Songs
Show all 279 Billy Collins songs
- 1957 (2)
- 1960 (5)
- 3:00 AM (1)
- 4:33 By John Cage (1)
- A Dog on His Master (11)
- A Few Facts (1)
- A List of Ancient Pastimes (1)
- A Memory (2)
- A Note to J. Alfred Prufrock (2)
- A Note to T.S. Eliot (2)
- A Portrait of the Reader With a Bowl of Cereal (2)
- A Small Hotel (2)
- Adage (2)
- After the Funeral (3)
- Afternoon With Irish Cows (4)
- Aimless Love (5)
- Alone (1)
- An Analysis of Baseball (1)
- Angelus (2)
- Another Reason Why I Don't Keep a Gun in the House (5)
- Ants (1)
- Aristotle (2)
- Artichoke (1)
- August (1)
- Ave atque vale (2)
- Awake (1)
- Baby Listening (1)
- Bacon & Eggs (7)
- Ballistics (4)
- Basho in Ireland (2)
- Brightly Colored Boats Upturned on the Banks of the Charles (1)
- Budapest (2)
- Buddy (1)
- Building With It's Face Blown Off (3)
- California Hills in August (1)
- Can We Touch Your Hair ? (1)
- Canada (1)
- Carry (3)
- Catch (1)
- Cello (1)
- Celtic Interlacing (1)
- Charmed (1)
- Cheerios (12)
- Chocolates (2)
- Coincidence (1)
- Consolation (6)
- Constellation (1)
- Corridor (1)
- Cosmology (1)
- Couplet (Old Timer's Day, Fenway Park, 1 May 1982) (1)
- Creatures (2)
- Creche (1)
- D Major (1)
- Dancing Toward Bethlehem (1)
- December 1st (1)
- Delivery (1)
- Design (1)
- Dharma (7)
- Did I Miss Anything? (1)
- Dining Alone (1)
- Divorce (9)
- Dog (1)
- Dover Beach (1)
- Down on the Farm (4)
- Drinking Alone (After Li Po) (7)
- Early Tattoo (1)
- Eating Poetry (1)
- Elegy (2)
- Elk River Falls (2)
- Empty House (1)
- English 243, the History of Egotism (1)
- Envoy (1)
- Ever After (1)
- Falling Asleep (1)
- Feedback (3)
- First Drift (1)
- Fishing on the Susquehanna in July (3)
- Flash (1)
- Flaubert (1)
- Flock (6)
- Football (1)
- Forgetfulness (14)
- France (1)
- Friends (1)
- Genesis (1)
- Genius (3)
- Genuflection (2)
- Grave (5)
- Greece (1)
- Greek and Roman Statuary (3)
- Haiku (10)
- Hangover (4)
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1)
- High (1)
- Highway (1)
- Hippos on Holiday (3)
- Holiday Inn Satori (1)
- Home Again (1)
- Horoscopes For the Dead (1)
- Hotel Rex (2)
- How to Sacrifice (1)
- How to Triumph Like a Girl (1)
- I Am Not Italian (3)
- I Chop Some Parsley While Listening to Art Blakey's Version of "Three Blind Mice" (10)
- I Go Back to the House for a Book (1)
- I Like to Kiss (1)
- I Shall Be Released (1)
- I Thought About You (1)
- I Try to Turn In My Job (1)
- Imperial Garden (2)
- In the Evening (3)
- Insomnia (1)
- Ireland Floating on a Map of the World (1)
- Irish Spider (6)
- Istanbul (1)
- January in Paris (5)
- Japan (7)
- Job (1)
- Lakeside (1)
- Last Meal (1)
- Lazy Creator (1)
- Letter From My Ancestors (1)
- Life Expectancy (1)
- Limits (1)
- Listening to Baseball in the Car (1)
- Litany (11)
- Look (1)
- Love (4)
- Lucky Cat (8)
- Me First (4)
- Monday (6)
- Monet Refuses the Operation (1)
- More Than a Woman (2)
- My Hero (1)
- Nigella (1)
- Night Golf (1)
- Night Sky (1)
- Nightclub (9)
- Nine Triads (1)
- No Things (1)
- No Time (7)
- Nostalgia (11)
- Not Touching (1)
- November (1)
- Oatmeal (1)
- Oh, My God! (7)
- Old Man Eating Alone in a Chinese Restaurant (2)
- Olden Plea (1)
- On Rhyme (2)
- On the Death of a Next Door Neighbor (1)
- On Turning Ten (5)
- One Morning (1)
- Onions (1)
- Only Child (6)
- Orient (3)
- Ornithography (1)
- Osso Buco (3)
- Otherwise (1)
- Palermo (5)
- Palimpsest (1)
