Includes 6 previously unpublished songs. Includes composer's note in English. Composed by Ned Rorem; lyrics by various poets; music composed mostly fifty years ago.
Contents:
You, the young rainbow / Edith Sitwell. Alleluia -- Are you the new person? / Walt Whitman -- A birthday : from Women's voices / Christina Rossetti -- Catullus, on the burial of his brother / translated by Aubrey Beardsley -- A child asleep in its own life / Wallace Stevens -- Chromatic fantasy / Anthony Hecht -- Come in / Robert Frost -- Clouds / Paul Goodman -- Confitebor tibi / Isaiah 12 -- Conversation / Elizabeth Bishop -- Early in the morning / Robert Hillyer -- The end / Dana Gioia -- Ferry me across the water : from The Nantucket songs / Christina Rossetti -- For Susan / Paul Goodman -- Go, lovely rose : from Nantucket songs / Edmund Waller -- I strolled across an open field / Theodore Roethke -- I will always love you / Frank O'hara -- A journey / Andrew Glaze -- Jeanie with the light brown hair / Stephen Foster ; arranged by Ned Rorem -- The land of fear / Demetrios Capetanakis -- Little elegy / Elinor Wylie -- Look down, fair moon / Walt Whitman -- The lordly Hudson / Paul Goodman -- Love / Thomas Lodge -- On a singing girl / Elinor Wylie -- Love in a life / Robert Browning -- Nantucket : from Nantucket songs / William Carlos Williams -- The nightingale / [anon.], about 1500 A.D. -- O do not love too long / William Butler Yeats -- On a little bird / Martin Armstrong -- Orchids / Theodore Roethke -- Psalm 150 : from Cycle of holy songs -- Poem For F. / Edouard Roditi -- The serpent / Theodore Roethke -- The sick wife : from Evidence of things not seen / Jane Kenyon -- Shelley's vision / Herman Melville -- The silver swan / Orlando Gibbons -- Spring / Gerard Manley Hopkins -- Sometimes with one I love / Walt Whitman -- Spring / Kenneth Koch -- Stopping by woods on a snowy evening / Robert Frost -- Such beauty as hurts to behold / Paul Goodman -- That shadow, my likeness : from Whitman cantata / Walt Whitman -- To a young girl / W.B. Yeats -- Visits to St. Elizabeths / Elizabeth Bishop -- The waking / Theodore Roethke -- What if some little pain-- / Edmund Spenser -- While Sodom was occupied / David Bergman -- You, the young rainbow / Edith Sitwell.
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