Songs in English
chronologically by year of composition
Tuesday, May 06, 2008
Author's Alphabetical Index
Strictly Germ-Proof - (2008) Arthur Guiterman 
for medium voice and piano
The Pelican Chorus - (2008) Edward Lear
for medium high voice and piano
i walked the boulevard - (2008) E. E. Cummings
for medium voice and piano
Four Little Cat Songs - (2008) Julie Dalton Williamson
for medium high voice and piano
Beer - (2008) George Arnold
for medium voice and piano
Raisin Pie - (2008) Edgar Guest
for medium voice and piano
The Things Our Fathers Loved - (2008) Charles Ives
for medium voice and piano
Stupidity Street - (2008) Ralph Hodgson
for medium or low voice and piano
Winter - (2008) Walter de la Mare
for medium voice and piano
The Ghost - (2007) Walter de la Mare
for medium voice and piano
i'm so drunGk, dear - (2007) E. E. Cummings
for medium voice and piano
Hog Meat - (2007) Daniel Webster Davis
for medium high voice and piano
A Prayer - (2007) Joseph S. Cotter, Jr.
for medium voice and piano
Chicken Little - (2007) Margaret Free and Harriette Taylor Treadwell
for high voice and piano
Three Abortion Carols - (2007) Parodies by the composer 
for medium voice and piano
i. Away in a Basin
ii. O Little Child Unwanted
iii. Silent child, wholly defiled
He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven - (2007) William Butler Yeats
for medium voice and piano
all the girls - (2007) E. E. Cummings
for high voice and piano
Mietvertrag - (2007) Olivia Melton
for medium voice and piano
Companion to the Other - (2007) Apache Wedding Prayer adapted by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
for medium voice and piano
The Song of the Quoodle - (2007) G. K. Chesterton
for medium voice and piano
The New Road - (2007) Anne Lafeber
for contralto and piano
Happiness - (2007) Carl Sandburg
for medium voice and piano
Gold Leaves - (2007) G. K. Chesterton
for medium or high voice and piano
Seven Presidential Pardons - (2007) texts after quotes of recent American Presidents
for high or medium voice and piano
i. I'm Not a Crook (after Richard Milhouse Nixon)
ii. American Efficiency (after Gerald Rudolph Ford, Jr.)
iii. To drown my troubles (after James Earl Carter)
iv. The Second Oldest Profession (after Ronald Wilson Reagan)
v. No Exaggeration (after George Herbert Walker Bush)
vi. It depends upon what the meaning of the word 'is' is (after William Jefferson Clinton)
vii. The Strategery (after George Walker Bush)
The Hoard of the Gibbelins - (2007) Lord Dunsany
for horn in F (or Wagner tuba), mezzo soprano and piano
It's drink that uplifts - (2007) Turlough O'Carolan
for high voice and piano
Wynken, Blynken, and Nod - (2007) Eugene Field
for medium high voice and piano
O sweet spontaneous earth - (2007) E. E. Cummings
for high voice and piano
I like Americans - (2007) Ernest Hemingway
for medium voice and piano
Disillusionment of Ten O'Clock - (2007) Wallace Stevens
for mezzo soprano and piano
An Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog - (2007) Oliver Goldsmith
for bass baritone and piano
The Hearse Song - (2007) Anonymous
for baritone and piano
Sweeney Among the Nightingales - (2007) T. S. Eliot
for soprano and piano
The Bells of Hell - (2007) Anonymous, in Fifty-Five Songs, YR1550
for medium voice and piano
