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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…
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…
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…
Top Hand
Read by DrPGould
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 …
Bookworm Ballads (a Literary Feast)
Read by April6090
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…
Folk Ballad Collection 001
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Various
LibriVox’s first collection of sung and spoken folk ballads (13 in collection).
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…
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…
Border Ballad
Read by ToddHW
Various
In The Ontario Readers: Fourth Book
A fourth grade English textbook published by the Minister of Education for Ontario in 1909. This reader features various pieces of Poetry a…
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…
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…
A Book of Old English Ballads
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George Wharton Edwards
In this selection... the aim has been to bring within moderate compass a collection of these songs of the people which should fairly represe…
Spring Song by Bliss Carman
Read by Leanne Yau
Various
In The World's Best Poetry, Volume 1: Home and Friendship (Part 2)
The first of ten volumes of poetry edited by Canadian poet laureate Bliss Carman (1861-1929). This collection, the second of two parts, incl…
Legends and Ballads of the Dead Part 1
Read by Nemo
Margaret Widdemer
In The Haunted Hour; an anthology
I have not considered as ghost-poems anything but poems which related to the return of spirits to earth. They "The Blessed Damozel,&quo…
Short Ballad and Postscript on Consols
Read by Algy Pug
Hilaire Belloc
In Verses
A collection of poetry by Hilaire Belloc ranging from religious verses to drinking songs. - Summary by Larry Wilson
Ballad Inventory, By Dominic D'armes-pseud of Basil Thompson (1892-1924)
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Dominic D'armes
In Poetry Of 'The Double Dealer', January-December 1922
117 poems from the January - December 1922 issues of New Orleans-based literary magazine, The Double Dealer, edited by Julius Weis Friend. S…
Two Cumberland Ballads
Read by Phil Benson
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 …
Ballad of the Three Spectres
Read by Alan Mapstone
Ivor Gurney
In Severn and Somme
The English poet Ivor Gurney wrote these poems while serving in the First World War. In them he contrasts the wartime desolation of the area…
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…
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…