English Songs and Ballads, compiled by T.W.H. Crosland

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Crosland, T. W. H. (Thomas William Hodgson), 1865-1924

Title

English Songs and Ballads

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Produced by Brian Foley, Jane Robins and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net

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English

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PR: Language and Literatures: English literature

Subject

Songs, English -- Texts

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Text

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41298

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https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/41298

Release Date

November 7, 2012

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Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.ENGLISH SONGS AND BALLADS
2. 2.T.W.H. CROSLAND
3. 3.NOTE
4. 4.INDEX OF FIRST LINES
5. 5.INDEX OF AUTHORS
6. 6.SONGS AND BALLADS
7. 7.MY SWETE SWETYNG
8. 8.THINKING — LORD VAUX
9. 9.THE FALLING OUT OF FAITHFUL FRIENDS — RICHARD EDWARDES
10. 10.THE LOVER'S LUTE — SIR THOMAS WYATT
11. 11.THE PASSIONATE SHEPHERD TO HIS LOVE — CHRISTOPER MARLOWE
12. 12.JOLLY GOOD ALE AND OLD — JOHN STILL
13. 13.PHILLIDA AND CORYDON — NICHOLAS BRETON
14. 14.SPRING — THOMAS NASH
15. 15.MY MIND TO ME A KINGDOM IS — SIR EDWARD DYER
16. 16.DEATH THE LEVELLER — JAMES SHIRLEY
17. 17.YE LITTLE BIRDS THAT SIT AND SING — THOMAS HEYWOOD
18. 18.PACK CLOUDS, AWAY
19. 19.SLEEP — BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER
20. 20.SONG TO PAN
21. 21.ASPATIA'S SONG
22. 22.BEAUTY CLEAR AND FAIR — JOHN FLETCHER
23. 23.LET THE BELLS RING, AND LET THE BOYS SING
24. 24.WEEP NO MORE
25. 25.PAN
26. 26.GOD LYAEUS
27. 27.A BATTLE-SONG
28. 28.MY LADY GREENSLEEVES — ANONYMOUS
29. 29.MY TRUE LOVE — SIR PHILIP SIDNEY
30. 30.DIRGE — JOHN WEBSTER
31. 31.THE SHROUDING
32. 32.CONTENT — THOMAS DEKKER
33. 33.TROLL THE BOWL
34. 34.SIR PATRICK SPENS — ANONYMOUS
35. 35.THE BEGGAR'S DAUGHTER OF BEDNALL-GREEN
36. 36.THE BABES IN THE WOOD
37. 37.ROBIN HOOD AND THE PINDER OF WAKEFIELD
38. 38.THE NUT-BROWN MAID
39. 39.SIR HUGH OF LINCOLN
40. 40.THE GYPSY COUNTESS
41. 41.THERE WERE THREE LADIES
42. 42.THE HEIR OF LINNE
43. 43.THE OLD AND YOUNG COURTIER
44. 44.THE WINNING OF CALES
45. 45.THE BAILIFF'S DAUGHTER OF ISLINGTON
46. 46.CHEVY CHASE
47. 47.THE BATTLE OF AGINCOURT — MICHAEL DRAYTON
48. 48.SONG OF THE ENGLISH BOWMEN — ANONYMOUS
