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- 11236
- author: Various
- title: Old Ballads
- date: None
- words: 9678
- flesch: 94
- summary: 'tis to glory we steer, To add something more to this wonderful year: To honour we call you, not press you like slaves: For who are so free as the sons of the waves? Hearts of oak are our ships, Gallant tars are our men; We always are ready: Steady, boys, steady! Hearts of oak, etc. Britannia triumphant, her ships sweep the sea; Her standard is Justice-- her watchword, Be free!
- keywords: adair; allan; alley; auld; banks; body; bonnie; bottã¨l; brow; caller; care; cold; cup; d'ye; darling; daughter; day; dear; death; dee; doth; duncan; dundee; english; eye; fair; father; fill; fine; flowers; free; gay; gentleman; good; gray; hand; happy; heart; heav'n; herrin; home; hunting; jane; john; ken; lads; lang; leather; leave; like; long; love; lovely; malone; man; miller; molly; morning; ne'er; new; night; o'er; o't; oak; ohone; old; peel; pretty; red; robin; rye; sigh; simon; sleep; soul; summer; susan; sweet; syne; thee; thou; thro; thy; time; tom; town; true; twas; water; widow; wife; wilt; wish; wreath; young
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- 11260
- author: Gregory, Lady
- title: The Kiltartan History Book
- date: None
- words: 13833
- flesch: 88
- summary: I heard it at a wake, and I would believe it, and if I had time to put my mind to it, and if I was not on the road from Loughrea to Ballyvaughan, I could give you the foundations of it better. They have talked of him by their fire-sides for two thousand years or so; at first earlier myths gathered around him, and then from time to time any unusual feats of skill or cunning shown off on one or another countryside, till many of the stories make him at the last grotesque, little more than a clown.
- keywords: bad; battle; best; better; big; carolan; country; cromwell; danes; daughter; day; days; dead; death; dinner; drink; end; england; english; father; goban; god; good; gort; grand; great; great man; hat; history; home; house; howley; ireland; irish; judge; king; lady; law; left; like; little; living; long; lord; man; men; money; morning; napoleon; night; o'connell; old; parnell; people; place; poor; pounds; priest; queen; road; rogue; scotch; soldiers; son; thing; thought; time; town; war; way; white; wife; woman; wonder; world; years; young
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- 15618
- author: Thackeray, William Makepeace
- title: The Loving Ballad of Lord Bateman
- date: None
- words: 2993
- flesch: 76
- summary: [Illustration: Musical Score] The Loving Ballad Of Lord Bateman. [Illustration: Lord Bateman as he appeared previous to his embarkation.]
- keywords: avay; bateman; bride; country; daughter; fair; father; footnote; foreign; free; illustration; lady; long; lord; lord bateman; lordship; love; marriage; mother; news; northumberland; porter; prisin; proud; sevin; sophia; strong; time; turk; vent; vill; vos; vot; words; wow; years; young
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- 21300
- author: Various
- title: Cowboy Songs, and Other Frontier Ballads
- date: None
- words: 57436
- flesch: 87
- summary: But I left it down on the Rio Grande; The fact is, old boy, the stuff is so poor I don't think you could use it in hell anymore. There was good old times in Salt Lake That never can pass by, It was there I first spied My China girl called Wi.
