INDEX OF SONG TITLES
(entered to date)
O
- O Cheese (in Three Donald Hall Songs)
- Composer:
- William Bolcom
- Text:
- Donald Hall
- O Florida
- Composer:
- Lee Hoiby
- Text:
- Wallace Stevens
- O Florida - Song Collection
- Composer:
- Lee Hoiby
- Text:
- Wallace Stevens
- O Friend!
- Composer:
- Ernst Bacon
- Text:
- Emily Dickinson
- O Hymen, O Hymenee!
- Composer:
- Marc Blitzstein
- Text:
- Walt Whitman
- O Love is the Crooked Thing - Song Collection
- Composer:
- David Leisner
- Text:
- William Butler Yeats
- O Lovely Rose (in Six Love Songs, Op. 40)
- Composer:
- Edward MacDowell
- Text:
- William Henry Gardner
- O My Love the Pretty Towns (in Fidelity)
- Composer:
- David Leisner
- Text:
- Kenneth Patchen
- O Tan-Faced Prairie Boy (in Drum-Taps: A Song Cycle of Whitman Poems)
- Composer:
- Richard Pearson Thomas
- Text:
- Walt Whitman
- O To Be a Dragon (in I Will Breathe a Mountain)
- Composer:
- William Bolcom
- Text:
- Marianne Moore
- O You Whom I Often and Silently Come
- Composer:
- Ned Rorem
- Text:
- Walt Whitman
- O You Whom I Often (in A Clear Midnight)
- Composer:
- Simon Sargon
- Text:
- Walt Whitman
- O, It Was Out By Donnycarney
- Composer:
- John Duke
- Text:
- James Joyce
- October (in A Seasonal Songbook)
- Composer:
- Alva Henderson
- Text:
- Robert Frost
- Of Challenge and Of Love - Song Collection
- Composer:
- Elliott Carter
- Text:
- John Hollander
- Of Course — I prayed — (in Beyond Circumference)
- Composer:
- Leo Smit
- Text:
- Emily Dickinson
- Of Darkness and Light - Song Collection
- Composer:
- David Leisner
- Text:
- Wendell Berry
- Of Him I Love Day and Night (in Three Calamus Poems)
- Composer:
- Ned Rorem
- Text:
- Walt Whitman
- Of Love (in Quiet Airs)
- Composer:
- Ernst Bacon
- Text:
- Robert Herrick
- Of Mere Being (in Last Poems of Wallace Stevens)
- Composer:
- Ned Rorem
- Text:
- Wallace Stevens
- Of Tolling Bell I ask the cause? (in Beyond Circumference)
- Composer:
- Leo Smit
- Text:
- Emily Dickinson
- Official Notice (in The Face of War)
- Composer:
- Elie Siegmeister
- Text:
- Langston Hughes
- Oh Captain! My Captain (in Four Walt Whitman Songs)
- Composer:
- Kurt Weill
- Text:
- Walt Whitman
- Oh Close the Curtain
- Composer:
- William Bolcom
- Text:
- Arnold Weinstein
- Oh! Lemuel!
- Composer:
- Stephen Foster
- Text:
- Stephen Foster
- Oh! Susanna
- Composer:
- Stephen Foster
- Text:
- Stephen Foster
- Oh, Freedom
- Oh, Yes! (in Sonnets From the Portuguese)
- Composer:
- Libby Larsen
- Ojalá
- Composer:
- Margaret Ruthven Lang
- Text:
- George Eliot
- Old Addresses - Song Collection
- Composer:
- William Bolcom
- Text:
- A.D. Winans
- Old American Songs, Set 1 - Song Collection
- Composer:
- Aaron Copland
- Text:
- Traditional
- Old American Songs, Set 2 - Song Collection
- Composer:
- Aaron Copland
- Text:
- Traditional
- An Old Flame
- Composer:
- Charles Ives
- Text:
- Charles Ives
- Old Folks at Home
- Composer:
- Stephen Foster
- Text:
- Stephen Foster
- Old Home Day (in Five Street Songs)
- Composer:
- Charles Ives
- Text:
- Charles Ives
- The Old Home
- Composer:
- George Frederick McKay
- Text:
- Madison Cawein
- The Old Horse in the City (in The Moon Is a Mirror)
- Composer:
- Jake Heggie
- Text:
- Vachel Lindsay
- The Old Man's Love Song (in Three Indian Songs, Op. 32)
- Composer:
- Arthur Farwell
- Text:
- Arthur Farwell
- Old Photograph
- Composer:
- John Musto
- Text:
- Archibald MacLeish
- The Old Story (in Variations of Greek Themes)
- Composer:
- Frank Lewin
- Text:
- Edwin Arlington Robinson
- Old Tunes (in Spring Rain)
- Composer:
- Richard Pearson Thomas
- Text:
- Sara Teasdale
- Old Tunes (in The Metropolitan Tower and Other Songs)
- Composer:
- Lori Laitman
- Text:
- Sara Teasdale
- Old Uncle Ned
- Composer:
- Stephen Foster
