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Story-Telling Ballads

Story-Telling Ballads

by Frances Jenkins Olcott

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Editor
Olcott, Frances Jenkins, 1872-1963
Title
Story-Telling Ballads Selected and Arranged for Story-Telling and Reading Aloud and for the Boys' and Girls' Own Reading
Credits
E-text prepared by MFR, Susan Carr, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team ( www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive ( archive.org)
Language
English
LoC Class
PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature
Subject
Narrative poetry, English
Category
Text
Project Gutenberg
eBook-No. 63858
Release Date
November 23, 2020
Copyright
Public domain in the USA.

Contents

  1. 1.STORY-TELLING BALLADS
  2. 2.THE FOREWORD — TEACHERS, STORY-TELLERS, AND BALLADS — YOUTH IN THE BALLADS — HOW THE BALLADS GREW — MAKING A COLLECTION FOR CHILDREN
  3. 3.ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  4. 4.CONTENTS
  5. 5.ILLUSTRATIONS
  6. 6.THE SALT BLUE SEAS
  7. 7.THE STORMY WINDS DO BLOW
  8. 8.SIR PATRICK SPENS
  9. 9.THE DÆMON LOVER
  10. 10.THE MERMAID — PART I — PART II — PART III
  11. 11.A-HARROWING O’ THE BORDER
  12. 12.THE GALLOWAY RAID
  13. 13.THE MORE MODERN BALLAD OF CHEVY-CHASE — PART I — PART II
  14. 14.THE BALLAD OF MEIKLE-MOUTHED MEG — BOLD WILLIE SCOTT — THE RAID — THE GALLOWS OR MARRIAGE — YOUNG WILLIE’S MESSENGER — THE GALLOWS-TREE
  15. 15.BELTED WILL — THE ROBBER BARON — THE TRAP O’ BELTED WILL — THE GRIZZLY DWARF
  16. 16.BRAVE HEARTS AND PROUD
  17. 17.EARL HALDAN’S DAUGHTER
  18. 18.LADY CLARE
  19. 19.PROUD LADY MARGARET
  20. 20.THE FAMOUS FLOWER OF SERVING-MEN — PART I — PART II
  21. 21.COCHRANE’S BONNY GRIZZY — PART I — PART II
  22. 22.THE GREETING OF KYNAST
  23. 23.LAYS O’ FAËRIE
  24. 24.THE FAIRY TEMPTER
  25. 25.ALICE BRAND — I — II — III
  26. 26.THE ERL-KING — THE ERL-KING SPEAKS — THE ERL-KING SPEAKS AGAIN — THE ERL-KING SPEAKS AGAIN
  27. 27.THE FAIRY THORN
  28. 28.LA BELLE DAME SANS MERCI
  29. 29.THOMAS THE RHYMER
  30. 30.THE KELPIE OF CORRIEVRECKAN — PART I — PART II
  31. 31.KILMENY
  32. 32.LAYS O’ WONDER
  33. 33.THE WEE WEE MAN
  34. 34.THE EARL OF MAR’S DAUGHTER — PART I — PART II
  35. 35.KEMP OWYNE
  36. 36.THE LADY OF SHALOTT — PART I — PART II — PART III — PART IV
  37. 37.THE SINGING LEAVES — I — II — III
  38. 38.THE LUCK OF EDENHALL
  39. 39.MAY OF THE MORIL GLEN — PART I — PART II — PART III
  40. 40.THE LAIDLEY WORM O’ SPINDLESTON-HEUGHS — PART I — PART II — PART III — PART IV
  41. 41.MERRY GESTES
