Texts by R. Wilbur set in Art Songs and Choral Works

Text Collections:

• Advice to a Prophet and Other Poems
• Opposites
• The Beautiful Changes and Other Poems
• Things of this World

Texts set in art song or choral works (not necessarily comprehensive):

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Special notes: All titles and first lines are included in this index, including those used by composers.
Titles used by the text author appear in boldface. First lines appear in italics.
A language code in a blue rectangle like ENG indicates that a translation to that language is available.
A grey rectangle like FRE indicates a particular translation (usually one set to music) exists but isn't yet available.

• A Christmas Hymn (A stable-lamp is lighted) (from Advice to a Prophet and Other Poems) - H. de Lange, A. Wynton *
• All teeth from head to foot, yet friend to men * - E. Vercoe
• A stable-lamp is lighted (from Advice to a Prophet and Other Poems) * - H. de Lange, P. Tollefson, A. Wynton (A Christmas Hymn)
• A stable lamp is lighted (A stable-lamp is lighted) (from Advice to a Prophet and Other Poems) - P. Tollefson *
• Beasts () (from Things of this World) - R. Cucinotta [x] *
• Boy at the window (Seeing the snowman standing all alone) - H. de Lange *
• Chain (To me, and through me fortune is unkind) - E. Vercoe *
• Chick in the Egg (Mine was the strangest birth under the sun) - E. Vercoe *
• Dream fluently, still brothers, who when young * - H. de Lange
• Exeunt (Piecemeal the summer dies) (from Things of this World) - Y. Wyner *
• Flying (Treetops are not so high) - E. Windels [x] *
• Hobnail (Hung from a foot, I walk upon my head) - E. Vercoe *
• Hung from a foot, I walk upon my head * - E. Vercoe
• I bite when bitten; but because I lack * - E. Vercoe
• I have borne more than a body ought to bear * - E. Vercoe
• In her room at the prow of the house * - A. Henderson (The writer)
• It must be me (My master told me that men are loving-kind) - L. Bernstein *
• Mine was the strangest birth under the sun * - E. Vercoe
• Mother of Twins (I have borne more than a body ought to bear) - E. Vercoe *
• My master told me that men are loving-kind * - L. Bernstein
• Of cheese () (from Opposites) - H. Clarke [x] *
• Of Earth () (from Opposites) - H. Clarke [x] *
• Of nuts () (from Opposites) - H. Clarke [x] *
• Of standing still () (from Opposites) - H. Clarke [x] *
• One wading a Fall meadow finds on all sides (from The Beautiful Changes and Other Poems) * - G. Binkerd, H. de Lange (The beautiful changes)
• Onion (I bite when bitten; but because I lack) - E. Vercoe *
• Piecemeal the summer dies (from Things of this World) * - Y. Wyner (Exeunt)
• River and Fish (Sweet purlings in an earth-walled inn resound) - E. Vercoe *
• Saw (All teeth from head to foot, yet friend to men) - E. Vercoe *
• Seeing the snowman standing all alone * - H. de Lange
• Stairs (Unequal in degree, alike in size) - E. Vercoe *
• Sweet purlings in an earth-walled inn resound * - E. Vercoe
• The beautiful changes (One wading a Fall meadow finds on all sides) (from The Beautiful Changes and Other Poems) - G. Binkerd, H. de Lange *
• The horse beneath me seemed * - H. de Lange
• The ride (The horse beneath me seemed) - H. de Lange *
• The writer (In her room at the prow of the house) - A. Henderson *
• To me, and through me fortune is unkind * - E. Vercoe
• To the Etruscan poets (Dream fluently, still brothers, who when young) - H. de Lange *
• Treetops are not so high [x] * - E. Windels
• Unequal in degree, alike in size * - E. Vercoe

Last update: 2023-05-10 20:59:00