Five Poems of Countée Cullen - (2007) in Fifty-Five Songs, YR1550
for medium voice and piano
i. Saturday's Child
ii. Incident
iii. The Loss of Love
iv. For a Poet
v. The Wise
On the Mississippi - (2007) Hamlin Garland, in Fifty-Five Songs, YR1550
for medium voice and piano
Ode to Stephen Dowling Bots, Dec'd. (2007) Mark Twain, in Fifty-Five Songs, YR1550
for medium voice and piano
Montparnasse (1920) - (2007) Ernest Hemmingway, in Fifty-Five Songs, YR1550
for medium voice and piano
The Lip and the Heart - (2007) John Quincy Adams, in Fifty-Five Songs, YR1550
for medium voice and piano
Warm Summer Sun - (2007) Mark Twain, in Fifty-Five Songs, YR1550
for medium voice and piano
Wedlock - (2007) Benjamin Franklin, in Fifty-Five Songs, YR1550
for medium voice and piano
maggie and millie and molly and may - (2007) E. E. Cummings, in Fifty-Five Songs, YR1550
for high voice and piano
Hokku - (2007) E. E. Cummings
for medium voice and piano
a salesman is an it that stinks Excuse - (2007) E. E. Cummings, in Fifty-Five Songs, YR1550
for medium voice and piano
A Regular Sort of a Guy - (2007) Eugene O'Neill, in Fifty-Five Songs, YR1550
for medium voice and piano
anyone lived in a pretty how town - (2007) E. E. Cummings, in Fifty-Five Songs, YR1550
for medium voice and piano
Where's Madge then, - (2007) E. E. Cummings, in Fifty-Five Songs, YR1550
for medium voice and piano
New York Sorrows - (2007) Sara Teasdale
for mezzo soprano and piano
i. Central Park at Dusk
ii. Broadway
iii. The Kiss
iv. The Old Maid
v. Coney Island
vi. Less than the cloud to the wind
vii. Summer Night, Riverside
a politician is an arse upon - (2007) E. E. Cummings, in Fifty-Five Songs, YR1550
for medium voice and piano
Four Songs of a Woman - (2007) Georgia Douglas Johnson, in Fifty-Five Songs, YR1550
for medium voice and piano
i. I Want to Die While You Love Me
ii. The Heart of a Woman
iii. Youth
iv. My Little Dreams
The Snow Man - (2007) Wallace Stevens, in Fifty-Five Songs, YR1550
for medium voice and piano
dying is fine)but Death - (2007) E. E. Cummings, in Fifty-Five Songs, YR1550
for medium voice and piano
Three Cummings Songs - (2007) E. E. Cummings
for soprano and piano
i. may i feel said he
ii. if i believe
iii. buy me an ounce
Good and Clever - (2007) Elizabeth Wordsworth
for medium voice and piano
Owls - an Epitaph - (2007) Edward Elgar
for medium voice and piano
The Cudgel'd Husband - (2006) Jonathan Swift
for tenor and piano
The Place of the Damned - (2006) Jonathan Swift
for medium voice and piano
Pieces of Peacock Pie - (2006) Walter de la Mare
for medium high voice and piano
i. The Lost Shoe
ii. Tired Tim
iii. The Huntsmen
iv. Some One
v. Miss T
vi. The Cupboard
vii. Hide and Seek
viii. Then
ix. Full Moon
x. Poor Henry
xi. Will Ever?
xii. Song of the Secret
Music - (2006) Walter de la Mare
high voice and piano
The Harlot's House - (2006) Oscar Wilde, in Fifty-Five Songs, YR1550
for medium voice and piano
Fantaisies Décoratives - (2006) Oscar Wilde
for soprano and piano
i. Le Panneau
ii. Les Ballons
The Town Rabbit in the Country - (2006) Camilla Doyle
for mezzo soprano and piano
Kitchen Door Blues - (2006) Tennessee Williams, in Fifty-Five Songs, YR1550
for baritone and piano
From "In the Winter of Cities" - (2006) Tennessee Williams YR1540
for baritone and piano
i. Old men are fond
ii. Which is my little boy?
