"Montezuma"

Back in May, I wrote that the line "As naked as when they came" in "Montezuma" bears some resemblance to Job 1:21:  "And he [Job] said, 'Naked I came from my mother's womb, and naked shall I return.  The LORD gave, and the LORD has taken away; blessed be the name of the LORD.'"  A couple months ago, however, I was reading Ecclesiastes and found a stronger resemblance in 5:15:  "As he came from his mother's womb he shall go again, naked as he came, and shall take nothing for his toil that he may carry away in his hand."

"Shore"

As with some phrases in "I'm Not My Season," the line "Kin of my kin" in "Shore" seems to borrow its structure from Genesis 2:23:  "Then the man said, 'This at last is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.'"

In the repeated line "While I see it all," "all" is sung with a melisma (D C D G E D C), musically giving a sense of that entirety.  When this "all" is repeated by itself after these lines, it's sung with a slightly different melisma (G E D C D) but with the same effect.

"Cradling Mother, Cradling Woman"

In the line "I'll run down" in "Cradling Mother, Cradling Woman," "down" is sung with a descending melisma (Eb C Bb), musically giving a sense either of movement or of the word's meaning.  "While" in the lines "No one here / Say we waited our while" is sung with a melisma (C Bb), musically giving a sense of duration.