"The Ballad of the Harp Weaver" by Edna St Vincent Millay would surely qualify, except that, despite the title, it seems to have been set to music only as an art song:

http://www.denelder.com/poetry/balladof.html

And what about that dreadful medieval French song about the wicked young woman who asks the wicked young man for his mother's heart to feed her dog? More spewjerking than tearjerking, I'm afraid.

--- Joe Fineman    joe_f@verizon.net

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