INDEX OF SONG TITLES
(entered to date)
D
- The Daisies (op. 2, no. 1) (in Three Songs, Op. 2)
- Composer:
- Samuel Barber
- Text:
- James Stephens
- The Dance
- Composer:
- Ned Rorem
- Text:
- William Carlos Williams
- Danny Deever
- Composer:
- Walter Damrosch
- Text:
- Rudyard Kipling
- Darest Thou Now, O Soul (in Songs at Parting)
- Composer:
- Ernst Bacon
- Text:
- Walt Whitman
- Dark Girl (in My Dark Hands)
- Composer:
- Hermann Reutter
- Text:
- Arna Bontemps
- Dark Her Lodge Door (op. 69, no. 3)
- Composer:
- Arthur Farwell
- Text:
- Charles O. Roos
- The Dark Hills
- Composer:
- John Duke
- Text:
- Edwin Arlington Robinson
- Dark Mother, Always Gliding Near (in In Memoriam)
- Composer:
- James H. Rogers
- Text:
- Walt Whitman
- Dark Songs - Song Collection
- Composer:
- Beth Anderson
- Dark is as dark does (in West Wind)
- Composer:
- David Leisner
- Text:
- Mary Oliver
- Darkness (in Four Sea Lyrics)
- Composer:
- Louis Campbell-Tipton
- Text:
- Arthur Symons
- David
- Composer:
- Paul Bowles
- Text:
- Frances Frost
- A Dawn Song (op. 69, no. 2)
- Composer:
- Arthur Farwell
- Text:
- Charles O. Roos
- Dawn (in Climbing: Poems by African-Americans)
- Composer:
- Tom Cipullo
- Text:
- Paul Laurence Dunbar
- The Day is No More
- Composer:
- John Alden Carpenter
- Text:
- Rabindranath Tagore
- No. 5. Day (in Innocence and Experience)
- Composer:
- Frank Lewin
- Text:
- William Blake
- Daybirth - Song Collection
- Composer:
- H. Leslie Adams
- Text:
- Joette McDonald
- Daybreak in Alabama (in Daybreak in Alabama)
- Composer:
- John Stone
- Text:
- Langston Hughes
- Daybreak in Alabama
- Composer:
- Ricky Ian Gordon
- Text:
- Langston Hughes
- Daybreak in Alabama - Song Collection
- Composer:
- John Stone
- Text:
- Langston Hughes
- Days and Nights - Song Collection
- Composer:
- Lori Laitman
- Text:
- Emily Dickinson
- A Dead Statesman
- Composer:
- Ned Rorem
- Text:
- Rudyard Kipling
- Dear March, Come In! (in Twelve Poems of Emily Dickinson)
- Composer:
- Aaron Copland
- Text:
- Emily Dickinson
- Dearest (op. 24)
- Composer:
- Sidney Homer
- Text:
- William Ernest Henley
- Death Is High (in Gothic Suite)
- Composer:
- Paul Bowles
- Text:
- Tennessee Williams
- The Death Song of an Indian Chief
- Composer:
- Hans Gram
- Text:
- Sarah Wentworth Morton
- Death of an Old Seaman
- Composer:
- Cecil Cohen
- Text:
- Langston Hughes
- Death's Echo - Song Collection
- Composer:
- Juliana Hall
- Text:
- W. H. Auden
- Deathbeds
- Composer:
- James Primosch
- Text:
- Annie Dillard
- Deep River
- Composer:
- Henry Burleigh
- Text:
- Traditional
- The Deepest Desire (in The Deepest Desire)
- Composer:
- Jake Heggie
- The Deepest Desire - Song Collection
- Composer:
- Jake Heggie
- Delinquent
- Composer:
- Ricky Ian Gordon
- Text:
- Langston Hughes
- Demand
- Composer:
- Ricky Ian Gordon
- Text:
- Langston Hughes
- Departed the Pride, and the Glory of Mardi (in Two Songs)
- Composer:
- Robert Helps
- Text:
- Herman Melville
- Departed — to the Judgment — (in Beyond Circumference)
- Composer:
- Leo Smit
- Text:
- Emily Dickinson
- Departures (in Entrances and Departures)
- Composer:
- Stefania de Kenessey
- Text:
- Dana Gioia
- Deserted
- Composer:
- Margaret Ruthven Lang
- The Desire for Hermitage
- Composer:
- Samuel Barber
- Text:
- Anonymous
- Desire (in Another Reason Why I Don't Keep a Gun...)
