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  2. Casey at the Bat - Wikipedia

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    William Schuman composed an opera, The Mighty Casey (1953), based on the poem. The song "No Joy in Mudville" from Death Cab for Cutie's album We Have the Facts and We're Voting Yes directly references the poem. The song "Centerfield" by John Fogerty includes the line "Well, I spent some time in the Mudville Nine, watchin' it from the bench. You ...

  3. 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 ...

  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. The Best Sad Songs of 2023 (So Far) - AOL

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    But in the sea of new releases and curated playlists, we know it can be hard to find the right track to choose. To make the selection process easier, Esquire is rounding up the best sad songs of 2023.

  6. You can shed tears that she is gone - Wikipedia

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    In the early 1980s Harkins sent the piece, with other poems, to various magazines and poetry publishers, without any immediate success. Eventually it was published in a small anthology in 1999. He later said: "I believe a copy of 'Remember Me' was lying around in some publishers/poetry magazine office way back, someone picked it up and after ...

  7. List of songs written by Hank Williams - Wikipedia

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    Baby Sittin' the Blues (co-written with Jimmy Fields) Baby, We're Really in Love; Bayou Pon Pon (co-written with Jimmie Davis); Between You and God And Me (co-written with Lawton Williams)

  8. The Solitary Reaper - Wikipedia

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    "The Solitary Reaper" is a lyric poem by English Romantic poet William Wordsworth, and one of his best-known works. [1] The poem was inspired by his and his sister Dorothy's stay at the village of Strathyre in the parish of Balquhidder in Scotland in September 1803. [2] "The Solitary Reaper" is one of Wordsworth's most famous post-Lyrical ...

  9. Tears, Idle Tears - Wikipedia

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    Published as one of the "songs" in his The Princess (1847), it is regarded for the quality of its lyrics. A Tennyson anthology describes the poem as "one of the most Virgilian of Tennyson's poems and perhaps his most famous lyric". [1] Readers often overlook the poem's blank verse [1] [2] —the poem does not rhyme.