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I Am Bound for the Kingdom
Florence Price
Spiritual
Song Collection: Two Traditional Negro Spirituals
I Am He
Ned Rorem
Walt Whitman
Song Collection: Evidence of Things Not Seen
I Am He
Marc Blitzstein
Walt Whitman
Song Collection: Whitman Songs
I Am In Doubt
Undine Smith Moore
Florence Hynes Willette
I am in need of music...
Alva Henderson
Elizabeth Bishop
I Am Like a Remnant of a Cloud of Autumn
John Alden Carpenter
Rabindranath Tagore
Song Collection: Gitanjali: Song Offerings
I Am Not Yours
Daron Aric Hagen
Sara Teasdale
Song Collection: Echo's Songs
I Am Rose
Daron Aric Hagen
Gertrude Stein
Song Collection: Echo's Songs
I Ask But This
Edward MacDowell
William Henry Gardner
Song Collection: Six Love Songs, Op. 40
I Been ‘Buked an’ I Been Scorned
Eva Jessye
Spiritual
Song Collection: My Spirituals
I Believe
Dave Ragland
I Bought Me a Cat
Aaron Copland
Song Collection: Old American Songs, Set 1
I Can't Speak for the Wind
David Leisner
James Tate
Song Collection: Three James Tate Songs
I Can’t Stay Away
Eva Jessye
Spiritual
Song Collection: My Spirituals
I cannot dance upon my Toes —
Leo Smit
Emily Dickinson
Song Collection: The Celestial Thrush
i carry your heart
John Woods Duke
E. E. Cummings
I Catch on Fire
Jake Heggie
Sister Helen Prejean
Song Collection: The Deepest Desire
I cried at Pity — not at Pain —
Leo Smit
Emily Dickinson
Song Collection: Childe Emilie
I Died For Beauty
Simon Sargon
Emily Dickinson
Song Collection: Intimations of Mortality
I died for beauty, but was scarce
Leo Smit
Emily Dickinson
Song Collection: Beyond Circumference
I Do
Richard Hundley
James Purdy
I Dream a World
Damien Sneed
Langston Hughes
I Dream A World
Uzee Brown, Jr.
Langston Hughes
I Dream a World (op. 53, no. 3)
Lowell Liebermann
Langston Hughes
Song Collection: Three Dream Songs, op. 53
I Dream'd in a Dream
Jonathan Clarke Schwabe
Walt Whitman
Song Collection: A Clear Midnight
I Dwell in Possibility
Robert Beaser
Emily Dickinson
Song Collection: Four Dickinson Songs
I dwell in Possibility —
Leo Smit
Emily Dickinson
Song Collection: The White Diadem
I Felt a Cleavage in my Mind
Otto Luening
Emily Dickinson
Song Collection: Nine Songs to Poems of Emily Dickinson
I Felt a Funeral in My Brain
Aaron Copland
Emily Dickinson
Song Collection: Twelve Poems of Emily Dickinson
I Grew a Rose
Florence Price
Paul Laurence Dunbar
I Hate Music!
