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Waitin
William Bolcom
Arnold Weinstein
Song Collection: Cabaret Songs, Vol. 1
Waiting
Henry T. Burleigh
Martha Gilbert Dickinson Bianchi
Walking
Charles Ives
Charles Ives
Walking in the Rain
John Woods Duke
Mark Van Doren
Song Collection: Good Morning: Six Songs for High Voice
Walt Whitman
Charles Ives
Walt Whitman
Walt Whitman in 1989
Chris DeBlasio
Perry Brass
Waltz
Charles Ives
Charles Ives
Wanderin'
Steven Mark Kohn
War
Elie Siegmeister
Langston Hughes
Song Collection: The Face of War
War Scenes
Song CollectionNed Rorem
Walt Whitman
War Songs, op. 7
Song CollectionLowell Liebermann
Herman Melville
Warble for Lilac-Time
Elliott Carter
Walt Whitman
Was My Brother in the Battle?
Jake Heggie
Stephen Foster
Song Collection: A Great Hope Fell: Songs From Civil War
Was My Brother in the Battle?
Stephen Foster
Stephen Foster
Wasting the Night
Song CollectionScott Wheeler
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Watch and Pray
Undine Smith Moore
Water That Falls and Runs Away
John Woods Duke
Mark Van Doren
Song Collection: Good Morning: Six Songs for High Voice
Waterbird
Richard Hundley
James Purdy
Way of the River
Song CollectionRobert G. Patterson
Anonymous
James Joyce
Rudyard Kipling
Sara Teasdale
Walt Whitman
We dream — it is good we are dreaming —
Leo Smit
Emily Dickinson
Song Collection: Beyond Circumference
We Have Tomorrow
Florence Price
Langston Hughes
We Met By Chance
Jeraldine Saunders Herbison
We Never Know How High We Are
Robert Beaser
Emily Dickinson
Song Collection: Four Dickinson Songs
We talked as Girls do —
Leo Smit
Emily Dickinson
Song Collection: Childe Emilie
We Two
Elinor Remick Warren
Walt Whitman
We Two Boys
Michael Tilson Thomas
Walt Whitman
Song Collection: Whitman Songs
We Wear the Mask
Richard Thompson
Paul Laurence Dunbar
Song Collection: The Shadow of Dawn: Five Poems by Paul Laurence Dunbar
We wear the mask
B. E. Boykin
Paul Laurence Dunbar
We who are under the ground
Robert Helps
James Purdy
Song Collection: The Running Sun
Weary Traveler
Florence Price
Spiritual
Webassin
Steve Heitzeg
Weepin' Mary
Dave Ragland
Welcome, Within My Shining Portals (Circe's Song)
Charles Wakefield Cadman
Nelle Richmond Eberhart
Song Collection: Three Songs to Odysseus
Well Welcome
Richard Hundley
Gertrude Stein
Song Collection: Octaves and Sweet Sounds
Were You There
Dave Ragland
West Wind
David Leisner
Mary Oliver
Song Collection: West Wind
West Wind
Song CollectionDavid Leisner
Mary Oliver
What Does the Little One See Down There?
Clara Kathleen Rogers
Song Collection: Songs, Op. 20
What if I say I shall not wait!
George Perle
Emily Dickinson
Song Collection: Thirteen Dickinson Songs
What if I say I shall not wait!
Leo Smit
Emily Dickinson
Song Collection: Beyond Circumference
What If I Say I Shall Not Wait!
Richard Pearson Thomas
Emily Dickinson
Song Collection: At Last, To Be Identified
What lips my lips have kissed...
Alva Henderson
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Song Collection: Love is not all...
What My Lips Have Kissed
Margaret Bonds
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Song Collection: Four Songs
What shall I do — it whimpers so —
Leo Smit
Emily Dickinson
Song Collection: The Marigold Heart
What Shall We Remember?
Ricky Ian Gordon
Ricky Ian Gordon
Song Collection: A Horse With Wings
What the Forester Said
Jake Heggie
Vachel Lindsay
Song Collection: The Moon Is a Mirror
What the Gray-Winged Fairy Said
Jake Heggie
Vachel Lindsay
Song Collection: Songs to the Moon
What the Miner in the Desert Said
Jake Heggie
Vachel Lindsay
Song Collection: The Moon Is a Mirror
What the Rattlesnake Said
Jake Heggie
Vachel Lindsay
Song Collection: Songs to the Moon
What the Scarecrow Said
Jake Heggie
Vachel Lindsay
Song Collection: Songs to the Moon
What the Snowman Said
Jake Heggie
Vachel Lindsay
Song Collection: The Moon Is a Mirror
What Weeping Face
Marc Blitzstein
Walt Whitman
What's the Use?
