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La Nouvelle Orleans
Nadine Shanti
Song Collection: New Orleans Suite
La Sonnambula
Mark Abel
Mark Abel
Song Collection: Rainbow Songs
Ladies of Their Nights and Days
Song CollectionRichard Pearson Thomas
Richard Pearson Thomas
Lady Death
William Bolcom
A.D. Winans
Song Collection: Old Addresses
Lady Luck
William Bolcom
Arnold Weinstein
Song Collection: Cabaret Songs, Vol. 1
Lady of the Harbor
Lee Hoiby
Emma Lazarus
Lake-Song (op. 135, no. 1)
Lowell Liebermann
Jean Starr Untermeyer
Song Collection: Five Songs on Poems of Jean Starr Untermeyer, op. 135
Lament
George Walker
Countee Cullen
Landscape - From the Train
Libby Larsen
Willa Cather
Song Collection: My Ántonia
Landscape II - Winter
Libby Larsen
Willa Cather
Song Collection: My Ántonia
Landscape III - Prairie Spring
Libby Larsen
Willa Cather
Song Collection: My Ántonia
Landscape IV - Sunset
Libby Larsen
Willa Cather
Song Collection: My Ántonia
Last Night the Rain Spoke to Me
Lori Laitman
Mary Oliver
Song Collection: Early Snow
Last Poems of Wallace Stevens
Song CollectionNed Rorem
Wallace Stevens
Late in the Day
Song CollectionLibby Larsen
Late Last Night
Ricky Ian Gordon
Langston Hughes
Song Collection: Only Heaven
Late Summer
Song CollectionTom Cipullo
Emily Dickinson
William Heyen
Stanley Kunitz
Laura Sonnets
Song CollectionWilliam Bolcom
Lavender is my Contentment
Song CollectionSteve Heitzeg
Lay Up For Yourselves Treasures In Heaven
Beverly Benjamin Cole
Song Collection: The Words of Christ
Lazy Afternoon
Elie Siegmeister
Song Collection: American legends: six songs for voice and piano
Lead, Kindly Light
David Conte
Song Collection: Songs of Consolation
Leave Not This Sea-encircled Isle (Calypso's Song)
