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O Black and Unknown Bards
Dorothy Rudd Moore
James Weldon Johnson
Song Collection: From the Dark Tower
O Captain! My Captain!
Lee Hoiby
Walt Whitman
Song Collection: I Was There: Five Poems of Walt Whitman
O Cheese
William Bolcom
Donald Hall
Song Collection: Three Donald Hall Songs
O children of men
Zenobia Powell Perry
Baháʼu’lláh
O Daedalus, Fly Away Home
Dorothy Rudd Moore
Robert Hayden
Song Collection: Flowers of Darkness
O Florida
Lee Hoiby
Wallace Stevens
Song Collection: O Florida
O Florida
Song CollectionLee Hoiby
Wallace Stevens
O Friend!
Ernst Bacon
Emily Dickinson
O Hymen, O Hymenee!
Marc Blitzstein
Walt Whitman
Song Collection: Whitman Songs
O Love is the Crooked Thing
Song CollectionDavid Leisner
William Butler Yeats
O Lovely Rose
Edward MacDowell
William Henry Gardner
Song Collection: Six Love Songs, Op. 40
O My Darling Troubles Heaven with Her Loveliness
Richard Hundley
Kenneth Patchen
O My Love the Pretty Towns
David Leisner
Kenneth Patchen
Song Collection: Fidelity
O Tan-Faced Prairie Boy
Richard Pearson Thomas
Walt Whitman
Song Collection: Drum-Taps: A Song Cycle of Whitman Poems
O To Be a Dragon
William Bolcom
Marianne Moore
Song Collection: I Will Breathe a Mountain
O You Whom I Often
Simon Sargon
Walt Whitman
Song Collection: A Clear Midnight
O You Whom I Often and Silently Come
Ned Rorem
Walt Whitman
O, It Was Out By Donnycarney
John Woods Duke
James Joyce
O, Living Always, Always Dying
Steve Heitzeg
Walt Whitman
O, Night of Dream and Wonder: Almona's Song
Henry T. Burleigh
Frederick G. Bowles
Song Collection: Sarcen Songs
Octaves and Sweet Sounds
Song CollectionRichard Hundley
E. E. Cummings
James Joyce
James Purdy
Gertrude Stein
José García Villa
October
Alva Henderson
Robert Frost
Song Collection: A Seasonal Songbook
Ode
Song CollectionJeremy Gill
Of Challenge and Of Love
Song CollectionBenjamin Carr
John Hollander
Of Course — I prayed —
Leo Smit
Emily Dickinson
Song Collection: Beyond Circumference
Of Darkness and Light
Song CollectionDavid Leisner
Wendell Berry
Of Him I Love Day and Night
Ned Rorem
Walt Whitman
Song Collection: Three Calamus Poems
Of Laughter and Farewell
Song CollectionJake Heggie
Vachel Lindsay
Of Love
Ernst Bacon
Robert Herrick
Song Collection: Quiet Airs
Of Mere Being
Ned Rorem
Wallace Stevens
Song Collection: Last Poems of Wallace Stevens
Of the Natural World
Martin Hennessy
Song Collection: Ruminations
Of Tolling Bell I ask the cause?
Leo Smit
Emily Dickinson
Song Collection: Beyond Circumference
Official Notice
Elie Siegmeister
Langston Hughes
Song Collection: The Face of War
Oh Captain! My Captain
Kurt Weill
Walt Whitman
Song Collection: Four Walt Whitman Songs
Oh Close the Curtain
William Bolcom
Arnold Weinstein
Song Collection: Cabaret Songs, Vol. 1
Oh Fair Enough Are Sky And Plain
Beverly Benjamin Cole
A. E. Housman
Song Collection: A Shropshire Lad
Oh, Freedom
Oh, Freedom
Spiritual
Oh, What a Beautiful City
William Levi Dawson
Spiritual
Oh, When I Was In Love With You
Beverly Benjamin Cole
A. E. Housman
Song Collection: A Shropshire Lad
Oh, Yes!
Libby Larsen
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Song Collection: Sonnets From the Portuguese
Oh! Lemuel!
