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Composer: Ned Rorem (1923-)
Alphabetic listing of musical settings [warning - not necessarily comprehensive]
[x] indicates a placeholder for a text that is not yet in the database
* indicates that a text cannot (yet?) be displayed on this site because of its copyright status.
Note: A blue rectangle containing a language code such as ENG indicates the presence of a translation to that language. A grey rectangle such as FRE indicates a particular translation (usually one set to music) exists but is missing.
Song Cycles, Symphonies, etc.
All titles of vocal settings in our database, in alphabetic order
 A birthday (in Women's Voices) (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti) GER
A child asleep in its own life (in Last Poems of Wallace Stevens) (Text: Wallace Stevens) *
A clear day and no memories (in Last Poems of Wallace Stevens) (Text: Wallace Stevens)
A dead statesman (in Evidence of Things Not Seen) (Text: Rudyard Kipling)
A glimpse (in Evidence of Things Not Seen) (Text: Walt Whitman)
A journey (Text: Andrew Glaze) *
A learned man (in Evidence of Things Not Seen) (Text: Stephen Crane)
A night battle (in War Scenes) (Text: Walt Whitman)
A prayer to Saint Harmony (in Little Prayers) (Text: Paul Goodman) [x]*
A sermon on miracles (Text: Paul Goodman) [x]*
A specimen case (in War Scenes) (Text: Walt Whitman)
A terrible disaster (in Evidence of Things Not Seen) (Text: Paul Goodman) *
Abel (in Three Poems of Demetrios Capetanakis) (Text: Demetrios Capetanakis) [x]*
Absalom (Text: Paul Goodman) *
An absent friend (in Four Madrigals) (Text: after Sappho) [x]*
An incident (in War Scenes) (Text: Walt Whitman)
Another Epitaph (in Flight For Heaven) (Text: Robert Herrick)
Any other time (in Santa Fe Songs) (Text: Witter Bynner) [x]*
Are you the new person? (Text: Walt Whitman)
As Adam, early in the morning (in 5 Songs to Poems - Texts by Walt Whitman) (Text: Walt Whitman)
As I Walked Out One Evening (in Evidence of Things Not Seen) (Text: W. H. Auden) *
Ask me no more (Text: Lord Alfred Tennyson)
Bedlam (Text: Elizabeth Bishop) [x]*
Before the morning star begotten (in Seven Motets for the Church Year) (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts)
Boy with a Baseball Glove (in Evidence of Things Not Seen) (Text: Paul Goodman) *
Catullus: On the burial of his brother (Text: Aubrey Vincent Beardsley after Gaius Valerius Catullus)
Cherry-ripe (in Flight For Heaven) (Text: Robert Herrick)
Chromatic Fantasy (Text: Anthony Evan Hecht) *
Clouds (in Three Poems of Paul Goodman) (Text: Paul Goodman) *
Come In (in Evidence of Things Not Seen) (Text: Robert Frost) *
Comfort to a Youth that had lost his Love (in Flight For Heaven) (Text: Robert Herrick)
Coming down the stairs (in Santa Fe Songs) (Text: Witter Bynner) [x]*
Comment on War (in Evidence of Things Not Seen) (Text: Langston Hughes) *
Conversation (Text: Elizabeth Bishop) *
Cradle song (in Six Songs for High Voice) [x]
Creator of the worlds, O Joy (in Little Prayers) (Text: Paul Goodman) [x]*
Creator spirit, please (in Little Prayers) (Text: Paul Goodman) *
Creator spirit, please (in Three Prayers) (Text: Paul Goodman) *
Creator spirit who dost (in Little Prayers) (Text: Paul Goodman) *
Creator spirit who dost lightly hover (in Three Prayers) (Text: Paul Goodman) *
Dawn (in Sun) (Text: Paul Goodman) [x]*
Day (in Sun) (Text: William Blake) RUS
Dear, though the night is gone (in Evidence of Things Not Seen) (Text: W. H. Auden) *
Defiled is my name (in Women's Voices)
