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W

• A Waist

  Composer:

  Scott Wheeler

  Text:

  Gertrude Stein

• Waitin

  Composer:

  William Bolcom

  Text:

  Arnold Weinstein

• Waiting

  Composer:

  Henry Burleigh

  Text:

  Martha Gilbert Dickinson Bianchi

• The Waking (in Open House)

  Composer:

  William Bolcom

  Text:

  Theodore Roethke

• A Walt Whitman Triptych - Song Collection

  Composer:

  William Bolcom

  Text:

  Walt Whitman

• Walking

  Composer:

  Charles Ives

  Text:

  Charles Ives

• Walking in the Rain

  Composer:

  John Duke

  Text:

  Mark Van Doren

• Walt Whitman

  Composer:

  Charles Ives

  Text:

  Walt Whitman

• Walt Whitman in 1989

  Composer:

  Chris DeBlasio

  Text:

  Perry Brass

• Waltz

  Composer:

  Charles Ives

  Text:

  Charles Ives

• The Waltz

  Composer:

  Lee Hoiby

  Text:

  Dorothy Parker

• Wanderin'

  Composer:

  Steven Mark Kohn

  Text:

  Traditional

• War (in The Face of War)

  Composer:

  Elie Siegmeister

  Text:

  Langston Hughes

• The War Prayer

  Composer:

  Steven Mark Kohn

  Text:

  Mark Twain

• War Scenes - Song Collection

  Composer:

  Ned Rorem

  Text:

  Walt Whitman

• Warble for Lilac-Time

  Composer:

  Elliott Carter

  Text:

  Walt Whitman

• Was My Brother in the Battle?

  Composer:

  Stephen Foster

  Text:

  Stephen Foster

• Was My Brother in the Battle?

  Composer:

  Jake Heggie

  Text:

  Stephen Foster

• Wasting the Night - Song Collection

  Composer:

  Scott Wheeler

  Text:

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

• Watch and Pray

  Composer:

  Undine Smith Moore

  Text:

  Traditional

• The Water Lily (in A Flower Cycle)

  Composer:

  George Whitefield Chadwick

  Text:

  Arlo Bates

• Water That Falls and Runs Away

  Composer:

  John Duke

  Text:

  Mark Van Doren

• Waterbird

  Composer:

  Richard Hundley

  Text:

  James Purdy

• Way of the River - Song Collection

  Composer:

  Robert G. Patterson

  Text:

• We dream — it is good we are dreaming — (in Beyond Circumference)

  Composer:

  Leo Smit

  Text:

  Emily Dickinson

• We Never Know How High We Are (in Four Dickinson Songs)

  Composer:

  Robert Beaser

  Text:

  Emily Dickinson

• We talked as Girls do — (in Childe Emilie)

  Composer:

  Leo Smit

  Text:

  Emily Dickinson

• We Two

  Composer:

  Elinor Remick Warren

  Text:

  Walt Whitman

• We Two Boys (in Whitman Songs)

  Composer:

  Michael Tilson Thomas

  Text:

  Walt Whitman

• We who are under the ground (in The Running Sun)

  Composer:

  Robert Helps

  Text:

  James Purdy

• Webassin

  Composer:

  Steve Heitzeg

  Text:

  Traditional

• Welcome, Within My Shining Portals (Circe's Song) (in Three Songs to Odysseus)

  Composer:

  Charles Wakefield Cadman

  Text:

  Nelle Richmond Eberhart

• Well Welcome (in Octaves and Sweet Sounds)

  Composer:

  Richard Hundley

  Text:

  Gertrude Stein

• West Wind - Song Collection

  Composer:

  David Leisner

  Text:

  Mary Oliver

• West Wind (in West Wind)

  Composer:

  David Leisner

  Text:

  Mary Oliver

• The West-Wind Croons in the Cedar-Trees

  Composer:

  Edward MacDowell

  Text:

