List of Works

1917

“Do Not Go, My Love,” dedicated to George Hamlin [Text: Rabindranath Tagore]

“May Night,” dedicated to Oscar Seagle [Text: Rabindranath Tagore]

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1918

Two Songs of Childhood [Text: Eugene Field]

“Grandma’s Prayer,” dedicated to Mrs. Platt Marsch

“The Cunnin’ Little Thing”

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1919

“At the Well,” dedicated to Amparito Farrar [Text: Rabindranath Tagore]

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1921

“Charity,” dedicated to Frances Alda [Text: Emily Dickinson]

“Happiness,” dedicated to Renée Thornton [Text: Jean Ingelow]

“Nature’s Holiday,” dedicated to Mabel Garrison [Text: Thomas Nash]

“Ton cœur est un tombeau” (Your heart is like a tomb), dedicated to Sophie Braslau [Text: Jacques Boria, tr. Theodore Baker]

 

1922

“Animal Crackers” [Text: Christopher Morley]

“Devotion,” dedicated to Renée Thornton [Text: Christopher Morley]

“Evening,” dedicated to Laura Fink [Text: Anonymous)]

“When We Were Parted,” dedicated “to my wife” [Text: Christopher Morley]

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1924

“Christ Went Up Into The Hills,” dedicated to John McCormack [Text: Katherine Adams]

“Little Sorrows” [Text: William Blake]

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1925

“Me Company Along,” dedicated to Claire Dux [Text: James Stephens]

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1928

“Grief,” dedicated to Marie Morrisey [Text: Ernest Dowson]

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1934

“Dawn Shall Over Lethe Break” [Text: Hilaire Belloc]

“The Donkey” [Text: G. K. Chesterton]

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1935

“The Little Dancers” [Text: Laurence Binyon]

“The Night Has A Thousand Eyes,” dedicated to Barbara Kliefoth [Text: F. W. Bourdillon]

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1936

“Christmas Eve,” dedicated to Helen & Norman Mason [Text: Joyce Kilmer]

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1937

“The Rich Man” [Text: Franklin P. Adams]

“This Thing I Do” [Text: Arthur Goodrich]

“Song without Words”

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1938

“Music I Heard With You,” dedicated to Eleanore [Text: Conrad Aiken]

“Sundown” [Text: Lew Sarett]

“To A Golden-haired Girl,” dedicated to “Kleinchen” Melchior [Text: Vachel Lindsay]

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1940

“Miranda,” dedicated to Arthur Renton [Text: Hilaire Belloc]

“Mother,” dedicated to Dorothy Sayles [Text: Margaret Widdemer]

“When I Am Dead, My Dearest,” dedicated to Eleanore [Text: Christina Rossetti]

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1941

“Love In The Winds,” dedicated to Eleanore [Text: Richard Hovey]

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1943

“Little Things” [Text: Orrick Johns]

“Voices” [Text: Witter Bynner]

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1944

“Don Juan Gomez,” dedicated to John Charles Thomas [Text: Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth]

“Fear Not The Night,” dedicated to Lotte Lehmann [Text: Robert Nathan]

“Into The Silent Land” [Text: Christina Rossetti]

“Lift Thou The Burdens, Father” [Text: Katherine Call Simonds]

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1945

“En una noche serena” (Alone In The Night), dedicated to Jan Peerce

[Text: Andreas de Segurola, tr. Robert B. Falk]

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1946

“Beauty” [Text: John Masefield]

“Contrasts” [Text: Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth]

“The Fiddler of Dooney,” dedicated to James Melton [Text: William Butler Yeats]

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1947

“A Lady Comes To An Inn” [Text: Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth]

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1948

“The Fox and the Raven” [Text: Guy Wetmore Carryl]

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1949

“The Summons” [Text: Rabindranath Tagore]

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1950

“O Why Do You Walk?” (To a Fat Lady seen from the Train) [Text: Frances Cornford]

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1951

“Hush” [Text: Robert Nathan]

“Is it you?,” dedicated to Eleanore [Text: Robert Nathan]

“Trade Winds” [Text: John Masefield]

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1952

“Scherzetto” [Text: Alfred Kreymborg]

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1953

“All Paths Lead To You” [Text: Blanche Shoemaker Wagstaff]

“Let Me Grow Lovely” [Text: Karle Wilson Baker]

“Sleep Sweet” [Text: Ellen Huntington Gates]

“Walk Slowly” [Text: Adelaide Love]

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1954

“I See His Blood Upon The Rose,” dedicated to Gladys Swarthout [Text: Joseph M. Plunkett]

“Velvet Shoes” [Text: Elinor Wylie]

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1955

“A Lover’s Song,” dedicated to Eleanore [Text: Robert Nathan]

“The Owl and the Pussy-Cat,” dedicated to Thompson H. Mitchell, Jr. [Text: Edward Lear]

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1956

“How to go and Forget” [Text: Edwin Markham]

“Praise,” dedicated to Eleanore [Text: Seumas O’Sullivan]

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1957

“Under The Willows,” dedicated to Anne, who loved Indian Lore [Text: Mary Hunter Austin]

“When The Wind Is Low,” dedicated to Eleanore [Text: Cale Young Rice)]

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1958

“Am Himmelstor” (At Heaven’s Door) [Text: Conrad F. Meyer, tr. Robert Nathan]

“Bettlerliebe” (Beggar’s Love) [Text: Theodor Storm, tr. Robert Nathan]

“Die Stadt” (The Town) [Text: Theodor Storm, tr. Robert Nathan]

“O Welt, du bist so wunderschön!” (O Lovely World) [Text: Julius Rodenberg tr. Robert Nathan]

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1960

“Il Passa” (He Passed By) [Text: Helene Varesco, tr. by Robert Nathan]

“Nocturne” [Text: Jean Moréas, tr. Robert Nathan]

“So Love Returns,” dedicated to Nan Merriman [Text: Robert Nathan]