- keywords: angel; antelope; arizona; arkansaw; arms; away; awful; baby; bad; ball; ballads; bar; beat; bed; beef; beneath; bess; best; betsy; better; big; bill; black; blanket; blood; blow; blue; bob; bold; bonnie; bosom; boss; bow; boys; brand; brave; break; breast; brigham; bright; broke; broncho; brother; brown; bucking; buffalo; bye; california; camp; care; cattle; chain; change; cheer; cheyenne; chief; child; chir; chopo; chuck; city; claim; clink; clothes; cold; coming; comrade; cook; country; cowboy; cross; cry; cuss; cut; damn; dance; dark; darling; darned; day; days; dead; dear; death; deep; deer; devil; die; dixie; dogies; door; double; draw; dream; dreary; drink; drive; dry; early; eyes; face; fair; fall; fannie; farewell; fast; fate; father; fear; feel; feet; fellow; fill; fire; fly; footnote; free; friends; frontier; fun; gal; gay; gentle; girl; git; glory; god; goin'; gold; good; good old; goodbye; grass; gray; great; green; guard; gun; hair; half; hand; happy; hard; hat; head; heart; hearted; hell; help; herd; hide; high; hills; hog; hold; hole; home; hope; horn; horse; hoss; hurrah; indians; jack; james; jesse; jim; joe; john; jolly; joy; kansas; kind; land; late; lead; left; lie; lies; life; lightning; like; line; little; little old; live; living; load; lone; lonesome; long; look; lord; love; low; man; married; mary; meet; men; mexico; mighty; mind; mollie; money; montana; moore; mormon; morning; mother; mountains; mourn; mules; mus; music; native; new; news; night; o'er; oft; old; old man; ones; paint; parents; past; pay; peak; people; pike; place; plains; play; pony; poor; prairie; prayer; pretty; puncher; race; railroad; rain; ral; ranch; ranches; range; rangers; ready; red; refrain; rest; ride; riders; riding; river; road; roam; roll; root; rope; rosin; round; run; saddle; sam; sand; saw; set; shanty; shore; shot; silver; sing; sister; skew; skies; sky; sleep; slow; snow; sod; song; soul; south; spirit; spring; spurs; star; state; stay; steer; stop; story; straight; stranger; strike; summer; sun; sure; sweet; sweetheart; tale; tear; tell; texas; thing; thought; time; tis; town; trail; tree; true; turn; twas; uncle; valley; voice; wagon; want; water; way; west; wheel; whiskey; white; whoa; whoo; wide; wife; wild; wind; winter; wish; wonder; wood; words; work; world; wrong; yah; years; yip; young; youpy
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- 21723
- author: None
- title: Songs of the Cattle Trail and Cow Camp
- date: None
- words: 28125
- flesch: 90
- summary: An' we 'lowed he'd go a-beggin' If you think my fame needs brightnin', Why, I'll rope a streak o' lightnin' An' spur it up an' quirt it till it's broke.
- keywords: adams; air; anonymous; baby; badger; balance; ball; bar; barton; beat; belle; best; bet; big; bill; bird; bit; black; blood; blue; bob; bold; boys; brand; break; breath; bright; broke; broncho; brown; brush; bunch; bust; calling; camp; cattle; chaps; charles; chin; christmas; city; clark; clear; close; clown; cowboy; cowman; coyote; cross; cut; dance; dark; day; days; dead; dear; death; deep; dempsey; desert; devil; dim; dream; drink; dust; earth; east; end; eyed; eyes; face; fair; far; fear; feel; feelin; feet; feller; fer; fiddle; fit; free; friends; fun; fur; girl; git; glory; god; goin'; golden; good; grande; grass; grave; greaser; gun; hair; half; hand; happy; hard; hawse; head; heart; hell; herd; hide; high; hills; hold; hollow; home; hoofs; horse; hoss; james; jes; jim; john; juan; kin; kind; ladies; land; laugh; law; leather; left; lies; life; like; line; lion; lips; little; lomax; lonely; long; look; loose; love; low; mackenzie; mad; man; marta; men; mighty; miles; moon; morning; mountain; music; near; need; new; night; o'er; ol'; old; open; outlaw; pard; past; pepita; place; plain; play; poor; prairies; quick; quiet; race; rain; ranch; range; ready; red; rest; ride; ridin; rio; river; road; roll; rope; rough; round; run; saddle; sage; sal; sand; sea; sheep; shot; sich; sky; smile; snagtooth; soft; song; sort; soul; spring; spurs; squeak; stars; steer; stranger; strong; sun; sure; sweet; swing; talk; tenderfoot; texas; thar; things; thought; thunder; time; tom; tonight; toros; town; track; trail; tune; turn; twas; verse; voice; walkin; war; water; way; weary; west; western; wheel; whiskey; white; wide; wild; wind; wish; woman; work; world; y'u; years; yer; yip; young
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- 22081
- author: Canning, George
- title: Parodies of Ballad Criticism (1711-1787) A Comment Upon the History of Tom Thumb, 1711, by William Wagstaffe; The Knave of Hearts, 1787, by George Canning
- date: None
- words: 12848
- flesch: 71
