Category:Songs based on poems

• List of songs based on poems

A

• After (Elgar)
• Afternoons & Coffeespoons
• All Creatures of Our God and King
• All I Wanna Do (Sheryl Crow song)
• All Quiet Along the Potomac
• All This Is That
• Alone (The Cure song)
• Always and Everywhere
• America the Beautiful
• And did those feet in ancient time
• And Then There Was Silence
• Annie Laurie
• Arabian Serenade
• As I laye a-thynkynge
• Auld Lang Syne
• Auld Lang Syne (The New Year's Anthem)
• Ave Maria (Schubert)

B

• A Bad Dream
• The Ballad of You and Me and Pooneil
• Barefoot Songs
• The Battle Hymn of the Republic, Updated
• Battōtai (song)
• Bethlehem Down
• Big Steamers
• The Blue Bird (Stanford)
• The Blue Mountains (song)
• Bonnie and Clyde (Serge Gainsbourg and Brigitte Bardot song)

C

• Canto degli italiani
• Cat's in the Cradle
• The Chariots of the Lord
• A Child Asleep
• Child Is Father of the Man
• Colors (Halsey song)
• Come Down, O Love Divine
• Come, Gentle Night!
• The Cowboys' Christmas Ball

D

• Deutschlandlied
• Die Stem van Suid-Afrika
• Drink to Me Only with Thine Eyes
• Dry those fair, those crystal eyes
• Duel of the Fates
• The Dull Flame of Desire

E

• Einer ist unser Leben
• Empires (Bring Me Men)

F

• Fight for Right
• Footprints in the Sand (Edgel Groves song)
• Footprints in the Sand (Leona Lewis song)
• Freundliche Vision
• The Fringes of the Fleet
• Fünf Lieder, Op. 105 (Brahms)

G

• God Defend New Zealand
• God Save the South
• Golden Slumbers
• Green Grow the Rashes
• Gurre-Lieder

H

• Hail to the Chief
• Halfway Down (poem)
• Hate Songs for Mezzo-Soprano and Orchestra
• The Heart of Canada
• How Great Thou Art
• Hunters of Kentucky

I

• I Am Stretched on Your Grave
• I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day
• I Vow to Thee, My Country
• I'm a Good Ol' Rebel
• Im Nin'alu
• Imagíname Sin Ti
• The Immortal Legions
• In Haven
• In the Bleak Midwinter
• In the Dawn
• In the Gloaming (song)
• The Indian Hunter
• The Inner Light (song)
• The Internationale
• It isnae me

J

• Jana Gana Mana
• Jesus Christ the Apple Tree
• Jesus Loves Me
• Jolly Old Saint Nicholas
• Just (After Song of Songs)
• Justify My Love

K

• Kashmiri Song
• The King's Way (song)

L

• Lacy (song)
• The Language of Flowers (Elgar)
• The Last Rose of Summer
• Layla
• A Life on the Ocean Wave
• Lift Every Voice and Sing
• The Lighthouse (Stevie Nicks song)
• Like to the Damask Rose
• Love alone will stay
• The Lowestoft Boat
• Lucy (The Divine Comedy song)
• Lust for Life (Lana Del Rey song)

M

• Macorina
• Maryland, My Maryland
• Mauthausen Trilogy
• Memory (Cats song)
• Merchant Adventurers (Elgar)
• Mezh vysokikh khlebov zateryalosya
• Miles to Go (Before I Sleep)
• The Morning Breaks, the Shadows Flee
• Muñagorriren bertsoak

N

• Newroz (song)
• Nishiddho Sompadokiyo

O

• O Holy Night
• O My Father
• O Sacred Head, Now Wounded
• O the Deep, Deep Love of Jesus
• Octopus (Syd Barrett song)
• Oh, soft was the song
• Old Cape Cod
• On Raglan Road
• On Wenlock Edge (song cycle)
• Once to Every Man and Nation
• Over the River and Through the Wood
• The Owl and the Pussy Cat (Stravinsky)

P

• The Pipes of Pan
• Piss Factory
• Plaisir d'amour
• Pleading (Elgar)
• A Poor Wayfaring Man of Grief
• Praise to the Man
• Puff, the Magic Dragon

R

• The Raven (song)
• A Red, Red Rose
• Retard Girl
• Richard Cory (song)
• Rime of the Ancient Mariner (song)
• Rule, Britannia!

S

• Saagara Pran Talamalala
• Sen no Kaze ni Natte
• Shakespeare's Kingdom
• Ska vi älska, så ska vi älska till Buddy Holly
• Sky Fits Heaven
• Song about the Rushnyk
• Songs of Travel
• Spanish Is the Loving Tongue
• The Star-Spangled Banner
• Stonewall Jackson's Way
• Strange Fruit
• Strugnell's Haiku
• Surf's Up (song)
• Suzanne (Leonard Cohen song)
• Sweet Afton

T

• 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)
• The Trooper
• Twilight (Elgar)
• Two Songs for Voice, Viola and Piano
• Two Songs, 1916
• Two Songs, 1917–18
• Two Songs, 1920
• Two Songs, 1928

U

• Umi Yukaba
• Uncle Sam's Farm
• Under the Bridge
• The Unicorn (song)
• Unpretty

V

• Vande Mataram
• Vespers (poem)
• Vísur Vatnsenda-Rósu

W

• A War Song
• We Are Coming, Father Abra'am
• We're All Water
• West End Girls
• What Child Is This?
• Where Corals Lie
• Which Way, Robert Frost?
• Who Has Seen the Wind? (song)
• The Wind at Dawn
• Wyoming (song)

X

• Xanadu (Rush song)