Leonard Bernstein
Leonard Bernstein
Song Collection: I Hate Music!: A Cycle of Five Kid Songs
I Hate Music!: A Cycle of Five Kid Songs
Song CollectionLeonard Bernstein
Leonard Bernstein
I Have a More Than Friend
Clara Kathleen Rogers
Robert Browning
Song Collection: Six Songs, Op. 27 (Browning Songs)
I have no Life but this —
Leo Smit
Emily Dickinson
Song Collection: The Marigold Heart
I Hear America Singing
Tom Cipullo
Walt Whitman
I hear an army
Gardner Read
James Joyce
Song Collection: Nocturnal visions, op. 145
I Hear an Army (op. 10, no. 3)
Samuel Barber
James Joyce
Song Collection: Three Songs, Op. 10
I Hear His Footsteps, Music Sweet: Almona's Song of Delight
Henry T. Burleigh
Frederick G. Bowles
Song Collection: Sarcen Songs
I heard a Fly buzz — when I died —
Leo Smit
Emily Dickinson
Song Collection: Beyond Circumference
I Heard a Maid With Her Guitar (op. 44, no. 3)
Henry Hadley
Clinton Scollard
Song Collection: Five Songs, Op. 44
I Knew a Woman
William Bolcom
Theodore Roethke
Song Collection: Open House
I Know My Mind
Margaret Bonds
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Song Collection: Four Songs
I Know Not How to Find the Spring (op. 56, no. 3)
Amy Marcy Beach
Florence Earle Coates
I know some lonely Houses off the road
George Perle
Emily Dickinson
Song Collection: Thirteen Dickinson Songs
I Like to see it lap the miles
George Perle
Emily Dickinson
Song Collection: Thirteen Dickinson Songs
I Love You Truly
Carrie Jacobs-Bond
Carrie Jacobs-Bond
I miss you in the evening hours
Robert Helps
James Purdy
Song Collection: The Running Sun
I Never Saw a Moor
Richard Pearson Thomas
Emily Dickinson
Song Collection: At Last, To Be Identified
I Once Had a Sweet Little Doll, Dears
Ethelbert Nevin
Charles Kingsley
I reason, Earth is short —
Leo Smit
Emily Dickinson
Song Collection: The Marigold Heart
I reckon — when I count it all —
Leo Smit
Emily Dickinson
Song Collection: The White Diadem
I Saw a Mass
Ned Rorem
John Woolman
Song Collection: Evidence of Things Not Seen
I Saw Eternity
William Bolcom
Louise Bogan
Song Collection: I Will Breathe a Mountain
I Saw in Louisiana a Live-Oak Growing
Ned Rorem
Walt Whitman
Song Collection: Three Calamus Poems
I saw no Way — The Heavens were stitched —
Leo Smit
Emily Dickinson
Song Collection: Beyond Circumference
I see thee better — in the Dark —
Leo Smit
Emily Dickinson
Song Collection: Tinted Mountains
I Send My Heart Up To Thee (op. 44, no. 3)
Amy Marcy Beach
Robert Browning
Song Collection: Three Browning Songs, Op. 44
I shall forget you
Scott Wheeler
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Song Collection: Wasting the Night
I shall keep singing!
Leo Smit
Song Collection: The Celestial Thrush
I shall know why — when Time is over —
Leo Smit
Emily Dickinson
Song Collection: Beyond Circumference
I Stepped From Plank to Plank
Lori Laitman
Emily Dickinson
Song Collection: In This Short Life
I Stop Writing the Poem
John Musto
Tess Gallagher
Song Collection: The Book of Uncommon Prayer
I Strolled Across an Open Field
Ned Rorem
Theodore Roethke
Song Collection: Two Poems of Theodore Roethke
I Taste a Liquor Never Brewed
John Woods Duke
Emily Dickinson
Song Collection: Four Poems by Emily Dickinson
I thought it was Harry
Martin Hennessy
Song Collection: Ruminations
I Thought Once How Theocritus...
Libby Larsen
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Song Collection: Sonnets From the Portuguese