Florence Price
Paul Laurence Dunbar
Wheel of the Oxcart
William Bolcom
Donald Hall
Song Collection: Three Donald Hall Songs
When All the World is Young, Lad
Ethelbert Nevin
Charles Kingsley
When Children Are Playing Alone on the Green
Richard Hundley
Robert Louis Stevenson
When death comes and whispers to me (op. 21, no. 1)
Lowell Liebermann
Rabindranath Tagore
Song Collection: Final Songs, op. 21
when faces called flowers float out of the ground
Dominick Argento
E. E. Cummings
Song Collection: Songs About Spring
When Far From Her (op. 2, no. 2)
Amy Marcy Beach
Henry Harris Aubrey Beach
Song Collection: Three Songs, Op. 2
When I Am Dead
George Whitefield Chadwick
Christina Rossetti
When I Bring to You Colour'd Toys
John Alden Carpenter
Rabindranath Tagore
When I Hoped, I Feared
Otto Luening
Emily Dickinson
Song Collection: Nine Songs to Poems of Emily Dickinson
When I Was One-and-Twenty
Bob Scher
A. E. Housman
Song Collection: Five Songs from "A Shropshire Lad"
When I Was Young
Simon Sargon
Samuel Hoffenstein
Song Collection: Take Five
When Johnny Comes Marching Home
Jake Heggie
Patrick Sarsfield Gilmore
Song Collection: A Great Hope Fell: Songs From Civil War
When Johnny Comes Marching Home
George Crumb
Patrick Sarsfield Gilmore
Song Collection: The Winds of Destiny: American Songbook IV
When Moonlight Falls
Gardner Read
Song Collection: Four Nocturnes, op. 23
When Moses Smote de Water
Eva Jessye
Spiritual
Song Collection: My Spirituals
When Orpheus Played
Richard Hundley
William Shakespeare
When Our Two Souls
Allen Brings
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
When Soul is Joined to Soul (op. 62)
Amy Marcy Beach
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
When Sue Wears Red
Hermann Reutter
Langston Hughes
Song Collection: My Dark Hands
When Sue Wears Red
Ricky Ian Gordon
Langston Hughes
Song Collection: Only Heaven
When Summer Goes
Khyle Wooten
Langston Hughes
when the chief shepherd counts his sheep
Robert Helps
James Purdy
Song Collection: The Running Sun
When the Rose is Brightest
John Woods Duke
Nathaniel Parker Willis
When They Come Back
Aaron Copland
Emily Dickinson
Song Collection: Twelve Poems of Emily Dickinson
When They Say the Unkind Things
Carrie Jacobs-Bond
Carrie Jacobs-Bond
Song Collection: Half-Minute Songs
When we are old...
Alva Henderson
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Song Collection: Love is not all...
Where the Long White Waterfall (Love Song)
Charles Wakefield Cadman
Nelle Richmond Eberhart
Song Collection: Idyls of the South Sea
While millions join the theme...
Erica Muhl
Whiskers
Christopher Berg
Abraham Lincoln
Song Collection: Lincoln Letters
Whispers of Heavenly Death
Ernst Bacon
Walt Whitman
Song Collection: Songs at Parting
White Haired Woman
Ricky Ian Gordon
Ricky Ian Gordon
Song Collection: A Horse With Wings
White in the Moon
Jake Heggie
A. E. Housman
White Moon
Ruth Crawford Seeger
Carl Sandburg
Song Collection: Five Songs
White World
Libby Larsen
H. D.
Song Collection: Beloved, Thou Hast Brought Me Many Flowers
Whitman Portrait
Song CollectionJeremy Gill
Walt Whitman
Whitman Songs
Song CollectionMarc Blitzstein
Walt Whitman
Whitman Songs
Song CollectionMichael Tilson Thomas
Walt Whitman
Whitman's War
Song CollectionJonathan Bailey Holland
Who
William Bolcom
Jane Kenyon
Song Collection: Briefly It Enters
Who Goes There?
Michael Tilson Thomas
Walt Whitman
Song Collection: Whitman Songs
Who Has Seen the Wind?
Lita Grier
Christina Rossetti
Song Collection: 5 Songs For Children
Who Is Dat Yondah?
Eva Jessye
Spiritual
Song Collection: My Spirituals
who knows if the moon's a balloon
Dominick Argento
E. E. Cummings
Song Collection: Songs About Spring
Why Did You Go
Daron Aric Hagen
E. E. Cummings
Song Collection: Echo's Songs
Why Do They Shut Me Out of Heaven?
Aaron Copland
Emily Dickinson
Song Collection: Twelve Poems of Emily Dickinson
Why Fades a Dream
Irene Britton Smith
Paul Laurence Dunbar
Song Collection: Dream Cycle
Why I Wear My Hair Long
Tom Cipullo
Marilyn Kallet
Song Collection: How to Get Heat Without Fire
Wild Angels of the Open Hills
Song CollectionJoseph Schwantner
Ursula K. Le Guin
Wild Needle
David Leisner
Mary Oliver
Song Collection: West Wind
Wild Nights
Ernst Bacon
Emily Dickinson
Wild Nights
Lee Hoiby
Emily Dickinson
Song Collection: Four Dickinson Songs
Wild Nights
Lori Laitman
Emily Dickinson
Song Collection: Days and Nights
Wild Nights
David Leisner
Emily Dickinson
Song Collection: Confiding
Wild Nights — Wild Nights!