Charles Wakefield Cadman
Nelle Richmond Eberhart
Song Collection: Three Songs to Odysseus
Lessons
John Woods Duke
Sara Teasdale
Song Collection: Songs Out of Sorrow: Six Songs for Mezzo
Let Down the Bars
Ernst Bacon
Emily Dickinson
Let Down the Bars, O Death
John Woods Duke
Emily Dickinson
Song Collection: Six Poems by Emily Dickinson
Let Evening Come
William Bolcom
Jane Kenyon
Song Collection: Let Evening Come
Let Evening Come
Song CollectionWilliam Bolcom
Maya Angelou
Emily Dickinson
Jane Kenyon
Let It Be Forgotten
George Crumb
Sara Teasdale
Song Collection: Three Early Songs
Let It Be Forgotten
Simon Sargon
Sara Teasdale
Song Collection: Let It Be You
Let It Be You
Simon Sargon
Sara Teasdale
Song Collection: Let It Be You
Let It Be You
Song CollectionSimon Sargon
Sara Teasdale
Let Sing the Bedsprings
John Musto
Katherine Mosby
Song Collection: The Book of Uncommon Prayer
Let the Priests
Curtis Bryant
William Blake
Let Us Break Bread Together
Irene Britton Smith
Spiritual
Let Us play Yesterday —
Leo Smit
Emily Dickinson
Song Collection: Childe Emilie
Let Your Light So Shine
Beverly Benjamin Cole
Song Collection: The Words of Christ
Let's Take a Walk
Virgil Thomson
Kenneth Koch
Song Collection: Mostly About Love
Lethe
Scott Wheeler
H. D.
Song Collection: Turning Back
Letter from Emily
Richard Hundley
Emily Dickinson
Letter to Freddy
Paul Bowles
Gertrude Stein
Letter to Mrs. Bixby
Michael Daugherty
Abraham Lincoln
Letter to President Lincoln from Annie Davis, 1864
Jake Heggie
Annie Davis
Song Collection: A Great Hope Fell: Songs From Civil War
Letters From Edna
Song CollectionJuliana Hall
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Li'l Gal
John Rosamond Johnson
Paul Laurence Dunbar
Li'l Gal / My Man
H. Leslie Adams
Paul Laurence Dunbar
Song Collection: The Wider View
Life
Zenobia Powell Perry
Paul Laurence Dunbar
Song Collection: Cycle of Songs on Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar
Life
Jeraldine Saunders Herbison
Langston Hughes
Song Collection: Six Songs, Op. 29
Life in a Love
Ned Rorem
Robert Browning
Song Collection: Evidence of Things Not Seen
Life Signs: Six Songs on Texts by Emily Dickinson
Song CollectionRobert G. Patterson
Emily Dickinson
Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing
John Rosamond Johnson
James Weldon Johnson
Lift Every Voice and Sing
Dave Ragland
James Weldon Johnson
Lift Me Into Heaven Slowly
Libby Larsen
Robert Creeley
Song Collection: Three Cowboy Songs
Light
David Leisner
Rabindranath Tagore
Song Collection: Heaven's River
Light Hearted William
Lori Laitman
William Carlos Williams
Song Collection: Two Songs for Tenor
Light, My Light
John Alden Carpenter
Rabindranath Tagore
Song Collection: Gitanjali: Song Offerings
Lilac-Time
Lilacs
George Walker
Walt Whitman
Lincoln Letters
Song CollectionChristopher Berg
Abraham Lincoln
Lingering Last Drops
Ernst Bacon
Walt Whitman
Lions
Richard Hundley
James Purdy
Listen Here, Joe
Elie Siegmeister
Langston Hughes
Song Collection: The Face of War
Listening to Comrade Shostakovich on the Day of His Death (op. 21, no. 4)
Lowell Liebermann
Song Collection: Final Songs, op. 21
Litany
John Musto
Langston Hughes
Song Collection: Shadow of the Blues
Litany
Ricky Ian Gordon
Langston Hughes
Song Collection: Only Heaven
Litany
Scott Wheeler
Billy Collins
Little Boy Blue
Ethelbert Nevin
Eugene Field
Little David, Play on Your Harp
Margaret Bonds
Little David, Play on Your Harp
Henry T. Burleigh
Spiritual
Little Elegy
John Woods Duke
Elinor Wylie
Little Elegy
Jonathan Bailey Holland
Elinor Wylie
Liza
Peter Ashbourne
Song Collection: Fi Mi Love Have Lion Heart
Lizette, ma chêre amie
Camille Nickerson
Song Collection: Five Creole Songs
Loam
Ruth Crawford Seeger
Carl Sandburg
Song Collection: Five Songs
Lonely Little Maiden by the Sea
Margaret Bonds
Arna Bontemps
Langston Hughes
Song Collection: Tropics After Dark
Lonely People
Jean Berger
Langston Hughes
Song Collection: Four Songs
Lonely Roads
Elinor Remick Warren
John Masefield
Lonesome Boy Blues
Simon Sargon
Kenneth Patchen
Song Collection: Patterns in Blue
Lonesome Man
Paul Bowles
Tennessee Williams
Song Collection: Blue Mountain Ballads
Long Ago (op. 56, no. 1)
Edward MacDowell
Edward MacDowell
Song Collection: Four Songs, Op. 56
Long Time Ago
Aaron Copland
Song Collection: Old American Songs, Set 1
Long Time Gal
Peter Ashbourne
Song Collection: Fi Mi Love Have Lion Heart
Long, Too Long America
Caryn Block
Walt Whitman
Song Collection: Long, Too Long America
Long, Too Long America
Song CollectionCaryn Block
Emily Dickinson
Walt Whitman
Longing
Adolphus C. Hailstork
Paul Laurence Dunbar
Song Collection: Four Romantic Love Songs
Lonnie
Mark Abel
Mark Abel
Song Collection: The Dream Gallery
Look Down, Fair Moon
Charles Naginski
Walt Whitman
Look Down, Fair Moon
Ned Rorem
Walt Whitman
Song Collection: Five Poems of Walt Whitman
Look Down, Fair Moon
Daron Aric Hagen
Walt Whitman
Song Collection: Echo's Songs
Look Not In My Eyes
Beverly Benjamin Cole
A. E. Housman
Song Collection: A Shropshire Lad
Look to Jesus
Carrie Beatrice Holloway Collins
Carrie Beatrice Holloway Collins
Looking West: Sweet Light
Jake Heggie
Raymond Carver
Song Collection: Winter Roses
Looking-Glass River
John Alden Carpenter
Robert Louis Stevenson
Lorca in the Bronx
Missy Mazzoli
Federico García Lorca
Lord, I Have Seen Too Much
Hugo Weisgall
Karl Shapiro
Song Collection: Soldier Songs
Lord, I Just Can't Keep from Cryin'
Margaret Bonds
Spiritual
Song Collection: Five Creek-Freedman Spirituals
Lorelei
Song CollectionJuliana Hall
Sylvia Plath
Lorena
Joseph Philbrick Webster
Henry D. L. Webster
Los Angeles
Mark Abel
Kate Gale
Song Collection: The Palm Trees are Restless
Losses
Ned Rorem
Randall Jarrell
Song Collection: Aftermath
Lost
Daron Aric Hagen
Carl Sandburg
Song Collection: Echo's Songs
Love
Jake Heggie
Sister Helen Prejean
Song Collection: The Deepest Desire
Love
Adolphus C. Hailstork
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Song Collection: Songs of Love and Justice
Love After 1950
Song CollectionLibby Larsen
Rita Dove
Love and Friendship
David Leisner
Emily Brontë
Song Collection: Confiding
Love and Not Know Why
Jeraldine Saunders Herbison
Anonymous
Love Cannot Fill
Ned Rorem
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Song Collection: Evidence of Things Not Seen
Love Come and Love Gone
H. Leslie Adams
Georgia Douglas Johnson
Song Collection: The Wider View
Love for Mankind
Carrie Beatrice Holloway Collins
Carrie Beatrice Holloway Collins
Love in the Thirties
William Bolcom
Arnold Weinstein
Song Collection: Cabaret Songs, Vol. 1
Love is a Constant
Alva Henderson
Janet Lewis
Love is Everywhere, Op. 40, no. 4
Margaret Ruthven Lang
John Vance Cheney
Love is not all
Song CollectionAlva Henderson
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Love is not all...
