Famous Poems for Singing - Book Two

Poetry and music have much in common. Both have rhythm and appeal to our feelings. The lyrics may have a more personal and prolonged appeal to the individual, which the music alone cannot convey. That may explain why so many like to unite music and poetry through song. Music entertains, music inspires and when the need is present one can find comfort in music. In these books you'll find "a magic carpet" of music that makes poetry even more interesting and beautiful. In...
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Poetry and music have much in common. Both have rhythm and appeal to our feelings. The lyrics may have a more personal and prolonged appeal to the individual, which the music alone cannot convey. That may explain why so many like to unite music and poetry through song.

Music entertains, music inspires and when the need is present one can find comfort in music. In these books you'll find "a magic carpet" of music that makes poetry even more interesting and beautiful. In a way, these books can revive poetry of old masters like William Blake, Robert Burns, Emily Dickinson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Sir Walter Scott, William Shakespeare and many, many more.

These books are for music lovers as well for those who like poetry.

Songs: 99
Pages: 228
Poets: 58
Songwriter: Ivar Oksendal
Publisher: Anapta

Keats, John (1795-1821)
Kingsley, Charles (1819-1875)
Kipling, Rudyard (1865-1936)
Landor, Walter Savage (1775-1864)
Lawson, Henry (1867-1922)
Lawson, Louisa (1848-1920)
Lear, Edward (1812-1888)
Ledwidge, Francis (1887-1917)
Locker-Lampson, Frederic (1821-1895)
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth (1807-1882)
Mansfield, Katherine (1888-1923)
Markham, Edwin (1852-1940)
Marlowe, Christopher (1564-1593)
McDonald, George (1824-1905)
Meynell, Alice (1847-1922)
Moore, Thomas (1779-1852)
Moses, Jack (1860-1945)
Nash, Thomas (1567-1601)
O'Reilly, John Boyle (1844-1890)
Paterson, Andrew B., "The Banjo" (1864-1941)
Patmore, Coventry (1823-1896)
Poe, Edgar Allan (1809-1849)
Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)
Preston, Keith 1884-1927)
Raleigh, Sir Walter (1552-1618)
Ravenscroft, Thomas 1583-1633)
Richards, Laura E. (1850-1943)
Rossetti, Christina Georgina (1830-1894)
Rowlands, Samuel (1570?-1630?)
Scott, Sir Walter (1771-1832)
Shakespeare, William 1564-1616)
Shelly, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822)
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley (1751-1816)
Sidney, Sir Philip (1554-1586)
Smith, Horace (1779-1849)
Spenser, Edmund (1552-1599)
Spring-Rice, C. A. 1858-1918)
Stephen, J. K (1859-1892)
Stevenson, Robert Louis (1850-1894)
Strong, George A. (1832-1912)
Suckling, Sir John (1609-1642)
Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745)
Synge, John Millington (1871-1909)
Taylor, Jane (1783-1824)
Tennyson, Alfred, Lord (1809-1992)
Thackeray, William Makepeace (1811-1863)
Thomson, James (1700-1748)
Vaughan, Henry (1621-1695)
Watts, Isaac (1674-1748)
Wesley, Charles (1707-1788)
Whittier, John Greenleaf (1807-1892)
Wilberforce, Samuel (1805-1873)
Wilcox, Ella Wheeler (1850-1910)
Wisdome, Robert (d. 1568)
Wither, George 1588-1667)
Wordsworth, William (1770-1850)
Wyatt, Sir Thomas (1503?-1542)
Yeats, William Butler (1865-1939)