- Passivity (1)
- Photograph From September 11th (1)
- Pianissimo (1)
- Please Don't Sit Like a Frog, Sit Like a Queen (1)
- Poetry (2)
- Postscript (1)
- Predator (2)
- Preface to "The Best American Poetry 2006" (1)
- Print (1)
- Prize Winning-Haiku (1)
- Radish Haiku (1)
- Random (1)
- Reading Hemingway (1)
- Reading in a Hammock (1)
- Regret Tattoos (1)
- Reincarnation and You (1)
- Rome in June (1)
- Roses (1)
- Royal Aristocrat (1)
- Safe Travels (4)
- Santorini (1)
- Schoolsville (1)
- See the Pyramids Along the Nile (1)
- Selected quotes from various Ron Padgett poems (1)
- Short excerpt from a poem written by the Roman poet Catullus (1)
- Silence (1)
- Simile (1)
- Simplicity (1)
- Sink (1)
- Sleeping on My Side (5)
- Snow (2)
- Sonnet (4)
- Sonnet 73 (That Time of Year Thou Mayst in Me Behold) (1)
- Speed and Strength (1)
- Speed Walking on August 31, 2013 (2)
- Sunday Morning with the Sensational Nightingales (1)
- Surprise (6)
- Sweet Talk (1)
- Table Talk (1)
- Taking Off Emily Dickinson's Clothes (1)
- Tanager (1)
- Teenager (1)
- Tension (1)
- Thanksgiving (2)
- The Card Players (1)
- The Chairs That No One Sits In (1)
- The Country (6)
- The Death of the Hat (3)
- The Eel (1)
- The End of the World (1)
- The English Professor (1)
- The Exception (1)
- The First Dream (1)
- The First Night (3)
- The First Straw (1)
- The Fish (3)
- The Five Spot, 1964 (1)
- The Four Moon Planet (1)
- The Future (2)
- The Garland (1)
- The Golden Years (3)
- The Introduction (2)
- The Jump Shooter (1)
- The Lanyard (18)
- The Long Day (2)
- The Love Cook (1)
- The Man Into Whose Yard You Should Not Hit Your Ball (1)
- The Many Faces of Jazz (1)
- The Music of the Spheres (1)
- The Naked Eye (2)
- The Names (For the Victims of September 11th and Their Survivors) (2)
- The Order of the Day (2)
- The Owl (2)
- The Partial Explanation (1)
- The Peasant's Revolt (1)
- The Present (1)
- The Revenant (16)
- The Sandhill Cranes of Nebraska (9)
- The Smile (1)
- The Suggestion Box (3)
- The Sunday Times (2)
- The Symphony Orchestra of San Miguel de Allende (3)
- The Three Wishes (2)
- The Trouble With Poetry (6)
- The Unfortunate Traveler (1)
- The Visit (1)
- The Waitress (1)
- The Wild Barnacle (1)
- Thesaurus (1)
- This Little Piggy Went to Market (4)
- Tipping Point (1)
- To a Stranger Born in a Distant Country 100 Years From Now (1)
- To My Favorite Seventeen Year-Old High School Girl (16)
- Traffic (1)
- Trailways (1)
- Tromp l'Oeil (1)
- Used Book (1)
- Vade mecum (1)
- Vanishing Point (1)
- Variation on the Word Sleep (1)
- Vegetarian Physics (2)
- Verities (1)
- Vermont, Early November (1)
- Victoria's Secret (1)
- View (1)
- View From a Bridge (1)
- Vocation (1)
- Waiting for the Library to Open (1)
- Walking My 75 Year Old Dog (2)
- Wedding Ring (1)
- Weekday (1)
- What a Woman Said to Me After a Reading in the Napa Valley (1)
- What Love Does (3)
- What She Said (3)
- What the Cat Contemplates While Pretending to Clean Herself (1)
- Wilt Chamberlain (1)
- Workshop (1)
- Yamaha (1)
- You, Reader (10)
Forgetfulness performed by Billy Collins
- Total Plays 14 times by Billy Collins
- 15 times by 2 artists
- First Played in Concert July 12, 2002 at Southampton College, Southampton, NY, USA
- Most Recently Played October 26, 2017 at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA
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