Stephen Foster
Stephen Foster
Oh! Susanna
Stephen Foster
Stephen Foster
Ojalá
Margaret Ruthven Lang
George Eliot
Old Addresses
Song CollectionWilliam Bolcom
Mark Doty
Langston Hughes
Kenneth Koch
Ezra Pound
A.D. Winans
Arnold Weinstein
Old American Songs, Set 1
Song CollectionAaron Copland
Old American Songs, Set 2
Song CollectionAaron Copland
Old Black Men
Dorothy Rudd Moore
Georgia Douglas Johnson
Song Collection: From the Dark Tower
Old Folks at Home
Stephen Foster
Stephen Foster
Old Home Day
Charles Ives
Charles Ives
Song Collection: Five Street Songs
Old Photograph
John Musto
Archibald MacLeish
Song Collection: The Book of Uncommon Prayer
Old Tunes
Lori Laitman
Sara Teasdale
Song Collection: The Metropolitan Tower and Other Songs
Old Tunes
Richard Pearson Thomas
Sara Teasdale
Song Collection: Spring Rain
Old Uncle Ned
Stephen Foster
Stephen Foster
Omaha
Ernst Bacon
Carl Sandburg
Song Collection: Six Songs
On a Clean Book
Zenobia Powell Perry
Paul Laurence Dunbar
Song Collection: Cycle of Songs on Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar
On Being Brought From Africa to America
Tom Cipullo
Phillis Wheatley
Song Collection: Climbing: Poems by African-Americans
On Emancipation Day
Will Marion Cook
Paul Laurence Dunbar
On Hearing a Very Famous Man Speak Profoundly
Jeremy Gill
Song Collection: 3 Songs About Words
On His Seventy-Fifth Birthday
Ned Rorem
Walter Savage Landor
Song Collection: Aftermath
On Judges' Walk
Charles Ives
Arthur Symons
On the Banks of the Wabash
Paul Dresser
Paul Dresser
On the Beach at Fontana
Roger Sessions
James Joyce
On the Beach at Night, op. 78
Lowell Liebermann
Walt Whitman
On the Counter
Charles Ives
Charles Ives
On the Day When Death Will Knock
John Alden Carpenter
Rabindranath Tagore
Song Collection: Gitanjali: Song Offerings
On the Frontiers
Ernst Bacon
Walt Whitman
On the Other Shore
Steven Mark Kohn
On the Other Shore
On the Road to Mandalay
Oley Speaks
Rudyard Kipling
On the Seashore of Endless Worlds
John Alden Carpenter
Rabindranath Tagore
Song Collection: Gitanjali: Song Offerings
On this Wondrous Sea
Ernst Bacon
Emily Dickinson
On Virtue
Marvin Mills
Phillis Wheatley
Once a Lady Was Here
Paul Bowles
Paul Bowles
One Art
Song CollectionJuliana Hall
Elizabeth Bishop
One Bee and Revery
Song CollectionLori Laitman
Emily Dickinson
One Life
Richard Thompson
Paul Laurence Dunbar
Song Collection: The Shadow of Dawn: Five Poems by Paul Laurence Dunbar
One Thought Ever at the Fore
Ernst Bacon
Walt Whitman
Song Collection: Songs at Parting
Only Heaven
Song CollectionRicky Ian Gordon
Langston Hughes
Open House
William Bolcom
Theodore Roethke
Song Collection: Open House
Open House
Song CollectionWilliam Bolcom
Theodore Roethke
Open Thy Lattice, Love
Stephen Foster
Stephen Foster
Ophelia's Song
Jake Heggie
Jake Heggie
Song Collection: Songs and Sonnets to Ophelia
Oppression
Rosephanye Powell
Spiritual
Song Collection: Then, Here, and Now
Oracles of Lefts and Rights
Curtis Bryant
Stephen Bluestone
Oranges and Lemons
Song CollectionScott Wheeler
Gertrude Stein
Tennessee Williams
Orchestra
Dave Brubeck
Dana Gioia
Orchestra (after Nina Cassian)
Paul Salerni
Dana Gioia
Song Collection: Speaking of Love
Orchids
Ned Rorem
Theodore Roethke
Song Collection: Two Poems of Theodore Roethke
Oriole
Scott Wheeler
Emily Dickinson
Song Collection: Sunday Songs
Ossabaw Island Dream
Song CollectionDaniel Asia
Paul Pines
Otherwise
William Bolcom
Jane Kenyon
Song Collection: Briefly It Enters
Our Bodies Were Wings
Simon Sargon
Kenneth Patchen
Song Collection: A Star in a Haymow
Our Forward Shadows
David Leisner
May Swenson
Song Collection: Fidelity
Our Share of Night to Bear
Otto Luening
Emily Dickinson
Song Collection: Nine Songs to Poems of Emily Dickinson
Out in the Fields With God
William Levi Dawson
Spiritual
Out Of My Own Great Woe
Clara Kathleen Rogers
Song Collection: Six Songs, Op. 27 (Browning Songs)
Out of Sight?
Libby Larsen
Emily Dickinson
Song Collection: Chanting to Paradise
Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking, op. 41
Lowell Liebermann
Walt Whitman
Out of the South Blew a Wind
Florence Price
Fannie Carter Woods
Outdoor Shadows
Song CollectionDavid Leisner
Robert Francis
Over the Fence
Lori Laitman
Emily Dickinson
Song Collection: Days and Nights
Over the Hills
Irene Britton Smith
Paul Laurence Dunbar
Song Collection: Dream Cycle
Over the Piano
William Bolcom
Arnold Weinstein
Song Collection: Cabaret Songs, Vol. 1
Over There
George M. Cohan
George M. Cohan
Overhead the Tree-Tops Meet
Clara Kathleen Rogers
Robert Browning