On my way to something else, I came across this Boston Globe list of “song lyrics and poetry that helped many cope with the grief they felt after September 11″
- Across the Universe, Lennon/McCartney
- America the Beautiful, Katherine Lee Bates
- American Tune, Paul Simon
- Change the Day, Alex MacDougall
- Colors of the Wind, Vanessa Williams
- Leap, Brian Doyle
- He Aint Heavy, Hes My Brother, The Hollies
- Jesus, etc., Wilco
- Love and Mercy, Brian Wilson
- Lucky, Radiohead
- Memorial for A City, W. H. Auden
- Musee Des Beaux Arts, W. H. Auden
- One, Cheryl Sawyer
- Chorus from The Other Side, Joie Scott and Richard Wold
- The Other Side, Don Conoscenti
- Overcome, Live
- The Peace of Wild Things, Wendell Berry
- Rhymes and Reasons, John Denver
- Rockin in the Free World, Neil Young
- September 1, 1939, W.H. Auden
- Show the Way, David Wilcox
- Song in a Year of Catastrophe, Wendell Berry
- The Summer Day, Mary Oliver
- Superman, Five for Fighting
- There Youll Be, Diane Warren
- Through Your Hands, John Hiatt
- Trouble of the World, Mahalia Jackson
- Try to Praise the Mutilated World, Adam Zagajewski
- Victory in Defeat, Edwin Markham