- summary: Here _Scriblerus_, who, by the bye, is very fond of making unnecessary alterations, proposes reading _Score_ instead of _sore_, meaning thereby to particularize, that the beating bestowed by this Monarch, consisted of _twenty_ stripes. Then I propos'd a Dedication to my Lord _such an One_, or Sir _Thomas such an One_; but he told me the Stock to be rais'd on Dedications was so small now a Days, and the Discount to my Lord's Gentleman, _&c._
- keywords: account; addison; age; agreeable; ancient; arthur; augustan; author; ballad; beginning; best; body; california; canning; canto; century; certain; character; charles; chase; chevy; children; collection; college; comment; commentator; court; critical; criticism; critique; custom; day; death; design; dryden; easy; edition; end; english; epic; equal; essay; established; eton; example; far; father; fine; footnote; friend; general; genius; gentleman; george; gives; good; great; greatest; hearts; henry; hero; history; homer; hope; horace; interest; introduction; john; johnson; kind; king; knave; knight; language; later; latin; letter; life; light; like; line; little; london; los; majesty; man; manner; matter; mention; microcosm; middle; mind; modern; nature; near; new; notes; number; object; old; opinion; ovid; paper; parody; passages; person; pieces; plain; poem; poet; poetical; poetry; polite; present; pudding; queen; readers; reading; run; samuel; scriblerus; second; shakespeare; shou'd; simple; simplicity; sir; society; sort; spectator; subject; swift; tarts; taste; text; thing; thomas; thumb; time; tis; title; tom; tom thumb; tree; true; university; virgil; volume; wagstaffe; way; william; wit; wood; work; world; wou'd; writers; year
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- 22175
- author: MacGregor, Mary Esther Miller
- title: Stories from the Ballads, Told to the Children
- date: None
- words: 20149
- flesch: 93
- summary: Thus, much to the delight of little Prince Horn, two boys, almost as old as he was, came to live with him in the palace. And near to the stone flows a little river which has been named the Goblin Brook, for by its banks it was believed that Thomas the Rhymer used to talk with little men from the land of Elf.
- keywords: alymer; beautiful; beggar; bells; bonny; boy; bride; bright; brothers; carterhaugh; castle; church; city; cold; country; daughter; day; days; dear; donald; door; earl; edinburgh; eildon; elfin; elfland; ere; etin; eyes; face; fair; far; fast; father; folk; gate; gay; goshawk; green; greenwood; hair; hand; head; heart; highlands; home; horn; hynde; hynde horn; janet; jean; john; king; knight; lady; laird; land; leave; left; lindsay; little; lizzie; logie; long; lord; love; maiden; man; margaret; mother; mury; nay; old; palace; pale; princess; queen; ring; room; save; saw; sea; sir; son; song; sweet; tamlane; thee; thomas; thou; thought; tree; true; wee; white; william; wish; years; young
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- 22223
- author: None
- title: English Songs and Ballads
- date: None
- words: 75233
- flesch: 90
- summary: Ill is the weather that bringeth no gain, Nor helps good hearts in need. Ill is the weather that bringeth no gain, Nor helps good hearts in need.
- keywords: adieu; agincourt; allen; ancient; anonymous; answer; apace; arms; ask; auld; awa; aye; babes; bade; banks; bare; battle; beat; beauty; bed; bee; beggar; bell; beneath; bessee; best; better; bird; birth; black; blame; blew; blind; bliss; blood; blow; blue; boat; body; bold; bonie; bonny; bosom; bow; boy; boys; braes; brave; break; breast; breath; breeze; bride; bright; british; broad; broken; brother; brow; bugle; busk; buy; caller; cam; camelot; cap; care; cast; cause; change; charles; chase; cheer; child; children; church; clad; clear; close; cloth; coal; cock; cold; come; coming; content; country; courtier; crew; cross; crown; cruel; cry; cuckoo; cum; cup; curse; dale; dance; dark; darling; daughter; day; days; dead; dear; dearie; death; deck; deep; deer; degree; delight; dew; door; dost; doth; douglas; draw; dream; drink; drop; dry; duncan; earl; earth; edward; england; english; ere; erin; evening; eyes; face; fair; faithful; fall; fame; far; fare; farewell; fast; fate; father; fear; feet; field; find; fine; fire; flew; flow; flowers; fly; foe; follow; fond; foot; forest; forth; fortune; frae; free; french; friends; friendship; gallant; gang; garden; gate; gay; gentle; gentlemen; george; gilpin; girl; glad; glen; glory; god; gold; golden; good; goose; gown; grace; grass; gray; great; green; greensleeves; grey; grief; grow; gude; guest; hae; hair; half; hall; hame; hand; happy; hard; hark; harm; haste; hath; head; heart; heaven; heavy; heir; henry; hermit; herrin; hey; hid; high; hill; hold; holy; home; honest; honour; hour; house; hugh; humble; husband; james; john; john