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Billy Collins

Billy Collins

79 songs
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2008
Album
Oct 2008
Poetry November 2008

2 tracks

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Album
Oct 2008
Poetry November 2008

2 tracks

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1995
Single
Jun 1995
On Turning Ten
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Single
Jun 1995
On Turning Ten
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1995
Album
Feb 1995
The Art of Drowning

1 track

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Album
Feb 1995
The Art of Drowning

1 track

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1991
Single
Jan 1991
Memento Mori (Lori Silveira)
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Single
Jan 1991
Memento Mori (Lori Silveira)
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1988
Album
May 1988
The Apple that Astonished Paris

8 tracks

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Album
May 1988
The Apple that Astonished Paris

8 tracks

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1988
Single
Jan 1988
Plight of the Troubadour
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Single
Jan 1988
Plight of the Troubadour
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Album
Sailing Around the Room: New and Selected Poems

1 track

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Album
Sailing Around the Room: New and Selected Poems

1 track

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Top Songs

#1
Plight of the Troubadour
#2
Taking Off Emily Dickinson’s Clothes
#3
Hippos on Holiday
#4
Memento Mori (Lori Silveira)
#5
Introduction to Poetry (Billy Collins)
#6
Forgetful
#7
Some Days
#8
Divorce BC

About Billy Collins

Discography

The Apple that Astonished Paris
8 tracks · 1988
Poetry November 2008
2 tracks · 2008
The Art of Drowning
1 track · 1995
Sailing Around the Room: New and Selected Poems
1 track

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Popular lyrics by Billy Collins

Plight of the Troubadour

For a good hour I have been singing lays in langue d'oc to a woman who knows only langue d'oïl, an odd Picard dialect at that. The European …

Taking Off Emily Dickinson’s Clothes

First, her tippet made of tulle, easily lifted off her shoulders and laid on the back of a wooden chair. And her bonnet, the bow undone with…

Hippos on Holiday

is not really the title of a movie but if it was I would be sure to see it. I love their short legs and big heads, the whole hippo look. Hun…

Memento Mori (Lori Silveira)

Memento Mori by Billy Collins There is no need for me to keep a skull on my desk, to stand with one foot up on the ruins of Rome, or to wear…

Introduction to Poetry (Billy Collins)

I ask them to take a poem and hold it up to the light like a color slide or press an ear against its hive . I say drop a mouse into a poem a…

Forgetful

The name of the author is the first to go Followed obediently by the title, the plot, The heartbreaking conclusion, the entire novel Which s…

Some Days

Some days I put the people in their places at the table Bend their legs at the knees If they come with that feature And fix them into the ti…

Divorce BC

Once, two spoons in bed, now tined forks across a granite table and the knives they have hired.

Intro to poetry

I ask them to take a poem and hold it up to the light like a color slide or press an ear against its hive. I say drop a mouse into a poem an…

Divorceee-2000

Once, two spoons in bed, now tined forks across a granite table and the knives they have hired.

Discography at a glance

79

Songs on Lyrks

4

Albums

67

Singles

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Billy Collins is a music artist with 79 songs on Lyrks.

Popular tracks by Billy Collins include Plight of the Troubadour, Taking Off Emily Dickinson’s Clothes, Hippos on Holiday, Memento Mori (Lori Silveira), Introduction to Poetry (Billy Collins). Browse full lyrics on Lyrks.

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