  Edward MacDowell

• What Does the Little One See Down There? (in Songs, Op. 20)

  Composer:

  Clara Kathleen Rogers

  Text:

  Anonymous

• What if I say I shall not wait! (in Beyond Circumference)

  Composer:

  Leo Smit

  Text:

  Emily Dickinson

• What if I say I shall not wait! (in Thirteen Dickinson Songs)

  Composer:

  George Perle

  Text:

  Emily Dickinson

• What If I Say I Shall Not Wait! (in At Last, To Be Identified)

  Composer:

  Richard Pearson Thomas

  Text:

  Emily Dickinson

• What lips my lips have kissed... (in Love is not all...)

  Composer:

  Alva Henderson

  Text:

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

• What shall I do — it whimpers so — (in The Marigold Heart)

  Composer:

  Leo Smit

  Text:

  Emily Dickinson

• What Shall We Remember?

  Composer:

  Ricky Ian Gordon

  Text:

  Ricky Ian Gordon

• What the Forester Said (in The Moon Is a Mirror)

  Composer:

  Jake Heggie

  Text:

  Vachel Lindsay

• What the Gray-Winged Fairy Said (in Songs to the Moon)

  Composer:

  Jake Heggie

  Text:

  Vachel Lindsay

• What the Miner in the Desert Said (in The Moon Is a Mirror)

  Composer:

  Jake Heggie

  Text:

  Vachel Lindsay

• What the Rattlesnake Said (in Songs to the Moon)

  Composer:

  Jake Heggie

  Text:

  Vachel Lindsay

• What the Scarecrow Said (in Songs to the Moon)

  Composer:

  Jake Heggie

  Text:

  Vachel Lindsay

• What the Snowman Said (in The Moon Is a Mirror)

  Composer:

  Jake Heggie

  Text:

  Vachel Lindsay

• What Weeping Face

  Composer:

  Marc Blitzstein

  Text:

  Walt Whitman

• What's the Use?

  Composer:

  Florence Price

  Text:

  Paul Laurence Dunbar

• Wheel of the Oxcart (in Three Donald Hall Songs)

  Composer:

  William Bolcom

  Text:

  Donald Hall

• When All the World is Young, Lad

  Composer:

  Ethelbert Nevin

  Text:

  Charles Kingsley

• When Children Are Playing Alone on the Green

  Composer:

  Richard Hundley

  Text:

  Robert Louis Stevenson

• when faces called flowers float out of the ground (in Songs About Spring)

  Composer:

  Dominick Argento

  Text:

  E. E. Cummings

• When Far From Her (op. 2, no. 2) (in Three Songs, Op. 2)

  Composer:

  Amy Marcy Beach

  Text:

  Henry Harris Aubrey Beach

• When I Am Dead

  Composer:

  George Whitefield Chadwick

  Text:

  Christina Rossetti

• When I Bring to You Colour'd Toys (in Gitanjali: Song Offerings)

  Composer:

  John Alden Carpenter

  Text:

  Rabindranath Tagore

• When I Hoped, I Feared (in Nine Songs to Poems of Emily Dickinson)

  Composer:

  Otto Luening

  Text:

  Emily Dickinson

• When I Was One-and-Twenty (in Five Songs from "A Shropshire Lad")

  Composer:

  Bob Scher

  Text:

  A. E. Housman

• When I Was Young (in Take Five)

  Composer:

  Simon Sargon

  Text:

  Samuel Hoffenstein

• When Johnny Comes Marching Home

  Composer:

  Jake Heggie

  Text:

  Patrick Sarsfield Gilmore

• When Johnny Comes Marching Home

  Composer:

  George Crumb

  Text:

  Patrick Sarsfield Gilmore

• When Orpheus Played

  Composer:

  Richard Hundley

  Text:

  William Shakespeare

• When Our Two Souls (in Three Sonnets after the Portuguese)

  Composer:

  Allen Brings

  Text:

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

• When Soul is Joined to Soul (op. 62)

