His mother privately called him Captain Kidd; and his father had often sung to him the ballad of that wicked sailor, when they sat on deck as their ship cleaved the wave, and the fresh breeze sang in the rigging.
One day, while there as usual, Fleurange singing a long ballad in a low tone, and Frida listening with her head against her cousin’s shoulder, a knock at the door made them both start.
I love a ballad but even too well, if it be doleful matter merrily set down, or a very pleasant thing indeed and sung lamentably.
Pray now, buy some: I love a ballad in print a-life; for then we are sure they are true.
There was a ballad in existence within human memory which was founded on the history of this singular man, but of which the first verse[91] only can now be recovered.
The ballad on "The Doom Well of St. Madron" records a similar test of innocence.
Among these might be mentioned:-- The Ballad of the Blacksmith's Sons, a modern tale in verse by Mary E.
Catskin, in ballad form as given by Halliwell, was printed in Aldermary Churchyard, England, in 1720; and the form as given by Jacobs well illustrates how the prose tale developed from the old ballad.
They are only given at Madrid, and then are conducted entirely after the ancient Spanish and Moorish customs, of which such splendid descriptions remain in the ballad romances.
The conclusion of the sketch relates how, at the last Lord Mayor's day, he sang with great applause a state-ballad of his own composition, entitled The Grocer of London.
As in the wonderful old ballad of Burger, the Prussian horseman has taken the maiden "Germania" on his saddle.
In 1664, we are informed by Mr. Collier, Thomas Jordan made a ballad out of the story of the Merchant of Venice, in his Royal Arbor of Loyal Poesie, taking some liberties with the original plot.
The author is Robert Henryson, whose ballad of Robene and Makyne has been given in the fourth volume of this collection.
Every one will remember that the ballad of Jephthah is quoted in Hamlet (Act II.
This in its way most admirable balladis clearly a parody of some ancient K[oe]mpevise.
This ballad was printed in the first edition of Ritson's Ancient Songs, p.
The subject of this ballad is sufficiently popular from the modern play which is founded upon it.
This ballad was given from a black-letter copy in the Pepys collection.
Buchan complains that all other editions of this ballad "have been deprived of their original beauty and catastrophe" by officious and sacrilegious hands, and adds that his copy "is quite at variance with all its printed predecessors.
We give in the Appendix a ballad from Buchan, called Gight's Lady, which contains a story widely diverse from that which follows.
There is a resemblance in two points between this ballad and the Danish Greve Genselin (Grundtvig, No.
It is also collated with another copy in the Ashmole Collection at Oxford, which is thus entitled: "An excellent ballad of George Barnwell, an apprentice of London, who .
Some of our pure Scottish ballad poetry is unsurpassed in any language for grace and pathos.
The circumstances of the ballad strongly recall those of the poem in which the Welsh bard Taliesin recounts his magical experiences, his metamorphoses, his knowledge of the darker mysteries of nature.
The ballad then goes on to speak of the burial of the victims of the wicked Clerk.
A ballad which, says Villemarque, bears every sign of antiquity deals with the fortunes of a young Breton, Silvestik, who followed in the train of the Conqueror.
It is difficult to over-estimate the folk-lore value of such a ballad as this.
The Falcon An interesting and picturesque ballad sung in the Black Mountains is that of The Falcon.
A free translation of this ballad might run as follows: Lurks the Fox within the wood, His teeth and claws are red with blood.
The Combat of Saint-Cast This ballad somewhat belies its name, for it has some relation to an extraordinary incident which was the means rather of preventing than precipitating a battle.
He alludes to the passage contained in the ballad regarding the harpers who are represented as playing in the hall of Bran's mother while she sits at supper.
We have also once more the phenomenon of the dead lover who comes to claim the living bride, the midnight gallop, and other circumstances characteristic of ballad literature.
The following lines touch on a situation familiar in later pastoral and also found in English ballad poetry.
The closest analogy to the ballad themes to be discovered in the literature of Italy is in certain of the songs of Sacchetti and his contemporaries, but it would be unwise to insist on the resemblance.
Again, apparently from the Aberdeen district, comes a ballad on the marriage of a shepherd's daughter to the Laird of Drum.
See Ebsworth's edition for the Ballad Society (Roxburghe Ballads, vi.
Happily the seed of Phillida's coyness bore fruit, and the amorous pastoral ballad or picture, a true idyllion, became a recognized type in English verse.
The subjects present little novelty of theme, but the treatment illustrates the natural tendency of English pastoral writers towards narrative and the influence of the romantic ballad motives.
One of the many Captains Sharp had advanced money for the journey home; but to avoid suspicion they had rigged up their donkey-cart; and worked their way as poor sea-ballad singers.
Give us a little ode or balladlike that you gave us once before, on the night of our grand saturnalia.
Thereafter he recited an excellent ballad of yours [the Scottish ballad Edward, translated by Herder].
The reference in the following letter to a ballad of 340 lines has never been explained by any biographer of Coleridge.
The epistolary form was as dear to him in prose as the ballad or odic form in verse.
In the second volume of Mr. Ticknor's admirable History of Spanish Literature will be found an English translation of the Spanish ballad referred to by your correspondent L.
There is an old ballad in Deloney's Garland of Good Will, upon the quarrel between the two Dukes of Hereford and Norfolk, in the reign of Richard II.
Dixon, who inserted the ballad in his Ancient Poems, Ballads, and Songs of the Peasantry of England (Percy Society, No.
In 1872 "Lewis Carroll" brought out Through the Looking-glass, and every one who has ever read that pretty work of poetic fancy will remember the ballad of the Walrus and the Carpenter.
Among these the celebrated ballad of "The Fisher" is translated so beautifully as to be slightly, if at all, inferior to the original.
In order to prevent their homeward-bound ships from falling in with these smugglers, and to put a stop to this illicit trade, the Dutton was ordered to steer the course above-mentioned, till to the northward of Ascension.
After leaving St Helena, the Dutton was ordered to steer N.
