Sources
The poems and folk songs behind our music, with the original text, the story and a close reading.
No.TypeTitle · AuthorLanguageCountrySelected by
01
Samiotissa
Greek folk songs
Greek
02
Chevaliers de la table ronde
French folk songs
French
03
Il est des nôtres
French folk songs
French
04
Dodo ti pitit
Haitian Creole folklore
Haitian Creole
05
A Dream Within a Dream
Edgar Allan Poe, 1849
English
06
L’Albatros
Charles Baudelaire, 1861
French
07
Perfect Silence at the Stars
Walt Whitman, 1865
English
08
The Marrow of Life
Henry David Thoreau, 1854
English
09
“Hope” Is the Thing with Feathers
Emily Dickinson, 1861
English
10
A Lazy Day
Paul Laurence Dunbar, 1905
English
11
Rondelul lucrurilor
Alexandru Macedonski, 1886
Romanian
12
If—
Rudyard Kipling, 1910
English
13
As Syllable from Sound
Emily Dickinson, c. 1862
English
14
Belle de nuit
Ignace Nau, c. 1836
French
15
Ulisse!
Ippolito Pindemonte, 1822
Italian
16
This World is not Conclusion
Emily Dickinson, c. 1862
English
17
A Psalm of Life
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 1838
English
18
Iliade
Vincenzo Monti, 1810
Italian
19
Wild Nights – Wild Nights!
Emily Dickinson, c. 1861
English
20
La mine aici
Romanian folklore
Romanian
21
Because I could not stop for Death
Emily Dickinson, c. 1862
English
22
Pe lângă plopii fără soț
Mihai Eminescu, 1883
Romanian
23
Invictus
William Ernest Henley, 1875
English
24
Hallowe’en
Joel Benton, 1896
English
25
Hallowe’en
John Kendrick Bangs, 1910
English
26
Hallowe’en
Ada Foster Murray, 1909
English
27
Hallowe’en
Madison Julius Cawein, 1907
English
28
Aux Zombis
Chambeau Nelson or Liautaud Étheart, c. 1850
French
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