  Composer:

  Amy Marcy Beach

  Text:

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

• When Sue Wears Red (in My Dark Hands)

  Composer:

  Hermann Reutter

  Text:

  Langston Hughes

• When Sue Wears Red

  Composer:

  Ricky Ian Gordon

  Text:

  Langston Hughes

• when the chief shepherd counts his sheep (in The Running Sun)

  Composer:

  Robert Helps

  Text:

  James Purdy

• When the Rose is Brightest

  Composer:

  John Duke

  Text:

  Nathaniel Parker Willis

• When They Come Back (in Twelve Poems of Emily Dickinson)

  Composer:

  Aaron Copland

  Text:

  Emily Dickinson

• When They Say the Unkind Things (in Half-Minute Songs)

  Composer:

  Carrie Jacobs-Bond

  Text:

  Carrie Jacobs-Bond

• When we are old... (in Love is not all...)

  Composer:

  Alva Henderson

  Text:

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

• Where the Long White Waterfall (Love Song) (in Idyls of the South Sea)

  Composer:

  Charles Wakefield Cadman

  Text:

  Nelle Richmond Eberhart

• While millions join the theme...

  Composer:

  Erica Muhl

  Text:

• The Whipping (in America 1968)

  Composer:

  Tom Cipullo

  Text:

  Robert Hayden

• Whiskers (in Lincoln Letters)

  Composer:

  Christopher Berg

  Text:

  Abraham Lincoln

• Whispers of Heavenly Death (in Songs at Parting)

  Composer:

  Ernst Bacon

  Text:

  Walt Whitman

• The White Dawn is Stealing (in From the Land of the Sky-Blue Water)

  Composer:

  Charles Wakefield Cadman

  Text:

  Nelle Richmond Eberhart

• The White Diadem - Song Collection

  Composer:

  Leo Smit

  Text:

  Emily Dickinson

• White Haired Woman

  Composer:

  Ricky Ian Gordon

  Text:

  Ricky Ian Gordon

• White in the Moon

  Composer:

  Jake Heggie

  Text:

  A. E. Housman

• White Moon (in Five Songs)

  Composer:

  Ruth Crawford Seeger

  Text:

  Carl Sandburg

• White World

  Composer:

  Libby Larsen

  Text:

  H. D.

• Whitman Portrait - Song Collection

  Composer:

  Jeremy Gill

  Text:

  Walt Whitman

• Whitman Songs - Song Collection

  Composer:

  Marc Blitzstein

  Text:

  Walt Whitman

• Whitman Songs - Song Collection

  Composer:

  Michael Tilson Thomas

  Text:

  Walt Whitman

• Who (in Briefly It Enters)

  Composer:

  William Bolcom

  Text:

  Jane Kenyon

• Who Goes There? (in Whitman Songs)

  Composer:

  Michael Tilson Thomas

  Text:

  Walt Whitman

• Who Has Seen the Wind? (in 5 Songs For Children)

  Composer:

  Lita Grier

  Text:

  Christina Rossetti

• who knows if the moon's a balloon (in Songs About Spring)

  Composer:

  Dominick Argento

  Text:

  E. E. Cummings

• Why Did You Go (in Echo's Songs)

  Composer:

  Daron Aric Hagen

  Text:

  E. E. Cummings

• Why Do They Shut Me Out of Heaven? (in Twelve Poems of Emily Dickinson)

  Composer:

  Aaron Copland

  Text:

  Emily Dickinson

• Why I Wear My Hair Long (in How to Get Heat Without Fire)

  Composer:

  Tom Cipullo

  Text:

  Marilyn Kallet

• The Wider View - Song Collection

  Composer:

  H. Leslie Adams

  Text:

• The Wider View (in The Wider View)

  Composer:

  H. Leslie Adams

  Text:

  R. H. Grenville

• A Wife — at daybreak I shall be — (in The Marigold Heart)

  Composer:

  Leo Smit

  Text:

