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8 songsThe Tortured Poets Department · 9 Midnights · 5Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
2 songsMidnights · 1 1989 · 1Beauty and the Beast (1991)
2 songsMidnights · 1 The Tortured Poets Department · 1Hamlet
2 songsThe Life of a Showgirl · 1 The Tortured Poets Department · 1Macbeth
2 songsThe Life of a Showgirl · 1 The Tortured Poets Department · 1Peter Pan
2 songsThe Tortured Poets Department · 2 Folklore · 1Romeo and Juliet
2 songsFearless · 2 The Tortured Poets Department · 1The Fates (Greek mythology)
2 songsThe Great Gatsby
2 songsEvermore · 1 The Tortured Poets Department · 1The Lady of Shalott
2 songsThe Tortured Poets Department · 1 The Life of a Showgirl · 1The Odyssey
2 songsThe Tortured Poets Department · 1 Reputation · 1The Scarlet Letter
2 songsFearless · 2 1989 · 130 Rock
1 songA Defence of Poetry (literary criticism)
1 songA Red, Red Rose
1 songA Tale of Two Cities
1 songAce of Base
1 songAll About Eve (1950)
1 songAll's Well That Ends Well
1 songAntigone
1 songAntony and Cleopatra
1 songAurora Leigh
1 songAurora mythology
1 songBanshee folklore
1 songBarchester Towers
1 songBecause I could not stop for Death
1 songBlack dog folklore tradition
1 songBonnie and Clyde
1 songCan't Help Falling in Love
1 songCassandra myth
1 songCinderella
1 songClara Bow (silent-film 'It Girl' icon)
1 songCompassion
1 songDeck the Halls (traditional Christmas carol)
1 songDog days folklore tradition
1 songEcho and Narcissus myth
1 songFather Figure (George Michael song)
1 songField of Dreams (1989)
1 songFire and Ice
1 songFrankenstein
1 songHeart of Glass
1 songHow the West Was Won (1962)
1 songIgnis fatuus folklore tradition
1 songIt (1927)
1 songJane Eyre
1 songJust Kids
1 songKeep Calm and Carry On
1 songKiss It Better
1 songL'Albatros
1 songLa Morte Amoureuse
1 songLingchi
1 songLost in Translation (2003)
1 songLove's Labour's Lost
1 songLyrical Ballads
1 songMaxim ('Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it inflames the great')
1 songMidas myth
1 songMisery
1 songNicomachean Ethics
1 songOdd Man Out (1947)
1 songOdd Man Out (1947) score; William Bowery pen-name lineage
1 songOde to the West Wind
1 songOf Mice and Men
1 songOf Truth (essay)
1 songOne for the money, two for the show (traditional counting rhyme)
1 songOphelia (painting by Friedrich Heyser)
1 songOphelia (painting by John Everett Millais)
1 songOrion and Scorpius myth
1 songRags to riches (Horatio Alger tradition)
1 songRoad to Ruin (The Ramones album)
1 songSamuel Johnson on London
1 songSleeping Beauty folklore tradition
1 songSonnets from the Portuguese
1 songStevie Nicks (Fleetwood Mac / solo persona)
1 songStolen
1 songStopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
1 songTales from Shakespeare
1 songTarot — The Fool
1 songTarot — The Moon
1 songThe 7 Wonders of the Ancient World
1 songThe Bad Seed
1 songThe Book of Proverbs (31:10)
1 songThe Fear
1 songThe Godfather (1972)
1 songThe Great Escape (1963)
1 songThe Little Mermaid
1 songThe Longest Time
1 songThe Mourning Bride
1 songThe Raven
1 songThe Rime of the Ancient Mariner
1 songThe Road Not Taken
1 songThe Scorpion and the Frog
1 songThe Spider and the Fly
1 songThe Tempest
1 songThe Winds of Fate
1 songThe Wizard of Oz — The Cowardly Lion
1 songThe Woman in White
1 songThere Is a Garden in Her Face
1 songThis Is Just To Say
1 songTo a Mouse
1 songUlysses and the Sirens
1 songWater Lilies / Impressionism
1 songWhite Lady folklore tradition
1 songWho's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf
1 songWho's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
1 songWild nights - Wild nights!