  42. 42.A TRAGIC STORY
  43. 43.LITTLE BILLEE
  44. 44.BRIAN O’LINN
  45. 45.DICKY OF BALLYMAN
  46. 46.THE BALLAD OF THE OYSTERMAN
  47. 47.THE CINDER KING
  48. 48.THE FROLICKSOME DUKE; OR, THE TINKER’S GOOD FORTUNE
  49. 49.KING JAMES THE FIRST AND THE TINKLER
  50. 50.KING ALFRED AND THE SHEPHERD — PART I—WHEREIN KING ALFRED FIGHTS FOR HIS DINNER — PART II—WHEREIN KING ALFRED BECOMES A SHEPHERD — PART III—WHEREIN KING ALFRED BURNS THE CAKES — PART IV—WHEREIN KING ALFRED BLOWS HIS BUGLE-HORN
  51. 51.SAD GESTES
  52. 52.THE SANDS OF DEE
  53. 53.FAIR ANNY OF ROCH-ROYAL — PART I — PART II
  54. 54.THE CRUEL SISTER
  55. 55.BARBARA ALLEN’S CRUELTY
  56. 56.SONG: EARL MARCH LOOKED ON HIS DYING CHILD
  57. 57.LORD LOVEL
  58. 58.PRETTY MAYS AND KNIGHTS SO BOLD
  59. 59.THE NOBLE RIDDLE
  60. 60.BLANCHEFLOUR AND JELLYFLORICE — PART I — PART II
  61. 61.GLENARA
  62. 62.THE BEGGAR-MAID
  63. 63.LOCHINVAR
  64. 64.THE GAY GOSS-HAWK — PART I — PART II — PART III
  65. 65.BONNY BABY LIVINGSTON — PART I — PART II — PART III
  66. 66.HYND HORN
  67. 67.YOUNG BEICHAN AND SUSIE PYE — PART I — PART II
  68. 68.THE CHILD OF ELLE — PART I — PART II — PART III
  69. 69.FOR HALLOWEEN AND MIDSUMMER EVE
  70. 70.THE SPELL
  71. 71.THE YOUNG TAMLANE — PART I — PART II
  72. 72.THE WIFE OF USHER’S WELL
  73. 73.SIR ROLAND
  74. 74.THE SKELETON IN ARMOUR
  75. 75.SWEET WILLIAM’S GHOST
  76. 76.THE EVE OF ST. JOHN — PART I — PART II — PART III
  77. 77.ALL UNDER THE GREENWOOD TREE
  78. 78.THE BIRTH O’ ROBIN HOOD
  79. 79.ROBIN HOOD AND LITTLE JOHN
  80. 80.ROBIN HOOD AND CLORINDA
  81. 81.SONG OF THE OUTLAW MURRAY — PART I — PART II — PART III — PART IV
  82. 82.VALENTINE AND URSINE — PART I — PART II — PART III — PART IV
  83. 83.O’ PILGRIMAGE AND SOULS SO STRONG
  84. 84.THE PILGRIM
  85. 85.THE HEART OF THE BRUCE — PART I — PART II — PART III
  86. 86.BARCLAY OF URY
  87. 87.THE TOUCHSTONE
  88. 88.SIR GALAHAD
  89. 89.PILGRIMAGE
  90. 90.THE ROYAL COURT
  91. 91.TRUE VALOUR
  92. 92.PEACE
  93. 93.THE THREE KINGS
  94. 94.APPENDIX
  95. 95.SUGGESTIONS FOR TEACHERS AND LEADERS OF POETRY HOURS — THE BALLADS IN THIS BOOK — PROGRAMME FOR A YEAR OF BALLAD-READING AND STUDY — ONE PERIOD A WEEK FOR FORTY WEEKS — COURSE FOR FORTY WEEKS—ONE PERIOD A WEEK — PROGRAMME FOR AN ENTERTAINMENT — FOR LIBRARIANS AND SOCIAL WORKERS
  96. 96.GLOSSARY AND INDEXES
  97. 97.GLOSSARY
  98. 98.SUBJECT INDEX
  99. 99.INDEX OF FIRST LINES
  100. 100.INDEX OF TITLES AND AUTHORS
  101. 101.FOOTNOTES:
  102. 102.Untitled

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