I've loved "things I know as poems" presented to me as "songs" for years. The ones that caught my attention first were Twa Corbies and Lord Randall out of a Norton Poetry Reader that I pilfered from my highschool, as I couldn't live without it. First time I heard The Gaping Maw sing Twa Corbies was like I'd tapped into a power source, it was so electric. Also in that reader, but encountered decades later was Cindy Mangsen's version of The Griesly Wife. Cindy also does a grand job on Kipling's A Smugglers Song. So much Kipling set to music was researched and/or composed by Peter Bellamy, and John Roberts & Tonty Barrand's album of a good number of them is a great intro. One of my favorite Kipling poems-to-song is the version of A Sea Wife That comes down from Gordon Bok's family, recorded by Bok, Muir & Trickett. When I was failing at pulling the melody out of their harmony arrangement, I got a book of Bok's music and found he'd done his own setting of Kipling's Harp Song of the Dane Women .

Jean Redpath, along with bowKEW Burns, did Stevenson's I will make you broaches , and I THINK some other R. L. Stevenson.

David Weber & Ani Fentiman do a lovely job of A. E. Houseman's Is That My Team A-Plowing.

A regular part of my singing is Henry Lawson's The Outside Track set to music by I think Gerry Hallom (spelling?)

Our own Phil Cooper, along with Margaret Nelson have a chilling bit of Sara Teasdale sung with I Shall Not Care. (if anyone comes up with a good musical setting of Teasdale's Patterns, that'll get bumped to the top of my "to learn" list). Years ago, Margaret pointed out to me that much poetry that has strong meter and scansion can be easily set to traditional tunes. (the Yellow Rose/I could not Stop phenomenon - Garrison Keillor used to exploit at length in early PHC days in "Department of Folklore"

Years ago, the late Bill Crofut set some of e.e.cummings poems to music (he was a banjo player). I've an old recording taped off the air from WCLV, in the era when he was performing with Ben Luxon. I recently saw significant chunks of their duo performances on You Tube, which might make another good searching source for finding these poem-to-song conversions by searching on the poet's name. R. Stevenson and Tennyson's work have had multiple settings, some of 'em.

Now I'm going to find myself back looking for these...