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The term "narrative ballad" has been searched for 97 times before on Poetry Connection. The first time was on January 25th, 2005.
1. Repeat That, Repeat - written by Gerard Manley Hopkins
Read 2381 times on Poetry Connection.
Repeat that, repeat,
Cuckoo, bird, and open ear wells, heart-springs, delightfully sweet,
With a ballad, with a ballad, a rebound
Off trundled timber and scoops of the hillside ground, hollow hollow hollow ground:
The whole landscape flushes on... (Read full poem)
2. The Ballad of M. T. Nutt and His Dog - written by Andrew Barton Paterson
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The Honourable M. T. Nutt
About the bush did jog.
Till, passing by a settler's hut,
He stopped and bought a dog.
Then started homewards full of hope,
Alas, that hopes should fail!
The dog pulled back and took the rope
Beneath the... (Read full poem)
3. Work And Contemplation - written by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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The woman singeth at her spinning-wheel
A pleasant chant, ballad or barcarole;
She thinketh of her song, upon the whole,
Far more than of her flax; and yet the reel
Is full, and artfully her fingers feel
With quick adjustment, provident... (Read full poem)
4. 391. A Tippling Ballad—When Princes and Prelates, etc. - written by Robert Burns
From Poems and Songs. The Harvard Classics. 1909–14..
Published in 1792.
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WHEN Princes and Prelates,
And hot-headed zealots,
A’ Europe had set in a low, a low,
The poor man lies down,
Nor envies a crown,
And comforts himself as he dow, as he dow,
And comforts himself as he dow.
The black-headed eagle,
As... (Read full poem)
5. The Bread-Knife Ballad - written by Robert William Service
From Bar-Room Ballads.
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A little child was sitting Up on her mother's knee
And down down her cheeks the bitter tears did flow.
And as I sadly listened I heard this tender plea,
'Twas uttered in a voice so soft and low.
"Not guilty" said the Jury And the Judge said "Set... (Read full poem)
6. The Ballad of the Anti-Puritan - written by G.K. Chesterton
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They spoke of Progress spiring round,
Of light and Mrs Humphrey Ward--
It is not true to say I frowned,
Or ran about the room and roared;
I might have simply sat and snored--
I rose politely in the club
And said, `I feel a little bored;... (Read full poem)
7. Facility - written by Robert William Service
From Ballads of a Bohemian (Book 1).
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So easy 'tis to make a rhyme,
That did the world but know it,
Your coachman might Parnassus climb,
Your butler be a poet.
Then, oh, how charming it would be
If, when in haste hysteric
You called the page, you learned that he
Was grappling with a... (Read full poem)
9. The Ballad of That P.N. - written by Andrew Barton Paterson
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The shades of night had fallen at last,
When through the house a shadow passed,
That once had been the Genial Dan,
But now become a desperate man,
At question time he waited near,
And on the Premier's startled ear
A voice fell like half... (Read full poem)
10. THE KING OF THULE.* - written by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
From The Poems.
Published in 1853.
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(* This ballad is also introduced in Faust,
where it is sung by Margaret.)
IN Thule lived a monarch,
Still faithful to the grave,
To whom his dying mistress
A golden goblet gave.
Beyond all price he deem'd it,
He quaff'd it at each... (Read full poem)
11. Poem: Silentium Amoris - written by Oscar Wilde
From Poems.
Published in 1881.
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Poem: Silentium Amoris
As often-times the too resplendent sun
Hurries the pallid and reluctant moon
Back to her sombre cave, ere she hath won
A single ballad from the nightingale,
So doth thy Beauty make my lips to fail,
And all my... (Read full poem)
12. 297. Election Ballad for Westerha’ - written by Robert Burns
From Poems and Songs. The Harvard Classics. 1909–14..
Published in 1789.
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THE LADDIES by the banks o’ Nith
Wad trust his Grace 1 wi a’, Jamie;
But he’ll sair them, as he sair’d the King—
Turn tail and rin awa’, Jamie.
Chorus.—Up and waur them a’, Jamie,
Up and waur them... (Read full poem)
13. The Ballad of G. R. Dibbs - written by Andrew Barton Paterson
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This is the story of G.R.D.,
Who went on a mission across the sea
To borrow some money for you and me.