iii. Covenant
iv. Across the space
v. Death is high
Everyman - (2005) Tennessee Williams, in Fifty-Five Songs, YR1550
for soprano or mezzo soprano and piano
The Divine Image - (2006) William Blake
for soprano and piano
The Margaret Sanger Song - (2006) Adapted from texts by Margaret Sanger
for medium voice and piano
The Horrible History of Jones - (2006) G. K. Chesterton
for medium high voice and piano
The Circus Band and Other Delights - (2006) Charles E. Ives YR1537
for medium or high voice and piano
i. The Circus Band
ii. The See'r
iii. The Cage
iv. The Side Show
v. Waltz
vi. 1, 2, 3
Metaphysics - (2006) Oliver Herford, in Fifty-Five Songs, YR1550
for medium high voice and piano
Between the Sunken Sun and the New Moon - (2006) Paul Hamilton Hayne
for tenor or baritone and piano
the sky was - (2006) E. E. Cummings, in Fifty-Five Songs, YR1550
for medium high voice and piano
Echoes from the Cabin - (2006) James Edwin Campbell YR1538
for high or medium high voice and piano
i. Uncle Eph's Banjo Song
ii. Ol' Doc' Hyar
iii. When ol' Sis' Judy pray
iv. Negro Serenade
v. De Cunjah Man
The Gourmet's Love Song - (2006) P. G. Wodehouse
originally for baritone and piano
Daffodils - (2006) William Wordsworth, in Fifty-Five Songs, YR1550
for baritone and piano
October - (2005) Robert Frost, in Fifty-Five Songs, YR1550
for soprano or mezzo soprano and piano
Fire and Ice - (2005) Robert Frost, in Fifty-Five Songs, YR1550
for medium voice and piano
The Mad Gardener's Song - (2005) Lewis Carroll, in Fifty-Five Songs, YR1550
for mezzo soprano or baritone
Two Simple Songs - (2005) Virginia Bachlund, in Fifty-Five Songs, YR1550
for soprano or mezzo soprano and piano
i. Renaissance
ii. A Seeking Heart
Marie of Roumania - (2005) Dorothy Parker
for medium high voice and piano
The Wild Horse Travels - (2005) Gordon Bachlund
for tenor and piano
Four Seasons - (2005) Anton Gill
for soprano or mezzo soprano and piano
i. Summer
ii. Autumn
iii. Winter
iv. Spring
Lions and Ants - (2006) Walt Mason
for high or medium voice and piano
this is the garden - (2005) E. E. Cummings
for soprano and piano
The Wanderer - (2005) Beulah May, in Fifty-Five Songs, YR1550
for mezzo soprano and piano
The Emperor of Ice-Cream - (2005) Wallace Stevens, in Fifty-Five Songs, YR1550
for medium voice and piano
Three Airs from the Beggar's Opera - (2005) John Gay
for tenor and piano
i. A Fox May Steal Your Hens, Sir
ii. If the Heart of a Man
iii. Youth's the Season Made for Joys
oil tel duh woil doi sez - (2005) E. E. Cummings
for medium voice and piano
Doll's boy's asleep - (2005) E. E. Cummings, in Fifty-Five Songs, YR1550
for mezzo soprano and piano
as freedom is a breakfast food - (2005) E. E. Cummings
for mezzo soprano and piano
Harte Songs - (2005) Bret Harte, in Fifty-Five Songs, YR1550
for baritone and piano
i. Mrs. Judge Jenkins
ii. Coyote
iii. Plain Language from Truthful James
The Prism of Life - (2005) John Addington Symonds
for bass or bass-baritone and piano
God's Bottles - (2005) Leaflet Issued by the National Women's Christian Temperance Union (n. d.)
