Poetry and Song Lyrics

             Singing is sweet; but be sure of this,
              Lips only sing when they cannot kiss.
                                     --
Art, James Thomson

Index to Primary Authors (A Remarkable Resource)

W. H. Auden
         
The Unknown Citizen

Robert Burns
         
A Red, Red Rose
         
To A Louse
         
To A Mouse

Eric Clapton
         
Tears In Heaven

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
         
Cologne
         
Youth and Age

Emily Dickinson
         
Hope
         
I Taste a Liquor Never Brewed
         
The Battlefield

Baruch Frankel
         
Merci
         
Induced Visions of Utopia
         
Thoughts While Waiting for the Subway
         
Personal Library After Graduation
         
Looking Straight Ahead In Gross Lab
          Niagara Falls
         
Robert Frost
         
The Road Not Taken
         
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
         
The Objection to Being Stepped On
         
Forgive, O Lord
         
Away!

Yoseph Hershkop
         
Fairy Tale, ending
         
Fire fire, bring him down!
         
Rhyme to Forget

A. E. Housman
         
When I was one-and-twenty

Julia Ward Howe
         
The Battle Hymn of the Republic

Rudyard Kipling
         
The White Man's Burden
         
The Female of the Species

Loreena McKennitt
         
Dante's Prayer
         
Full Circle

Edna St. Vincent Millay
         
First Fig
         
Grown Up
         
The Penitent

Thomas Moore
         
The Last Rose of Summer

Christian Morgenstern
         
The Impossible Fact
         
At the Housefly Planet

Alanis Morissette
         
Ironic

John Newton
         
Amazing Grace

Alfred Noyes
         
The Highwayman

Carl Orff
         
Carmina Burana (1-13)
         
Carmina Burana (14-25)

Songs
         
Finnegan's Wake
         
The Devil Went Down to Georgia
         
What Shall We Do with a Drunken Sailor

Alfred Lord Tennyson
         
The Lady of Shalott

John Greenleaf Whittier
         
Brown of Ossawatomie

William Wordsworth
         
The Complete Poetical Works
         
A Jewish Family
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