Poems about Ballad

• Lord Randall

  "Oh where ha'e ye been, Lord Randall, my son!
  And where ha'e ye been, my handsome young man!"

  by Anonymous British 28 lines, 6 comments
• Mermaid I

  AS we lay musing in our beds,
  So well and so warm at ease,

  by Anonymous Olde English 60 lines, 3 comments
• The Jolly Beggar II

  THERE was a jolly beggar, and a begging he was bound,
  And he took up his quarters into a landart town.

  by Anonymous Olde English 32 lines, 3 comments
• Mermaid song IV

  GREENLAND, Greenland, is a bonny, bonny place,
  Whare there’s neither grief nor flowr,

  by Anonymous Olde English 24 lines
• The Jolly Beggar I

  ‘THER is a wife in yone toun-end, an she has dothers three,
  An I wad be a beager for ony of a’ the three.’

  by Anonymous Olde English 54 lines
• The Horkey

  What gossips prattled in the sun,
    Who talk'd him fairly down,

  by Robert Bloomfield 249 lines
• Bonny Mermaid III

  UP and spoke the bonny mermaid,
  Wi the comb and the glass in her hand;

  by Anonymous Olde English 27 lines
• Matty Groves

  A holiday, a holiday, the first one of the year
  Lord Arlen's wife came into church the gospel for to hear.

  by Anonymous British 55 lines
• The Mermaid II

  'Twas Friday morn when we set sail,
  And we had not got far from land,

  by Anonymous British 39 lines

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