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  2. List of songs based on poems - Wikipedia

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    "Ten Blake Songs" are poems from Blake's "Songs of Innocence and of Experience" and "Auguries of Innocence", set to music by Ralph Vaughan Williams in 1957. "Tyger" is both the name of an album by Tangerine Dream, which is based on Blake's poetry, and the title of a song on this album based on the poem of the same name.

  3. Category:Songs based on poems - Wikipedia

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    T. Take This Waltz (song) Tales of Brave Ulysses; Temporary Like Achilles; Tetris (Doctor Spin song) This Love (Taylor Swift song) Tourniquet (Marilyn Manson song)

  4. List of songs based on literary works - Wikipedia

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    Lyrics taken almost verbatim from the poem in chapter 2 (and the bridge from the one on chapter 58) [155] "No Love Lost" An Ideal for Living: Joy Division: The House of Dolls: Ka-tzetnik 135633 [156] "November Rain" Use Your Illusion I: Guns N' Roses "Without You" Del James: The video for "November Rain" is loosely based on the short story ...

  5. Lyric poetry - Wikipedia

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    Lyric Poetry (1896) Henry Oliver Walker, in the Library of Congress's Thomas Jefferson Building.. Modern lyric poetry is a formal type of poetry which expresses personal emotions or feelings, typically spoken in the first person. [1]

  6. A Red, Red Rose - Wikipedia

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    A Swedish version of the poem, "Min älskling (du är som en ros)", was made famous by Evert Taube in his 1943 book Ballads in Bohuslän. A free Chinese translation was made by Su Manshu. [24] In an ad campaign for HMV, Bob Dylan said "A Red, Red Rose" was an inspiration for his creative life. [25]

  7. Wanderer's Nightsong - Wikipedia

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    The second poem was also set to music by Franz Schubert, in 1823, Op. 96 No. 3, D. 768, it has been sung by sopranos, tenors and baritones, most notably by Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau. As Goethe wrote to Carl Friedrich Zelter , he revisited the cabin more than 50 years later on August 27, 1831, about six months before his death.

  8. Rod McKuen - Wikipedia

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    In 1969, Frank Sinatra commissioned an entire album of poems and songs by McKuen; arranged by Don Costa, it was released under the title A Man Alone: The Words and Music of Rod McKuen. The album featured the song "Love's Been Good to Me", which became one of McKuen's best-known songs.

  9. Ballad - Wikipedia

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    A ballad is a form of verse, often a narrative set to music. Ballads were particularly characteristic of the popular poetry and song of Great Britain and Ireland from the Late Middle Ages until the 19th century. They were widely used across Europe, and later in Australia, North Africa, North America and South America.