Joy, shipmate, joy

Joy, shipmate, joy!
(Pleas'd to my soul at death I cry,)
Our life is closed, our life begins,
The long, long anchorage we leave,
The ship is clear at last, she leaps!
She swiftly courses from the shore,
Joy, shipmate, joy.

by Walt Whitman (1819-1892) , "Joy, shipmate, joy", from Leaves of Grass

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive)

by Ernst Bacon (1898-1990) , "Joy, shipmate, joy!"
by Frederick Delius (1862-1934) , no title, published 1931 [SSAATTBB chorus, piano or orchestra], from Songs of Farewell, no. 4.
by Dwight Gustafson , "Joy, shipmate, joy!", published 1967 [SATB chorus, piano], from Three Songs of Parting
by Beatrice May Hall , "Joy, shipmate, joy!", note: also set in French
by Lee Hoiby (1926-) , "Joy, shipmate, joy!", from I was there, no. 5.
by Paul Paviour (1931-) , "Joy, shipmate, joy!", published 1975 [SATB chorus a cappella], from Three Part Songs
by Vincent Persichetti (1915-1987) , "Voyage", op. 103 no. 9, published 1967 [chorus and wind ensemble], from Celebrations: Cantata no. 3, no. 9.
by Leroy Robertson (1896-1971) , "Joy, shipmate, joy!", published 1942. [high voice, piano]
by James Hotchkiss Rogers (1857-1940) , "Joy, shipmate, joy!", published 1919 [medium voice, piano], from In Memoriam
by Sir Charles Villiers Stanford (1852-1924) , "Joy, shipmate, joy", op. 97 no. 6 (1906), published 1908 [voice and piano], from Six Songs of Faith, no. 6.
by Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958) , "Joy, shipmate, joy", 1925?, published 1925 [voice, piano], from Three Poems by Walt Whitman, no. 3.
by Thomas Carl Whitmer (1873-1959) , no title, published 1928 [quartet of solo voices, chorus, and piano or orchestra], from Choral Rhapsody, no. ?

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