from The Lordly Hudson - Sentences) - N. Rorem [x] *
Of the millions, I know, who have gone to the grave (from The Lordly Hudson - Sentences) [x] *
N. Rorem: Of the millions, I know, who have gone to the grave

On all, the wicked and (On all, the wicked and) (from Homespun of Oatmeal Gray) - N. Rorem [x] *
On all, the wicked and (from Homespun of Oatmeal Gray) [x] *
N. Rorem: On all, the wicked and

Out of the tulip tree (Out of the tulip tree, the boy who had green eyes ) *
N. Rorem: The tulip tree

Out of the tulip tree, the boy who had green eyes *
N. Rorem: The tulip tree

Rain - D. Hagen [x] *
Rain in spring (There fell a beautiful clear rain) - N. Rorem [x] *
Rest well (Rest well thy weary head and heart) (from The Lordly Hudson - Little Prayers) - N. Rorem, N. Rorem [x] *
Rest well thy weary head and heart (from The Lordly Hudson - Little Prayers) [x] *
N. Rorem, N. Rorem, N. Rorem: Rest well

Rest well thy weary heart (Rest well thy weary head and heart) (from The Lordly Hudson - Little Prayers) - N. Rorem [x] *
Sally's smile [x] *
N. Rorem: Sally's smile

See now the beauty with the glove (from A Warning/At My Leisure) *
N. Rorem: Boy with a Baseball Glove

So effortlessly we are not given *
N. Rorem: Clouds

Such beauty as hurts to behold (Such beauty as hurts to behold) (from The Lordly Hudson) - N. Rorem [x] *
Such beauty as hurts to behold (from The Lordly Hudson) [x] *
N. Rorem: Such beauty as hurts to behold

The Lordly Hudson (Driver, what stream is it?" I asked, well knowing ) (from The Lordly Hudson) - N. Rorem *
The midnight sun (I thought I woke: the midnight sun) (from The Lordly Hudson) - N. Rorem [x] *
The tulip tree (Out of the tulip tree, the boy who had green eyes ) - N. Rorem *
There fell a beautiful clear rain [x] *
N. Rorem: Rain in spring

Three Little Prayers to Saint Harmony (from Homespun of Oatmeal Gray) [x] *
N. Rorem: A prayer to Saint Harmony

To Dawn (Manner of Sappho) (from The Lordly Hudson) [x] *
N. Rorem: Dawn

We see that novices of art (from The Lordly Hudson - Little Prayers) [x] *
N. Rorem: Novices of art understate

What sparks and wiry cries (What sparks and wiry cries ) (from The Lordly Hudson) - N. Rorem *
What sparks and wiry cries (from The Lordly Hudson) *
N. Rorem: What sparks and wiry cries

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