Best Ballades
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1.
"Carving," by Leny Roovers
6 points - added 15 years ago by danielleblasko -
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"A Ballade of Theatricals" by G.K. Chesterton
3 points - added 15 years ago by danielleblasko -
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"The Southern Road" by Dudley Randall
3 points - added 15 years ago by danielleblasko - 1 comment
Comments:
"There the black river, boundary to hell,/ And here the iron bridge, the ancient car,/ And grim conductor, who with surly yell/ Forbids white soldiers where the black ones are."
Added 15 years ago by danielleblasko, 0 points
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"The Ballad of Dead Ladies" by Francois Villon
3 points - added 15 years ago by danielleblasko - 1 comment
Comments:
"Where's Heloise, the learned nun,/ For whose sake Abeillard, I ween,/ Lost manhood and put priesthood on?/ (From Love he won such dule and teen!)".
Added 15 years ago by danielleblasko, 0 points
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"The Ballad of the Hanged Man" by Francois Villon
2 points - added 15 years ago by danielleblasko - 1 comment
Comments:
"Rain has washed us, laundered us,/ and the sun has dried us black./ Worse--ravens plucked our eyes hollow/ and picked our beards and brows."
Added 15 years ago by danielleblasko, 0 points
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A Ballade of Suicide by G.K. Chesterton
2 points - added 15 years ago by danielleblasko - 1 comment
Comments:
"The gallows in my garden, people say,/ Is new and neat and adequately tall./ I tie the noose on in a knowing way/ As one that knots his necktie for a ball... The strangest whim has seized me... After all/ I think I will not hang myself today."
Added 15 years ago by danielleblasko, -1 points
7.
"Ballad Makers" by Algernon Charles Swinburne
2 points - added 15 years ago by danielleblasko - 1 comment
Comments:
"But from thy feet now death has washed the mire,/ Love reads out first at head of all our quire,/ Villon, our sad bad glad mad brother's name."
Added 15 years ago by danielleblasko, 0 points
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"Ballade of Dreams" by Rose E. Macaulay
1 point - added 15 years ago by danielleblasko -
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"Ballade [The goat scratches so much it can't sleep]," by Francois Villon
-1 point - added 15 years ago by danielleblasko -
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"Ballade [I die of thirst beside the fountain]," by Francois Villon
-1 point - added 15 years ago by danielleblasko -
11.
"Tree" by Allen Taylor
-1 point - added 15 years ago by danielleblasko -
12.
"The Dance of Death" by Austin Dobson
-1 point - added 15 years ago by danielleblasko -
13.
"Ballade of a Ship" by Edwin Arlington Robinson
-1 point - added 15 years ago by danielleblasko -
14.
"Ballade of Good Counsel" by Geoffrey Chaucer
-2 points - added 15 years ago by danielleblasko -
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"A Ballade of the Scottysshe Kynge by John Skelton
-3 points - added 15 years ago by danielleblasko -
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