John Duke was one of America's foremost composers of art songs, and an accomplished pianist. His compositions enjoyed great popularity in the middle of the 20th century, and at the end of the century they attracted renewed attention. His catalog contains 265 art songs.
Photo: John Duke, Courtesy of the Library of Congress
Songs & Song Collections BY Duke
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- 8 Songs of Translations of Latin & Greek - Song Collection
- Acquainted With The Night
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- Robert Frost
- At the Aquarium
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- Max Forrester Eastman
- An Awful Tempest Mashed the Air (in Six Poems by Emily Dickinson)
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- Emily Dickinson
- Bee! I'm Expecting You! (in Six Poems by Emily Dickinson)
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- Emily Dickinson
- The Better Part
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- George Santayana
- The Bird
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- Elinor Wylie
- The Black Panther
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- John Hall Wheelock
- Bread and Music
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- Conrad Aiken
- Counting the Beats
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- Robert Graves
- The Dark Hills
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- Edwin Arlington Robinson
- Dirge
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- Adelaide Crapsey
- Four Poems by Emily Dickinson - Song Collection
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- Emily Dickinson
- From the Sea: Five Songs for Soprano - Song Collection
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- Sara Teasdale
- Give Me Your Hand
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- John Hall Wheelock
- Good Morning, Midnight (in Six Poems by Emily Dickinson)
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- Emily Dickinson
- Good Morning: Six Songs for High Voice - Song Collection
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- Mark Van Doren
- Have You Got a Brook in Your Little Heart? (in Four Poems by Emily Dickinson)
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- Emily Dickinson
- Heart, We Will Forget Him (in Six Poems by Emily Dickinson)
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- Emily Dickinson
- I Taste a Liquor Never Brewed (in Four Poems by Emily Dickinson)
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- Emily Dickinson
- I Watched the Lady Caroline
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- Walter De la Mare
- In a Burying Ground (in Songs Out of Sorrow: Six Songs for Mezzo)
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- Sara Teasdale
- Just-Spring
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- E. E. Cummings
- Lessons (in Songs Out of Sorrow: Six Songs for Mezzo)
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- Sara Teasdale
- Let Down the Bars, O Death (in Six Poems by Emily Dickinson)
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- Emily Dickinson
- Little Elegy
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- Elinor Wylie
- Luke Havergal
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- Edwin Arlington Robinson
- Mastery (in Songs Out of Sorrow: Six Songs for Mezzo)
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- Sara Teasdale
- Merry-go-round
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- Mark Van Doren
- Midcentury Love Letter
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- Phyllis McGinley
- Miniver Cheevy
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- Edwin Arlington Robinson
- The Mountains Are Dancing
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- E. E. Cummings
- New Feet Within My Garden Go (in Four Poems by Emily Dickinson)
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- Emily Dickinson
- Night Coming Out of a Garden
- Nobody Knows This Little Rose (in Six Poems by Emily Dickinson)
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- Emily Dickinson
- O, It Was Out By Donnycarney
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- James Joyce
- The Puritan's Ballad
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- Elinor Wylie
- Refuge (in Songs Out of Sorrow: Six Songs for Mezzo)
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- Sara Teasdale
- Renouncement
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- Alice Meynell
- Reveille
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- A. E. Housman
- Richard Cory
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- Edwin Arlington Robinson
- The Rose Did Caper on Her Cheek (in Four Poems by Emily Dickinson)
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- Emily Dickinson
- Silver
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- Walter De la Mare
- Six Poems by Emily Dickinson - Song Collection
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- Emily Dickinson
- Songs Out of Sorrow: Six Songs for Mezzo - Song Collection
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- Sara Teasdale
- Spirit's House (in Songs Out of Sorrow: Six Songs for Mezzo)
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- Sara Teasdale
- Stop All the Clocks
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- W. H. Auden
- Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
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- Robert Frost
- Survivor
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- Archibald MacLeish
- There Will Be Stars
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- Sara Teasdale
- Velvet Shoes
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- Elinor Wylie
- Walking in the Rain
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- Mark Van Doren
- Water That Falls and Runs Away
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- Mark Van Doren
- When the Rose is Brightest
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- Nathaniel Parker Willis
- Wild Swans
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- Edna St. Vincent Millay
- Wood Song (in Songs Out of Sorrow: Six Songs for Mezzo)
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- Sara Teasdale
- i carry your heart
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- E. E. Cummings
