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English Songs and Ballads

by T. W. H. Crosland

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  1. 1Note
  2. 2Songs and Ballads
  3. 3Thinking
  4. 4The Falling Out of Faithful Friends
  5. 5The Lover’s Lute
  6. 6The Passionate Shepherd to His Love
  7. 7Jolly Good Ale and Old
  8. 8Phillida and Corydon
  9. 9Spring
  10. 10My Mind to Me a Kingdom Is
  11. 11Death the Leveller
  12. 12Ye Little Birds That Sit and Sing
  13. 13Pack Clouds, Away
  14. 14Sleep
  15. 15Song to Pan
  16. 16Aspatia’s Song
  17. 17Beauty Clear and Fair
  18. 18Let the Bells Ring, and Let the Boys Sing
  19. 19Weep No More
  20. 20Pan
  21. 21God Lyaeus
  22. 22A Battle-Song
  23. 23My Lady Greensleeves
  24. 24My True Love
  25. 25Dirge
  26. 26The Shrouding
  27. 27Troll the Bowl
  28. 28Sir Patrick Spens
  29. 29Part I
  30. 30The Babes in the Wood
  31. 31Robin Hood and the Pinder of Wakefield
  32. 32The Nut-Brown Maid
  33. 33Sir Hugh of Lincoln
  34. 34The Gypsy Countess
  35. 35There Were Three Ladies
  36. 36Part I
  37. 37Part II
  38. 38The Old and Young Courtier
  39. 39The Winning of Cales
  40. 40The Bailiff’s Daughter of Islington
  41. 41Part I
  42. 42The Battle of Agincourt
  43. 43Song of the English Bowmen
  44. 44Winter
  45. 45Ingratitude
  46. 46Fidele
  47. 47Under the Greenwood Tree
  48. 48Sylvia
  49. 49Song
  50. 50A Sea Dirge
  51. 51Ophelia’s Song
  52. 52When Daisies Pied
  53. 53It Was a Lover
  54. 54Sweet and Twenty
  55. 55Music
  56. 56The Pedlar
  57. 57Soldier’s Song
  58. 58Doubt Not — Ariel
  59. 59Sigh No More, Ladies
  60. 60The Sweet o’ the Year
  61. 61Hark! Hark! The Lark!
  62. 62Over Hill, Over Dale
  63. 63One in Ten
  64. 64Puck
  65. 65Lullaby
  66. 66Song
  67. 67Cherry-Ripe
  68. 68Laura
  69. 69Come, Cheerful Day
  70. 70Follow Thy Fair Sun
  71. 71To Celia
  72. 72Song From ‘Cynthia’s Revels’
  73. 73The Sweet Neglect
  74. 74The Weaver’s Song
  75. 75The Honest Fellow
  76. 76Robin Goodfellow
  77. 77Time’s Alteration
  78. 78Shall I, Wasting in Despair
  79. 79I Loved a Lass, a Fair One
  80. 80Christmas
  81. 81Ask Me No More
  82. 82Night-Piece to Julia
  83. 83The Mad Maid’s Song
  84. 84To Blossoms
  85. 85To Daffodils
  86. 86Julia
  87. 87To the Virgins, to Make Much of Their Time
  88. 88Twelfth Night, or King and Queen
  89. 89The Bag of the Bee
  90. 90A Thanksgiving for His House
  91. 91To Primroses, Filled With Morning Dew
  92. 92Delight in Disorder
  93. 93Cherry Ripe
  94. 94Virtue
  95. 95The Spanish Armado
  96. 96A Ballad Upon a Wedding
  97. 97Why So Pale and Wan?
  98. 98Go, Lovely Rose!
  99. 99The Frog He Would A-Wooing Ride
  100. 100To Althea, From Prison
  101. 101To Lucasta, on Going to the Wars
  102. 102Ye Gentlemen of England
  103. 103The Fairy Queen
  104. 104The Praise of a Countryman’s Life
  105. 105Here’s a Health
  106. 106Black-Eyed Susan
  107. 107Annie Laurie
  108. 108Rule Britannia
  109. 109Waly, Waly, but Love Be Bonny
  110. 110Sally in Our Alley
  111. 111The Braes of Yarrow
  112. 112The Shepherd’s Home
  113. 113The Diverting History of John Gilpin
  114. 114The ‘Royal George’
  115. 115Boadicea
  116. 116Hearts of Oak
  117. 117An Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog
  118. 118Edwin and Angelina
  119. 119Auld Robin Gray
  120. 120Woo’d, and Married, and a’. Alexander Ross
  121. 121The British Grenadiers
  122. 122Here’s to the Maiden
  123. 123Bristow Tragedy
  124. 124Minstrel’s Song in Ella
  125. 125The Piper
  126. 126The Tiger
  127. 127Scots Wha Hae
  128. 128For a’ That
  129. 129A Red, Red Rose
  130. 130Comin’ Thro’ the Rye
  131. 131Phillis the Fair
  132. 132Ae Fond Kiss
  133. 133My Bonny Mary
  134. 134Afton Water
  135. 135For the Sake of Somebody
  136. 136Whistle, and I’ll Come to Ye, My Lad
  137. 137The De’il’s Awa’ Wi’ the Exciseman
  138. 138Lassie Wi’ the Lint-White Locks
  139. 139I Love My Jean
