Ballads

Famous quotes containing the word ballads:

“Lately our poets loiter’d in green lanes,
Content to catch the ballads of the plains;”
—Walter Savage Landor (1775–1864)

“Saint Andrews crosse, that is his guide;”
—Unknown. Sir Andrew Barton. . .

English and Scottish Ballads (The Poetry Bookshelf)

“I am hurt but I am not slaine;
Ile lay mee downe and bleed a-while
And then Ile rise and ffight againe.”
—Unknown. Sir Andrew Barton. . .

English and Scottish Ballads (The Poetry Bookshelf)