Do I love you more than a day? (in Poems of Love and the Rain) (Text: Jack Larson) *
Do I love you more than a day? (in Poems of Love and the Rain) (Text: Jack Larson) *
Doll's boy (Text: E. E. Cummings) *
Early in the Morning (Text: Robert Silliman Hillyer) *
Echo's song (Text: Ben Jonson)
El musico (in Santa Fe Songs) (Text: Witter Bynner) [x]*
Electrocution (in Women's Voices) (Text: Lola Ridge) [x]*
End of the Day (in Evidence of Things Not Seen) (Text: after Charles Baudelaire)
Epiglogue: From The Rain (in Poems of Love and the Rain) (Text: Donald Windham) [x]*
Epitaph (upon a Child that died) (in Flight For Heaven) (Text: Robert Herrick)
Even now the night jasmine is pouring (in Evidence of Things Not Seen) (Text: Paul Monette) *
Evidence of Things not seen (in Evidence of Things Not Seen) (Text: William Penn)
Faith (in Evidence of Things Not Seen) (Text: Mark Doty) *
Far-Far-Away (in Four Poems of Tennyson) (Text: Lord Alfred Tennyson)
Father, guide and lead me (in Three Prayers) (Text: Paul Goodman) *
Father, guide and lead me (in Little Prayers) (Text: Paul Goodman) *
Fear of death (in The Nantucket Songs) (Text: John Ashbery) *
Ferry me across the water (in The Nantucket Songs) (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
Flowers for the Graces (in Four Madrigals) (Text: after Sappho) [x]*
For Poulenc (Text: Frank O'Hara) *
For Susan (in Three Poems of Paul Goodman) (Text: Paul Goodman) *
From whence cometh song (in Evidence of Things Not Seen) (Text: Theodore Roethke) *
Full of life now (Text: Walt Whitman)
Gliding o'er all (in 5 Songs to Poems - Texts by Walt Whitman) (Text: Walt Whitman)
Gliding o'er all (in Five Poems of Walt Whitman) (Text: Walt Whitman)
God bless my small home (in Little Prayers) (Text: Paul Goodman) [x]*
God, I prayed, to me restore (in Little Prayers) (Text: Paul Goodman) [x]*
God is gone up (in Seven Motets for the Church Year) (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts)
Gods (in Five Poems of Walt Whitman) (Text: Walt Whitman)
Guilt (in Three Poems of Demetrios Capetanakis) (Text: Demetrios Capetanakis) [x]*
He never knew (in Santa Fe Songs) (Text: Witter Bynner) [x]*
He thinks upon his death (in Evidence of Things Not Seen) (Text: Ned Rorem after Julien Green) *
His Beauty Sparkles (in Evidence of Things Not Seen) (Text: Paul Goodman) *
How Do I Love Thee (in Evidence of Things Not Seen) (Text: Elizabeth Barrett Browning) CHI GER HUN
Hymn for Evening (in Evidence of Things Not Seen) (Text: Thomas Ken)
Hymn for Morning (in Evidence of Things Not Seen) (Text: Thomas Ken)
I am he . . . (in Evidence of Things Not Seen) (Text: Walt Whitman)
I am Rose (Text: Gertrude Stein) *
I saw a mass of matter of a dull gloomy color (in Evidence of Things Not Seen) (Text: John Woolman)
I saw in Louisiana a live-oak growing (in Three Calamus Songs) (Text: Walt Whitman)
I strolled across an open field (in Two Poems of Theodore Roethke) (Text: Theodore Roethke) *
I waited in the parlor (in Little Prayers) (Text: Paul Goodman) [x]*
I will always love you (Text: Frank O'Hara) *
If ever hapless woman had a cause (in Women's Voices) (Text: Mary Herbert, Countess of Pembroke)
In a gondola (in Six Songs for High Voice) (Text: Robert Browning)
In New York and Spain (in Four Dialogues for 2 Voices and 2 Pianos) (Text: Frank O'Hara) [x]*
in the rain (in Poems of Love and the Rain) (Text: E. E. Cummings) [x]
in the rain (in Poems of Love and the Rain) (Text: E. E. Cummings) [x]
Inauguration Ball (in War Scenes) (Text: Walt Whitman)
Interlude (in Poems of Love and the Rain) (Text: Theodore Roethke) [x]*