o; jolly; joy; keel; kind; king; kiss; knee; kye; ladies; lady; land; lang; lark; lassie; late; lay; leave; left; length; lie; lies; life; like; lily; linne; lips; little; live; lochinvar; locks; london; lonesome; long; look; lord; loud; love; lovely; lovers; loving; lucy; lullaby; lute; luve; maid; maiden; main; mair; man; mankind; mariner; marriage; married; mary; master; maun; meat; meet; men; merrily; merry; mind; mist; moon; morning; mother; mountain; music; nae; nanie; native; nature; nay; ne'er; near; neck; need; new; night; noble; noon; note; nought; o'er; o't; oak; ocean; old; oriana; pain; pale; pass; past; percy; pinder; pipe; pity; place; play; pleasant; pleasure; poor; power; praise; pray; pretty; proud; prove; queen; quoth; rain; rare; ready; red; rest; rich; ripe; rise; river; robert; robin; rock; rose; round; row; rye; sad; sae; sails; saint; sally; saw; scales; scarce; scorn; scotland; sea; secret; seek; set; shade; shadow; shalott; ship; shore; shroud; sigh; silence; silent; silver; sing; singing; sir; sister; sit; sky; slain; sleep; small; smile; snow; soft; soldier; song; sons; sorrow; soul; spake; spears; spirit; spread; spring; stand; stars; state; stay; steed; stone; stormy; stout; stranger; stream; strong; summer; sun; sure; swallow; sweet; sweetest; sweetly; swete; sword; syne; tale; tara; tears; tell; tender; thee; thick; thine; things; thomas; thou; thought; thro; thy; tide; time; tis; tongue; town; traitor; tree; trolollie; true; truth; turn; twas; vain; vale; voice; wad; wall; waly; want; watch; water; waves; way; wealth; weary; weather; wedding; weel; weep; welcome; wend; went; west; wet; wha; whistle; white; wide; wife; wild; william; willow; wilt; wind; wine; wings; winsome; winter; wish; woe; woman; won; wood; wooing; words; work; world; wrong; yarrow; year; yellow; yon; yonder; young; youth
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- 26679
- author: None
- title: Wit and Mirth: or Pills to Purge Melancholy, Vol. 5 of 6
- date: None
- words: 47375
- flesch: 95
- summary: In this fair Monument which you see, Adorn'd with so many Pillars; Doth lie the Countess of _Buckingham_, And her Husband, Sir _George Villers_. And thus of Old Soldiers, ye hear the Fame, But ne'er so many of one House and Name, And all of old _John Lord Viscount_ of _
- keywords: advance; age; alas; ale; alfred; altho; appear; bear; beauty; bed; best; better; bid; black; blind; blood; body; bold; bonny; boobee; bottle; bowl; boys; brave; bright; brown; call'd; care; cease; chance; charming; charms; city; cold; commons; complain; consent; country; court; cruel; cry'd; cuckolds; cupid; cure; cælia; damon; dance; daughter; day; days; dead; dear; death; delight; deny; desire; despair; devil; disdain; divine; doctor; dog; door; doth; draw; drink; dry; dub; duke; dull; dundee; dy'd; eccho; eccles; ev'ry; eyes; face; fair; faith; fall; false; fame; farewel; fast; fate; father; fear; fiddle; fill; fine; fire; fit; fly; fool; fortune; france; free; freedom; french; friend; fryer; gallant; game; gang; gates; gay; gentle; gilderoy; gillian; god; gods; gold; good; grant; great; ground; half; hand; happy; hard; hast; hate; head; heart; help; henry; hey; high; hills; hither; hold; home; hone; honest; honour; house; hur; husband; irish; ise; jenny; jigg; joan; jockey; john; jolly; jovial; joy; joys; kind; king; kiss'd; known; ladies; lady; lass; lasses; late; lead; leave; leg; lies; life; like; little; live; london; long; longer; look; lord; lot; loud; lov'd; love; lovely; lovers; lye; mad; maid; man; mary; master; meat; meet; men; merchant; merry; mighty; mill; mind; moggy; money; mortal; mother; mrs; mug; music; nation; nature; nay; ne'er; near; new; night; noble; nymphs; o'er; old; open; passion; past; pay; peggy; people; phillis; pity; pitying; place; plain; play; pleasure; poor; pot; pretty; pride; prithee; proud; prove; pursue; queen; quoth; rest; reward; rich; ring; rose; rules; run; sad; saw; self; shepherd; shew; ship; shou'd; sidenote; sir; sister; small; smile; soft; soldier; song; stand; state; stay; stone; stout; strephon; sun; swain; sweet; sword; sylvia; tell; thee; things; thou; thought; thousands; thro; thy; time; tis; tom; town; trade; true; truth; tune; turn; twas; unconstant; vain; venture; venus; view; vigo; voice; want; way; white; whore; wife; wine; wise; wish; wit; wives; woman; words; world; wou'd; year; yield; young; youth
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- 26715
- author: None
- title: Victorian Songs: Lyrics of the Affections and Nature
- date: None
- words: 24113
- flesch: 91
- summary: Walter Savage Landor_ 131 In Love, if Love be Love, if Love be ours _Alfred Tennyson_ 217 Into the Devil tavern _George Walter Thornbury_ 225 In Love, if Love be Love, if Love be ours, Faith and unfaith can ne'er be equal powers: Unfaith in aught is want of faith in all.