1 songWuthering Heights
1 songYou're So Vain
1 songQuote
A Defence of Poetry
1 songA Tale of Two Cities
1 songBeauty and the Beast (1991)
1 songHamlet
1 songMetamorphoses
1 songNicomachean Ethics
1 songOf Truth (essay)
1 songRomeo and Juliet
1 songStructural echo
Beowulf
2 songsFolklore · 1 Midnights · 1A Christmas Carol
1 songA Coney Island of the Mind
1 songBecause I could not stop for Death
1 songBirches
1 songCassandra myth
1 songCatilinarian Orations
1 songGasoline
1 songGilligan's Island Theme Song
1 songHamlet
1 songMending Wall
1 songMy Last Duchess
1 songNative Son
1 songOdd Man Out (1947)
1 songOn the Road
1 songPeter Pan
1 songPorphyria's Lover
1 songRashomon
1 songRomeo and Juliet
1 songSad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands
1 songSomeone Great
1 songThe Ballad of Jed Clampett
1 songThe Charge of the Light Brigade
1 songThe Great Gatsby
1 songThe Odyssey
1 songThe Prelude
1 songThe Rime of the Ancient Mariner
1 songThe Road Not Taken
1 songVictorian-era poems with ABABCC rhyme scheme
1 songYellow Rose of Texas
1 songThematic echo
Bible
8 songsThe Tortured Poets Department · 6 Folklore · 3Hamlet
4 songsThe Life of a Showgirl · 2 Red (Taylor's Version) · 1The Odyssey
4 songsThe Tortured Poets Department · 2 Reputation · 1Peter Pan
3 songsThe Tortured Poets Department · 1 Evermore · 1Rapunzel
3 songsThe Tortured Poets Department · 2 The Life of a Showgirl · 1Romeo and Juliet
3 songsFearless · 2 The Life of a Showgirl · 1Sense and Sensibility
3 songsSpeak Now · 1 Folklore · 1A Midsummer Night's Dream
2 songsLover · 1 Red (Taylor's Version) · 1A Rose for Emily
2 songsRed (Taylor's Version) · 1 Folklore · 1Black dog folklore tradition
2 songse.e. cummings — unconventional capitalisation
2 songsEvermore · 1 The Tortured Poets Department · 1Echo and Narcissus myth
2 songsSpeak Now · 1 Folklore · 12 songsThe Life of a Showgirl · 1 The Tortured Poets Department · 1Frankenstein
2 songsJane Eyre
2 songsFolklore · 1 1989 · 1Les Misérables
2 songsMidnights · 1 Speak Now · 1Macbeth
2 songsMending Wall
2 songsSpeak Now · 1 Evermore · 1Poetry
2 songsRed (Taylor's Version) · 1 Midnights · 1Sonnet 116
2 songsRed (Taylor's Version) · 1 Midnights · 1Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
2 songsMidnights · 1 Evermore · 1The Blind Men and the Elephant
2 songsThe Raven
2 songsEvermore · 1 The Tortured Poets Department · 1The Road Not Taken
2 songsMidnights · 1 Evermore · 1White Lady folklore tradition
2 songsFolklore · 1 The Tortured Poets Department · 1Wuthering Heights
2 songsFolklore · 1 Evermore · 1A Broken Appointment
1 songA Defence of Poetry (literary criticism)
1 songA Star Is Born
1 songA Tale of Two Cities
1 songA Valediction: Forbidding Mourning
1 songAbout Time (2013)
1 songAfter Love
1 songAfterwards
1 songAll About Eve (1950)
1 songAnnie Hall
1 songAntigone
1 songAntony and Cleopatra
1 songAphrodite, Hephaestus, and Ares myth
1 songAubrey-Maturin series
1 songAuld Lang Syne
1 songBanshee folklore
1 songBarchester Towers
1 songBeauty and the Beast (1991)
1 songBecause I could not stop for Death
1 songBeowulf
1 songBible — 1 Samuel 17 (David and Goliath)
1 songBlowin' in the Wind
1 songBonnie and Clyde
1 songBrooklyn (2015)
1 songCassandra (Florence + the Machine)
1 songCassandra myth
1 songCharles Barkley Nike Commercial (1993)
1 songCinderella
1 songCompassion
1 songDante and Beatrice
1 songDesolation Row
1 songDo Not Go Gentle into That Good Night
1 songDog days folklore tradition
1 songDracula
1 songEasy A (2010)
1 songEdinburgh Review (essays attacking the Lake Poets)
1 songFire and Ice
1 songFootloose (1984)
1 songGame of Thrones
1 songGimpel the Fool: And Other Stories
1 songGoodfellas (1990)
1 songGreat Expectations
1 songHandlyng Synne
1 songHeart of Darkness
1 songHeart of Glass
1 songHeart! We will forget him!
