My favourite is probably Divine comedy's version of Wordsworth's Lucy but I've found a lot of other good ones on youtube such as this lovely version of the Byron poem She Walks in Beauty by Erik Quisling. What are everyone's old and new favourite musical versions of poems?

A lot of Leonard Cohen's earlier songs were originally written as poetry.

I heard that "Alas I Cannot Swim" by Laura Marling was based on an old poem...

One of my favourite bands, The Mr T Experience used one of my favourite poets poems - 'Somebody's Song' by Dorothy Parker:

http://http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tbDTZvYk40

Ace.

One of the most unsettling and poignant protest songs was written as a poem.
Billie Holiday ~ Strange Fruit.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4ZyuULy9zs

Biblical Poetry - Ecclesiastes 3:1 by The Byrds

Turn Turn Turn

Which old poem?

Tap At My Window by Laura Marling is influenced and partly based on This Be The Verse by Phillip Larkin.

I believe Suzanne was written as a poem.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otJY2HvW3Bw

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner ~ Iron Maiden.
Inspired by the poem by Coleridge.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7zk4as9kzA

Melanie's version of AA Milne's Alexander Beetle.

Awesome

The Waterboys- W B Yeats- Stolen Child

Just lovely

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqAyfueYtT0

This is the best song so far *goose bumps* loved it.

It reminds me of one of my favorite Yeats poems
An Irish Airmam Forsees His Death ~ Shane MacGowan
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Loq95zsixBk
Shane's rendition is it a song ?.

Iron Maiden have a couple:

Rime of the Ancient Mariner (poem of same name by Coleridge)
The Trooper (inspired by 'Charge of the Light Brigade')

Annabel Lee ~ I'll go for Stevie Nicks take.
(Edgar Allan Poe)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_VL7WRyir0

Patrick Wolf - 'The Hazelwood' (lyrics taken from "The Song of Wandering Aegnus" by William Butler Yeats):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwz3sUi-lM0

Jeff Buckley - Ulalume (Edgar Allan Poe)
This is rather reciting with the accompaniment
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgeaqpmqUT8

And here is an avant-garde metal version of "Alone" (also Edgar Allan Poe)
Norwegian band Arcturus
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7K9cEFL9vPM

I'm assured by Wiki that I Am Stretched On Your Grave, is an 17th century Irish poem.
Sinead O'Connor
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7coU...eature=related
And now the Yorkshire version (Kate Rusby)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95I7t1znYFk

I am not familiar, however I decide to try the one you guys mentioned.

Does rhymes count ? if so.
Now I lay me down to sleep,
I pray the Lord my soul to keep;
if I die before I wake,
I pray the Lord my soul to take
Enter The Sandman ~ Metallica.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bcN6GjXmv4

Poppy Day ~ Siouxsie & The Banshees.
Inspired by John McCrae's In Flanders Fields.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Isos9965ICw

I'm sure Hawkwind used a lot of Moorcock.

I didn't know that.

I think Leona Lewis Footprints in the Sand could be counted as one as well. It is a lovely track.

Gil Scott-Heron ~ The Revolution Will Not be Televised.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGaRtqrlGy8

'The Bachelor' by Patrick Wolf is adapted from a traditional Appalachian poem entitled 'The Turtle Dove':

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6MVXUvd0Rk