- keywords: alfred; angels; awake; baby; barry; beacon; beauty; bell; best; bird; blossom; blow; blue; break; breast; breath; bright; brown; calm; care; charles; cheek; child; christina; clear; cold; come; cornwall; cup; dark; darling; day; days; dead; dear; death; decoration; deep; dew; divine; dolly; douglas; dream; drink; earth; eyes; faint; fair; fall; far; feet; fine; flowers; free; fresh; garden; george; god; golden; good; grass; great; green; hair; half; hand; happy; head; heart; heaven; hill; home; hours; iii; illustration; ivy; james; joy; june; king; kiss; ladies; lady; landor; lay; leaf; leaves; lie; lies; life; like; lips; little; long; look; lord; love; lovely; lullaby; lyrical; maid; man; mary; meet; men; merry; message; mighty; moon; morning; mother; music; new; night; o'er; old; page; pain; pale; peace; phyllida; plate; pleasant; pleasure; poetry; procter; pure; rain; rare; red; rest; rise; rose; rossetti; rosy; round; sad; savage; sea; serenade; set; shadow; sing; singing; skies; sleep; smile; snow; soft; song; sorrow; soul; spirit; spring; stars; summer; sun; sweet; swinburne; tears; tender; tennyson; thee; thine; thomas; thou; thought; thrush; thy; time; tongue; touch; tree; true; turn; verse; victorian; violet; voice; walter; warm; wheel; white; wide; wife; wild; william; winds; wine; winter; words; work; world; year; young; youth
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- 27129
- author: None
- title: Lyrics from the Song-Books of the Elizabethan Age
- date: None
- words: 38204
- flesch: 92
- summary: Kind in unkindness, when will you relent And cease with faint love true love to torment? Still entertained, excluded still I stand; Her glove still hold, but cannot touch the hand. O stay, sweet love; see here the place of sporting (Farmer)
- keywords: adieu; airs; awake; ballets; bateson; beauty; best; birds; blessèd; bliss; book; boy; break; breast; bright; byrd; campion; canzonets; care; cause; change; chief; choice; circ; clear; close; cold; collection; come; composer; content; corkine; country; court; cruel; crystal; cupid; dance; day; days; dead; dear; death; delight; desire; despair; die; discourse; disdain; divine; doth; dowland; dwell; earth; ease; elizabethan; england; english; eyes; face; fair; faith; fall; false; false love; fame; fancy; farewell; farmer; fast; fear; fire; flowers; fly; follies; fond; force; ford; form; fortune; fourth; free; friends; gain; gay; god; golden; good; grace; great; green; grief; hand; happy; hate; hath; head; heart; heaven; heavenly; heavy; henry; hey; high; hold; home; honour; hope; hours; idle; john; john dowland; jones; joy; joys; kind; kiss; kisses; knave; known; la la; lady; late; lies; life; like; lips; little; long; looks; lord; love; love doth; lovely; lovers; lute; lyrics; madrigals; man; maynard; melismata; men; merry; mind; mistress; morley; morning; mother; mouse; mundy; music; musical; natures; ne'er; near; new; nightingale; nymphs; old; page; pain; parts; pilkington; pipe; pity; place; play; pleasant; pleasure; poems; poetry; poor; power; praise; present; pretty; pride; proud; psalms; queen; raleigh; rare; ravenscroft; reader; reason; red; rest; return; rich; ripe; rise; robert; robin; roses; rosseter; round; run; sad; scorn; second; second book; set; shepherd; sight; simple; sing; sit; sleep; smiles; songs; sonnets; sorrow; soul; spirits; spite; sport; spring; stand; stanza; strange; summer; sun; sundry; sweet; sweet love; sweetest; tears; tell; thee; thine; things; thomas; thomas campion; thomas weelkes; thou; thoughts; thy; time; tis; took; town; treasure; tree; true; true love; truth; turn; ultimum; untrue; vain; vale; verses; voices; want; wanton; way; wealth; weelkes; white; wilbye; william; wilt; wind; winter; wise; wit; woe; women; words; work; world; wrong; year; yield; young; youth
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- 27401
- author: Swinburne, Algernon Charles
- title: Poems & Ballads (Second Series) Swinburne's Poems Volume III
- date: None
- words: 26197
- flesch: 78
- summary: The old days are full of dead old loves of ours, Born as a rose, and briefer born than she; Couldst thou not watch with me? IX Could two days live again of that dead year, One would say, seeking us and passing here, _Where is she?_ and one answering, _Where is he?_ What far delight has cooled the fierce desire That like some ravenous bird was strong to tire On that frail flesh and soul consumed with flame, But left more sweet than roses to respire, Villon, our sad bad glad mad brother's name? ENVOI Prince of sweet songs made out of tears and fire, A harlot was thy nurse, a God thy sire; Shame soiled thy song, and song assoiled thy shame.
