POEMS BY ROBERT HERRICK, BEN JONSON, JOHN DRYDEN AND ORLANDO GIBBONS

1. Song for a Girl (Dryden)
Gianna d'Angelo, soprano

2. To the Willow Tree (Herrick)
Donald Gramm, bass

3. Echo's Song (Jonson)
Charles Bressler, tenor

4.Upon Julia's Clothes (Herrick)
Donald Gramm, bass

5. The Silver Swan (Gibbons)
Gianna d'Angelo, soprano

THREE PSALMS

6. Psalm 134
Phyllis Curtin, soprano

7. Psalm 148
Phyllis Curtin, soprano

8. Psalm 150
Phyllis Curtin, soprano

POEMS BY PAUL GOODMAN AND THEODORE ROETHKE

9. The Lordly Hudson (Goodman)
Regina Sarfaty, mezzo-soprano

10. Snake (Roethke)
Gianna d'Angelo, soprano

11. Rain in Spring (Goodman) Regina Sarfaty, mezzo-soprano

12. Root Cellar (Roethke)
Donald Gramm, bass

13. Sally's Smile (Goodman)
Donald Gramm, bass

14.Such Beauty As Hurts to Behold (Goodman)
Regina Sarfaty, mezzo-soprano

15. My Papa's Waltz (Roethke)
Donald Gramm, bass

POEMS BY ROBERT HILLYER, GERTRUDE STEIN,
HOWARD MOSS AND ELIZABETH BISHOP

16. Early in the Morning (Hillyer)
Donald Gramm, bass

17. I Am Rose (Stein)
Regina Sarfaty, mezzo-soprano

18. See How They Love Me (Moss)
Charles Bressler, tenor

19. Visits to Saint Elizabeths (Bishop)
Regina Sarfaty, mezzo-soprano

THREE MEDIEVAL POEMS (Anon. c. 1500)

20. A Christmas Carol
Charles Bressler, tenor

21. The Nightingale
Phyllis Curtin, soprano

22. The Call
Donald Gramm, bass

POEMS BY GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS AND WALT WHITMAN

23. Spring and Fall (Hopkins)
Donald Gramm, bass

24. Spring (Hopkins)
Phyllis Curtin, soprano

25. To You (Whitman)
Donald Gramm, bass

26. Youth, Day, Old Age, and Night (Whitman)
Charles Bressler, tenor

27. O You Whom I Often and Silently Come (Whitman)
Regina Sarfaty, mezzo-soprano

POEMS BY ROBERT BROWNING, PADRIAC PEARSE,
EDMUND SPENSER AND R. L. STEVENSON

28. Pippa's Song (Browning)
Gianna d'Angelo, soprano

29. Lullaby of the Woman of the Mountain (Pearse)
Charles Bressler, tenor

30. What If Some Little Pain (Spenser)
Regina Sarfaty, mezzo-soprano

31. In a Gondola (Browning)
Gianna d'Angelo, soprano

32. Requiem (Stevenson)
Charles Bressler, tenor

Ned Rorem, piano

Originally released on Columbia Records in 1964