  Emily Dickinson

• The Wild Briar (in A Flower Cycle)

  Composer:

  George Whitefield Chadwick

  Text:

  Arlo Bates

• The Wild Swans at Coole (in O Love is the Crooked Thing)

  Composer:

  David Leisner

  Text:

  William Butler Yeats

• Wild Angels of the Open Hills - Song Collection

  Composer:

  Joseph Schwantner

  Text:

  Ursula K. Le Guin

• Wild Needle (in West Wind)

  Composer:

  David Leisner

  Text:

  Mary Oliver

• Wild Nights (in Confiding)

  Composer:

  David Leisner

  Text:

  Emily Dickinson

• Wild Nights (in Four Dickinson Songs)

  Composer:

  Lee Hoiby

  Text:

  Emily Dickinson

• Wild Nights

  Composer:

  Ernst Bacon

  Text:

  Emily Dickinson

• Wild Nights

  Composer:

  Lori Laitman

  Text:

  Emily Dickinson

• Wild Nights — Wild Nights! (in The Marigold Heart)

  Composer:

  Leo Smit

  Text:

  Emily Dickinson

• Wild Nights — Wild Nights! (op. 112, no. 1)

  Composer:

  Arthur Farwell

  Text:

  Emily Dickinson

• Wild Nights! Wild Nights! (in At Last, To Be Identified)

  Composer:

  Richard Pearson Thomas

  Text:

  Emily Dickinson

• Wild Plum

  Composer:

  Richard Hundley

  Text:

  Orrick Glenday Johns

• Wild Songs - Song Collection

  Composer:

  Steve Heitzeg

  Text:

• Wild Swans (in Five Millay Songs)

  Composer:

  H. Leslie Adams

  Text:

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

• Wild Swans

  Composer:

  John Duke

  Text:

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

• Will o' the Wisp

  Composer:

  Charles Gilbert Spross

  Text:

  Torrence Benjamin

• Will there really be a morning? (in Three Dickinson Songs)

  Composer:

  André Previn

  Text:

  Emily Dickinson

• Will There Really Be a Morning? (in Four Dickinson Songs)

  Composer:

  Lori Laitman

  Text:

  Emily Dickinson

• Will There Really Be a Morning?

  Composer:

  Ricky Ian Gordon

  Text:

  Emily Dickinson

• Will There Really Be a Morning? (Hundley)

  Composer:

  Richard Hundley

  Text:

  Emily Dickinson

• Willie, We Have Missed You

  Composer:

  Stephen Foster

  Text:

  Stephen Foster

• The Wind Sings Welcome (in Singing Earth)

  Composer:

  Elinor Remick Warren

  Text:

  Carl Sandburg

• The Wind Begun to Rock the Grass (in Long, Too Long America)

  Composer:

  Caryn Block

  Text:

  Emily Dickinson

• Wind Elegy (in Three Early Songs)

  Composer:

  George Crumb

  Text:

  Sara Teasdale

• Wind Elegy (in Let It Be You)

  Composer:

  Simon Sargon

  Text:

  Sara Teasdale

• Wind is Thin (in Spring is Purple Jewelry)

  Composer:

  James Aikman

  Text:

  Anonymous

• Wind o' the Westland (op. 77, no. 2)

  Composer:

  Amy Marcy Beach

  Text:

  Dana Burnet

• The Wind—tapped like a tired Man (in Thirteen Dickinson Songs)

  Composer:

  George Perle

  Text:

  Emily Dickinson

• A Wind Like a Bugle

  Composer:

  Ernst Bacon

  Text:

  Emily Dickinson

• A Winter Night (in The Metropolitan Tower and Other Songs)

  Composer:

  Lori Laitman

  Text:

  Sara Teasdale

• The Winds of Destiny: Amer. Songbook IV - Song Collection

  Composer:

  George Crumb

  Text:

  Traditional

• Wing'd Hour - Song Collection

  Composer:

