Elizabeth Barrett Browning

English poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning was passionate about progressive social causes, and about her love for her husband, poet Robert Browning. American composers who have been drawn to her passion include Ernst Bacon, Amy Marcy Beach, Eleanor Everest Freer, Norman Dello Joio, Libby Larsen, and Ned Rorem.

Photo: Elizabeth Barrett Browning, courtesy of Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.

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    Beloved, Thou Hast Brought Me Many Flowers

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    Libby Larsen

    Elizabeth Barrett Browning

    H. D.

    Beloved, Thou Hast Brought Me Many Flowers

    Libby Larsen

    Elizabeth Barrett Browning

    Song Collection: Beloved, Thou Hast Brought Me Many Flowers

    Casa Guidi

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    Dominick Argento

    Elizabeth Barrett Browning

    Domesticity

    Dominick Argento

    Elizabeth Barrett Browning

    Song Collection: Casa Guidi

    Evidence of Things Not Seen

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    Ned Rorem

    W. H. Auden

    Elizabeth Barrett Browning

    Robert Browning

    Stephen Crane

    Mark Doty

    Robert Frost

    Paul Goodman

    A. E. Housman

    Langston Hughes

    Jane Kenyon

    Rudyard Kipling

    Edna St. Vincent Millay

    Paul Monette

    William Penn

    Theodore Roethke

    Walt Whitman

    John Woolman

    William Butler Yeats

    Five Songs, Op. 44

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    Henry Hadley

    Anonymous

    Elizabeth Barrett Browning

    Robert Browning

    May Probyn

    Clinton Scollard

    Go From Me

    Allen Brings

    Song Collection: Three Sonnets after the Portuguese

    Go From Me

    Libby Larsen

    Elizabeth Barrett Browning

    Song Collection: Beloved, Thou Hast Brought Me Many Flowers

    Grief

    Ned Rorem

    Elizabeth Barrett Browning

    Song Collection: Aftermath

    How Do I Love Thee?

    Libby Larsen

    Elizabeth Barrett Browning

    Song Collection: Sonnets From the Portuguese

    How Do I Love Thee?

    Ned Rorem

    Elizabeth Barrett Browning

    Song Collection: Evidence of Things Not Seen

    If I Leave All For Thee

    Libby Larsen

    Elizabeth Barrett Browning

    Song Collection: Sonnets From the Portuguese

    If Thou Must Love Me

    Allen Brings

    Elizabeth Barrett Browning

    Song Collection: Three Sonnets after the Portuguese

    I Have a More Than Friend

    Clara Kathleen Rogers

    Robert Browning

    Song Collection: Six Songs, Op. 27 (Browning Songs)

    I Thought Once How Theocritus...

    Libby Larsen

    Elizabeth Barrett Browning

    Song Collection: Sonnets From the Portuguese

    My Letters!

    Libby Larsen

    Elizabeth Barrett Browning

    Song Collection: Sonnets From the Portuguese

    Oh, Yes!

    Libby Larsen

    Elizabeth Barrett Browning

    Song Collection: Sonnets From the Portuguese

    Out Of My Own Great Woe

    Clara Kathleen Rogers

    Song Collection: Six Songs, Op. 27 (Browning Songs)

    Robert Browning

    Dominick Argento

    Elizabeth Barrett Browning

    Song Collection: Casa Guidi

    Sonnets From the Portuguese

    Song Collection

    Libby Larsen

    Elizabeth Barrett Browning

    Sonnet XI

    Antonio Carlos Defeo

    Elizabeth Barrett Browning

    Song Collection: Three Simple Songs

    Sonnet XXXV

    Antonio Carlos Defeo

    Elizabeth Barrett Browning

    Song Collection: Three Simple Songs

    Sonnet XXIII

    Antonio Carlos Defeo

    Elizabeth Barrett Browning

    Song Collection: Three Simple Songs

    The Death of Mr. Barrett

    Dominick Argento

    Elizabeth Barrett Browning

    Song Collection: Casa Guidi

    The Face of All the World Has Changed (op. 44, no. 1)

    Henry Hadley

    Elizabeth Barrett Browning

    Song Collection: Five Songs, Op. 44

    The Italian Cook and the English Maid

    Dominick Argento

    Elizabeth Barrett Browning

    Song Collection: Casa Guidi

    Three Simple Songs

    Song Collection

    Antonio Carlos Defeo

    Robert Browning

    Three Sonnets after the Portuguese

    Song Collection

    Allen Brings

    Elizabeth Barrett Browning

    When Our Two Souls

    Allen Brings

    Elizabeth Barrett Browning

    When Soul is Joined to Soul (op. 62)

    Amy Marcy Beach

    Elizabeth Barrett Browning

    With the Same Heart, I Said, I'll Answer Thee

    Libby Larsen

    Elizabeth Barrett Browning

    Song Collection: Sonnets From the Portuguese

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    Aftermath

    Composer(s): Ned Rorem

    Song(s): 1. The Drum
    2. Tygers of Wrath
    3. The Fury of the Aerial Bombardment
    4. The Park
    5. Sonnet LXIV
    6. On his Seventy-Fifth Birthday
    7. Grief
    8. Remorse for Any Death
    9. Losses
    10. Then

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    Browning Songs (1st Series Op. 27)

    Composer(s): Clara Kathleen Rogers

    Voice Type: Medium High

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    Evidence of Things Not Seen

    Composer(s): Ned Rorem

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    Five Songs, Op. 44

    Composer(s): Henry Hadley

    Song(s): 1. The Face of All the World Has Changed (op. 44, no. 1)
    2. In Confidence (op. 44, no. 2)
    3. I Heard a Maid With Her Guitar (op. 44, no. 3)
    4. The Year's at the Spring (op. 44, no. 4)
    5. Come What Will, You are Mine To-day" (op. 44, no. 5)

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    "When Soul is Joined to Soul", Op. 62

    Composer(s): Amy Beach

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