I Wanna Die Easy
Dave Ragland
I Wanna Die Easy
Lori Hicks
Spiritual
I Want Jesus
Lori Hicks
Spiritual
I Want Jesus to Walk with Me
Jasmine Barnes
I Want to Die While You Love Me
Henry T. Burleigh
Georgia Douglas Johnson
I Want to Die While You Love Me
Undine Smith Moore
Georgia Douglas Johnson
I Want to Die While You Love Me
Rosephanye Powell
Georgia Douglas Johnson
Song Collection: Miss Wheatley's Garden
I was a Phoebe — nothing more —
Leo Smit
Emily Dickinson
Song Collection: The Celestial Thrush
I was the slightest in the House —
Leo Smit
Emily Dickinson
Song Collection: Childe Emilie
I Was There
Lee Hoiby
Walt Whitman
Song Collection: I Was There: Five Poems of Walt Whitman
I Was There: Five Poems of Walt Whitman
Song CollectionLee Hoiby
Walt Whitman
I Watched the Lady Caroline
John Woods Duke
Walter De la Mare
I Went To Heaven
George Walker
Emily Dickinson
I went to Heaven —
Leo Smit
Emily Dickinson
Song Collection: Beyond Circumference
I Will Always Love You
Ned Rorem
Frank O’Hara
I Will Be Earth
Gwyneth Van Anden Walker
May Swenson
Song Collection: Mornings Innocent
I Will Breathe a Mountain
Song CollectionWilliam Bolcom
Elizabeth Bishop
Louise Bogan
Gwendolyn Brooks
Edna St. Vincent Millay
H. D.
Emily Dickinson
Alice Fulton
Denise Levertov
Marianne Moore
Anne Sexton
May Swenson
I Will Lie Down in Autumn
Howard Swanson
May Swenson
I would not paint — a picture —
Leo Smit
Emily Dickinson
Song Collection: The White Diadem
I, Too
Margaret Bonds
Langston Hughes
Song Collection: Three Dream Portraits
I, Too, Sing America
Richard Thompson
Langston Hughes
Song Collection: Dream Variations
I'll Make You Savvy
Margaret Bonds
Langston Hughes
Song Collection: Tropics After Dark
I'll Not Forget
Jeraldine Saunders Herbison
Max Ellison
I'll Reach to Heaven
Margaret Bonds
Spiritual
Song Collection: Five Creek-Freedman Spirituals
I'm a Person Too
Leonard Bernstein
Leonard Bernstein
Song Collection: I Hate Music!: A Cycle of Five Kid Songs
I'm a Poor Li'l Orphan in This Worl'
Julia Perry
Spiritual
I'm a Stranger Here
Steven Mark Kohn
I'm ceded — I've stopped being Theirs —
Leo Smit
Emily Dickinson
Song Collection: Childe Emilie
I'm Goin' to Lay Down My Heavy Load
Florence Price
Spiritual
I'm Nobody
Ernst Bacon
Emily Dickinson
I'm Nobody
Lori Laitman
Emily Dickinson
Song Collection: Four Dickinson Songs
I'm Nobody (op. 108, no. 8)
Arthur Farwell
Emily Dickinson
Song Collection: 10 Emily Dickinson Songs, Op. 108
I'm Workin' on My Buildin'
Florence Price
Spiritual
Song Collection: Two Traditional Negro Spirituals
I've Heard an Organ Talk Sometimes
Aaron Copland
Emily Dickinson
Song Collection: Twelve Poems of Emily Dickinson
I've seen a Dying Eye
Leo Smit
Emily Dickinson
Song Collection: Beyond Circumference
I’m a Po’ Li’l Orphan
Eva Jessye
Spiritual
Song Collection: My Spirituals
I’m Nobody! Who are You?
Jake Heggie
Emily Dickinson
Song Collection: Newer Every Day: Songs for Kiri
I’m So Glad Troubles Don’t Last Always
Clarence Cameron White
I’se Mighty Tired
Eva Jessye
Spiritual
Song Collection: My Spirituals
Ice Storm
Tom Cipullo
Robert Hayden
Song Collection: Climbing: Poems by African-Americans
ICONIC LEGACIES: First Ladies at the Smithsonian
Song CollectionJake Heggie
Gene Scheer
Idolatry
William Grant Still
Arna Bontemps
Song Collection: Songs of Separation
Idyls of the South Sea
Song CollectionCharles Wakefield Cadman
Nelle Richmond Eberhart
If I Can Stop One Heart From Breaking
Otto Luening
Emily Dickinson
Song Collection: Nine Songs to Poems of Emily Dickinson
If I Can Stop One Heart from Breaking
Song CollectionAdolphus C. Hailstork
Emily Dickinson
If I Leave All For Thee
Libby Larsen
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Song Collection: Sonnets From the Portuguese
If I Were King
Louis Campbell-Tipton
Justin Huntly McCarthy
If I...
