Best Ballads
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1.
Little Mattie Groves -Author Unknown
9 points - added 15 years ago by danielleblasko - 1 comment
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""Rise up, rise up, my gay young wife;/ Draw on your purty clothes,/ And tell me do you like me best/ Or like you Mattie Groves?"... Oh, he's took his wife by the lily-white hand/ And led her to the hall/ And cut off her head with his bitter sword/ And stove it agin the wall."
Added 15 years ago by danielleblasko, 0 points
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The Ballad of Reading Gaol by Oscar Wilde
6 points - added 15 years ago by danielleblasko - 1 comment
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"He did not wear his scarlet coat,/ For blood and wine are red,/ And blood and wine were on his hands/ When they found him with the dead,/ The poor dead woman whom he loved,/ And murdered in her bed... And all men kill the thing they love,/ By all let this be heard,/ Some do it with a bitter look,/ Some with a flattering word,/ The coward does it with a kiss,/ The brave man with a sword!"
Added 15 years ago by danielleblasko, 0 points
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The Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
5 points - added 15 years ago by danielleblasko - 1 comment
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His longest well-known poem... much too long to quote.
Added 15 years ago by danielleblasko, 0 points
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First Confession by X.J. Kennedy
4 points - added 15 years ago by danielleblasko - 1 comment
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"Until as one feed birds he doled/ Seven our Fathers and a Hail/ Which I to double-scrub my soul/ Intoned twice at the altar rail./ Where Sunday in seraphic light/ I knelt, as full of grace as most,/ And struck my tongue out at the priest:/ A fresh roost for the Holy Ghost."
Added 15 years ago by danielleblasko, 0 points
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Ballad of the Despairing Husband by Robert Creeley
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The Walrus and the Carpenter by Lewis Carroll
2 points - added 15 years ago by danielleblasko -
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Ballad of the Landlord by Langston Hughes
1 point - added 15 years ago by danielleblasko -
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The Daemon Lover -Author Unknown
0 points - added 15 years ago by danielleblasko -
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Simon Lee, The Old Huntsman by William Wordsworth
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The Ballad of Peter Gilligan by William Butler Yeats
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The Ballad of John and Yoko by John Lennon
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The Ballad of Curtis Loew by Allen Collins & Ronnie Van Zant
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The Ballad of the Harp Weaver by Edna St. Vincent Millay
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The Ballad of Ira Hayes by Johnny Cash
-2 points - added 15 years ago by danielleblasko -
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Banks of the Ohio -Author Unknown
-2 points - added 15 years ago by danielleblasko -
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Sir Patrick Spens -Author Unknown
-2 points - added 15 years ago by danielleblasko -
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Frankie and Johnny by Hughie Cannon
-2 points - added 15 years ago by danielleblasko -
18.
Ballad of the Lonely Masturbator by Anne Sexton
-3 points - added 15 years ago by danielleblasko -
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I Hung My Head by Sting
-4 points - added 15 years ago by danielleblasko -
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The Ballad of God- Makers by G.K Chesterton
-5 points - added 15 years ago by danielleblasko -
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