List of Songs Based On Poems - Miscellaneous

Miscellaneous

• "The Little Man Who Wasn't There", from poem "Antigonish"
• "I Am Stretched on Your Grave" is a translation of the Irish poem "Táim Sínte ar do Thuama"
• "Strange Fruit" by Lewis Allan (Abel Meeropol)
• "Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night" by Dylan Thomas
• In addition to the works listed above, Loreena McKennitt has adapted the following poems to music:
  • "Lullaby" by William Blake
  • "Moon Cradle" by Padraic Colum
  • "Snow" by Archibald Lampman
  • "The Highwayman" by Alfred Noyes
  • "The Lady of Shalott" by Alfred Tennyson
  • "The Dark Night of the Soul" by Juan de Yepes Alvarez (St. John of the Cross)
• Donovan has set many poems to music in addition to the ones already mentioned:
  • The album H.M.S. Donovan includes several poems from One Hundred Poems for Children compiled by Herbert Strang
  • "Jabberwocky" by Lewis Carroll
  • "Walrus and the Carpenter" by Lewis Carroll
  • "Wynken, Blynken and Nod" by Eugene Field
  • "Queen Mab" by Thomas Hood
  • "The Owl and the Pussycat" by Edward Lear
• "Do not stand at my grave and weep" by Mary Elizabeth Frye was translated into Japanese and set to music under the title "Sen no Kaze ni Natte" (I Am the Thousand Winds)
• "Unpretty" by TLC
• "Suzanne", poem and song both by Leonard Cohen
• "Ballad of the Landlord" by Still on the Hill, from poem of the same name by Langston Hughes
• Luciana Souza's album The Poems of Elizabeth Bishop and Other Songs features the poems "Argument", "Imber Nocturnus", "Sonnet", and "Insomnia" by Elizabeth Bishop
• The poems "True Stories" and "Bluejays" by Margaret Atwood are featured as songs on the album True Stories by Andrew Rathbun
• Theodore Roethke's poem "The Waking" has been recorded by Kurt Elling on his album Nightmoves.
• Kate McGarry performs E.E. Cummings' poem "I Carry Your Heart" on her album If Less Is More... Nothing Is Everything
• The lyrics of the song "How Fortunate the Man With None" by Dead Can Dance are from John Willett's translation of Bertolt Brecht's poem "Die Ballade von den Prominenten"
• Charles Baudelaire's poem "Paysage" was turned into a song by the group Les Colocs
• The album No Promises by Carla Bruni also includes works by W. H. Auden, Dorothy Parker, and Walter de la Mare
• John Adams' Harmonium begins with a setting of "Negative Love" by John Donne
• Annie Lennox performed part of "Live With Me and Be My Love" by Christopher Marlowe (later borrowed by Shakespeare) for the album When Love Speaks
• Paul Verlaine's "Dansons La Gigue" is performed by Patricia Barber on her album Verse.
• The album Music Through Heartsongs is a collection of poetry by Mattie Stepanek, performed by Billy Gilman
• ((William Blake)) "Poison Tree" and "The Fly" and (John Keats) "La Belle Dame Sans Merci have been recorded by Max Heineg
• John Denver performed The Box
• Percy Bysshe Shelley's poem Ozymandias has been recorded by Jean-Jacques Burnel