Alva Henderson
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Song Collection: Love is not all...
Love Let the Wind Cry...How I Adore Thee
Undine Smith Moore
Sappho
Love Memory
H. Leslie Adams
Paul Laurence Dunbar
Love Rejoices
H. Leslie Adams
James Dillet Freeman
Song Collection: The Wider View
Love Request
H. Leslie Adams
Paul Laurence Dunbar
Love Song
Charles Ives
Charles Ives
Love Song
Virgil Thomson
Kenneth Koch
Song Collection: Mostly About Love
Love Songs
Song CollectionJonathan Bailey Holland
Sandra Cisneros
Love-in-a-mist
Florence Price
Mary Rolofson Gamble
Love's Apotheosis
Richard Thompson
Paul Laurence Dunbar
Song Collection: The Shadow of Dawn: Five Poems by Paul Laurence Dunbar
Love's Pilgrimage
Song CollectionJuliana Hall
William Shakespeare
Love's Stricken "Why"
Ned Rorem
Emily Dickinson
Song Collection: Poems of Love and Rain
Loveliest of Trees, the Cherry Now
Bob Scher
A. E. Housman
Song Collection: Five Songs from "A Shropshire Lad"
Lovely, Dark, and Lonely One
Henry T. Burleigh
Langston Hughes
Lovestars
Song CollectionJuliana Hall
E. E. Cummings
Luck
Ricky Ian Gordon
Langston Hughes
Song Collection: Only Heaven
Luck and Work
Charles Ives
Robert Underwood Johnson
Luke Havergal
John Woods Duke
Edwin Arlington Robinson
Song Collection: Four Poems by Edwin Arlington Robinson
Lullabies and Dreams
Song CollectionSteven Mark Kohn
James Whitcomb Riley
Lullaby
Lee Hoiby
Robert Penn Warren
Song Collection: Southern Voices
Lullaby
John Musto
Léonie Adams
Song Collection: Quiet Songs
Lullaby
Simon Sargon
Samuel Hoffenstein
Song Collection: Take Five
Lullaby
David Leisner
Leslie Marmon Silko
Song Collection: Fidelity
Lullaby
Steven Mark Kohn
James Whitcomb Riley
Song Collection: Lullabies and Dreams
Lullaby
Scott Wheeler
W. H. Auden
Song Collection: Singing to Sleep
Lullaby
Dorothy Rudd Moore
Lullaby
Lori Laitman
Song Collection: In Sleep the World is Yours
Lullaby for a dark hour
Gardner Read
Song Collection: Three Songs for Mezzo-Soprano, op. 68
Lullaby for a Man-Child
Jean Starr Untermeyer
Song Collection: Songs of Job's Daughter
Lullaby for a Man-Child
Gardner Read
Jean Starr Untermeyer
Song Collection: Songs to Children, Op. 76
Lust
Robert Beaser
Anthony Hecht
Song Collection: Seven Deadly Sins
Luz
Mark Abel
Mark Abel
Song Collection: The Dream Gallery
Lyric for Strings
George Walker
Lyric for Truelove
Undine Smith Moore
Florence Hynes Willette
Lyrical Interval
Song CollectionHugo Weisgall
John Hollander
Lyrics from 'Told in the Gate'
Song CollectionGeorge Whitefield Chadwick
Arlo Bates