Is my team ploughing (in Evidence of Things Not Seen) (Text: Alfred Edward Housman)
Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair (Text: Stephen Collins Foster)
Lady Lazarus (in Ariel: Five Poems of Sylvia Plath) (Text: Sylvia Plath) *
Lay up for yourselves (in Seven Motets for the Church Year) (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts)
Life in a love (in Evidence of Things Not Seen) (Text: Robert Browning) GER
Little elegy (in Two songs) (Text: Elinor Wylie) GER
Little lamb, who made thee? (Text: William Blake) RUS GER FIN
Long lines (in Little Prayers) (Text: Paul Goodman) [x]*
Look down, fair moon (in 5 Songs to Poems - Texts by Walt Whitman) (Text: Walt Whitman)
Look down, fair moon (in Five Poems of Walt Whitman) (Text: Walt Whitman)
Love (Text: Thomas Lodge)
Love (in Four Madrigals) (Text: after Sappho) [x]*
Love cannot fill the thickened lung with breath (in Evidence of Things Not Seen) (Text: Edna St. Vincent Millay)
Love in a Life (Text: Robert Browning)
Love's stricken 'why' (in Poems of Love and the Rain) (Text: Emily Dickinson)
Love's stricken 'why' (in Poems of Love and the Rain) (Text: Emily Dickinson)
Lullaby of the Woman of the Mountain (Text: Patrick Henry Pearse)
Memory (Text: Theodore Roethke) [x]*
Mother, I cannot mind my wheel (in The Nantucket Songs) (Text: Walter Savage Landor after Sappho) GER GER
Moving leaves (in Santa Fe Songs) (Text: Witter Bynner) [x]*
My papa's waltz (Text: Theodore Roethke) *
Nantucket (in The Nantucket Songs) (Text: William Carlos Williams) *
Night crow (Text: Theodore Roethke) [x]*
Not ideas about the thing but the thing itself (in Last Poems of Wallace Stevens) (Text: Wallace Stevens)
Novices of art understate (in Little Prayers) (Text: Paul Goodman) [x]*
Now is the dreadful midnight (in Evidence of Things Not Seen) (Text: Paul Goodman) *
Now let no charitable hope (in Women's Voices) (Text: Elinor Wylie)
Now sleeps the crimson petal (Text: Lord Alfred Tennyson)
O do not love too long (Text: William Butler Yeats)
O God of fire and the secret (in Little Prayers) (Text: Paul Goodman) [x]*
O where are you going (in Evidence of Things Not Seen) (Text: W. H. Auden) *
O you whom I often and silently come (in 5 Songs to Poems - Texts by Walt Whitman) (Text: Walt Whitman)
Ode (in Poèmes pour la Paix) (Text: Pierre de Ronsard)
Of him I love day and night (in Three Calamus Songs) (Text: Walt Whitman)
Of mere being (in Last Poems of Wallace Stevens) (Text: Wallace Stevens)
Of the millions, I know, who have gone to the grave (in The Poet's Requiem) (Text: Paul Goodman) [x]*
On a singing girl (in Two songs) (Text: Elinor Wylie) [x]
On all, the wicked and (in Little Prayers) (Text: Paul Goodman) [x]*
On an echoing road (in Evidence of Things Not Seen) (Text: after Colette)
Opus 101 (in Santa Fe Songs) (Text: Witter Bynner)
Orchids (in Two Poems of Theodore Roethke) (Text: Theodore Roethke) *
Our youth (in Some Trees) (Text: John Ashbery) [x]*
Parting (in Four Madrigals) (Text: after Sappho) [x]*
Piano Interlude (in Flight For Heaven)
Pippa's song (in Six Songs for High Voice) (Text: Robert Browning)
Poppies in July (in Ariel: Five Poems of Sylvia Plath) (Text: Sylvia Plath) *
Poppies in October (in Ariel: Five Poems of Sylvia Plath) (Text: Sylvia Plath) *
Praise him who was crucified (in Seven Motets for the Church Year) (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts)
Prologue: From The Rain (in Poems of Love and the Rain) (Text: Donald Windham) [x]*
Psalm 134 (in Cycle of Holy Songs) (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts after Bible or other Sacred Texts)
