Ballads and Ballad Poems

Productinformatie

1921 -- CONTENTS PART I.--OLD BALLADS PAGE BALLADS OF WITCHES, D EMONS D, W ARFS A ND GROSTS Alison Gross . . . . . . . 17 TheWeeWeeMan . . . . . . 19 Earl Mars Daughter . . . . . . 21 TheDemonLover . . . ., . 25 Binnorie . . . 2 9 The Wife of TJshers Well . . . . 32 BALLADS OF ROBIN HOOD Robin Hood and Alan-a-Dale . . . . 36 Robin Hood and the Bishop of Hereford ., 4 r The Noble Fisherman Robin FIood at Sea . . 45 Our Oldest Sea-song . . ., . . 52 Sir Patrick Spcns . . . . - . 55 Henry Martin . . . . . 59 The Salcornbe Seamans Flaunt to the Proud Pirate . 60 Sir Francis Drake . . . 6 2 BALLADS F OUNDED O N THE SCRIPTURES Lazarus . . . . . . . . 6 TheThreeKings . . . . . . 67 Jolly Wat . ., , . . . . . 70 CONTENTS PAGE The Twa Brothers ., . . . The Three Ravens . . . . . The Lass of Lochroyan . . . . The Children in the Wood . . . . Fair Helen of Kirconnell . . . . Barbara Allens Cruelty . . . . Battle-ballad Chevy-Chace . . . A Lyke-Wake Dirge . . . . Get up and Bar the Door . . . . King John and the Abbot of Canterbury . APPENDIX T O PART I. Ossia z--Note and Excerpts PART 1I. BALLAD-POEMS ROMANCE La Belle Dame sans Merci John Keats . Shameful Death, . Williant Morris . The Sands of Dee . . Charles Kiagsley . The Ballad of Keith of Ravelston . . . Sydney Dobell . Ballad . . . John Sterling . The Young Maxwell . Allan Cunningham BALLAD-POEMFSO UNDE ON D HISTORY The Winning of Cales . Thomas Deloney . Agincourt . . . Michael Drayton . A Ballad of John Nicholson . . . . Sir Henry Newbolt The Heart of bhe Bruce W. E. Aytoun . CONTENTS PAGE LMODERNB ALLAD-POEM O S F FANCY Lady Clare . . Tennyson . . . 153 Heather Ale . . R. L. Stevenson . . 156 The Ballad of East and West . . . RudyardKipling . 160 Ballad of Pentyre Town . R. Marriott Watson . 165 The Piper of Arll . . Duncan Campbell Scott 167 HUMOROU S BALLADS AND MOCK-BALLAD S Jenny the Mare . . From Fitzgeralds Eu phranor . I73 John Gilpin . . William Cowper . . 174 An Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog . . Oliver Goldsmith . . 185 Ballad . . C. S. Calverley . . 186 Striking . . C. S. Calverley . . 188 From The Yeomen of the Guard . . W. S. Gilbert . . 190 A C K N O W L E D G M E N T S . - O t h a nk s are tendered to Mr. Duncan Camphell Smtt for permission to use The Piper of Arll, from Labour and the Angel to Messrs. G. Bell and Sons Ltd. for C. S. Calverleys Ballad An Auld Wife Sat from Fly Leaves to Messrs. Chatto and Windus, and Messrs. Charles Scribners Sons of New York, for R. L. Stevensons Heathw Ale to Mr. Rudyard Kipling, Messrs. Mcthuen and Co., Ltd., and Messrs. Doubleday Page and Co. for The Ballad of East and West, from Barrack-Rm Ballads to Lady Gilbert for I Have a Song to Sing, Oh from The Yeomen of the Gabard to Mr. John Lane for Rosamund Mamott Watsons Ballad of Pentyre Town and to Sir Henry Newbolt for John Nicholson from Poems NIW a d Old, published by Mr. John Murray. NOT SO long ago the newspapers published a reportwhether in the silly season or not is neither here nor t h e r e t h a t a prehistoric monster known to palaontologists by the unwieldy name of Triceratops had been discovered alive and well in the swamps of Central Africa. The world was vastly intrigued. We had known him before, of course for his skeleton stares at us from a glass case in the Natural History Museum, and he has been restored by imaginative novelists and the illustrators of popular science books...