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Hail Columbia
Philip Phile
Joseph Hopkinson
Hairless
Simon Sargon
Samuel Hoffenstein
Song Collection: Take Five
Half-Minute Songs
Song CollectionCarrie Jacobs-Bond
Carrie Jacobs-Bond
Hallelujah, I'm a Bum!
George Crumb
Song Collection: Voices From a Forgotten World: American Songbook V
Happiness
Raymond Carver
Song Collection: Two Raymond Carver Songs
Hard Times Come Again No More
Stephen Foster
Stephen Foster
Harlem Night Song
Ricky Ian Gordon
Langston Hughes
Song Collection: Only Heaven
Harlem Night Song
Andre Myers
Langston Hughes
Harlem Sweeties
Dorothy Rudd Moore
Langston Hughes
Song Collection: Flowers of Darkness
Harmony Chant
Stephen Foster
Stephen Foster
Have You Got a Brook in Your Little Heart?
John Woods Duke
Emily Dickinson
Song Collection: Four Poems by Emily Dickinson
Have You Got a Brook in Your Little Heart?
Etta Parker
Emily Dickinson
Song Collection: Three Songs
He Came in Silvern Armor
Dorothy Rudd Moore
Gwendolyn Bennett
Song Collection: Sonnets on Love, Rosebuds and Death
He Hears The Cry Of The Sedge (op. 40, no. 3)
Lowell Liebermann
William Butler Yeats
Song Collection: A Poet to His Beloved, op. 40
He Is There!
Charles Ives
John McCrae
Song Collection: Three Songs of the War
He Never Misses
Libby Larsen
Calamity Jane
Song Collection: Songs From Letters
He Never Said a Mumbl'in' Word
Margaret Bonds
Spiritual
He Remembers Forgotten Beauty (op. 40, no. 2)
Lowell Liebermann
William Butler Yeats
Song Collection: A Poet to His Beloved, op. 40
He Thinks Of His Past Greatness When A Part Of The Constellations Of Heaven (op. 40, no. 4)
Lowell Liebermann
William Butler Yeats
Song Collection: A Poet to His Beloved, op. 40
He Tipped the Waiter
William Bolcom
Arnold Weinstein
Song Collection: Cabaret Songs, Vol. 1
He Wishes For The Cloths Of Heaven (op. 40, no. 6)
Lowell Liebermann
William Butler Yeats
Song Collection: A Poet to His Beloved, op. 40
He Wishes His Beloved Were Dead (op. 40, no. 5)
Lowell Liebermann
William Butler Yeats
Song Collection: A Poet to His Beloved, op. 40
He's Gone Away
Jake Heggie
Song Collection: Three Folk Songs
He’s Got the Whole World in His Hands
Margaret Bonds
Spiritual
Healing
Rosephanye Powell
Spiritual
Song Collection: Then, Here, and Now
Heart
Jean Berger
Langston Hughes
Song Collection: Four Songs
Heart on the Wall
Song CollectionRobert Owens
Langston Hughes
Heart, not so heavy as mine
Leo Smit
Emily Dickinson
Song Collection: The Celestial Thrush
Heart, We Will Forget Him
John Woods Duke
Emily Dickinson
Song Collection: Six Poems by Emily Dickinson
Heart, We Will Forget Him
Richard Hundley
Emily Dickinson
Heart, We Will Forget Him
Aaron Copland
Emily Dickinson
Song Collection: Twelve Poems of Emily Dickinson
Heartbeats
John Musto
Melvin Dixon
Heaven and Earth
Song CollectionScott Wheeler
William Blake
Heaven Spirituals
Lori Hicks
Spiritual
Heaven's River
Song CollectionDavid Leisner
Rabindranath Tagore
Heavenly Grass
Paul Bowles
Tennessee Williams
Song Collection: Blue Mountain Ballads
Helen
Mark Abel
Mark Abel
Song Collection: The Dream Gallery
Hell in Texas
Steven Mark Kohn
Hell's Belles
Song CollectionLibby Larsen
Help Me to Laugh
John Musto
Katherine Mosby
Song Collection: The Book of Uncommon Prayer
Her Bower is not of the Vine
Robert Helps
Herman Melville
Song Collection: Two Songs
Her Eyes, Twin Pools
Henry T. Burleigh
James Weldon Johnson
Song Collection: Passionale
Her Greatest Charm
Carrie Jacobs-Bond
Carrie Jacobs-Bond
Her Head on the Pillow
Paul Bowles
Tennessee Williams
Her Kind
David Conte
Anne Sexton
Song Collection: Sexton Songs
Here and Gone
Song CollectionJake Heggie
A. E. Housman
Vachel Lindsay
Here, Where the Daisies Fit My Head
Jake Heggie
Emily Dickinson
Song Collection: From Emily's Garden
Hermit Songs, Op. 29
Song CollectionSamuel Barber
Anonymous
Hey Nonny No
Tom Cipullo
Robert Hayden
Song Collection: America 1968
High Tide
Jean Starr Untermeyer
Song Collection: Songs of Job's Daughter
His Beauty Sparkles
Ned Rorem
Paul Goodman
Song Collection: Evidence of Things Not Seen
His Helmet's Blaze: Almona's Song of Yussouf to Hassan
Henry T. Burleigh
Frederick G. Bowles
Song Collection: Sarcen Songs
Histrion
William Bolcom
Ezra Pound
Song Collection: Old Addresses
Hold Fast To Dreams
Florence Price
Langston Hughes
Song Collection: Five Art Songs
Hold Fast to Dreams
Dave Brubeck
Langston Hughes
Hold the Wind!
