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Nancy Hanks
Katherine Kennicott Davis
Rosemary Benét
Nancy Hanks
Elie Siegmeister
Rosemary Benét
Song Collection: American legends: six songs for voice and piano
Nantucket
Ned Rorem
William Carlos Williams
Song Collection: Nantucket
Naomi
Mark Abel
Mark Abel
Song Collection: The Dream Gallery
Natural Question
Paul Salerni
John Updike
Song Collection: Flora
Nature, the Gentlest Mother
Ernst Bacon
Emily Dickinson
Nature, the Gentlest Mother
Aaron Copland
Emily Dickinson
Song Collection: Twelve Poems of Emily Dickinson
Nature's Way
Charles Ives
Charles Ives
Nelly Bly
Stephen Foster
Stephen Foster
Nelly was a Lady
Stephen Foster
Stephen Foster
Never Again the Same
David Leisner
James Tate
Song Collection: Three James Tate Songs
Never More Will The Wind
William Bolcom
H. D.
Song Collection: I Will Breathe a Mountain
Never Pain to Tell Thy Love
Daron Aric Hagen
William Blake
Song Collection: Echo's Songs
Never Seek to Tell Thy Love
Allen Brings
William Blake
Song Collection: Three Songs of Blake and Donne
New Feet Within My Garden Go
John Woods Duke
Emily Dickinson
Song Collection: Four Poems by Emily Dickinson
New Moon
Ricky Ian Gordon
Langston Hughes
New Orleans Suite
Song CollectionNadine Shanti
New Tributes (op. 135, no. 3)
Lowell Liebermann
Jean Starr Untermeyer
Song Collection: Five Songs on Poems of Jean Starr Untermeyer, op. 135
Newer Every Day: Songs for Kiri
Song CollectionJake Heggie
Emily Dickinson
Night
Florence Price
Louise C. Wallace
Night
Lee Hoiby
Adelaide Crapsey
Song Collection: Night Songs: Four Poems of A. Crapsey
Night
George Crumb
Robert Southey
Song Collection: Three Early Songs
Night birds
David Leisner
Mary Oliver
Song Collection: West Wind
Night Coming Out of a Garden
John Woods Duke
Lord Alfred Bruce Douglas
Night Dances
Song CollectionJuliana Hall
Elizabeth Bishop
Emily Brontë
Emily Dickinson
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Sylvia Plath
Night of all nights
Gardner Read
Song Collection: Nocturnal visions, op. 145
Night Peace
Song CollectionHale Smith
Raymond R. Patterson
Night Piece
Song CollectionRaymond R. Patterson
Night Practice
William Bolcom
May Swenson
Song Collection: I Will Breathe a Mountain
Night song
Robert Owens
Langston Hughes
Song Collection: Silver Rain, Op. 11
Night Song
H. Leslie Adams
Clarissa Scott Delany
Song Collection: Nightsongs
Night Song
Howard Swanson
Langston Hughes
Night Songs, op. 22
Song CollectionLowell Liebermann
Mark Van Doren
Robert Graves
Randall Jarrell
Night Songs: Four Poems of A. Crapsey
Song CollectionLee Hoiby
Adelaide Crapsey
Night Without Sleep
Paul Bowles
Charles Henri Ford
Night: Four Songs
Ricky Ian Gordon
Langston Hughes
Song Collection: Only Heaven
Nightfall
Lori Laitman
Sara Teasdale
Song Collection: Mystery
Nightingale's Song
Ethelbert Nevin
Alvin Hovey-King
Song Collection: Songs from Vineacre, Op. 28
Nightsongs
Song CollectionH. Leslie Adams
Langston Hughes
Georgia Douglas Johnson
Clarissa Scott Delany
James Weldon Johnson
Leslie Morgan Collins
Nine Songs to Poems of Emily Dickinson
Song CollectionOtto Luening
Emily Dickinson
No Dew Upon the Grass
Ernst Bacon
Emily Dickinson
Song Collection: Six Songs
No Images
Dorothy Rudd Moore
Song Collection: From the Dark Tower
No Voice to Scold
Theodore Chanler
Walter De la Mare
Song Collection: Eight Epitaphs
No. 1. To Morning
Frank Lewin
William Blake
Song Collection: Innocence and Experience
No. 2. Song: How Sweet I Roam'd
Frank Lewin
William Blake
Song Collection: Innocence and Experience
No. 3. Song: Memory, Hither Come
Frank Lewin
William Blake
Song Collection: Innocence and Experience
No. 5. Day
Frank Lewin
William Blake
Song Collection: Innocence and Experience
No. 6. I Saw a Chapel All of Gold
Frank Lewin
William Blake
Song Collection: Innocence and Experience
No. 7. A Divine Image
Frank Lewin
William Blake
Song Collection: Innocence and Experience
No. 9. Night
Frank Lewin
William Blake
Song Collection: Innocence and Experience
Nobody Knows This Little Rose
John Woods Duke
Emily Dickinson
Song Collection: Six Poems by Emily Dickinson
Nobody’s Business (but me own)
Peter Ashbourne
Nocturnal visions, op. 145
Song CollectionGardner Read
Rabindranath Tagore
James Joyce
Nocturne
Simon Sargon
Walt Whitman
Song Collection: A Clear Midnight
Nocturne
Gardner Read
Frances Frost
Song Collection: Songs for a Rainy Night, op. 48
Nocturne (op. 13, no. 4)
Samuel Barber
Frederic Prokosch
Nonsense Rhymes and Pictures, Op. 42
Song CollectionMargaret Ruthven Lang
Edward Lear
North and South
Song CollectionJohn Harbison
Elizabeth Bishop
Not Ideas about the Thing but the Thing Itself
Ned Rorem
Wallace Stevens
Song Collection: Last Poems of Wallace Stevens
Not In a Silver Casket
Jake Heggie
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Song Collection: Songs and Sonnets to Ophelia
Nothin' But Love
Carrie Jacobs-Bond
George N. Alsop
Nothing Gold
Alva Henderson
Robert Frost
Song Collection: A Seasonal Songbook
Nov. 2. 1920
Charles Ives
Charles Ives
Now and Then
Carrie Jacobs-Bond
Carrie Jacobs-Bond
Song Collection: Half-Minute Songs
Now Close The Windows (op. 104, no. 3)
Lowell Liebermann
Robert Frost
Song Collection: Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening, op. 104
Now is the Dreadful Midnight
Ned Rorem
Paul Goodman
Song Collection: Evidence of Things Not Seen
Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal
Henry T. Burleigh
Nude at the Piano
John Musto
Mark Campbell
Nuvoletta (op. 25)
Samuel Barber
James Joyce