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  2. List of songs based on poems - Wikipedia

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    An Appointment with Mr Yeats" by The Waterboys is an album of Yeats poems set to song. The poem "Down by the Salley Gardens" was based by Yeats on a fragment of a song he heard an old woman singing. Yeats' words have been recorded as a song by many performers. The song "A Bad Dream" by Keane is based on the poem "An Irish Airman Foresees His ...

  3. Do Not Stand at My Grave and Weep - Wikipedia

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    The poem is also used as the lyrics in the song "Still Alive" by D.E.Q. The first and last couplets are adapted and used as part of the lyrics in the song "Another Time" by Lyriel. The poem is recited in "Welcome to Kanagawa" by the character Karen McCluskey (Kathryn Joosten), a season four episode of Desperate Housewives.

  4. Bede's Death Song - Wikipedia

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    Bede's tomb in Durham Cathedral. Bede's Death Song is the editorial name given to a five-line Old English poem, supposedly the final words of the Venerable Bede.It is, by far, the Old English poem that survives in the largest number of manuscripts — 35 [1] or 45 [2] (mostly later medieval manuscripts copied on the Continent).

  5. Songs and Dances of Death - Wikipedia

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    Songs and Dances of Death (Russian: Песни и пляски смерти, Pesni i plyaski smerti) is a song cycle for voice (usually bass or bass-baritone) and piano by Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky, written in the mid-1870s, to poems by Arseny Golenishchev-Kutuzov, a relative of the composer.

  6. Robert Burns - Wikipedia

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    At Dumfries, he wrote his world famous song "A Man's a Man for A' That", which was based on the writings in The Rights of Man by Thomas Paine, one of the chief political theoreticians of the American Revolution. Burns sent the poem anonymously in 1795 to the Glasgow Magazine. He was also a radical for reform and wrote poems for democracy, such ...

  7. Gone But Not Forgotten—Honor Loved Ones With 100 ... - AOL

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    A celebration of life is all about honoring the life of the person you've lost rather than mourning their death. Undoubtedly, grief is terrible and confusing to wade through after the loss of ...

  8. The Life That I Have - Wikipedia

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    "The Life That I Have" was an original poem composed on Christmas Eve 1943 and was originally written by Marks in memory of his girlfriend Ruth, who had just died in a plane crash in Canada. [1] On 24 March 1944, the poem was issued by Marks to Violette Szabo , a British agent of Special Operations Executive who was eventually captured ...

  9. O Captain! My Captain! - Wikipedia

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    This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 26 October 2024. Poem by Walt Whitman on the death of Abraham Lincoln "Oh Captain, My Captain" redirects here. For the Grimm episode, see Oh Captain, My Captain (Grimm). For the Shameless episode, see O Captain, My Captain (Shameless). O Captain! My Captain! by Walt Whitman Printed copy of "O Captain! My ...