49. 49.WINTER — WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
50. 50.INGRATITUDE
51. 51.FIDELE
52. 52.UNDER THE GREENWOOD TREE
53. 53.SYLVIA
54. 54.SONG
55. 55.A SEA DIRGE
56. 56.OPHELIA'S SONG
57. 57.WHEN DAISIES PIED
58. 58.IT WAS A LOVER
59. 59.SWEET AND TWENTY
60. 60.MUSIC
61. 61.THE PEDLAR
62. 62.SOLDIER'S SONG
63. 63.DOUBT NOT
64. 64.ARIEL
65. 65.SIGH NO MORE, LADIES
66. 66.THE SWEET O' THE YEAR
67. 67.HARK! HARK! THE LARK!
68. 68.OVER HILL, OVER DALE
69. 69.ONE IN TEN
70. 70.PUCK
71. 71.LULLABY
72. 72.SONG
73. 73.CHERRY-RIPE — THOMAS CAMPION
74. 74.LAURA
75. 75.COME, CHEERFUL DAY
76. 76.FOLLOW THY FAIR SUN
77. 77.TO CELIA — BEN JONSON
78. 78.SONG FROM 'CYNTHIA'S REVELS'
79. 79.THE SWEET NEGLECT
80. 80.THE WEAVER'S SONG — ANONYMOUS
81. 81.THE HONEST FELLOW
82. 82.ROBIN GOODFELLOW
83. 83.TIME'S ALTERATION
84. 84.SHALL I, WASTING IN DESPAIR — GEORGE WITHER
85. 85.I LOVED A LASS, A FAIR ONE
86. 86.CHRISTMAS
87. 87.ASK ME NO MORE — THOMAS CAREW
88. 88.NIGHT-PIECE TO JULIA — ROBERT HERRICK
89. 89.THE MAD MAID'S SONG
90. 90.TO BLOSSOMS
91. 91.TO DAFFODILS
92. 92.JULIA
93. 93.TO THE VIRGINS, TO MAKE MUCH OF THEIR TIME
94. 94.TWELFTH NIGHT, OR KING AND QUEEN
95. 95.THE BAG OF THE BEE
96. 96.A THANKSGIVING FOR HIS HOUSE
97. 97.TO PRIMROSES, FILLED WITH MORNING DEW
98. 98.DELIGHT IN DISORDER
99. 99.CHERRY RIPE
100. 100.VIRTUE — GEORGE HERBERT
101. 101.THE SPANISH ARMADO
102. 102.A BALLAD UPON A WEDDING — SIR JOHN SUCKLING
103. 103.WHY SO PALE AND WAN?
104. 104.GO, LOVELY ROSE! — EDMUND WALLER
105. 105.THE FROG HE WOULD A-WOOING RIDE — ANONYMOUS
106. 106.TO ALTHEA, FROM PRISON — RICHARD LOVELACE
107. 107.TO LUCASTA, ON GOING TO THE WARS
108. 108.YE GENTLEMEN OF ENGLAND — MARTIN PARKER
109. 109.THE FAIRY QUEEN — ANONYMOUS
110. 110.THE PRAISE OF A COUNTRYMAN'S LIFE — JOHN CHALKHILL
111. 111.HERE'S A HEALTH — ANONYMOUS
112. 112.BLACK-EYED SUSAN — JOHN GAY
113. 113.ANNIE LAURIE — ANONYMOUS
114. 114.RULE BRITANNIA — JAMES THOMSON
115. 115.WALY, WALY, BUT LOVE BE BONNY — ANONYMOUS
116. 116.SALLY IN OUR ALLEY — HENRY CAREY
117. 117.THE BRAES OF YARROW — WILLIAM HAMILTON
118. 118.THE SHEPHERD'S HOME — WILLIAM SHENSTONE
119. 119.THE DIVERTING HISTORY OF JOHN GILPIN — WILLIAM COWPER
120. 120.THE 'ROYAL GEORGE'
121. 121.BOADICEA
122. 122.HEARTS OF OAK — DAVID GARRICK
123. 123.AN ELEGY ON THE DEATH OF A MAD DOG — OLIVER GOLDSMITH
124. 124.EDWIN AND ANGELINA
125. 125.AULD ROBIN GRAY — LADY ANNE BARNARD
126. 126.WOO'D, AND MARRIED, AND A'. — ALEXANDER ROSS
127. 127.THE BRITISH GRENADIERS — ANONYMOUS
128. 128.HERE'S TO THE MAIDEN — ANONYMOUS
