There's a Scottish composer and performance artist, who's lived in Brighton for many years, called Billy Cowie, and a major part of his work has been composing music for poets' work from many countries. I first heard of him when we were both on the staff of the University of Brighton (I believe he still is) and bought one of his records called "La Chanson Bien Douce", which consists of several poems of Verlaine set to music. The music is set for 2 sopranos, piano, violin and cello and I think it's very beautiful.

If you go to http://www.billycowie.com/, you can read all about him. Click on the "CDs" link in the menu bar and scroll down to CD DIVAS 5 for info. There's a video there illustrating one of the poems - "La Chanson Bien Douce".

Worth a listen.