Psalm 142 (in Cycle of Holy Songs) (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts after Bible or other Sacred Texts) GER
Psalm 148 (in Cycle of Holy Songs) (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts after Bible or other Sacred Texts) GER
Psalm 150 (in Cycle of Holy Songs) (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts after Bible or other Sacred Texts) GER ICE
Rain in spring (Text: Paul Goodman) [x]*
Reconciliation (in Five Poems of Walt Whitman) (Text: Walt Whitman)
Rejoice we all in the Lord (in Seven Motets for the Church Year) (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts)
Requiem (Text: Robert Louis Stevenson) ITA GER
Requiescat (in Evidence of Things Not Seen) (Text: Oscar Wilde) GER
Rest well (in Little Prayers) (Text: Paul Goodman) [x]*
Rest well (in Little Prayers) (Text: Paul Goodman) [x]*
Rest well thy weary heart (in Little Prayers) (Text: Paul Goodman) [x]*
Rondelay (in Six Songs for High Voice) (Text: John Dryden)
Root cellar (Text: Theodore Roethke) [x]*
Sally's smile (Text: Paul Goodman) [x]*
Santa Fe (in Santa Fe Songs) (Text: Witter Bynner) [x]*
See how they love me (Text: Howard Moss) [x]*
Smile, Death (in Women's Voices) (Text: Charlotte Mew)
Snake (Text: Theodore Roethke) *
Some Trees (in Some Trees) (Text: John Ashbery) [x]*
Sometimes with one I love (in Five Poems of Walt Whitman) (Text: Walt Whitman)
Song (in The Nantucket Songs) (Text: Theodore Roethke) *
Song (in The Nantucket Songs) (Text: Edmund Waller)
Song for a girl (in Six Songs for High Voice) (Text: John Dryden)
Song for lying in bed during a night rain (in Poems of Love and the Rain) (Text: Kenneth Pitchford) [x]*
Song for lying in bed during a night rain (in Poems of Love and the Rain) (Text: Kenneth Pitchford) [x]*
Song to a fair young lady, going out of town in the spring (in Six Songs for High Voice) (Text: John Dryden)
Sonnet (in Santa Fe Songs) (Text: Witter Bynner) *
Spring (Text: Gerard Manley Hopkins)
Stop all the clocks (in Poems of Love and the Rain) (Text: W. H. Auden) *
Stop all the clocks (in Poems of Love and the Rain) (Text: W. H. Auden) *
Stopping by woods on a snowy evening (Text: Robert Frost) GER
Such beauty as hurts to behold (Text: Paul Goodman) [x]*
Sun of the sleepless (in Sun) (Text: George Gordon Noel Byron, Lord Byron) RUS ITA GER FRE
That shadow, my likeness (Text: Walt Whitman)
That shadow, my likeness (in Whitman Cantata) (Text: Walt Whitman)
The air is the only (in Poems of Love and the Rain) (Text: Howard Moss) [x]*
The air is the only (in Poems of Love and the Rain) (Text: Howard Moss) [x]*
The airport (in Four Dialogues for 2 Voices and 2 Pianos) (Text: Frank O'Hara) [x]*
The apartment (in Four Dialogues for 2 Voices and 2 Pianos) (Text: Frank O'Hara) [x]*
The apparition (in Poems of Love and the Rain) (Text: Theodore Roethke) [x]*
The apparition (in Poems of Love and the Rain) (Text: Theodore Roethke) [x]*
The Candid Man (in Evidence of Things Not Seen) (Text: Stephen Crane)
The Comfort of Friends (O the rapes) (in Evidence of Things Not Seen) (Text: William Penn)
The dance (in The Nantucket Songs) (Text: William Carlos Williams) *
The dancer (in The Nantucket Songs) (Text: Edmund Waller)
The Dove in Spring (in Last Poems of Wallace Stevens) (Text: Wallace Stevens)
The end (Text: Dana Gioia) *
The grapevine (in Some Trees) (Text: John Ashbery) [x]*
The Hanging Man (in Ariel: Five Poems of Sylvia Plath) (Text: Sylvia Plath) *
The land (in Three Poems of Demetrios Capetanakis) (Text: Demetrios Capetanakis) [x]*
The Lordly Hudson (Text: Paul Goodman) *
