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Ned Rorem

Ned Rorem

145 songs
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2002
Single
Jul 2002
Aftermath: Grief
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Single
Jul 2002
Aftermath: Grief
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2002
Single
Jul 2002
Aftermath: Then
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Single
Jul 2002
Aftermath: Then
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2002
Album
Jul 2002
Aftermath

4 tracks

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Jul 2002
Aftermath

4 tracks

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1998
Single
Sep 1998
End of the Day
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Single
Sep 1998
End of the Day
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1998
Single
Jan 1998
Hymn for Evening
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Single
Jan 1998
Hymn for Evening
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1998
Single
Jan 1998
Even Now
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Single
Jan 1998
Even Now
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1998
Single
Jan 1998
Faith
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Single
Jan 1998
Faith
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1998
Single
Jan 1998
A Terrible Disaster
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Jan 1998
A Terrible Disaster
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1998
Single
Jan 1998
Boy With a Baseball Glove
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Single
Jan 1998
Boy With a Baseball Glove
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1998
Single
Jan 1998
His Beauty Sparkles
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Single
Jan 1998
His Beauty Sparkles
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1998
Single
Jan 1998
Hymn for Morning
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Single
Jan 1998
Hymn for Morning
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1998
Album
Jan 1998
Evidence of Things Not Seen

36 tracks

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Jan 1998
Evidence of Things Not Seen

36 tracks

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1992
Album
Jul 1992
The AIDS Quilt Songbook

1 track

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Jul 1992
The AIDS Quilt Songbook

1 track

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1986
Album
Jan 1986
Seven Motets for the Church Year

7 tracks

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Jan 1986
Seven Motets for the Church Year

7 tracks

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1981
Album
Jan 1981
The Nantucket Songs

9 tracks

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Album
Jan 1981
The Nantucket Songs

9 tracks

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1979
Album
Jan 1979
Women’s Voices

11 tracks

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Jan 1979
Women’s Voices

11 tracks

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1973
Album
Jan 1973
In Time of Pestilence

6 tracks

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Jan 1973
In Time of Pestilence

6 tracks

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1973
Album
Jan 1973
Three Motets on Texts by Gerard Manley Hopkins

3 tracks

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Jan 1973
Three Motets on Texts by Gerard Manley Hopkins

3 tracks

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1972
Album
Jan 1972
Last Poems of Wallace Stevens

7 tracks

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Jan 1972
Last Poems of Wallace Stevens

7 tracks

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1971
Album
Jan 1971
Ariel: Five Poems of Sylvia Plath

5 tracks

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Jan 1971
Ariel: Five Poems of Sylvia Plath

5 tracks

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1971
Album
Jan 1971
War Scenes

2 tracks

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Jan 1971
War Scenes

2 tracks

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1969
Album
Jan 1969
Two Poems of Theodore Roethke

2 tracks

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Jan 1969
Two Poems of Theodore Roethke

2 tracks

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1968
Album
Jan 1968
Six Songs for High Voice

6 tracks

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Jan 1968
Six Songs for High Voice

6 tracks

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1968
Album
Jan 1968
Some Trees

2 tracks

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Jan 1968
Some Trees

2 tracks

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1963
Album
Jan 1963
Poems of Love and the Rain

4 tracks

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Jan 1963
Poems of Love and the Rain

4 tracks

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1958
Album
Jan 1958
14 Songs on American Poetry

8 tracks

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Jan 1958
14 Songs on American Poetry

8 tracks

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1957
Album
Jan 1957
5 Songs to Poems - Texts by Walt Whitman

3 tracks

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Jan 1957
5 Songs to Poems - Texts by Walt Whitman

3 tracks

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1953
Album
Jan 1953
Poèmes pour la Paix

5 tracks

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Album
Jan 1953
Poèmes pour la Paix

5 tracks

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1952
Album
Jan 1952
Flight for Heaven

10 tracks

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Jan 1952
Flight for Heaven

10 tracks

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1951
Album
Jan 1951
Cycle of Holy Songs

1 track

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Album
Jan 1951
Cycle of Holy Songs

1 track

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1947
Album
Jan 1947
Four Madrigals

1 track

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Album
Jan 1947
Four Madrigals

1 track

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Top Songs

#1
Ferry me across the water
#2
Hymn for Evening
#3
Cherry-ripe
#4
Even Now
#5
Cradle Song
#6
Beauty Is But a Flower
#7
Haste Therefore Each Degree
#8
Aftermath: Grief

About Ned Rorem

Discography

Evidence of Things Not Seen
36 tracks · 1998
Women’s Voices
11 tracks · 1979
Flight for Heaven
10 tracks · 1952
The Nantucket Songs
9 tracks · 1981
14 Songs on American Poetry
8 tracks · 1958
Seven Motets for the Church Year
7 tracks · 1986
Last Poems of Wallace Stevens
7 tracks · 1972
In Time of Pestilence
6 tracks · 1973
Six Songs for High Voice
6 tracks · 1968
Ariel: Five Poems of Sylvia Plath
5 tracks · 1971
Poèmes pour la Paix
5 tracks · 1953
Aftermath
4 tracks · 2002
Poems of Love and the Rain
4 tracks · 1963
Three Motets on Texts by Gerard Manley Hopkins
3 tracks · 1973
5 Songs to Poems - Texts by Walt Whitman
3 tracks · 1957
War Scenes
2 tracks · 1971
Two Poems of Theodore Roethke
2 tracks · 1969
Some Trees
2 tracks · 1968
The AIDS Quilt Songbook
1 track · 1992
Cycle of Holy Songs
1 track · 1951
Four Madrigals
1 track · 1947

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Popular lyrics by Ned Rorem

Ferry me across the water

"Ferry me across the water Do, boatman, do." "If you've a penny in your purse I'll ferry you." "I have a penny in my purse And my eyes are b…

Hymn for Evening

All praise to thee, my God, this night For the blessings of the light: Keep me, O keep me, King of kings Beneath thine own almighty wings Fo…

Cherry-ripe

Cherry-ripe, ripe, ripe, I cry Full and fair ones; come and buy If it be you ask me where They do grow, I answer: There Where my Julia's lip…

Even Now

… even now the night jasmine is pouring Its white delirium in the dark and I Will not have it if you can’t I shut all Windows still it seeps…

Cradle Song

O my deir hert, young Jesus sweit Prepare thy creddil in my spreit And I sall rock thee in my hert And never mair from thee depart But I sal…

Beauty Is But a Flower

Beauty is but a flower Which wrinkles will devour; Brightness falls from the air; Queens have died young and fair; Dust hath closed Helen’s …

Haste Therefore Each Degree

Haste, therefore, each degree To welcome destiny; Heaven is our heritage Earth but a player’s stage; Mount we unto the sky I am sick, I must…

Aftermath: Grief

I tell you, hopeless grief is passionless; That only men incredulous of despair Half-taught in anguish, through the midnight air Beat upward…

Comfort to a Youth that had lost his Love

What needs complaints When she a place Has with the race Of saints? In endless mirth She thinks not on What 's said or done In Earth She see…

Aftermath: Then

When I am dead, even then I will still love you, I will wait in these poems When I am dead, even then I am still listening to you I will sti…

Discography at a glance

145

Songs on Lyrks

21

Albums

12

Singles

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Popular tracks by Ned Rorem include Ferry me across the water, Hymn for Evening, Cherry-ripe, Even Now, Cradle Song. Browse full lyrics on Lyrks.

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