One of the most prolific and respected of American art song composers, Ned Rorem is finally represented in a substantial, representative collection, which includes six songs never before published (in boldface in the contents list), and many newly published transpositions.

Contents: Absalom • Alleluia • Are you the new person? • A Birthday • Catullus: on the Burial of His Brother • A Child Asleep in Its Own Life • Chromatic Fantasy • Clouds • Come In (High Voice only) • Confitebor Tibi (High Voice only) • Conversation • Early in the Morning • The End • Ferry me across the water • For Susan • A Glimspe (Low Voice only) • Go, Lovely Rose (High Voice only) • He Thinks Upon His Death (Low Voice only) • I strolled across an open field • I will always love you • Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair • A Journey • The Land of Fear • Little Elegy • Look down, fair moon • The Lordly Hudson • Love • Love in a Life • Nantucket • The Nightingale • O Do Not Love Too Long • On a Little Bird • On a Singing Girl • Orchids • Philomel (Low Voice only) • Poem for F. • Psalm 150 • Rain in Spring (Low Voice only) • The Serpent • Shelley’s Vision • The Sick Wife • The silver swan (High Voice only) • Sometimes with one I love • Spring (Manley Hopkins) • Spring (Koch) • Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening • Such beauty as hurts to behold • That shadow, my likeness • To a Young Girl • Visits to St. Elizabeths • The Waking • What if some little pain… • While Sodom was occupied • You, the young rainbow.