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06 May 2011, 6:34 am

I am looking to set some short poems to music.
They don't all have to be by the same author.
Haiku would be a good example of what I'm after
Can anyone link me to any?.


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06 May 2011, 7:16 am

They're not quite haiku, but have you considered the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (translated and edited by Edward Fitzgerald)? Here's an example of a verse:

With them the Seed of Wisdom did I sow,
And with my own hand labour'd it to grow:
And this was all the Harvest that I reap'd—
"I came like Water, and like Wind I go."

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/246/246-h/246-h.htm