- Composer:
- Tom Cipullo
- Text:
- Billy Collins
- Despite and Still (op. 41, no. 5) (in Despite and Still, Op. 41)
- Composer:
- Samuel Barber
- Text:
- Robert Graves
- Despite and Still, Op. 41 - Song Collection
- Composer:
- Samuel Barber
- Text:
- Robert Graves
- Dickinson Songs - Song Collection
- Composer:
- Stephen Paulus
- Text:
- Emily Dickinson
- The Dinosaur (in Take Five)
- Composer:
- Simon Sargon
- Text:
- Samuel Hoffenstein
- Dirge For Two Veterans (in A Clear Midnight)
- Composer:
- Simon Sargon
- Text:
- Walt Whitman
- Dirge For Two Veterans (in Drum-Taps: A Song Cycle of Whitman Poems)
- Composer:
- Richard Pearson Thomas
- Text:
- Walt Whitman
- Dirge For Two Veterans
- Composer:
- Frédéric Louis Ritter
- Text:
- Walt Whitman
- Dirge For Two Veterans (in Four Walt Whitman Songs)
- Composer:
- Kurt Weill
- Text:
- Walt Whitman
- Dirge
- Composer:
- John Duke
- Text:
- Adelaide Crapsey
- Disclosure
- Composer:
- Charles Ives
- Text:
- Charles Ives
- The Divine Image (in Five Songs From William Blake)
- Composer:
- Virgil Thomson
- Text:
- William Blake
- No. 7. A Divine Image (in Innocence and Experience)
- Composer:
- Frank Lewin
- Text:
- William Blake
- The Divine Ship (in Quiet Airs)
- Composer:
- Ernst Bacon
- Text:
- Walt Whitman
- Dixie
- Composer:
- Daniel Decatur Emmett
- Text:
- Daniel Decatur Emmett
- Do I Love You
- Composer:
- Ned Rorem
- Text:
- Jack Larson
- Doan' Yo' Lis'n (in Half-Minute Songs)
- Composer:
- Carrie Jacobs-Bond
- Text:
- Carrie Jacobs-Bond
- The Dodger (in Old American Songs, Set 1)
- Composer:
- Aaron Copland
- Text:
- Traditional
- Don't Let That Horse--
- Composer:
- Christopher Berg
- Text:
- Lawrence Ferlinghetti
- Donal Oge
- Composer:
- Libby Larsen
- Text:
- Anonymous
- Doricha (in Variations of Greek Themes)
- Composer:
- Frank Lewin
- Text:
- Edwin Arlington Robinson
- Doubt Me! My Dim Companion! (in At Last, To Be Identified)
- Composer:
- Richard Pearson Thomas
- Text:
- Emily Dickinson
- Dove Sta Amore (in Dove Sta Amore)
- Composer:
- John Musto
- Text:
- Lawrence Ferlinghetti
- Dove Sta Amore - Song Collection
- Composer:
- John Musto
- The Dove in Spring (in Last Poems of Wallace Stevens)
- Composer:
- Ned Rorem
- Text:
- Wallace Stevens
- The Dove (in The Face of War)
- Composer:
- Elie Siegmeister
- Text:
- Langston Hughes
- Down East (in Five Street Songs)
- Composer:
- Charles Ives
- Text:
- Charles Ives
- Down Where I Am (in Dreamer: 7 Poems of Langston Hughes)
- Composer:
- Erik Santos
- Text:
- Langston Hughes
- Down at the Docks (in Mostly About Love)
- Composer:
- Virgil Thomson
- Text:
- Kenneth Koch
- Down by the Salley Gardens (in O Love is the Crooked Thing)
- Composer:
- David Leisner
- Text:
- William Butler Yeats
- Dream Dust / Hold Fast to Dreams
- Composer:
- Dave Brubeck
- Text:
- Langston Hughes
- The Dream Keeper
- Composer:
- Dave Brubeck
- Text:
- Langston Hughes
- Dream Variation (in Three Dream Portraits)
- Composer:
- Margaret Bonds
- Text:
- Langston Hughes
- Dream Variations
- Composer:
- Ricky Ian Gordon
- Text:
- Langston Hughes
- A Dream Within a Dream
- Composer:
- Joseph Turrin
- Text:
- Edgar Allan Poe
- Dream
- Composer:
- Ricky Ian Gordon
- Text:
- Langston Hughes
- Dreamer: 7 Poems of Langston Hughes - Song Collection
- Composer:
- Erik Santos
- Text:
- Langston Hughes
- Dreamin' Town
- Composer:
- Florence Price
- Text:
- Paul Laurence Dunbar
- Dreams in War Time - Song Collection
- Composer:
- Juliana Hall
- Text:
- Amy Lowell
- A Drinking Song (in O Love is the Crooked Thing)
- Composer:
- David Leisner
- Text:
- William Butler Yeats
- A Drop Fell on the Apple Tree
- Composer:
- Ernst Bacon
- Text:
- Emily Dickinson
- Drum-Taps: A Song Cycle of Whitman Poems - Song Collection
- Composer:
- Richard Pearson Thomas
- Text:
- Walt Whitman
- Drum (in My Dark Hands)
- Composer:
- Hermann Reutter
- Text:
- Langston Hughes
- Drum
- Composer:
- Ricky Ian Gordon
- Text:
- Langston Hughes
- Drum
- Composer:
- Sergius Kagen
- Text:
- Langston Hughes
- The Drum
- Composer:
- Ned Rorem
- Text:
- John Scott of Amwell
- Drums of Tragedy (in Nightsongs)
- Composer:
- H. Leslie Adams
- Text:
- Langston Hughes
- Dust of Snow (in Three Poems of Robert Frost)
- Composer:
- Elliott Carter
- Text:
- Robert Frost
- The Dust of Timas (in Variations of Greek Themes)
- Composer:
- Frank Lewin
- Text:
- Edwin Arlington Robinson
- A Dutch Lullaby
- Composer:
- Frank Lewin
- Text:
- Eugene Field
- Duty
- Composer:
- Charles Ives
- Text:
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- don't look for me anymore
- Composer:
- Richard Pearson Thomas
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