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Some song lyrics can work OK without music, although most of the time they would be better with it. They are designed to be accompanied with music, or sung, after all:
Here's some Robbie Burns stuff:
http://andymstewart.com/burns.htm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUs-5dHFksw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOsks...eature=related
I found this cool video about the poetry of hip-hop and how it's analogous to Shakespeare in the modern day.
what is a song , but a poem with a melody
Songs and poetry were originally one. Macdiarmid once said that the most profound line in Scottish poetry was "Thou art naw Mary Morison". Coming from a man whose best poetry was when it was most lyrical but who descended into producing tomes full of modernist mumbo-jumbo that is a noteworthy comment. Not something the likes of I C Smith would get at all. Once when asked if the village bards wrote good poetry he answered in that sneery voice of his no but that perhaps Murdo Macfarlane had some good bits. Frankly it is the other way round. There is nothing memorable or uplifting about most modern verse pumped out by dull and boring academics.