for high or medium voice and piano
i sing of Olaf glad and big - (2005) E. E. Cummings
for bass or bass-baritone and piano
The Wine-Drinkers - (2005) Tennessee Williams
for mezzo soprano and piano
All Lovely Things - (2005) Conrad Aiken
for bass and piano
From Cautionary Tales for Children - (2005) Hilaire Belloc
for mezzo soprano or soprano and piano
i. Henry King
ii. Matilda (who told such dreadful lies)
iii. George (The boy who played with dangerous toys)
nobody loses all the time - (2005) E. E. Cummings
for medium voice and piano
Drolleries and Wisdom - (2005) G. K. Chesterton
for baritone and piano
i. Wine and Water
ii. In My Own Nursery
iii. The Englishman
iv. A Ballade of Suicide
v. The Holy of Holies
vi. A Ballade of an Anti-Puritan
Injun Summah - (2005) Benjamin Franklin King
for mezzo soprano or tenor and piano
i. Injun Summah
ii. The River St. Joe
iii. The Cow Slips Away
iv. Gedder in yo' grain
After Apple-picking - (2005) Robert Frost
for baritone and piano
The Sum of Life - (2005) Benjamin Franklin King
for tenor and piano
i. If I should die tonight
ii. The Hair-Tonic Bottle
iii. The Pessimist
Poets on Pigs - (2005) Mary Buchanan, Noel Coward, Sian Davies, Ogden Nash, 'Mother Goose,' Alfred Scott Gatty, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sara Teasdale, Christopher Smart, Archibald Stodart-Walker, a traditional anonymous poem and a poem by the composer
for mezzo soprano and piano
i. The Pig - a Limerick
ii. The Pig - a Fable
iii. This Pig Went to Market - a traditional English child's poem
iv. Dickory, dickory, dare - from Mother Goose
v. Three Little Pigs -- the Traditional Story newly told in rhyme
vi. The Spectre Pig -- a Ghost Story
vii. Piggy Patter, Piggy Platter -- a Patter Song
viii. The Star and the Pig -- an Art Poem
ix. Politics is where the pig -- an Editorial
x. The Three Little Pigs -- another of the Three Pig Stories
xi. Early Bacon! -- an Appreciation of the Butchered Pig
xii. Any Part of Piggy -- in Summary....
Three Magical Songs - (2005) William Butler Yeats
for baritone and piano
i. The Stolen Child
ii. The Song of the Wandering Aengus
iii. The Second Coming
Nursery Rhymes and Children's Prayers - (2005) Mother Goose, A Child's Garden of Verses and a traditional 18th century prayer
for mezzo soprano and piano
i. Cobbler! Cobbler! Mend My Shoe
ii. Mary Had a Little Lamb
iii. The Child and the Star
iv. Pat-a-Cake, Baker's Man
v. Little Drops of Water
vi. Rain
vii. Rich Man, Poor Man
viii. Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep
Three Psalms - (2005) from The Scottish Psalter of 1635
for tenor or bass and organ
i. A Tree by the River Side - from Psalm 1 after Thomas Sternhold
ii. Like as the Hart - from Psalm 42 after John Hopkins
iii. Give Laud Unto the Lord - from Psalm 148 after John Pullain
In My Grave - (2004) Frances Ginzer
for soprano and piano
Songs of War - (2004) Thomas Hardy, Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon, Isaac Rosenberg, Rudyard Kipling and Rupert Brooke YR1539
for baritone and piano
i. In Time of the Breaking of Nations
ii. The Send-Off
iii. Attack
iv. Dead Man's Dump
v. Gethsemane
vi. Danny Deever
vii. The Dead
"crazy jay blue)" and other poems - (2004) E. E. Cummings
for tenor and piano
i. crazy jay blue)
ii. dominic has a doll
iii. in time of daffodils
iv. as joe gould says
v. when mack smacked phyllis
vi. the old almost lady
vii. when any mortal(even the most odd)
viii. what the hell
when god lets my body be - (2004) E. E. Cummings
for tenor or baritone and piano
"spoke joe to jack" and other songs - (2004) E. E. Cummings
for baritone and piano
i. spoke joe to jack
ii. red-rag and pink-flag
iii. the way to hump a cow
iv. there are possibly 2½
v. these children singing in stone
vi. love is the every only god
vii. up into the silence
viii. love is more thicker than forget
little man (2004) E. E. Cummings, in Fifty-Five Songs, YR1550
for soprano and piano
The Broken Heart - (2004) Thomas Moore
for tenor and piano
To the States - (2004) Walt Whitman
from "Inscriptions" in "Leaves of Grass"
for soprano or tenor and piano
Après un petit déjeuner - (2003)
for medium voice and piano
At tea - (2003) Thomas Hardy
soprano or mezzo soprano and piano
'I am the One' - (2003) Thomas Hardy
for mezzo soprano and piano
To Lizbie Browne - (2003) Thomas Hardy
for tenor and piano
"Calico Pie" and Other Nonsense - (2002) Edward Lear
for soprano and piano
i. Calico Pie
ii. An Old Man with a Beard
iii. The Duck and the Kangaroo
iv. Eyes
v. The Daddy Long-Legs and the Fly
vi. The Birds Sat Upon It
vii. The Owl and the Pussy-Cat
viii. An Old Lady
ix. The Jumblies
Ashes and Eyes - (2002) Anton Gill
for mezzo soprano and organ
Equality - (2001)
for high or medium voice and piano (also for chorus)
Five Sonnets - (2000) William Shakespeare
for high or medium voice and piano
i. Sonnet VIII - “Music to hear, why hear’st thou music sadly?”
