pearls Epithalamion for high voice and piano (1937); text by Percy Blysse Shelley [withdrawn] New Hampshire for 6 women's voices and string quartet (1938); text by T.S. Eliot [withdrawn] First Harvest [title given to the group of five songs listed below, each originally written and published separately] Sorrow of Mydath for high voice and piano (1939); words by John Masefield As I Watched the Ploughman Ploughing for high voice and piano (1940); words by Walt Whitman Rain has fallen all the day for high voice and piano (1940); text by James Joyce [tune reworked into By the Way of Memories Nocturne] Anna Miranda for high voice and piano (1940); text by Stephen Vincent Benét Vanished for high voice and piano (1941); text by Emily Dickinson Jonathon and the Gingery Snare for narrator and orchestra (1949); words by Bernard Stambler [also reworked into Festival Triptych] Sacred Songs for Pantheists for soprano and orchestra (or piano) (1951); words by Gerard Manley Hopkins, James Stephens and Emily Dickinson Pied Beauty (Hopkins) Little Things (Stephens) Intoxication (Dickinson) Heaven-Haven (Hopkins) God's Grandeur (Hopkins) Three Pieces for Narrator and Piano (based on T.S. Eliot poems from Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats) 1957 [withdrawn] Love's Seasons, song cycle for high voice and piano (1994); words from Fatal Interview by Edna St Vincent Millay In Praise of Science for soprano, brass, and percussion (2008); words by Anne Lynch Botta Choral Hush'd Be the Camps Today (May 4, 1865) for mixed chorus and orchestra (or piano) (1940); words by Walt Whitman With rue my heart is laden for mixed chorus a cappella (1949); words by A. E. Housman Concord Hymn for mixed chorus a cappella (1949); words by Ralph Waldo Emerson When Christ Rode Into Jerusalem for mixed chorus, soprano solo and organ (1956); text paraphrased from New Testament That Wondrous Night of Christmas Eve for mixed chorus a cappella (1957) Earth Shall Be Fair, cantata for mixed chorus (or double chorus), children's chorus (or soprano solo) and orchestra (or organ) (1960); Biblical text Lord, thou hast been our dwelling place Then the kings of the earth Thou changest man back to the dust Earth might be fair Search me, O God, and know my heart Let the Word Go Forth for mixed chorus, brass, harp and string orchestra (1965); words from the inaugural address of John F. Kennedy Sweet Freedom's Song: A New England Chronicle, cantata for