• Song poems are songs with lyrics by usually non-professional writers that have been set to music by commercial companies for a fee. This practice, which...
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  • "Poem" is a song by American alternative metal band Taproot and the lead single from their second major label album, Welcome. It was released in 2002...
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  • "Love Poem" is a song by South Korean singer-songwriter IU, released by Kakao M as the lead single from her seventh Korean-language EP Love Poem on November...
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    "Antigonish" is a poem by the American educator and poet, William Hughes Mearns, written in 1899. It is also known as "The Little Man Who Wasn't There"...
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  • some poems that have been subsequently set to music. In the classical music tradition, this type of setting may be referred to as an art song. A poem set...
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    family. Bertolt Brecht's Mandalay Song, set to music by Kurt Weill, alludes to the poem. The Mandalay referred to in this poem was the sometime capital city...
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    Konstantin Simonov, is one of the best known Russian World War II poems. The poem was written by Simonov over a few days in July 1941 after he left his...
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    is also referred to as the "Song of Solomon", meaning the song 'of', 'by', 'for', or '[dedicated] to' Solomon. The poem proper begins with the woman's...
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    "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" is the first professionally published poem by American-born British poet T. S. Eliot (1888–1965). The poem relates...
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    "Song of Myself" is a poem by Walt Whitman (1819–1892) that is included in his work Leaves of Grass. It has been credited as "representing the core of...
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    The Song of Hiawatha is an 1855 epic poem in trochaic tetrameter by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow which features Native American characters. The epic relates...
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  • "Song of the Open Road" is a poem by Walt Whitman from his 1856 collection Leaves of Grass. It has 15 sections, each with 3-4 stanzas. The poem can be...
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  • Later his poemSong of the Wind” (Baramui norae) was chosen in a similar contest put on by the Sorabol College of Arts, and in 1967 his poem “On a Sleepless...
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    Songs of Innocence and of Experience is a collection of illustrated poems by William Blake. Originally, Blake illuminated and bound Songs of Innocence...
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  • Puff, the Magic Dragon (category Songs based on poems)
    "Puff, the Magic Dragon" (or just "Puff") is a song written by Peter Yarrow of Peter, Paul and Mary from a poem by Leonard Lipton. It was made popular by Peter...
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    known as "Footprints in the Sand," is a popular modern allegorical Christian poem. It describes a person who sees two pairs of footprints in the sand, one...
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    "Trees" is a lyric poem by American poet Joyce Kilmer. Written in February 1913, it was first published in Poetry: A Magazine of Verse that August and...
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    Lamb" is a poem by William Blake, published in Songs of Innocence in 1789. "The Lamb" is the counterpart poem to Blake's poem: "The Tyger" in Songs of Experience...
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    Zhuravli (redirect from The Cranes (song))
    Russian language song about soldiers who did not come back alive from battles. The song was composed by Yan Frenkel on translation of poem by Rasul Gamzatov...
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    America the Beautiful (category Songs based on poems)
    and Bates's poem was first entitled "America the Beautiful" in 1910. The song is one of the most popular of the many American patriotic songs. In 1893,...
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    Billie Holiday in 1939. The lyrics were drawn from a poem by Meeropol published in 1937. The song protests the lynching of Black Americans with lyrics...
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  • adapted the poem as a rock song on his 1979 album Where Did I Go Right?. In 1981, Oxford University Press published an edition of the poem illustrated...
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  • Poems and Songs (1862) is the first collection of poems by Australian poet Henry Kendall. It was released in hardback by J.R. Clarke in 1862, and features...
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    Carl Solomon", is a poem written by Allen Ginsberg in 1954–1955 and published in his 1956 collection Howl and Other Poems. The poem is dedicated to Carl...
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    a poem written in Sanskritised Bengali by Bankim Chandra Chatterjee in the 1870s. The first two verses of the poem were adopted as the National Song of...
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  • Little Bunny Foo Foo (category Year of song unknown)
    "Little Bunny Foo Foo" is a children's poem and song. The poem consists of four-line sung verses separated by some spoken words. The verses are sung to...
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    well-known Irish song from a poem written by Irish poet Patrick Kavanagh named after Raglan Road in Ballsbridge, Dublin. In the poem, the speaker recalls...
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    Ali Ahsan wrote that the poem was inspired by Walt Whitman's "Song of Myself". This poem, through which Nazrul celebrated human creative powers, asserted...
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  • "Mad Girl's Love Song" is a poem written by Sylvia Plath in villanelle form that was published in the August 1953 issue of Mademoiselle, a New York based...
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  • "The Fly" is a poem written by the English poet William Blake. It was published as part of his collection Songs of Experience in 1794. Little Fly Thy summers...
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