129. 129.BRISTOW TRAGEDY — THOMAS CHATTERTON
130. 130.MINSTREL'S SONG IN ELLA
131. 131.THE PIPER — WILLIAM BLAKE
132. 132.THE TIGER
133. 133.SCOTS WHA HAE — ROBERT BURNS
134. 134.FOR A' THAT
135. 135.A RED, RED ROSE
136. 136.COMIN' THRO' THE RYE
137. 137.PHILLIS THE FAIR
138. 138.AE FOND KISS
139. 139.MY BONNY MARY
140. 140.AFTON WATER
141. 141.FOR THE SAKE OF SOMEBODY
142. 142.WHISTLE, AND I'LL COME TO YE, MY LAD
143. 143.THE DE'IL'S AWA' WI' THE EXCISEMAN
144. 144.LASSIE WI' THE LINT-WHITE LOCKS
145. 145.I LOVE MY JEAN
146. 146.THE HAPPY TRIO
147. 147.JOHN ANDERSON MY JO
148. 148.MY WIFE'S A WINSOME WEE THING
149. 149.DUNCAN GRAY
150. 150.MY AIN KIND DEARIE O
151. 151.THE THORN
152. 152.JOHN BARLEYCORN
153. 153.THE BANKS OF ALLAN WATER — ANONYMOUS
154. 154.DEAR IS MY LITTLE NATIVE VALE — SAMUEL ROGERS
155. 155.A WISH
156. 156.THE FAKENHAM GHOST — Robert Bloomfield
157. 157.THE KEEL ROW — Anonymous
158. 158.THE BLUE BELL OF SCOTLAND — Anonymous
159. 159.THE LAIRD O' COCKPEN — Lady Nairne
160. 160.CALLER HERRIN'
161. 161.TOM BOWLING — Charles Dibdin
162. 162.BLOW HIGH, BLOW LOW
163. 163.THE JOLLY YOUNG WATERMAN
164. 164.THE RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER — SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE
165. 165.THE VICAR OF BRAY — Anonymous
166. 166.THERE'S NAE LUCK ABOUT THE HOUSE — William Julius Mickle
167. 167.THE GIRL I LEFT BEHIND ME — ANONYMOUS
168. 168.EDWARD! EDWARD! — SIR DAVID DALRYMPLE
169. 169.O NANNY, WILT THOU GO WITH ME? — THOMAS PERCY
170. 170.THE FRIAR OF ORDERS GRAY
171. 171.THE INCHCAPE ROCK — ROBERT SOUTHEY
172. 172.THE WELL OF ST. KEYNE
173. 173.THE BATTLE OF BLENHEIM
174. 174.FATHER WILLIAM
175. 175.THE FLOWERS OF THE FOREST — MRS. COCKBURN
176. 176.LUCY GRAY — WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
177. 177.WE ARE SEVEN
178. 178.SHE DWELT AMONG UNTRODDEN WAYS
179. 179.I TRAVELLED AMONG UNKNOWN MEN
180. 180.LOCHINVAR — SIR WALTER SCOTT
181. 181.CORONACH
182. 182.A WEARY LOT IS THINE
183. 183.ALLEN-A-DALE
184. 184.PIBROCH OF DONUIL DHU
185. 185.SONG FROM 'THE PIRATE'
186. 186.ROSABELLE
187. 187.PROUD MAISIE
188. 188.LORD ULLIN'S DAUGHTER — THOMAS CAMPBELL
189. 189.THE SOLDIER'S DREAM
190. 190.EXILE OF ERIN
191. 191.YE MARINERS OF ENGLAND
192. 192.THE BATTLE OF THE BALTIC
193. 193.NAPOLEON AND THE SAILOR
194. 194.THE PARROT
195. 195.HOHENLINDEN
196. 196.MEN OF ENGLAND
197. 197.WHEN THE KYE COMES HAME — JAMES HOGG
198. 198.THE SKYLARK
199. 199.THE YOUNG MAXWELL — ALLAN CUNNINGHAM
200. 200.HAME, HAME, HAME
201. 201.A WET SHEET AND A FLOWING SEA
202. 202.MY NANIE O
