"The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls," by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

 set to progressive house electronic music

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIMw4k7YUmU

"A Golden Day," Paul Laurence Dunbar, set to music

 R&B/funky Rock

good for the month of May

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KKzpWbuvJU

"The Taxi," by Amy Lowell, set to progressive house electronic music

 first published 1914

minimally adapted (some repeated lines)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hg8CNFbQA94

"A Dream Girl," by Carl Sandburg, set to music/vocals

 easy rock

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PQqCAdV7Zo

"I Thought It Was Tangiers I Wanted," by Langston Hughes, set ot music

 Poem from 1927 by Langston Hughes se to music/vocals

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zqDkggydC8

"The Heart of a Woman," by Georgia Douglas Johnson, set to music & videos

 afro house electronic setting of Johnson's poem

Johnson (1884=1966) was an important poet, editor, and novelis of the era and movement now known as the Harlem Renaissance

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7T_w--TaKy0

"The Mystery (How Little We Know)," by Sara Teasdale, set to music/vocals

 Sara Teasdale (1884-1933)

electronic ballad--poem set to music

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1hx7NrSqnA

"Branches (Song of April)," by Carl Sandburg

 poem set to music

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=let-HUb5XnA

"A Capitalist at Dinner," by Claude McKay

 Satirical poem by Jamaican-American poety Claude McKay (1890-1948) first published in The Liberatore in 1919. Set to electronic music. McKay was part of the Harlem Renaissance.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrQ_wS1xNd4

"The House on the Hill," Edwin Arlington Robinson, set to music

 set to folk-rock song

poem in villanelle form

Robinson: 1869-1935

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnA4r7Q0y4Y

Set to Music and sung: "The Women Washing Their Hair," buy Carl Sandburg (1922)

 

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqbgiUXBNFI

"Song of Solomon: Canto 7," rendered in a soul-jazz/R&B song

 A Canto often noted for its sensual, erotic qualities. 

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l36Z8AlV0mA

"The Weary Blues," by Langston Hughes [in the public domain], sung and set to music--

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_UFrkbmw2U 

"The Listeners," by Walter de la Mare, set to music, vocals by Simon and...