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Author: Wallace Stevens (1879-1955)

Text collections / compilations [warning - not necessarily comprehensive]

Harmonium
The Palm at the End of the Mind
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird

Texts set to music [warning - not necessarily comprehensive]

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A child asleep in its own life (Among the old men that you know) (from The Palm at the End of the Mind) - N. Rorem *
A clear day and no memories (Today the air is clear of everything. ) - D. Hagen *
A clear day and no memories (No soldiers in the scenery) (from The Palm at the End of the Mind) - N. Rorem
A few things for themselves *
L. Hoiby: O Florida

A man and a woman (from Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird)
L. Foss, P. Glanville-Hicks, L. Talma: A man and a woman

Among the old men that you know (from The Palm at the End of the Mind) *
N. Rorem: A child asleep in its own life

Among twenty snowy mountains (from Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird)
L. Foss, P. Glanville-Hicks, L. Talma: Among twenty snowy mountains

Anecdote of the Prince of Peacocks - J. Connolly [x] *
Ariel was glad he had written his poems (from The Palm at the End of the Mind)
N. Rorem: The Planet on the Table

At the earliest ending of winter
N. Rorem: Not ideas about the thing but the thing itself

At the sight of blackbirds (from Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird)
L. Foss, P. Glanville-Hicks, L. Talma: At the sight of blackbirds

Before My Door (Now grapes are plush upon the vine) - L. Hoiby *
Brooder, brooder, deep beneath its walls--
N. Rorem: The Dove in Spring

Call the roller of big cigars (from Harmonium)
G. Bachlund, R. Reynolds: The Emperor of Ice-Cream

Continual Conversation with a Silent Man (The old brown hen and the old blue sky) - L. Hoiby *
Contrary Theses I (Now grapes are plush upon the vine) *
L. Hoiby: Before My Door

Cy est Pourtraicte, Madame Ste Ursule, et les Unze Mille Vierges (Ursula, in a garden, found ) (from Harmonium) - J. Gardner
Depression before Spring (The cock crows ) (from Harmonium) - J. Gardner
Disillusionment of ten o'clock (The houses are haunted) - G. Bachlund
Earthly anecdote - J. Connolly [x] *
Evening (Evening, when the measure skips a beat) - L. Hoiby *
Evening, when the measure skips a beat *
L. Hoiby: Evening

Final soliloquy of the interior paramour (Light the first light of evening ) - A. Thomas *
Floral Decorations for Bananas (Well, nuncle, this plainly won't do) - L. Hoiby *
Gubbinal (That strange flower, the sun ) (from Harmonium) - L. Hoiby, R. Holloway, V. Persichetti *
He rode over Connecticut (from Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird)
L. Foss, P. Glanville-Hicks, L. Talma: He rode over Connecticut

I do not know which to prefer (from Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird)
L. Foss, P. Glanville-Hicks, L. Talma: I do not know which to prefer

I know noble accents (from Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird)
L. Foss, P. Glanville-Hicks, L. Talma: I know noble accents

I was of three minds (from Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird)
L. Foss, P. Glanville-Hicks, L. Talma: I was of three minds

Icicles filled the long window (from Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird)
L. Foss, P. Glanville-Hicks, L. Talma: Icicles filled the long window

In Oklahoma (from Harmonium)
J. Gardner, J. Connolly: Life is motion

It was evening all afternoon (from Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird)
L. Foss, P. Glanville-Hicks, L. Talma: It was evening all afternoon

Just as my fingers on these keys (from Harmonium)
J. Gardner: Peter Quince at the Clavier

Life is motion (In Oklahoma) (from Harmonium) - J. Gardner, J. Connolly
Light the first light of evening *
A. Thomas: Final soliloquy of the interior paramour

No soldiers in the scenery (from The Palm at the End of the Mind)
N. Rorem: A clear day and no memories

Not ideas about the thing but the thing itself (At the earliest ending of winter) - N. Rorem
Now grapes are plush upon the vine *
L. Hoiby: Before My Door

O Florida (A few things for themselves) - L. Hoiby *
O Florida, Venereal Soil (A few things for themselves) *
L. Hoiby: O Florida

O thin men of Haddam (from Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird)
L. Foss, P. Glanville-Hicks, L. Talma: O thin men of Haddam

Of mere being (The palm at the end of the mind) (from The Palm at the End of the Mind) - N. Rorem
One must have a mind of winter (from Harmonium)
G. Bachlund, J. Connolly, V. Persichetti, W. Hekster: The snow man

Peter Quince at the Clavier (Just as my fingers on these keys ) (from Harmonium) - J. Gardner
Ploughing on Sunday (The white cock's tail ) (from Harmonium) - J. Gardner
Tattoo - J. Connolly [x] *
That strange flower, the sun (from Harmonium) *
L. Hoiby, R. Holloway, V. Persichetti: Gubbinal

The blackbird whirled in the autumn winds
L. Foss, P. Glanville-Hicks, L. Talma: The blackbird whirled in the autumn winds

The cock crows (from Harmonium)
J. Gardner: Depression before Spring

The Dove in Spring (Brooder, brooder, deep beneath its walls-- ) - N. Rorem
The Emperor of Ice-Cream (Call the roller of big cigars ) (from Harmonium) - G. Bachlund, R. Reynolds
The houses are haunted
G. Bachlund: Disillusionment of ten o'clock

The old brown hen and the old blue sky *
L. Hoiby: Continual Conversation with a Silent Man

The palm at the end of the mind (from The Palm at the End of the Mind)
N. Rorem: Of mere being

The place of the solitaires - J. Connolly [x] *
The Planet on the Table (Ariel was glad he had written his poems) (from The Palm at the End of the Mind) - N. Rorem
The poem that took the place of a mountain (There it was, word for word) - A. Thomas *
The river is moving (from Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird)
L. Foss, P. Glanville-Hicks, L. Talma: The river is moving

The River of Rivers in Connecticut (There is a great river this side of Stygia ) - N. Rorem
The snow man (One must have a mind of winter) (from Harmonium) - G. Bachlund, J. Connolly, V. Persichetti, W. Hekster
The white cock's tail (from Harmonium)
J. Gardner: Ploughing on Sunday

There is a great river this side of Stygia
N. Rorem: The River of Rivers in Connecticut

There it was, word for word *
A. Thomas: The poem that took the place of a mountain

To the roaring wind (What syllable are you seeking)
J. Cloud: Vocalissimus

Today the air is clear of everything. *
D. Hagen: A clear day and no memories

Ursula, in a garden, found (from Harmonium)
J. Gardner: Cy est Pourtraicte, Madame Ste Ursule, et les Unze Mille Vierges

Vocalissimus (What syllable are you seeking) - J. Cloud
Well, nuncle, this plainly won't do *
L. Hoiby: Floral Decorations for Bananas

What syllable are you seeking
J. Cloud: Vocalissimus

When the blackbird flew out of sight (from Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird)
L. Foss, P. Glanville-Hicks, L. Talma: When the blackbird flew out of sight

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