203. 203.CANADIAN BOAT-SONG — THOMAS MOORE
204. 204.GO WHERE GLORY WAITS THEE
205. 205.THE HARP THAT ONCE THROUGH TARA'S HALLS
206. 206.RICH AND RARE WERE THE GEMS SHE WORE
207. 207.THE MEETING OF THE WATERS
208. 208.SHE IS FAR FROM THE LAND
209. 209.BELIEVE ME, IF ALL THOSE ENDEARING YOUNG CHARMS
210. 210.LOVE'S YOUNG DREAM
211. 211.THE LAST ROSE OF SUMMER
212. 212.THE MINSTREL-BOY
213. 213.THE TIME I'VE LOST IN WOOING
214. 214.THE LIGHT OF OTHER DAYS
215. 215.THE DESTRUCTION OF SENNACHERIB — LORD BYRON
216. 216.WHEN WE TWO PARTED
217. 217.SONG
218. 218.WE'LL GO NO MORE A-ROVING
219. 219.SHE WALKS IN BEAUTY
220. 220.KING DEATH — B.W. PROCTER
221. 221.SONG FOR TWILIGHT
222. 222.THE BURIAL OF SIR JOHN MOORE AT CORUNNA — CHARLES WOLFE
223. 223.I ARISE FROM DREAMS OF THEE — PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY
224. 224.LAMENT
225. 225.LOVE'S PHILOSOPHY
226. 226.HYMN OF PAN
227. 227.LA BELLE DAME SANS MERCI — JOHN KEATS
228. 228.GAFFER GRAY — THOMAS HOLCROFT
229. 229.THE PILGRIM FATHERS — FELICIA HEMANS
230. 230.THE VOICE OF SPRING
231. 231.THE HOMES OF ENGLAND
232. 232.THE CHILD'S FIRST GRIEF
233. 233.THE GRAVES OF A HOUSEHOLD
234. 234.CASABIANCA
235. 235.THE DREAM OF EUGENE ARAM — THOMAS HOOD
236. 236.THE SONG OF THE SHIRT
237. 237.THE STARS ARE WITH THE VOYAGER
238. 238.RUTH
239. 239.IVRY — LORD MACAULAY
240. 240.THE ARMADA
241. 241.LADY CLARE — LORD TENNYSON
242. 242.THE LORD OF BURLEIGH
243. 243.EDWARD GRAY
244. 244.THE OWL
245. 245.ORIANA
246. 246.THE LADY OF SHALOTT
247. 247.SONG
248. 248.BREAK, BREAK, BREAK
249. 249.THE GOOSE
250. 250.IN AUTUMN
251. 251.AS THROUGH THE LAND AT EVE WE WENT
252. 252.THE BUGLE
253. 253.HOME THEY BROUGHT HER WARRIOR DEAD
254. 254.THE BROOK
255. 255.SWEET AND LOW
256. 256.COME INTO THE GARDEN, MAUD
257. 257.ASK ME NO MORE
258. 258.THE SOLDIER
259. 259.DUSK
260. 260.A FAREWELL
261. 261.THE BEGGAR MAID
262. 262.COME NOT, WHEN I AM DEAD
263. 263.O SWALLOW, SWALLOW
264. 264.THE MILLER'S DAUGHTER
265. 265.LITTLE BILLEE — WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY
266. 266.GREEN FIELDS OF ENGLAND — ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH
267. 267.HOW THEY BROUGHT THE GOOD NEWS FROM GHENT TO AIX — ROBERT BROWNING
268. 268.MARCHING ALONG
269. 269.THE IRISH EMIGRANT — LADY DUFFERIN
270. 270.SONG — LORD HOUGHTON
271. 271.THE LONG-AGO
272. 272.THE SANDS OF DEE — REV. CHARLES KINGSLEY
273. 273.THREE FISHERS
274. 274.AULD LANG SYNE — ROBERT BURNS
275. 275.GOD SAVE THE KING — HENRY CAREY — Transcriber's notes:

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