This is my setting of the poem by Gerard Manley Hopkins called "The Windhover (To Christ Our Lord.)" I'm going to take a break from posting as I celebrate Easter according to the Orthodox Christian calendar, but I'll be back with Day 26 on Monday, April 20.

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This is a folk song written by a woman named Delia Murphy. It's called The Spinning Wheel, and this time, I'm accompanying myself on the guitar.

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This is an instrumental I composed several years ago. Perhaps aptly for our current times, it's called "No Fixed Plans."

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Another selection from Hopkins today, this time my setting of "Spring and Fall (To a Young Child)."

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Today, I chose my setting of a poem by William Ernest Henley called "Over the Hills and Far Away."

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This is my setting of a poem by Walter de la Mare called "A Song of Enchantment."

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This is my setting of another poem by Gerard Manley Hopkins. Today, it's "God's Grandeur."

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Today, it's my setting of a beautiful poem by George Herbert called "The Call."

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This is my setting of a beautiful poem found in the novel The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Graham. I call it pan's Song. It's from the chapter entitled "The Piper at the Gates of Dawn."

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This is a very special song, the lyrics of which were written by a friend of mine: Father James M. Deschene. They are used by permission, and this is my setting of his poem which is called "Elegy for Unicorns."

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