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Jake Heggie
Galway Kinnell
Song Collection: From 'The Book of Nightmares'
Bad Pets
Song CollectionPaul Salerni
Mark Doty
Robert Frost
Dana Gioia
Ball's Bluff
Lowell Liebermann
Herman Melville
Song Collection: War Songs, op. 7
Ballad of Birmingham
Shawn E. Okpebholo
Dudley Randall
Song Collection: Two Black Churches
Ballad of the Landlord
William Bolcom
Langston Hughes
Song Collection: Old Addresses
Ballad on Queen Anne's Death
Richard Hundley
Balm in Gilead
Dave Ragland
Banyan Tree
Peter Ashbourne
Song Collection: Fi Mi Love Have Lion Heart
Barb'ry Allen
Jake Heggie
Song Collection: Three Folk Songs
Barbara Allen
Barter
Simon Sargon
Sara Teasdale
Song Collection: Let It Be You
Bartholomew Green
Richard Hundley
James Purdy
Battle Songs
Song CollectionMichael Rickelton
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Herman Melville
John McCrae
Theodore O’Hara
Be Still, My Soul (#7)
Beverly Benjamin Cole
A. E. Housman
Song Collection: A Shropshire Lad
Be Still, My Soul (#8)
Beverly Benjamin Cole
A. E. Housman
Song Collection: A Shropshire Lad
Be Very Quiet Now
Theodore Chanler
Walter De la Mare
Song Collection: Eight Epitaphs
Beat! Beat! Drums!
Ernst Bacon
Walt Whitman
Beat! Beat! Drums!
Kurt Weill
Walt Whitman
Song Collection: Four Walt Whitman Songs
Beat! Beat! Drums!
Richard Pearson Thomas
Walt Whitman
Song Collection: Drum-Taps: A Song Cycle of Whitman Poems
Beautiful Dreamer
Stephen Foster
Stephen Foster
Beautiful You Are
Simon Sargon
Kenneth Patchen
Song Collection: A Star in a Haymow
Beauty—be not caused—It is
George Perle
Emily Dickinson
Song Collection: Thirteen Dickinson Songs
Because
Florence Price
Paul Laurence Dunbar
Because I Could Not Stop For Death
Leslie Crabtree
Emily Dickinson
Because I Liked You Better
Jake Heggie
A. E. Housman
Song Collection: Here and Gone
Becoming a Redwood
Lori Laitman
Dana Gioia
Song Collection: Becoming a Redwood
Becoming a Redwood
Song CollectionLori Laitman
Dana Gioia
Bedtime
James Primosch
Denise Levertov
Bee! I'm Expecting You!
John Woods Duke
Emily Dickinson
Song Collection: Six Poems by Emily Dickinson
Before My Door
Lee Hoiby
Wallace Stevens
Song Collection: O Florida
Before the Storm
Song CollectionJake Heggie
Emily Dickinson
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Dorothy Parker
Before Winter
Libby Larsen
Beginning My Studies
Lee Hoiby
Walt Whitman
Song Collection: I Was There: Five Poems of Walt Whitman
Behold This Swarthy Face
Gerald Busby
Walt Whitman
Behold, I Build a House
Adolphus C. Hailstork
The Bible
Being Happy
Lori Laitman
Dana Gioia
Belle Layotte
Maud Cuney Hare
Song Collection: Six Creole Folk-Songs
Bells and Grass
Song CollectionJuliana Hall
Walter De la Mare
Bells for John Whiteside's Daughter
Lee Hoiby
John Crowe Ransom
Song Collection: Southern Voices
Beloved, Thou Hast Brought Me Many Flowers
Libby Larsen
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Song Collection: Beloved, Thou Hast Brought Me Many Flowers
Beloved, Thou Hast Brought Me Many Flowers
Song CollectionLibby Larsen
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
H. D.
Beneath the Hawthorne Tree
Libby Larsen
Willa Cather
Song Collection: Margaret Songs
Benediction
Zenobia Powell Perry
Donald Jeffrey Hayes
Song Collection: Threnody
Berceuse
Charles Ives
Charles Ives
Berenice Sadie Brown
Lee Hoiby
Carson McCullers
Song Collection: Southern Voices
Berkshire Twilight (op. 135, no. 2)
Lowell Liebermann
Jean Starr Untermeyer
Song Collection: Five Songs on Poems of Jean Starr Untermeyer, op. 135
Beside the Sea
Florence Price
Paul Laurence Dunbar
Bessie Bobtail (op. 2, no. 3)
Samuel Barber
James Stephens
Song Collection: Three Songs, Op. 2
Betrayed, Op. 9, no. 4
Margaret Ruthven Lang
Lizette Woodworth Reese
Better — than Music! For I — who heard it —
Leo Smit
Emily Dickinson
Song Collection: The Celestial Thrush
Between Two Worlds
Song CollectionJohn Harbison
Robert Bly
Bewilderment
Florence Price
Langston Hughes
Beyond Circumference
Song CollectionLeo Smit
Emily Dickinson
Beyond Mirrors of Color
Song CollectionJames Lee III
Alison Harding
Beyond Silence: A Cantata for Tenor, Bb Clarinet, Trombone, Viola, Cello, and Piano
Thomas Jefferson Anderson
Beyond the Rim of Day
Song CollectionHale Smith
Langston Hughes
Billy in the Darbies
Ernst Bacon
Herman Melville
Billy the Kid
Libby Larsen
Song Collection: Three Cowboy Songs
Bind Me - I Still Can Sing
Libby Larsen
Song Collection: Chanting to Paradise
Bind me — I still can sing —
Leo Smit
Emily Dickinson
Song Collection: The Celestial Thrush
Bindweed
Paul Salerni
John Updike
Song Collection: Flora
Birds, U.S.A.
