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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. Funeral Blues - Wikipedia

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    In the play, the poem was put to music by the composer Benjamin Britten and read as a blues work. [2] Hedli Anderson, an English singer, was a lead performer in The Ascent of F6. [2] Auden decided to re-write several poems for Anderson to perform as cabaret songs, including "Funeral Blues", and was working on them as early as 1937. [3]

  4. List of songs based on literary works - Wikipedia

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    "Love and Death" Dream Harder: The Waterboys: Love and Death: William Butler Yeats [138] "Love and Destroy" Franz Ferdinand: The Master and Margarita: Mikhail Bulgakov [139] "Lucy" Liberation: The Divine Comedy: The Lucy poems: William Wordsworth [59] [140] "The Machine Stops" Standing in the Light: Level 42 "The Machine Stops" E. M. Forster [5 ...

  5. 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) 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, 1917–18; Two Songs, 1920; Two Songs, 1928

  6. Category:Songs about nostalgia - Wikipedia

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    Back in the Day (Missy Elliott song) Back Then (CDB song) Back Then Right Now; Back to the 80s (song) Back When; Back When My Hair Was Short; Baggy Trousers; Be Here Now (George Harrison song) Beach Baby; The Best Year of My Life (song) Birth of Rock and Roll; La Bohème (Charles Aznavour song) Bookends (song) The Boys of Summer (song) Bring ...

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

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    The poem was adapted as the lyrics in the song "Prayer" by Lizzie West. The last four lines of the poem were recited among others in Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy. The poem is read by Lisa (played by Kerry Godliman), the dying wife of lead character Tony (played by Ricky Gervais) in the final episode of the Netflix series After Life.

  8. Category:Songs inspired by deaths - Wikipedia

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  9. Obituary poetry - Wikipedia

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    Obituary poetry, in the broad sense, includes poems or elegies that commemorate a person's or group of people's deaths. In its stricter sense, though, it refers to a genre of popular verse or folk poetry that had its greatest popularity in the nineteenth century, especially in the United States of America .