  140. 140The Happy Trio
  141. 141John Anderson My Jo
  142. 142My Wife’s a Winsome Wee Thing
  143. 143Duncan Gray
  144. 144My Ain Kind Dearie o
  145. 145The Thorn
  146. 146John Barleycorn
  147. 147The Banks of Allan Water
  148. 148Dear Is My Little Native Vale
  149. 149A Wish
  150. 150The Fakenham Ghost
  151. 151The Keel Row
  152. 152The Blue Bell of Scotland
  153. 153The Laird o’ Cockpen
  154. 154Caller Herrin’
  155. 155Tom Bowling
  156. 156Blow High, Blow Low
  157. 157The Jolly Young Waterman
  158. 158Part I
  159. 159Part II
  160. 160Part III
  161. 161Part IV
  162. 162Part V
  163. 163Part VI
  164. 164Part VII
  165. 165The Vicar of Bray
  166. 166There’s Nae Luck About the House
  167. 167The Girl I Left Behind Me
  168. 168Edward! Edward!
  169. 169O Nanny, Wilt Thou Go With Me?
  170. 170The Friar of Orders Gray
  171. 171The Inchcape Rock
  172. 172The Well of St. Keyne
  173. 173The Battle of Blenheim
  174. 174Father William
  175. 175The Flowers of the Forest
  176. 176Lucy Gray
  177. 177We Are Seven
  178. 178She Dwelt Among Untrodden Ways
  179. 179I Travelled Among Unknown Men
  180. 180Lochinvar
  181. 181Coronach
  182. 182A Weary Lot Is Thine
  183. 183Allen-a-Dale
  184. 184Pibroch of Donuil Dhu
  185. 185Song From ‘The Pirate’
  186. 186Rosabelle
  187. 187Proud Maisie
  188. 188Lord Ullin’s Daughter
  189. 189The Soldier’s Dream
  190. 190Exile of Erin
  191. 191Ye Mariners of England
  192. 192The Battle of the Baltic
  193. 193Napoleon and the Sailor
  194. 194The Parrot
  195. 195Hohenlinden
  196. 196Men of England
  197. 197When the Kye Comes Hame
  198. 198The Skylark
  199. 199The Young Maxwell
  200. 200Hame, Hame, Hame
  201. 201A Wet Sheet and a Flowing Sea
  202. 202My Nanie o
  203. 203Canadian Boat-Song
  204. 204Go Where Glory Waits Thee
  205. 205The Harp That Once Through Tara’s Halls
  206. 206Rich and Rare Were the Gems She Wore
  207. 207The Meeting of the Waters
  208. 208She Is Far From the Land
  209. 209Believe Me, If All Those Endearing Young Charms
  210. 210Love’s Young Dream
  211. 211The Last Rose of Summer
  212. 212The Minstrel-Boy
  213. 213The Time I’ve Lost in Wooing
  214. 214The Light of Other Days
  215. 215The Destruction of Sennacherib
  216. 216When We Two Parted
  217. 217Song
  218. 218We’ll Go No More A-Roving
  219. 219She Walks in Beauty
  220. 220King Death
  221. 221Song for Twilight
  222. 222The Burial of Sir John Moore at Corunna
  223. 223I Arise From Dreams of Thee
  224. 224Lament
  225. 225Love’s Philosophy
  226. 226Hymn of Pan
  227. 227La Belle Dame Sans Merci
  228. 228Gaffer Gray
  229. 229The Pilgrim Fathers
  230. 230The Voice of Spring
  231. 231The Homes of England
  232. 232The Child’s First Grief
  233. 233The Graves of a Household
  234. 234Casabianca
  235. 235The Dream of Eugene Aram
  236. 236The Song of the Shirt
  237. 237The Stars Are With the Voyager
  238. 238Ruth
  239. 239Ivry
  240. 240The Armada
  241. 241Lady Clare
  242. 242The Lord of Burleigh
  243. 243Edward Gray
  244. 244The Owl
  245. 245Oriana
  246. 246The Lady of Shalott
  247. 247Song
  248. 248Break, Break, Break
  249. 249The Goose
  250. 250In Autumn
  251. 251As Through the Land at Eve We Went
  252. 252The Bugle
  253. 253Home They Brought Her Warrior Dead
  254. 254The Brook
  255. 255Sweet and Low
  256. 256Come Into the Garden, Maud
  257. 257Ask Me No More
  258. 258The Soldier
  259. 259Dusk
  260. 260A Farewell
  261. 261The Beggar Maid
  262. 262Come Not, When I Am Dead
  263. 263O Swallow, Swallow
  264. 264The Miller’s Daughter
  265. 265Little Billee
  266. 266Green Fields of England
  267. 267How They Brought the Good News From Ghent to Aix
  268. 268Marching Along
  269. 269The Irish Emigrant
  270. 270Song
  271. 271The Long-Ago
  272. 272The Sands of Dee
  273. 273Three Fishers
  274. 274Auld Lang Syne
  275. 275God Save the King

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