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Composer: Daniel Rogers Pinkham (1923-2006)

Alphabetic listing of musical settings [warning - not necessarily comprehensive]

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Song Cycles, Symphonies, etc.

An Emily Dickinson Mosaic

no. ?. To be alive (Text: Emily Dickinson)
no. ?. The heart is the capital of the mind (Text: Emily Dickinson)
no. ?. Each life converges to some centre (Text: Emily Dickinson) ITA
no. ?. The mind lives on the heart (Text: Emily Dickinson)
no. ?. The brain is wider than the sky (Text: Emily Dickinson) GER
no. ?. Exhilaration is the breeze (Text: Emily Dickinson) ITA FRE

Called Home

no. 1. A little boat adrift (Text: Emily Dickinson) FRE
no. 2. Promise this (Text: Emily Dickinson)
no. 3. Let down the bars, oh Death (Text: Emily Dickinson) FRE
no. 4. Some, too fragile for winter winds (Text: Emily Dickinson)
no. 5. Tie the strings to my life (Text: Emily Dickinson)

Eight Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins

no. ?. Heaven-Haven (Text: Gerard Manley Hopkins)
no. ?. Strike, churl; hurl, cheerless wind, then; heltering hail (Text: Gerard Manley Hopkins)
no. ?. Pied Beauty (Text: Gerard Manley Hopkins) FIN

Five Canzonets

no. 2. The blossom (Text: William Blake)
no. 5. Spring (Text: William Blake) WEL

Look Quietly

no. 1. Come, look quietly (Text: James Wright) [x]*
no. 2. March (Text: James Wright) [x]*
no. 3. The fox at Eype (Text: James Wright) *
no. 4. Autumnal (Text: James Wright) [x]*
no. 5. Apollo (Text: James Wright) [x]*
no. 6. Sleep (Text: James Wright) [x]*

O Beautiful! My Country

no. ?. Take warning, tyrants (Text: Philip Morin Freneau) [x]
no. ?. The happy flood (Text: Anne Bradstreet)

Safe in their Alabaster Chambers

no. ?. These are the days when birds come back (Text: Emily Dickinson) FRE GER
no. ?. There's a certain slant of light (Text: Emily Dickinson)
no. ?. Safe in their alabaster chambers (Text: Emily Dickinson)

Three Lyric Scenes

no. ?. Sing agreeably of love (Text: W. H. Auden) *
no. ?. Let the florid music praise (Text: W. H. Auden) *
no. ?. Look, stranger, at this island now (Text: W. H. Auden) *

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

A little boat adrift (in Called Home) (Text: Emily Dickinson) FRE
Apollo (in Look Quietly) (Text: James Wright) [x]*
Autumnal (in Look Quietly) (Text: James Wright) [x]*
Come, look quietly (in Look Quietly) (Text: James Wright) [x]*
Each life converges to some centre (in An Emily Dickinson Mosaic) (Text: Emily Dickinson) ITA
Exhilaration is the breeze (in An Emily Dickinson Mosaic) (Text: Emily Dickinson) ITA FRE
Heaven-Haven (in Eight Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins) (Text: Gerard Manley Hopkins)
Let down the bars, oh Death (in Called Home) (Text: Emily Dickinson) FRE
Let the florid music praise (in Three Lyric Scenes) (Text: W. H. Auden) *
Look, stranger, at this island now (in Three Lyric Scenes) (Text: W. H. Auden) *
March (in Look Quietly) (Text: James Wright) [x]*
Memory, hither come (Text: William Blake)
Pied Beauty (in Eight Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins) (Text: Gerard Manley Hopkins) FIN
Promise this (in Called Home) (Text: Emily Dickinson)
Safe in their alabaster chambers (in Safe in their Alabaster Chambers) (Text: Emily Dickinson)
Sing agreeably of love (in Three Lyric Scenes) (Text: W. H. Auden) *
Sleep (in Look Quietly) (Text: James Wright) [x]*
Slow, slow fresh fount (Text: Ben Jonson)
Some, too fragile for winter winds (in Called Home) (Text: Emily Dickinson)
Spring (in Five Canzonets) (Text: William Blake) WEL
Stars, I have seen them fall (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
Strike, churl; hurl, cheerless wind, then; heltering hail (in Eight Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins) (Text: Gerard Manley Hopkins)
Take warning, tyrants (in O Beautiful! My Country) (Text: Philip Morin Freneau) [x]
The blossom (in Five Canzonets) (Text: William Blake)
The brain is wider than the sky (in An Emily Dickinson Mosaic) (Text: Emily Dickinson) GER
The fox at Eype (in Look Quietly) (Text: James Wright) *
The happy flood (in O Beautiful! My Country) (Text: Anne Bradstreet)
The heart is the capital of the mind (in An Emily Dickinson Mosaic) (Text: Emily Dickinson)
The hour glass (Text: Ben Jonson)
The lamb (Text: William Blake) RUS GER FIN
The message (Text: Siegfried Lorraine Sassoon) [x]*
The mind lives on the heart (in An Emily Dickinson Mosaic) (Text: Emily Dickinson)
The sick rose (Text: William Blake) NYN RUS GER FRE FRE GER
There's a certain slant of light (in Safe in their Alabaster Chambers) (Text: Emily Dickinson)
These are the days when birds come back (in Safe in their Alabaster Chambers) (Text: Emily Dickinson) FRE GER
Tie the strings to my life (in Called Home) (Text: Emily Dickinson)
To be alive (in An Emily Dickinson Mosaic) (Text: Emily Dickinson)

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* indicates that a text cannot (yet?) be displayed on this site because of its copyright status.