Leo Smit
Emily Dickinson
Song Collection: The Marigold Heart
Wild Nights — Wild Nights! (op. 112, no. 1)
Arthur Farwell
Emily Dickinson
Wild Nights! Wild Nights!
Richard Pearson Thomas
Emily Dickinson
Song Collection: At Last, To Be Identified
Wild Plum
Richard Hundley
Orrick Glenday Johns
Wild Songs
Song CollectionSteve Heitzeg
Wild Swans
H. Leslie Adams
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Song Collection: Five Millay Songs
Wild Swans
John Woods Duke
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Will o' the Wisp
Charles Gilbert Spross
Torrence Benjamin
Will There Really Be a Morning?
Lori Laitman
Emily Dickinson
Song Collection: Four Dickinson Songs
Will there really be a morning?
André Previn
Emily Dickinson
Song Collection: Three Dickinson Songs
Will There Really Be a Morning?
Ricky Ian Gordon
Emily Dickinson
Song Collection: A Horse With Wings
Will There Really Be a Morning?
Richard Hundley
Emily Dickinson
Willie, We Have Missed You
Stephen Foster
Stephen Foster
Willow Bend and Weep
Dorothy Rudd Moore
Song Collection: From the Dark Tower
Wind Elegy
George Crumb
Sara Teasdale
Song Collection: Three Early Songs
Wind Elegy
Simon Sargon
Sara Teasdale
Song Collection: Let It Be You
Wind is Thin
James Aikman
Anonymous
Song Collection: Spring is Purple Jewelry
Wind o' the Westland (op. 77, no. 2)
Amy Marcy Beach
Dana Burnet
Wing'd Hour
Song CollectionMiriam Gideon
Christina Rossetti
Walter De la Mare
Winter (op. 123, no. 5)
Lowell Liebermann
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Song Collection: Four Seasons, op. 123
Winter Moon
Ricky Ian Gordon
Langston Hughes
Song Collection: Genius Child: A Cycle of 10 Songs
Winter Roses
Song CollectionJake Heggie
Emily Dickinson
Raymond Carver
Winter Windows
Song CollectionJuliana Hall
Walter De la Mare
Robert Frost
Edna St. Vincent Millay
With Rue My Heart is Laden
George Walker
A. E. Housman
With Rue My Heart is Laden
Bob Scher
A. E. Housman
Song Collection: Five Songs from "A Shropshire Lad"
With Rue My Heart is Laden
A. E. Housman
With Rue My Heart Is Laden
Beverly Benjamin Cole
A. E. Housman
Song Collection: A Shropshire Lad
With Rue My Heart is Laden (op. 2, no. 2)
Samuel Barber
A. E. Housman
Song Collection: Three Songs, Op. 2
With the Dreams of May
Oley Speaks
Frank Lebby Stanton
With the Same Heart, I Said, I'll Answer Thee
Libby Larsen
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Song Collection: Sonnets From the Portuguese
With Violets (op. 1, no. 1)
Amy Marcy Beach
Kate Vannah
Withered is the Green Palm (Death Song)
Charles Wakefield Cadman
Nelle Richmond Eberhart
Song Collection: Idyls of the South Sea
Within my Garden, rides a Bird
Leo Smit
Emily Dickinson
Song Collection: The Celestial Thrush
Within Thy Heart (op. 29, no. 1)
Amy Marcy Beach
Amy Marcy Beach
Witness For My Lord
Song CollectionSimon Sargon
Wolf
Curt Cacioppo
Peter Blue Cloud
Women Have Loved Before
Jake Heggie
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Song Collection: Songs and Sonnets to Ophelia
Women Should Be Pedestals
Gwyneth Van Anden Walker
May Swenson
Song Collection: Mornings Innocent
Women's Voices
Song CollectionNed Rorem
Emily Dickinson
Christina Rossetti
Elinor Wylie
Wood Song
John Woods Duke
Sara Teasdale
Song Collection: Songs Out of Sorrow: Six Songs for Mezzo
Words
Jeremy Gill
Song Collection: 3 Songs About Words
Words For a Spiritual
Florence Price
Spiritual
Words From Paterson
Song CollectionJohn Harbison
William Carlos Williams
Words of a Romance
Khyle Wooten
Countee Cullen
Words To Be Spoken
John Musto
Archibald MacLeish
Song Collection: The Book of Uncommon Prayer
World, Take Good Notice
Ernst Bacon
Walt Whitman
Song Collection: Six Songs
Worth While
Song CollectionHenry T. Burleigh
Laurence Hope
Song Collection: Five Songs of Laurence Hope
Wrath
Robert Beaser
Anthony Hecht
Song Collection: Seven Deadly Sins
Wrestling
Simon Sargon
Christina Rossetti
Song Collection: Bitter for Sweet