Lori Laitman
Emily Dickinson
Song Collection: Four Dickinson Songs
If I’m lost—now
George Perle
Emily Dickinson
Song Collection: Thirteen Dickinson Songs
If It Chance Your Eye Offend You
Beverly Benjamin Cole
A. E. Housman
Song Collection: A Shropshire Lad
If There Be Sorrow
David N. Baker
Mari Evans
Song Collection: Through This Vale of Tears
If Thou Must Love Me
Allen Brings
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Song Collection: Three Sonnets after the Portuguese
If Truth In Hearts That Perish
Beverly Benjamin Cole
A. E. Housman
Song Collection: A Shropshire Lad
If We Must Die
Adolphus C. Hailstork
Claude McKay
If We Must Die
Robert Owens
Claude McKay
Song Collection: 3 Songs, Op.41 (Song Cycle for Baritone and Piano)
If You Have Forgotten
Elinor Remick Warren
Sara Teasdale
If You Should Go
William Grant Still
Countee Cullen
Song Collection: Songs of Separation
If You Were Coming in the Fall
Jake Heggie
Emily Dickinson
Illinois Farmer
Daniel Steven Crafts
Carl Sandburg
Image of Light, Adieu —
Leo Smit
Song Collection: Tinted Mountains
Immortality
Charles Ives
Charles Ives
In a Burying Ground
John Woods Duke
Sara Teasdale
Song Collection: Songs Out of Sorrow: Six Songs for Mezzo
In a Restaurant
Jake Heggie
Galway Kinnell
Song Collection: From 'The Book of Nightmares'
In Autumn
Gwyneth Van Anden Walker
May Swenson
Song Collection: Mornings Innocent
In Bright Mansions Above
Dave Ragland
In Confidence (op. 44, no. 2)
Henry Hadley
Anonymous
Song Collection: Five Songs, Op. 44
In Flanders Fields
Charles Ives
John McCrae
Song Collection: Three Songs of the War
In Flanders Fields
Michael Rickelton
John McCrae
Song Collection: Battle Songs
In Front of My Eyes: An Obama Celebration
Song CollectionThomas Jefferson Anderson
In Just-spring
Dominick Argento
E. E. Cummings
Song Collection: Songs About Spring
In Lands I Never Saw
Jake Heggie
Emily Dickinson
Song Collection: From Emily's Garden
In Memoriam
Song CollectionJames H. Rogers
In Praise of Songs That Die
Jake Heggie
Vachel Lindsay
Song Collection: Here and Gone
In Reverence
Song CollectionJuliana Hall
Emily Dickinson
In Sleep the World is Yours
Song CollectionLori Laitman
in Spring comes
Dominick Argento
E. E. Cummings
Song Collection: Songs About Spring
In Tall Grass
Ruth Crawford Seeger
Carl Sandburg
Song Collection: Three Songs
In the Alley
Charles Ives
Charles Ives
Song Collection: Five Street Songs
In the Dark
Steven Mark Kohn
James Whitcomb Riley
Song Collection: Lullabies and Dreams
In the Dark Pinewood
Samuel Barber
James Joyce
In the Midst of Thousands
Jake Heggie
Frederick Douglass
Song Collection: These Strangers
In the Mornin'
Charles Ives
In the Morning
Jake Heggie
A. E. Housman
Song Collection: Here and Gone
In the Platinum Forest
Paul Bowles
Paul Bowles
In the Rain
Ned Rorem
E. E. Cummings
Song Collection: Poems of Love and Rain
In the Sweet By and By
Joseph Philbrick Webster
Sanford Fillmore Bennett
In The Wilderness (op. 41, no. 3)
Samuel Barber
Robert Graves
Song Collection: Despite and Still, Op. 41
In the Woods
Paul Bowles
Paul Bowles
In This Short Life
Libby Larsen
Emily Dickinson
Song Collection: Chanting to Paradise
In This Short Life
Lori Laitman
Emily Dickinson
In This Short Life
Song CollectionLori Laitman
Emily Dickinson
In Three Days