The midnight sun (in Four songs) (Text: Paul Goodman) [x]*
The more loving one (in Evidence of Things Not Seen) (Text: W. H. Auden) *
The old men admiring themselves in the water (in Evidence of Things Not Seen) (Text: William Butler Yeats)
The Open Road (in Evidence of Things Not Seen) (Text: Walt Whitman)
The Planet on the Table (in Last Poems of Wallace Stevens) (Text: Wallace Stevens)
The Rainbow (in Evidence of Things Not Seen) (Text: William Wordsworth) GER
The real war will never get in the books (in War Scenes) (Text: Walt Whitman)
The River of Rivers in Connecticut (in Last Poems of Wallace Stevens) (Text: Wallace Stevens)
The serpent (Text: Theodore Roethke) *
The sick rose (Text: William Blake) NYN RUS GER FRE FRE GER
The sick rose (in After Long Silence) (Text: William Blake) NYN RUS GER FRE FRE GER
The sick wife (in Evidence of Things Not Seen) (Text: Jane Kenyon) *
The silver swan GER FRE
The sleeping palace (in Four Poems of Tennyson) (Text: Lord Alfred Tennyson)
The sowers (in Santa Fe Songs) (Text: Witter Bynner) *
The stranger (in Women's Voices) (Text: Adrienne Rich) [x]*
The sub (in Four Dialogues for 2 Voices and 2 Pianos) (Text: Frank O'Hara) [x]*
The tulip tree (in Four songs) (Text: Paul Goodman) *
The waking (Text: Theodore Roethke) *
The wintry mind (in Santa Fe Songs) (Text: Witter Bynner) *
The youth with the red-gold hair (Text: Edith Sitwell) *
Thee, God (in Three Motets on Texts by Gerard Manley Hopkins) (Text: Gerard Manley Hopkins)
Their Lonely Betters (in Evidence of Things Not Seen) (Text: W. H. Auden) *
Thoughts of a young girl (in The Nantucket Songs) (Text: John Ashbery) *
To a common prostitute (in Three Calamus Songs) (Text: Walt Whitman)
To a young girl (Text: William Butler Yeats)
To Anthea, who may command him anything (in Flight For Heaven) (Text: Robert Herrick) FRE
To daisies, not to shut so soon (in Flight For Heaven) (Text: Robert Herrick)
To Jane (Text: Percy Bysshe Shelley)
To Music, to becalm his Fever (in Flight For Heaven) (Text: Robert Herrick) GER
To my dear and loving husband (in Women's Voices) (Text: Anne Bradstreet)
To the ladies (in Women's Voices) (Text: Mary Lee, Lady Chudleigh)
To the Willow-tree (in Flight For Heaven) (Text: Robert Herrick)
To you (in 5 Songs to Poems - Texts by Walt Whitman) (Text: Walt Whitman)
Today the Holy Spirit appeared (in Seven Motets for the Church Year) (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts)
Up-hill (in The Nantucket Songs) (Text: Christina Georgina Rossetti)
Upon Julia's clothes (in Flight For Heaven) (Text: Robert Herrick)
Visits to St. Elizabeth's (Text: Elizabeth Bishop) [x]*
Water-hyacinths (in Santa Fe Songs) (Text: Witter Bynner) [x]*
We never said farewell (in Women's Voices) (Text: Mary Coleridge)
What can I tell my bones (Text: Theodore Roethke) [x]*
What if some little pain (Text: Edmund Spenser)
What inn is this (in Women's Voices) (Text: Emily Dickinson)
What sparks and wiry cries (in Three Poems of Paul Goodman) (Text: Paul Goodman) *
While all things were in quiet silence (in Seven Motets for the Church Year) (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts)
Words (in Ariel: Five Poems of Sylvia Plath) (Text: Sylvia Plath) *
Yes I hear them (in Santa Fe Songs) (Text: Witter Bynner) [x]*
You, the Young Rainbow (Text: Edith Sitwell) [x]*
Youth, Day, Old Age, and Night (Text: Walt Whitman) GER FRE
[x] indicates a placeholder for a text that is not yet in the database
* indicates that a text cannot (yet?) be displayed on this site because of its copyright status.
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