Richard Hundley
James Purdy
Birth
Margaret Bonds
Langston Hughes
Birthday
Richard Pearson Thomas
Christina Rossetti
Song Collection: Twilight
Birthday
Jean Starr Untermeyer
Song Collection: Songs of Job's Daughter
Bitter For Sweet
Simon Sargon
Christina Rossetti
Song Collection: Bitter for Sweet
Bitter for Sweet
Song CollectionSimon Sargon
Christina Rossetti
Bittersuite
Song CollectionStephen Paulus
Ogden Nash
Black Boy
Miriam Gideon
Norman Rosten
Song Collection: Spirit Above the Dust
Black is the Color
John Jacob Niles
Black is the Color of My True Love's Hair
Cecil Sharp
Black, Black, Black is the Color
George Crumb
Song Collection: Unto the Hills: American Songbook III
Bles’ My Soul an’ Gone
Eva Jessye
Spiritual
Song Collection: My Spirituals
Block Songs
Thomas Jefferson Anderson
Blue
William Bolcom
Arnold Weinstein
Song Collection: Cabaret Songs, Vol. 1
Blue Mountain Ballads
Song CollectionPaul Bowles
Tennessee Williams
Blue-Butterfly Day (op. 104, no. 2)
Lowell Liebermann
Robert Frost
Song Collection: Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening, op. 104
blues for an imaginary valentine
Fred Hersch
Fred Hersch
Border Line
Ricky Ian Gordon
Langston Hughes
Song Collection: Genius Child: A Cycle of 10 Songs
Border Line, Op. 24
Song CollectionRobert Owens
Langston Hughes
Bound No’th Blues
Erik Santos
Langston Hughes
Song Collection: Dreamer: 7 Poems of Langston Hughes
Bowing Adorers of the Gale
Beverly Benjamin Cole
Song Collection: The Flowers
Boy With a Baseball Glove
Ned Rorem
Paul Goodman
Song Collection: Evidence of Things Not Seen
Boy's Lips
Libby Larsen
Rita Dove
Song Collection: Love After 1950
Branch by Branch
H. Leslie Adams
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Song Collection: Five Millay Songs
Bread and Music
John Woods Duke
Conrad Aiken
Breath in a Ram's Horn
Song CollectionDaniel Asia
Paul Pines
Breezes Blow and Eagles Fly
Mark Abel
Mark Abel
Song Collection: Rainbow Songs
Briefly It Enters
Song CollectionWilliam Bolcom
Jane Kenyon
Briefly It Enters, and Briefly Speaks
William Bolcom
Jane Kenyon
Song Collection: Briefly It Enters
Bright Rails
Libby Larsen
Willa Cather
Song Collection: Margaret Songs
Brown Penny
David Leisner
William Butler Yeats
Song Collection: O Love is the Crooked Thing
Bucking Bronco
Libby Larsen
Belle Starr
Song Collection: Three Cowboy Songs
Buddy on the Nightshift
Kurt Weill
Oscar Hammerstein
Buena Vista
Michael Rickelton
Frank O’Hara
Song Collection: Battle Songs
Bunker Hill
Andrew Law
Nathaniel Niles
Burning
Song CollectionDorothy Chang
William Carlos Williams
Butterflies
Lee Hoiby
A. R. Ammons
Song Collection: Southern Voices
By a Departing Light
Libby Larsen
Emily Dickinson
Song Collection: Chanting to Paradise
By a Lonely Forest Pathway
Charles Griffes
Nikolaus Lenau
By the Pool
Irene Britton Smith
Paul Laurence Dunbar
Song Collection: Dream Cycle
By The Spring, At Sunset
Jake Heggie
Vachel Lindsay
Song Collection: Of Laughter and Farewell
By the Waters of Babylon
Simon Sargon
Christina Rossetti
Song Collection: Bitter for Sweet
By the Waters of Babylon
Tom Cipullo
Anonymous