Simon Sargon
1938 -American composer and pianist Simon Sargon has composed more than a dozen song cycles, setting the poetry of American poets from Walt Whitman and Sara Teasdale to Paul Laurence Dunbar and Edna St. Vincent Millay.
Photo: Simon Sargon, http://www.simonsargon.com
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Songs & Song Collections BY Sargon
(entered to date)
- As We Take Each Other (in A Star in a Haymow)
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- Kenneth Patchen
- Barter (in Let It Be You)
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- Sara Teasdale
- Beautiful You Are (in A Star in a Haymow)
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- Kenneth Patchen
- Bitter For Sweet (in Bitter For Sweet)
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- Christina Rossetti
- Bitter For Sweet - Song Collection
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- Christina Rossetti
- The Buck in the Snow (in Huntsman, What Quarry?)
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- Edna St. Vincent Millay
- By the Waters of Babylon (in Bitter For Sweet)
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- Christina Rossetti
- Cabaret Song (in Patterns in Blue)
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- James Agee
- A Clear Midnight (in A Clear Midnight)
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- Walt Whitman
- A Clear Midnight - Song Collection
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- Walt Whitman
- Come Lovely and Soothing Death
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- Walt Whitman
- Compensation (in Jump Back!)
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- Paul Laurence Dunbar
- The Dinosaur (in Take Five)
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- Samuel Hoffenstein
- Dirge For Two Veterans (in A Clear Midnight)
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- Walt Whitman
- Florida Night (in Jump Back!)
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- Paul Laurence Dunbar
- Hairless (in Take Five)
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- Samuel Hoffenstein
- Holy Innocents (in Bitter For Sweet)
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- Christina Rossetti
- Huntsman, What Quarry? (in Huntsman, What Quarry?)
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- Edna St. Vincent Millay
- Huntsman, What Quarry? - Song Collection
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- Edna St. Vincent Millay
- I Died For Beauty
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- Emily Dickinson
- Intimations of Mortality - Song Collection
- Jump Back! - Song Collection
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- Paul Laurence Dunbar
- The Last Invocation (in A Clear Midnight)
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- Walt Whitman
- Let It Be Forgotten (in Let It Be You)
- Text:
- Sara Teasdale
- Let It Be You (in Let It Be You)
- Text:
- Sara Teasdale
- Let It Be You - Song Collection
- Text:
- Sara Teasdale
- Lonesome Boy Blues (in Patterns in Blue)
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- Kenneth Patchen
- Lullaby (in Take Five)
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- Samuel Hoffenstein
- Music (in A River of Honey)
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- Amy Lowell
- A Negro Love Song (Jump Back) (in Jump Back!)
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- Paul Laurence Dunbar
- Nocturne (in A Clear Midnight)
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- Walt Whitman
- O You Whom I Often (in A Clear Midnight)
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- Walt Whitman
- Our Bodies Were Wings (in A Star in a Haymow)
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- Kenneth Patchen
- Patterns in Blue - Song Collection
- A Prayer (in Jump Back!)
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- Paul Laurence Dunbar
- A River of Honey (in A River of Honey)
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- Denise Levertov
- A River of Honey - Song Collection
- Safe in My Arms (in A Star in a Haymow)
- Text:
- Kenneth Patchen
- Snatch of Sliphorn Jazz (in Patterns in Blue)
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- Carl Sandburg
- A Song of Joys (in A Clear Midnight)
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- Walt Whitman
- Song (in Bitter For Sweet)
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- Christina Rossetti
- A Song (in Jump Back!)
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- Paul Laurence Dunbar
- Song
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- Theodore Roethke
- Sound Sleep (in Bitter For Sweet)
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- Christina Rossetti
- Sound the Flute (in A River of Honey)
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- William Blake
- A Star in a Haymow (in A Star in a Haymow)
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- Kenneth Patchen
- A Star in a Haymow - Song Collection
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- Kenneth Patchen
- Take Five - Song Collection
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- Samuel Hoffenstein
- There Will Be Rest (in Let It Be You)
- Text:
- Sara Teasdale
- When I Was Young (in Take Five)
- Text:
- Samuel Hoffenstein
- Wind Elegy (in Let It Be You)
- Text:
- Sara Teasdale
- Witness For My Lord - Song Collection
- Text:
- Traditional
- Wrestling (in Bitter For Sweet)
- Text:
- Christina Rossetti
- Your Little Hands (in Take Five)
- Text:
- Samuel Hoffenstein