ii. Sonnet XVIII - “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?”
iii. Sonnet XIX - "Devouring Time"
iv. Sonnet XXX - “When to the sessions of sweet silent thought”
v. Sonnet LXVI - “Tir’d with all these, for restful death I cry”
The Pilgrim Soul - (1999) William Butler Yeats
for high voice and piano
Felix Randal - (1999) Gerard Manley Hopkins
for medium voice and piano
Four Songs of Gerard Manley Hopkins - (1999) YR1534
for soprano and piano
i. Pied Beauty
ii. God's Grandeur
iii. Spring
iv. To Call Thee Love
I Will Love You Anywhere - (1999) Mark Burstein, after Dr. Seuss
for medium voice and piano
From the Song of Songs - (1998) Bible Texts edited by Julie Dalton Williamson
for soprano or mezzo soprano and piano
i. I am black, but comely
ii. My Love
iii. I am sick with love
iv. Return!
v. A Seal Upon Your Heart
A Rational Anthem - (1998) Ambrose Bierce, in Fifty-Five Songs, YR1550
for medium voice
Live with Me - (1997) Christopher Marlowe and Sir Walter Raleigh (last verse), quoted by William Shakespeare
low or medium voice and piano
Consolation - (1996) Ambrose Bierce, in Fifty-Five Songs, YR1550
for medium voice and piano
Little Questions (1992) Gary Bachlund
for medium voice and piano
Anne Frank (1992) Michael O'Loughlin
for soprano and piano
Blue Mountain Ballads - (1991) Tennessee Williams YR1517
for medium voice and piano
i. Sugar in the Cane
ii. Heavenly Grass
iii. Cabin
iv. Lonesome Man
A Prayer for Today - (1991) Ambrose Bierce, in Fifty-Five Songs, YR1550
for medium voice and piano
Ancient Music - (1991) Ezra Pound
for baritone and piano
"Alice" Songs - (1991) Lewis Carroll YR1502
for high voice and piano
i. Childhood Dreams
ii The Little Crocodile
iii. Pig and Pepper
iv. The Mock Turtle's Lament
v. Jabberwocky
vi. Tweedledum and Tweedledee
vii. Humpty Dumpty
viii. The Lion and the Unicorn
ix. Queen Alice
o by the by - (1991) E. E. Cummings, in Fifty-Five Songs, YR1550
for soprano and piano
Small Homes - (1991) Carl Sandburg
for medium voice and piano
Chamber Music - (1991) James Joyce YR1509
for high voice and piano
i. Make Music Sweet
ii. Twilight
iii. Goldenhair
iv. Where Love Did Sometime Go
v. Pain
vi. Companion
vii. Gentle Lady
viii. Rain Has Fallen
xi. I Hear an Army
To Women, As Far As I'm Concerned - (1991) D. H. Lawrence
for tenor and piano
Songs for the Victim of AIDS - (1991) Gary Bachlund YR1505
for medium or low voice and piano
i. Clever Death, Stupid Death
ii. It was a cross
iii. Room A-460
iv. Yesterday
v. A Litany of Finger Pointing
vi. The Quilt
Weeping Is A Comfort - (1991) Gary Bachlund YR1500.7
for high voice and piano
The Quilt - (1991) Gary Bachlund YR1500.8
for high voice and piano
the secrets of living - (1991) E. E. Cummings, in Fifty-Five Songs, YR1550
for high voice and piano
seeker of truth - (1991) E. E. Cummings
for medium voice and piano
e. e.'s songs - (1990) E. E. Cummings YR1536
for medium voice and piano
i. Jimmie's got a goil
ii. raise the shade will you dearie?
