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Ballads

by William Makepeace Thackeray

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  1. 1Part I
  2. 2Part II
  3. 3Abd-el-Kader at Toulon
  4. 4The King of Brentford’s Testament
  5. 5The White Squall
  6. 6Peg of Limavaddy
  7. 7May-Day Ode
  8. 8The Ballad of Bouillabaisse
  9. 9The Mahogany Tree
  10. 10The Yankee Volunteers
  11. 11The Pen and the Album
  12. 12Mrs. Katherine’s Lantern
  13. 13Lucy’s Birthday
  14. 14The Cane-Bottom’d Chair
  15. 15Piscator and Piscatrix
  16. 16The Rose Upon My Balcony
  17. 17Ronsard to His Mistress
  18. 18At the Church Gate
  19. 19The Age of Wisdom
  20. 20Sorrows of Werther
  21. 21A Doe in the City
  22. 22The Last of May
  23. 23“Ah, Bleak and Barren Was the Moor”
  24. 24Song of the Violet
  25. 25Fairy Days
  26. 26Pocahontas
  27. 27From Pocahontas
  28. 28Love-Songs Made Easy
  29. 29The Ghazul, or Oriental Love-Song
  30. 30The Merry Bard
  31. 31The Caïque
  32. 32My Nora
  33. 33To Mary
  34. 34Serenade
  35. 35The Minaret Bells
  36. 36Come to the Greenwood Tree
  37. 37Five German Ditties
  38. 38The Chaplet
  39. 39The King on the Tower
  40. 40On a Very Old Woman
  41. 41A Credo
  42. 42Four Imitations of Béranger
  43. 43The King of Yvetot
  44. 44The King of Brentford
  45. 45The Garret
  46. 46Roger-Bontemps
  47. 47Jolly Jack
  48. 48Imitation of Horace — AD Ministram
  49. 49Old Friends With New Faces
  50. 50The Almack’s Adieu
  51. 51When the Gloom Is on the Glen
  52. 52The Red Flag
  53. 53Dear Jack
  54. 54Commanders of the Faithful
  55. 55When Moonlike Ore the Hazure Seas
  56. 56King Canute
  57. 57Friar’s Song
  58. 58Atra Cura
  59. 59Requiescat
  60. 60Lines Upon My Sister’s Portrait
  61. 61The Legend of St. Sophia of Kioff
  62. 62Titmarsh’s Carmen Lilliense
  63. 63The Willow-Tree
  64. 64The Willow-Tree
  65. 65Lyra Hibernica — The Pimlico Pavilion
  66. 66The Crystal Palace
  67. 67Molony’s Lament
  68. 68Mr. Molony’s Account of the Ball
  69. 69The Battle of Limerick
  70. 70Larry O’Toole
  71. 71The Rose of Flora
  72. 72The Last Irish Grievance
  73. 73The Ballads of Policeman X.
  74. 74The Three Christmas Waits
  75. 75Lines on a Late Hospicious Ewent
  76. 76The Ballad of Eliza Davis
  77. 77Damages, Two Hundred Pounds
  78. 78The Knight and the Lady
  79. 79Jacob Homnium’s Hoss
  80. 80The Speculators
  81. 81A Woeful New Ballad
  82. 82The Lamentable Ballad of the Foundling of Shoreditch
  83. 83The Organ-Boy’s Appeal
  84. 84Little Billee
  85. 85The End of the Play
  86. 86Vanitas Vanitatum

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