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  2. List of songs based on poems - Wikipedia

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    Loreena McKennitt has set two Yeats poems to music: "Stolen Child" (Also set to music by The Waterboys, although mostly spoken) "The Two Trees" "The Song of a Wandering Aengus" is set to music by Caroline Herring. '5 Songs on Poems by W.B.Yeats' composed by Dutch composer Carolien Devilee (A Faery Song, He wishes for the clothes of heaven, The ...

  3. List of songs that retell a work of literature - Wikipedia

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    Song is mainly inspired by the novella's ending, when protagonist Japi jumps off the Waalbrug. In the song, however, Japi does not drown but is implied to have ended up in Italy. [155] "Nice, Nice, Very Nice" Ambrosia: Ambrosia: Cat's Cradle: Kurt Vonnegut: Lyrics taken almost verbatim from the poem in chapter 2 (and the bridge from the one on ...

  4. Lyric poetry - Wikipedia

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    Other notable poets of the era include Ben Jonson, Robert Herrick, George Herbert, Aphra Behn, Thomas Carew, John Suckling, Richard Lovelace, John Milton, Richard Crashaw, and Henry Vaughan. A German lyric poet of the period is Martin Opitz; in Japan, this was the era of the noted haiku -writer Matsuo Bashō.

  5. Ballad - Wikipedia

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    A ballad is a form of verse, often a narrative set to music. Ballads derive from the medieval French chanson balladée or ballade, which were originally "dancing songs" (L: ballare, to dance), yet becoming "stylized forms of solo song" before being adopted in England. [1] As a narrative song, their theme and function may originate from ...

  6. Category:Songs based on poems - Wikipedia

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    Take This Waltz (song) Tales of Brave Ulysses; Temporary Like Achilles; Tetris (Doctor Spin song) The Owl and the Pussy Cat (Stravinsky) This Love (Taylor Swift song) Tourniquet (Marilyn Manson song) Traum durch die Dämmerung; Trees (poem) Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star; Two Songs for Voice, Viola and Piano; Two Songs, 1916; Two Songs, 1917 ...

  7. Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star - Wikipedia

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    Published. 1806. Lyricist (s) Jane Taylor. " Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star " is an English lullaby. The lyrics are from an early-19th-century English poem written by Jane Taylor, "The Star". [1] The poem, which is in couplet form, was first published in 1806 in Rhymes for the Nursery, a collection of poems by Taylor and her sister Ann.

  8. Such a Parcel of Rogues in a Nation - Wikipedia

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    Lines from the poem being used on a banner at a protest at the Scottish Parliament. " Such a Parcel of Rogues in a Nation " is a Scottish folk song whose lyrics are taken from a poem written by Robert Burns in 1791, listed as number 5516 in the Roud Folk Song Index. It has continued to be associated with Scottish nationalism and also been ...

  9. Literary genre - Wikipedia

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    Genres are categories into which kinds of literary material are organized. The genres Aristotle discusses include the epic, the tragedy, the comedy, dithyrambic poetry, and phallic songs. Genres are often divided into complex sub-categories. For example, the novel is a large genre of narrative fiction; within the category of the novel, the ...