Lyric Companion
Composer

Ned Rorem

131 works in the catalog — read each text with IPA transcriptions and translations.

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LIEDER · 131

A birthday

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A dead statesman

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A glimpse

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A journey

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A learned man

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A terrible disaster

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An den Mond

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Ask me no more

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Balulalow

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Boy with a Baseball Glove

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Catullus: Carmen CI

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Cherry ripe

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Clouds

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Come In

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Comfort to a Youth that had lost his Love

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Coming down the stairs

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Comment on War

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Defiled is my name

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Der Silberschwan

DE

Die Sonne der Schlaflosen

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Dis-moi d'aimer

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Do I love you more than a day?

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Early in the Morning

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End of the Day

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Even now the night jasmine is pouring

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Evidence of Things not seen

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Faith

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Far-Far-Away

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Fear of death

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Ferry me across the water

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For Poulenc

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For Susan

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Go, lovely rose

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He never knew

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He thinks upon his death

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His Beauty Sparkles

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Hospital Scenes -- Incidents

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How do I love thee?

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Hymn for Evening

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Hymn for Morning

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I am He that Aches with Love

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I am Rose

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I saw a mass of matter of a dull gloomy color

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I saw in Louisiana a live-oak growing

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I will always love you

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If ever hapless woman

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Is my team ploughing

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Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair

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Le cygne argenté

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Let no charitable hope

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Life in a love

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Little elegy

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Look down, fair moon

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Love in a Life

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Love's stricken 'why'

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Mother, I cannot mind my wheel

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Nantucket

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Now is the dreadful midnight

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Now sleeps the crimson petal

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O do not love too long

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O where are you going

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O you whom I often and silently come

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Ode

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On an echoing road

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Opus 101

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Orchids

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Out of the tulip tree

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Proverb V

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Psalm 133 (134)

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Psalm 142

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Psalm 148

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Psalm 150

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Reconciliation

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Requiem

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Requiescat

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Rondelay

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Rosader's second Sonetto

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Schlafloser Augen Leuchte

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Slow, slow fresh fount

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Snake

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So may it be!

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Song

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Song for a girl

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Song (From whence cometh song?)

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Song to a fair young lady, going out of town in the spring

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Sonne der Schlummerlosen

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Sonnet

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Sonnet XXX

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Stop all the clocks

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Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

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Sun of the sleepless

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That shadow, my likeness

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The Candid Man

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The Comfort of Friends (O the rapes)

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The Dance

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The dancer

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The dream

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The lamb

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The Lordly Hudson

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The more loving one

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The old men admiring themselves in the water

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The Open Road

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The serpent

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The sick rose

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The sick wife

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The silver swan

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The sleeping palace

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The sowers

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The waking

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The wintry mind

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The year's at the spring

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Thee God, I come from

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Their Lonely Betters

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Thoughts of a young girl

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To -----

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To a young girl

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To Anthea, who may command him anything

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To daisies, not to shut so soon

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To Music, to becalm his fever

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To my dear and loving husband

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To the Willow-tree

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To you

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Up-Hill

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Upon a Child

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Upon a child that died

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Upon Julia's clothes

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We never said farewell

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What if some little pain

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What inn is this

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Yes I hear them

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Youth, Day, Old Age, and Night

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A birthday

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A dead statesman

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A glimpse

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A journey

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A learned man

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A terrible disaster

EN

An den Mond

DE

Ask me no more

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