This G. R. Dibbs was a stalwart man
Who was built on a most extensive plan,
And a regular staunch Republican.
But he fell in the... (Read full poem)
14. The Castaway - written by William Cowper
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Obscurest night involv'd the sky,
Th' Atlantic billows roar'd,
When such a destin'd wretch as I,
Wash'd headlong from on board,
Of friends, of hope, of all bereft,
His floating home for ever left.
No braver chief could Albion... (Read full poem)
15. 398. Lord Gregory: A Ballad - written by Robert Burns
From Poems and Songs. The Harvard Classics. 1909–14..
Published in 1793.
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O MIRK, mirk is this midnight hour,
And loud the tempest’s roar;
A waefu’ wanderer seeks thy tower,
Lord Gregory, ope thy door.
An exile frae her father’s ha’,
And a’ for loving thee;
At least some pity on me shaw,... (Read full poem)
16. Ballad of the Moon - written by Federico Garcia Lorca
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The moon came into the forge
in her bustle of flowering nard.
The little boy stares at her, stares.
The boy is staring hard.
In the shaken air
the moon moves her amrs,
and shows lubricious and pure,
her breasts of hard tin.
"Moon, moon,... (Read full poem)
17. 518. Ballad on Mr. Heron’s Election—No. 1 - written by Robert Burns
From Poems and Songs. The Harvard Classics. 1909–14..
Published in 1795.
Read 688 times on Poetry Connection.
WHOM will you send to London town,
To Parliament and a’ that?
Or wha in a’ the country round
The best deserves to fa’ that?
For a’ that, and a’ that,
Thro’ Galloway and a’ that,
Where is the Laird or... (Read full poem)
18. A Ballad Of Suicide - written by G.K. Chesterton
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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;
But just as all the neighbours—on the wall—
Are drawing a long breath to shout... (Read full poem)
19. The Ballad Of The Hanged Men - written by Francois Villon
Published in 1462.
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Men my brothers who after us live,
have your hearts against us not hardened.
For—if of poor us you take pity,
God of you sooner will show mercy.
You see us here, attached.
As for the flesh we too well have fed,
long since it's been devoured... (Read full poem)
20. Prelude - written by Robert William Service
From Bar-Room Ballads.
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To smite Apollo's lyre I am unable;
Of loveliness, alas! I cannot sing.
My lot it i, across the tavern table,
To start a chorus to the strumming string.
I have no gift to touch your heart to pity;
I have no power to ring the note of pain:
All I can... (Read full poem)
21. The Ballad Of Father O'Hart - written by William Butler Yeats
From Crossways.
Published in 1889.
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Good Father John O'Hart
In penal days rode out
To a Shoneen who had free lands
And his own snipe and trout.
In trust took he John's lands;
Sleiveens were all his race;
And he gave them as dowers to his daughters.
And they married beyond their... (Read full poem)
22. The Ballad Of The Proverbs - written by Francois Villon
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So rough the goat will scratch, it cannot sleep.
So often goes the pot to the well that it breaks.
So long you heat iron, it will glow;
so heavily you hammer it, it shatters.
So good is the man as his praise;
so far he will go, and he's... (Read full poem)
23. Song's Eternity - written by John Clare
Published in 1830.
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What is song's eternity?
Come and see.
Can it noise and bustle be?
Come and see.
Praises sung or praises said
Can it be?
Wait awhile and these are dead—
Sigh, sigh;
Be they high or lowly bred
They die.
What is song's eternity?
Come and... (Read full poem)
24. The Ballad of Cockatoo Dock - written by Andrew Barton Paterson
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Of all the docks upon the blue
There was no dockyard, old or new,
To touch the dock at Cockatoo.
Of all the ministerial clan
There was no nicer, worthier man
Than Admiral O'Sullivan.
Of course, we mean E. W.
O'Sullivan, the hero... (Read full poem)
25. 548. The Dean of Faculty: A new Ballad - written by Robert Burns
From Poems and Songs. The Harvard Classics. 1909–14..
Published in 1796.
Read 1072 times on Poetry Connection.
DIRE was the hate at old Harlaw,
That Scot to Scot did carry;
And dire the discord Langside saw
For beauteous, hapless Mary:
But Scot to Scot ne’er met so hot,
Or were more in fury seen, Sir,
Than ’twixt Hal and Bob for the famous... (Read full poem)
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