iii. mary green
iv. says ol man no body-
v. time, be kind
vi. plato told him
mr youse needn't be so spry - (1990) E. E. Cummings
for baritone and piano
Because I could not stop for death - (1990) Emily Dickinson, in Fifty-Five Songs, YR1550
for high voice and piano
Love Songs of Dorothy Parker - (1990)
for soprano or mezzo soprano and piano
i. Two-Volume Novel
ii Pictures in the Smoke
iii. General Review of the Sex Situation
iv. Theory
v. Symptom Recital
Three Blake Settings - (1990) William Blake
for medium high voice and piano
i. The Sick Rose
ii. The Lilly
iii. Ah! Sun-flower
Voices Under Milk Wood - (1989) Dylan Thomas
for medium high voice and piano
i. First Voice
ii. A Draper Mad With Love
iii. Mrs Ogmore-Pritchard Widow
iv. Bessie Bighead
v. Oh There's a Face!
vi. Whispers on the Stairs
vii. Mary Ann Sailors
viii. Remember Last Night?
ix. The Children's Song
x. Polly Garter (singing)
xi. Knock Twice, Jack
xii. A Puffball
xiii. Sunset Hymn
xiv. In Pembroke City
xv. First Voice Last
Hollywood - (1989) Bertolt Brecht
for medium voice and piano
Thought for a Sunshiny Morning - (1989) Dorothy Parker
for medium high voice and piano
i'm very fond of black bean soup - (1989) E. E. Cummings YR1518 and in Fifty-Five Songs, YR1550
medium voice and piano
Stephano's Song from "The Tempest" - (1989) William Shakespeare
for tenor and piano
Where the Bee Sucks from "The Tempest" - (1989) William Shakespeare
for countertenor and piano
Caliban's Song from "The Tempest" - (1989) William Shakespeare
for bass-baritone and piano
Come Unto These Yellow Sands from "The Tempest" - (1989) William Shakespeare
for countertenor and piano
My Sweet Mistress - (1989) William Shakespeare
for tenor and piano
A Hymn to God the Father - (1987) John Donne
for high voice and piano
What Lips My Lips Have Kissed - (1986) Edna St. Vincent Millay
for medium voice and piano
All That's Past - (1986) Walter de la Mare
medium voice and piano
wanta spend six dollars kid - (1985) E. E. Cummings
for high soprano and piano
Three Poems of Walter de la Mare - (1985)
for mezzo soprano and piano
i. Alas, Alack!
ii. The Song of the Shadows
iii. Silver
Three Little Americana Songs
- (1985) texts as set by Charles Ives
for medium voice and piano
i. Nature
ii. Ann Street iii. Like a Sick Eagle
chansons innocentes (1923) - (1984) E. E. Cummings YR1516
for soprano or mezzo soprano and piano
i. in Just --
ii. hist whist
iii. Tumbling-hair
chansons innocentes (1925) - (1984) E. E. Cummings, in Fifty-Five Songs, YR1550
for high or medium voice and piano
i. why did you go
ii. little tree
Southern Pacific - (1984) Carl Sandburg
for tenor and baritone and piano
it may not always be so; and i say - (1983) E. E. Cummings, in Fifty-Five Songs, YR1550
for high voice and piano
This Perfect World - (1983) David Fries
for high voice and piano
i. Memories
ii. Friends
iii. The Dance
Buffalo Bill's - (1983) E. E. Cummings YR1519, and in Fifty-Five Songs, YR1550
for medium voice and piano
the Cambridge ladies - (1983) E. E. Cummings, in Fifty-Five Songs, YR1550
for medium voice and piano
Sonnet CXVI - (1983) William Shakespeare
medium high voice and piano
Daybreak from "Cannery Row" - (1983) John Steinbeck
for soprano and piano
Dora's Girls from "Cannery Row"- (1983) John Steinbeck
for mezzo soprano and piano