- Text:
- Stephen Foster
- The Old Woman's Courtship
- Composer:
- John Powell
- Text:
- Traditional
- An Old-Fashioned Song
- Composer:
- Ricky Ian Gordon
- Text:
- John Hollander
- Omaha (in Six Songs)
- Composer:
- Ernst Bacon
- Text:
- Carl Sandburg
- On Being Brought From Africa to America (in Climbing: Poems by African-Americans)
- Composer:
- Tom Cipullo
- Text:
- Phillis Wheatley
- On His Seventy-Fifth Birthday
- Composer:
- Ned Rorem
- Text:
- Walter Savage Landor
- On Judges' Walk
- Composer:
- Charles Ives
- Text:
- Arthur Symons
- On the Banks of the Wabash
- Composer:
- Paul Dresser
- Text:
- Paul Dresser
- On the Beach at Fontana
- Composer:
- Roger Sessions
- Text:
- James Joyce
- On the Counter
- Composer:
- Charles Ives
- Text:
- Charles Ives
- On the Day When Death Will Knock (in Gitanjali: Song Offerings)
- Composer:
- John Alden Carpenter
- Text:
- Rabindranath Tagore
- On the Other Shore
- Composer:
- Steven Mark Kohn
- Text:
- Traditional
- On the Other Shore
- Composer:
- Traditional
- Text:
- Traditional
- On the Road to Mandalay
- Composer:
- Oley Speaks
- Text:
- Rudyard Kipling
- On the Seashore of Endless Worlds (in Gitanjali: Song Offerings)
- Composer:
- John Alden Carpenter
- Text:
- Rabindranath Tagore
- On this Wondrous Sea
- Composer:
- Ernst Bacon
- Text:
- Emily Dickinson
- Once a Lady Was Here
- Composer:
- Paul Bowles
- Text:
- Paul Bowles
- One Art - Song Collection
- Composer:
- Juliana Hall
- Text:
- Elizabeth Bishop
- One Bee and Revery - Song Collection
- Composer:
- Lori Laitman
- Text:
- Emily Dickinson
- One Thought Ever at the Fore (in Songs at Parting)
- Composer:
- Ernst Bacon
- Text:
- Walt Whitman
- Only Heaven - Song Collection
- Composer:
- Ricky Ian Gordon
- Text:
- Langston Hughes
- Open House (in Open House)
- Composer:
- William Bolcom
- Text:
- Theodore Roethke
- Open House - Song Collection
- Composer:
- William Bolcom
- Text:
- Theodore Roethke
- The Open Road
- Composer:
- Ned Rorem
- Text:
- Walt Whitman
- Open Thy Lattice Love
- Composer:
- Stephen Foster
- Text:
- George Pope Morris
- Ophelia's Song (in Songs and Sonnets to Ophelia)
- Composer:
- Jake Heggie
- Text:
- Jake Heggie
- Oracles of Lefts and Rights
- Composer:
- Curtis Bryant
- Text:
- Stephen Bluestone
- Orchestra (after Nina Cassian) (in Speaking of Love)
- Composer:
- Paul Salerni
- Text:
- Dana Gioia
- Orchestra
- Composer:
- Dave Brubeck
- Text:
- Dana Gioia
- Orchids (in Two Poems of Theodore Roethke)
- Composer:
- Ned Rorem
- Text:
- Theodore Roethke
- Ossabaw Island Dream - Song Collection
- Composer:
- Daniel Asia
- Text:
- Paul Pines
- Otherwise (in Briefly It Enters)
- Composer:
- William Bolcom
- Text:
- Jane Kenyon
- Our Bodies Were Wings (in A Star in a Haymow)
- Composer:
- Simon Sargon
- Text:
- Kenneth Patchen
- Our Forward Shadows (in Fidelity)
- Composer:
- David Leisner
- Text:
- May Swenson
- Our Share of Night to Bear (in Nine Songs to Poems of Emily Dickinson)
- Composer:
- Otto Luening
- Text:
- Emily Dickinson
- Out Of My Own Great Woe (in Six Songs, Op. 27 (Browning Songs))
- Composer:
- Clara Kathleen Rogers
- Out of Sight? (in Chanting to Paradise)
- Composer:
- Libby Larsen
- Text:
- Emily Dickinson
- Outdoor Shadows - Song Collection
- Composer:
- David Leisner
- Text:
- Robert Francis
- Over There
- Composer:
- George M. Cohan
- Text:
- George M. Cohan
- Over the Fence
- Composer:
- Lori Laitman
- Text:
- Emily Dickinson
- Over the Piano
- Composer:
- William Bolcom
- Text:
- Arnold Weinstein
- Overhead the Tree-Tops Meet
- Composer:
- Clara Kathleen Rogers
- Text:
- Robert Browning
- The Owl and the Pussycat (in A Little Nonsense)
- Composer:
- Richard Pearson Thomas
- Text:
- Edward Lear
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