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

 

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

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