  Miriam Gideon

  Text:

• Winter Moon (in Genius Child: A Cycle of 10 Songs)

  Composer:

  Ricky Ian Gordon

  Text:

  Langston Hughes

• Winter Windows - Song Collection

  Composer:

  Juliana Hall

  Text:

  Walter De la Mare

• With Rue My Heart is Laden

  Composer:

  George Walker

  Text:

  A. E. Housman

• With Rue My Heart is Laden (in Five Songs from "A Shropshire Lad")

  Composer:

  Bob Scher

  Text:

  A. E. Housman

• With Rue My Heart is Laden (op. 2, no. 2) (in Three Songs, Op. 2)

  Composer:

  Samuel Barber

  Text:

  A. E. Housman

• With the Dreams of May

  Composer:

  Oley Speaks

  Text:

  Frank Lebby Stanton

• With the Same Heart, I Said, I'll Answer Thee (in Sonnets From the Portuguese)

  Composer:

  Libby Larsen

  Text:

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

• With Violets (op. 1, no. 1)

  Composer:

  Amy Marcy Beach

  Text:

  Kate Vannah

• Withered is the Green Palm (Death Song) (in Idyls of the South Sea)

  Composer:

  Charles Wakefield Cadman

  Text:

  Nelle Richmond Eberhart

• Within my Garden, rides a Bird (in The Celestial Thrush)

  Composer:

  Leo Smit

  Text:

  Emily Dickinson

• Within Thy Heart (op. 29, no. 1)

  Composer:

  Amy Marcy Beach

  Text:

  Amy Marcy Beach

• Witness For My Lord - Song Collection

  Composer:

  Simon Sargon

  Text:

  Traditional

• Wolf

  Composer:

  Curt Cacioppo

  Text:

  Peter Blue Cloud

• A Woman's Life - Song Collection

  Composer:

  Richard Danielpour

  Text:

  Maya Angelou

• Women Have Loved Before (in Songs and Sonnets to Ophelia)

  Composer:

  Jake Heggie

  Text:

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

• Women Should Be Pedestals (in Mornings Innocent)

  Composer:

  Gwyneth Van Anden Walker

  Text:

  May Swenson

• Women's Voices - Song Collection

  Composer:

  Ned Rorem

  Text:

• Wood Song (in Songs Out of Sorrow: Six Songs for Mezzo)

  Composer:

  John Duke

  Text:

  Sara Teasdale

• The Woodpecker

  Composer:

  Ethelbert Nevin

  Text:

• A Working Woman (in Songs From Letters)

  Composer:

  Libby Larsen

  Text:

  Calamity Calamity Jane

• A Word is Dead (in Four Dickinson Songs)

  Composer:

  Robert Beaser

  Text:

  Emily Dickinson

• Words (in 3 Songs About Words)

  Composer:

  Jeremy Gill

  Text:

  Lucy Miller Murray

• Words From Paterson - Song Collection

  Composer:

  John Harbison

  Text:

  William Carlos Williams

• Words To Be Spoken

  Composer:

  John Musto

  Text:

  Archibald MacLeish

• World, Take Good Notice (in Six Songs)

  Composer:

  Ernst Bacon

  Text:

  Walt Whitman

• The World's Highway

  Composer:

  Charles Ives

  Text:

  Charles Ives

• The World Feels Dusty (in Twelve Poems of Emily Dickinson)

  Composer:

  Aaron Copland

  Text:

  Emily Dickinson

• Worth While (in Five Songs of Laurence Hope)

  Composer:

  Henry Burleigh

  Text:

  Laurence Hope

• Wrath (in Seven Deadly Sins)

  Composer:

  Robert Beaser

  Text:

  Anthony Hecht

• Wrestling (in Bitter For Sweet)

  Composer:

  Simon Sargon

  Text:

  Christina Rossetti

• The Writer

  Composer:

  Alva Henderson

  Text:

  Richard Wilbur