1 songHeavy
1 songHer Kind
1 songHowl
1 songI held a Jewel in my fingers
1 songI Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
1 songI'm So Lonesome I Could Cry
1 songIgnis fatuus folklore tradition
1 songIn Just – Spring
1 songIt (1927)
1 songKnives Out (2019)
1 songKonjaku Monogatari
1 songL'Albatros
1 songLa Llorona (Mexican folklore tradition)
1 songLa Morte Amoureuse
1 songLady Chatterley's Lover
1 songLady Macbeth — the blood stain
1 songLet the Right One In
1 songLet Us Live and Love (5)
1 songLyrical Ballads
1 songMalleus Maleficarum
1 songMaxim ('Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it inflames the great')
1 songMetamorphoses
1 songMidas myth
1 songNot Waving but Drowning
1 songObituary of Emily Dickinson (1886)
1 songOdd Man Out (1947)
1 songOde to the West Wind
1 songOne Art
1 songOphelia (painting by John Everett Millais)
1 songOresteia
1 songOrion and Scorpius myth
1 songOzymandias
1 songParadise Lost
1 songPerseus and Medusa
1 songPoem #14
1 songPorphyria's Lover
1 songPossession
1 songPretty Woman
1 songRags to riches (Horatio Alger tradition)
1 songRashomon
1 songSamuel Johnson on London
1 songSeneca's Agamemnon
1 songShe Walks in Beauty
1 songSir Gawain and the Green Knight
1 songSleeping Beauty folklore tradition
1 songSmiling Faces Sometimes
1 songSnow White (fairy tale)
1 songSome Enchanted Evening
1 songSonnet 29
1 songSonnets from the Portuguese
1 songStolen
1 songSumma Theologica
1 songSummer Nights (Grease)
1 songSweet Dreams (Are Made of This) (Eurythmics song)
1 songSweet Home Alabama (2002)
1 songT.S. Eliot — "the purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink"
1 songThe Aeneid
1 songThe Bad Seed
1 songThe Bells
1 songThe Blind Man and The Elephant
1 songThe Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats
1 songThe Crucible
1 songThe Family Man (2000)
1 songThe Fates (Greek mythology)
1 songThe Freshman (1990)
1 songThe Gallic Wars
1 songThe Godfather (1972)
1 songThe Great Gatsby
1 songThe House of Fame
1 songThe Iliad
1 songThe Lady of Shalott
1 songThe Lake Isle of Innisfree
1 songThe Last of the Mohicans
1 songThe Last of the Mohicans (1992 film)
1 songThe Legend of Rose Latulipe
1 songThe Little Mermaid
1 songThe Longest Time
1 songThe Miller's Tale
1 songThe Most Dangerous Game
1 songThe Mourning Bride
1 songThe Passionate Shepherd to His Love
1 songThe Purple Rose of Cairo (1985)
1 songThe Rime of the Ancient Mariner
1 songThe Scarlet Letter
1 songThe Scorpion and the Frog
1 songThe Sun Also Rises
1 songThe Twelve Caesars
1 songThe Woman in White
1 songThe Yellow Wallpaper
1 songThrough the Looking-Glass
1 songTo Kill a Mockingbird
1 songTristan and Isolde
1 songTroilus and Cressida
1 songWater Lilies / Impressionism
1 songWe Wear the Mask
1 songWest Side Story
1 songWhen Harry Met Sally (1989)
1 songWhen I Was One-and-Twenty
1 songWicked
1 songWild nights - Wild nights!
1 songWinter: My Secret
1 songWriting as pain / pouring yourself into work
1 songYou Can't Go Home Again
1 song