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E-Ri-E Canal
Early in the Mornin'
David N. Baker
Mari Evans
Song Collection: The Black Experience
Early Snow
Song CollectionLori Laitman
Mary Oliver
Eat, Drink, Be Merry
Nadine Shanti
Nadine Shanti
Song Collection: New Orleans Suite
Echo
David Conte
Christina Rossetti
Song Collection: Three Poems of Christina Rossetti
Echo's Song
Daron Aric Hagen
Benjamin Jonson
Song Collection: Echo's Songs
Echo's Songs
Song CollectionDaron Aric Hagen
Anonymous
William Blake
E. E. Cummings
Benjamin Jonson
Edgar Allan Poe
Kenneth Rexroth
Carl Sandburg
Gertrude Stein
Sara Teasdale
Walt Whitman
Ecstasy (op. 19, no.2)
Amy Marcy Beach
Amy Marcy Beach
Eden
Ernst Bacon
Emily Dickinson
Song Collection: Quiet Airs
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Jake Heggie
Eight Epitaphs
Song CollectionTheodore Chanler
Walter De la Mare
Eight Songs of Translations of Latin & Greek
Song CollectionJohn Woods Duke
Edwin Arlington Robinson
Howard Mumford Jones
Eight Songs, Op. 47
Song CollectionEdward MacDowell
Edward MacDowell
William Dean Howells
El Dorado
Edgar Stillman Kelley
Edgar Allan Poe
Eleanor Roosevelt
Song CollectionLibby Larsen
Elegiac Songs
Song CollectionJohn Harbison
Emily Dickinson
Elegy
Allen Brings
Elegy (op. 33, no. 1)
Louis Campbell-Tipton
Walt Whitman
Eleven Songs For Voice and Piano, Op. 26
Song CollectionArthur Foote
Rudyard Kipling
Robert Herrick
Embrace
Tom Cipullo
Billy Collins
Song Collection: Another Reason Why I Don't Keep a Gun in the House
Empress of Night (op. 2, no. 3)
Amy Marcy Beach
Henry Harris Aubrey Beach
Song Collection: Three Songs, Op. 2
English Usage
Virgil Thomson
Marianne Moore
Song Collection: Two by Marianne Moore
Enough Rope
Song CollectionJohn Musto
Dorothy Parker
Entrance
David Conte
Dana Gioia
Song Collection: Everyone Sang
Entrance
Stefania de Kenessey
Dana Gioia
Song Collection: Entrances and Departures
Entrances and Departures
Song CollectionStefania de Kenessey
Dana Gioia
Envy
Robert Beaser
Anthony Hecht
Song Collection: Seven Deadly Sins
Epilogue: Late Fragment
Jake Heggie
Raymond Carver
Song Collection: Winter Roses
Epitaph
Ernst Bacon
Emily Dickinson
Janet Lewis
William Shakespeare
Epitaph of a Young Girl
Richard Hundley
Epitaph on a Wife
Richard Hundley
Equinox
Scott Wheeler
Erika Mumford
Ethiopia Saluting the Colors
Henry T. Burleigh
Walt Whitman
Euclid
Jake Heggie
Vachel Lindsay
Song Collection: Songs to the Moon
Eurydice
Scott Wheeler
H. D.
Song Collection: Turning Back
Eutychides
Frank Lewin
Edwin Arlington Robinson
Song Collection: Variations of Greek Themes
Even Now...
Ned Rorem
Paul Monette
Song Collection: Evidence of Things Not Seen
Evening Hours
Richard Hundley
James Purdy
Evening Land
Song CollectionJoseph Schwantner
W. H. Auden
Evening Song
Leslie Crabtree
Willa Cather
Evening Song
Charles Griffes
Sidney Lanier
Evening Song (op. 53, no. 3)
Henry Hadley
Sidney Lanier
Evening, Op. 35, no. 5
Margaret Ruthven Lang
Harriet Fairchild Blodgett
Every Day is a God
James Primosch
Annie Dillard
Song Collection: Holy the Firm
Everyone Sang
Song CollectionDavid Conte
A. E. Stallings
Dana Gioia
Diane Thiel
Siegfried Sassoon
Everyone Sang
David Conte
Siegfried Sassoon
Song Collection: Everyone Sang
Evidence
Charles Ives
Charles Ives
Evidence of Things Not Seen
Song CollectionNed 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
Evidence of Things Not Seen
Ned Rorem
William Penn
Song Collection: Evidence of Things Not Seen
Exhortation (A Negro Sermon)
Will Marion Cook
Alex. Rogers
Song Collection: 3 Negro Songs
Experiment to Me
Otto Luening
Emily Dickinson
Song Collection: Nine Songs to Poems of Emily Dickinson
Extol thee — could I? Then I will
Leo Smit
Emily Dickinson
Song Collection: The Marigold Heart