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A Collection of Ballads
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Andrew Lang
This is a collection of ballads, edited, with an introduction and notes by Andrew Lang. The ballads range widely in style, from the historic…
Ballads and Legends
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A short collection of Ballads by the German poet and polymath Johann Wolfgang von Goethe based on German and other European and Asian legend…
A Book of Old English Ballads
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George Wharton Edwards
A Book of Old English Ballads offers a curated selection of traditional English ballads that capture the essence of the people’s voice throu…
Folk Ballad Collection
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Various
Discover the rich tapestry of cultural storytelling in the Folk Ballad Collection, a curated anthology featuring both sung and spoken folk b…
Ancient Songs and Ballads of Lancashire
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John Harland
Traditional songs and ballads from Lancashire in the north-west of England from the opening section of John Harland's collection, Ballads an…
Selected ballads
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Charles Dudley Warner, ed.
In Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 03
The Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, is a work of enormous proportions. Setting out with the simple goal of offer…
Farm Ballads
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Will Carleton
Farm Ballads is a rather influential volume of poetry by American poet Will Carleton. The poems are concerning rural life in Michigan, where…
Top Hand
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John Lomax
In Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads
John Avery Lomax is a towering figure in the field of early American musicology and folklore. Through intensive field work, Lomax built up …
Ballads of a Bohemian
Read by Kristin Hughes (1974-2021)
Robert W. Service
Ballads of a Bohemian is a collection of poems tied together by the narration of the "author" Stephen Poore. The poems speak of bo…
Bookworm Ballads (a Literary Feast)
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John Kendrick Bangs
In Cobwebs from a Library Corner
This is a book of 57 sections divided into 2 parts. The first part is comprised of 26 poems & the second part concludes with 31 assorted…
Ballads and Poems
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Dora Sigerson Shorter
This is a volume of poetry by Dora Sigerson Shorter. This volume contains seven of Ms. Shorter's Ballads, a series of miscellaneous poems, a…
Two Cumberland Ballads
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John Stagg
Two narrative ballads, based on local lore, by the Cumberland poet John Stagg. In 'The Hermit of Rockcliffe', a young fugitive takes refuge …
Barrack-Room Ballads
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Rudyard Kipling
Barrack-Room Ballads is a collection of poems by Rudyard Kipling which describe life in the British Army, particularly in India, in his time…
Gentrytown
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Henry Herbert Knibbs
In Songs of the Outlands: Ballads of the Hoboes and Other Verse
A poetry collection. The poem "Out There Somewhere" was extensively quoted in and was the basis for Edgar Rice Burroughs' story &q…
Jim Bludso of the Prairie Belle: Pike County Ballads by John Hay
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Various
In The World's Best Poetry, Volume 9: Tragedy and Humor (Part 2)
The ninth of ten volumes of poetry edited by Canadian poet laureate Bliss Carman (1861-1929). This collection, the second of two parts, incl…
An Excellent New Ballad
Read by Arthur Krolman
Jonathan Swift
In The Poems of Jonathan Swift, Volume One
Sit back and listen to these light-hearted witty rhymes and see the world Jonathan Swift saw -- and maybe recognize your own. Think there is…
MAG
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Carl Sandburg
In Love & Its Historical Shades: Poetic Expressions of Love Based on Varying Time Periods
The theme around these poems is how poets expressed their ideas of love as well as the type of language used to convey said love through poe…
The Ballad of the Artist
Read by Adrian Stephens
Harry Graham
In Verse and Worse
A collection of dark and humorous verse from "Col D. Streamer". This collection includes poems from The Baby's Baedeker, Perverted…
Ballade of Autumn
Read by Jim Locke
Marie E. J. Pitt
In The Horses of the Hills and other Verses
Marie Elizabeth Josephine Pitt (1869–1948) was an Australian poet and socialist activist. Pitt wrote very highly coloured nature poetry, onc…
Border Ballad, by Sir Walter Scott
Read by Craig Franklin
Various
In The World's Best Poetry, Volume 8: National Spirit (Part 1)
The eighth of ten volumes of poetry edited by Canadian poet laureate Bliss Carman (1861-1929). This collection, the first of two parts, incl…