Song CollectionAntonio Carlos Defeo
Robert Browning
In Time of Silver Rain
Jean Berger
Langston Hughes
Song Collection: Four Songs
In Time of Silver Rain
George Walker
Langston Hughes
In Time of Silver Rain
Ricky Ian Gordon
Langston Hughes
Song Collection: Only Heaven
In Time of Silver Rain
Robert Owens
Langston Hughes
Song Collection: Silver Rain, Op. 11
In time of silver rain
Harriette Davison Watkins
Langston Hughes
In Time of Silver Rain
Sylvia Hollifield
Langston Hughes
Song Collection: Shades of Hues: Green
Inauguration Ball
Ned Rorem
Walt Whitman
Song Collection: War Scenes
Incident
Tom Cipullo
Countee Cullen
Song Collection: Climbing: Poems by African-Americans
Incident
Lori Laitman
Indian Summer
George Frederick McKay
Emily Dickinson
Injunction
Jean Starr Untermeyer
Song Collection: Songs of Job's Daughter
Inketunga's Thunder Song
Arthur Farwell
Arthur Farwell
Song Collection: Three Indian Songs, Op. 32
Innisfree
Jeraldine Saunders Herbison
William Butler Yeats
Song Collection: Six Songs, Op. 29
Innocence and Experience
Song CollectionFrank Lewin
William Blake
Insomnia
David Felder
Dana Gioia
Insomnia
Lee Hoiby
Elizabeth Bishop
Song Collection: Three Ages of Woman
Insomnia
Tom Cipullo
Dana Gioia
Song Collection: Insomnia
Insomnia
Song CollectionTom Cipullo
Dana Gioia
Howard Moss
Walt Whitman
Intermezzo
John Musto
Song Collection: Quiet Songs
Intimations of Mortality
Song CollectionSimon Sargon
Emily Dickinson
Theodore Roethke
Walt Whitman
Into My Heart an Air
Marc Blitzstein
A. E. Housman
Into My Heart an Air That Kills
Bob Scher
A. E. Housman
Song Collection: Five Songs from "A Shropshire Lad"
Into My Heart An Air That Kills
Beverly Benjamin Cole
A. E. Housman
Song Collection: A Shropshire Lad
Into My Heart, Op. 54, no. 1
Margaret Ruthven Lang
A. E. Housman
Into My Own (op. 104, no. 1)
Lowell Liebermann
Robert Frost
Song Collection: Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening, op. 104
Invitation to Love
Adolphus C. Hailstork
Paul Laurence Dunbar
Song Collection: Four Romantic Love Songs
Is Everybody Else Alright? (In memory of Robert F. Kennedy)
Steve Heitzeg
Is it Fair?
Jasmine Barnes
Jasmine Barnes
Song Collection: Songs for the African Violet
Is it too late to touch you, Dear?
Leo Smit
Emily Dickinson
Song Collection: The Marigold Heart
Is My Team Ploughing?
Bob Scher
A. E. Housman
Song Collection: Five Songs from "A Shropshire Lad"
Is There Anybody Here That Loves My Jesus?
Undine Smith Moore
Is There Such a Thing as Day?
Ernst Bacon
Emily Dickinson
Isaac Greentree
Richard Hundley
Anonymous
Island
John Musto
Langston Hughes
Song Collection: Shadow of the Blues
Israfel
Edgar Stillman Kelley
Edgar Allan Poe
istimbe
Steve Heitzeg
It Makes No Difference Abroad
Jake Heggie
Emily Dickinson
Song Collection: From Emily's Garden
It troubled me as once I was —
Leo Smit
Emily Dickinson
Song Collection: Childe Emilie
It Was an Evening
Mark Abel
Mark Abel
Song Collection: Rainbow Songs
It Was Not Death
Robert Beaser
Emily Dickinson
Song Collection: Four Dickinson Songs
It's all I have to bring today
Steve Heitzeg
Emily Dickinson
Song Collection: Three Graces for Hildur
It's Coming - the Postponeless Creature
Ernst Bacon
Emily Dickinson
It’s All I Have to Bring Today
Lori Laitman
Emily Dickinson
Song Collection: Fresh Patterns