Margaret Bonds
Spiritual
Holy Innocents
Simon Sargon
Christina Rossetti
Song Collection: Bitter for Sweet
Holy the Firm
Song CollectionJames Primosch
Home
Jasmine Barnes
Jasmine Barnes
Song Collection: Songs for the African Violet
Home on the Range
Daniel Kelley
Dr. Brewster Higley
Home Thoughts
Ruth Crawford Seeger
Carl Sandburg
Song Collection: Five Songs
Homecoming
David Conte
A. E. Stallings
Song Collection: Everyone Sang
Homesick Blues
H. Leslie Adams
Langston Hughes
Song Collection: The Wider View
Homeward
David Leisner
Robert Francis
Song Collection: Outdoor Shadows
Honey and Rue
Song CollectionAndré Previn
Toni Morrison
Hope
Robert Owens
Song Collection: Four Motivations for Baritone, op. 21
Hope is a Strange Invention
Lori Laitman
Emily Dickinson
Song Collection: One Bee and Revery
Hope is the Thing with Feathers
Otto Luening
Emily Dickinson
Song Collection: Nine Songs to Poems of Emily Dickinson
Horse Song
William Bolcom
Donald Hall
Song Collection: Three Donald Hall Songs
How Beautiful are the Feet
Julia Perry
Biblical
How Do I Love Thee?
Ned Rorem
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Song Collection: Evidence of Things Not Seen
How Do I Love Thee?
Libby Larsen
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Song Collection: Sonnets From the Portuguese
How Many Little Children Sleep
John Musto
James Agee
Song Collection: Dove Sta Amore
How My Life Has Changed
Richard Pearson Thomas
Song Collection: Race For the Sky (Voices of 9/11)
How Still the Bells
Ernst Bacon
Emily Dickinson
How the Waters Closed
Lee Hoiby
Emily Dickinson
Song Collection: Four Dickinson Songs
How to Find Success
Carrie Jacobs-Bond
Carrie Jacobs-Bond
Song Collection: Half-Minute Songs
How to Get Heat Without Fire
Tom Cipullo
Marilyn Kallet
Song Collection: How to Get Heat Without Fire
How to Get Heat Without Fire
Song CollectionTom Cipullo
Marilyn Kallet
How To Swing Those Obbligatos Around
William Bolcom
Alice Fulton
Song Collection: I Will Breathe a Mountain
How Well I Knew the Light
Song CollectionJake Heggie
Emily Dickinson
Hummingbird
Jake Heggie
Raymond Carver
Song Collection: Facing Forward/Looking Back
Huntsman, What Quarry?
Simon Sargon
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Song Collection: Huntsman, What Quarry?
Huntsman, What Quarry?
Song CollectionSimon Sargon
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Hyacinth
Margaret Bonds
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Song Collection: Six Songs on Poems by Edna St. Vincent Millay
Hymn of Trust (op. 13)
Amy Marcy Beach
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
Hymn to the Night
Louis Campbell-Tipton
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Hymn To The Night (op. 57, no. 1)
Lowell Liebermann
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Song Collection: Six Songs on Poems by Henry W. Longfellow, op. 57