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Years of the Modern
William Bolcom
Walt Whitman
Song Collection: A Walt Whitman Triptych
Yes
Lori Laitman
Song Collection: In Sleep the World is Yours
Yes, What?
David Leisner
Robert Francis
Song Collection: Outdoor Shadows
Yet Do I Marvel
Tom Cipullo
Countee Cullen
Song Collection: Climbing: Poems by African-Americans
Yet Do I Marvel
Adolphus C. Hailstork
Countee Cullen
Yet Gentle Will the Griffin Be (What Grandpa Told the Children)
Jake Heggie
Vachel Lindsay
Song Collection: Songs to the Moon
You And Me
Lori Hicks
Spiritual
You Came as a Thought
James Laughlin
Song Collection: Viva Sweet Love
You Can Tell the World
Margaret Bonds
Spiritual
Song Collection: Five Creek-Freedman Spirituals
You Got to Reap What You Sow
William Levi Dawson
Spiritual
You Laggards There on Guard!
Jeremy Gill
Walt Whitman
Song Collection: Whitman Portrait
You Scream
Jake Heggie
Galway Kinnell
Song Collection: From 'The Book of Nightmares'
You Won't Find a Man Like Jesus
Florence Price
Spiritual
Your Dog Dies (op. 80, no. 1)
Lowell Liebermann
Raymond Carver
Song Collection: Six Songs on Poems of Raymond Carver, op. 80
Your Eyes So Deep
Henry T. Burleigh
James Weldon Johnson
Song Collection: Passionale
Your Girl
Mark Abel
Mark Abel
Song Collection: The Dark-Eyed Chameleon
Your Lips are Wine
Henry T. Burleigh
James Weldon Johnson
Song Collection: Passionale
Your Little Hands
Simon Sargon
Samuel Hoffenstein
Song Collection: Take Five
Youth Sings a Song of Rosebuds
Dorothy Rudd Moore
Countee Cullen
Song Collection: Sonnets on Love, Rosebuds and Death
Youth, Day, Old Age & Night
Jonathan Clarke Schwabe
Walt Whitman
Song Collection: A Clear Midnight
Youth, Day, Old Age and Night
Jonathan Bailey Holland
Walt Whitman