Ballads

Famous quotes containing the word ballads:

    “Strike on your drummes, spread out your ancyents!
    Sound out your trumpetts, sound out amaine!”
    —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)

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