- keywords: age; april; ballad; bare; barren; bear; beauty; bed; bird; birth; bitter; black; blind; blood; blown; breasts; breath; brethren; bright; broken; brother; burn; care; change; child; close; cold; cry; dark; darkness; dawn; day; days; dead; dear; death; deep; delight; desire; dim; divine; dreams; dumb; dust; earth; end; england; ere; est; evil; eyes; face; fain; fair; fall; fallen; far; fast; father; fear; fed; feet; fields; fierce; fiery; fill; fire; flame; flesh; flower; fly; flying; foam; foot; form; foul; free; friend; fruit; garden; ghost; glad; god; gods; gold; golden; good; grace; great; green; grey; grief; hair; half; hand; hard; hate; hath; head; healer; heart; heaven; height; hell; help; high; higher; honey; hope; hour; iii; jour; joy; keen; king; kiss; land; laugh; leaf; leaves; les; lie; lies; life; light; like; limbs; lips; live; living; long; look; lord; lost; loud; love; lovers; mad; makes; man; meet; memory; men; monde; moon; morning; mortal; mother; mouth; music; nay; new; old; pain; pale; pass; passage; past; place; poems; poor; power; praise; quicken; rain; red; rest; rise; rose; round; sad; saith; sake; salt; sand; sea; season; secret; seed; sense; shade; shadow; shed; shore; shrine; shut; singing; skies; sleep; sleeping; small; snow; soft; song; sons; sorrow; soul; speech; spirit; spring; star; strange; strength; strong; summer; sun; sunflower; sunrise; sunset; sur; sweet; swift; tears; thee; thine; things; thorns; thou; thought; thunder; thy; tide; time; ton; touch; tree; truth; twain; victor; vii; villon; vision; warm; wast; watch; wave; way; ways; weep; white; wide; wild; wind; wine; wings; winter; wise; words; work; world; worth; wrong; year
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- 2831
- author: None
- title: A Bundle of Ballads
- date: None
- words: 41339
- flesch: 92
- summary: So forth be gone these good yeomen, As fast as they might hie; And after came and dwelt with the King, And died good men all three. -- Tham luiks to freits, my master dear, Then freits will follow thame: Let it neir be said brave Edom o' Gordon Was daunted by a dame!-- But when the ladie see the fire Come flaming o'er her head, She wept and kissed her children twain, Said, Bairns, we been but dead!
- keywords: abb; abbot; adam; allen; ane; anon; archers; arrow; auld; avow; bade; ballad; barbara; battle; bear; beggar; bell; bent; bespake; bessee; best; better; blind; blood; body; bold; bow; bows; braes; brand; brave; brethren; bride; bring; brother; brown; captain; care; carlisle; cast; charlie; chase; cheer; cheviot; chevy; children; christ; cloak; cloth; cloudeslie; clough; clym; cold; come; comely; company; cow; daughter; day; days; dead; dear; death; deed; deer; degree; dine; dinner; door; doth; doughty; douglas; drink; dwell; earl; edom; edward; end; england; english; ere; evil; face; fain; fair; faith; false; fare; fast; father; fear; fee; fine; flee; foot; forth; free; french; friend; fytte; gallant; gan; gang; garl; gentle; ghost; glad; god; gold; good; good rob; gordon; grace; gray; great; green; green willow; green wood; ground; gude; hair; half; hame; hand; harm; hast; hath; head; heart; help; henry; hie; high; hold; home; hood; horn; hour; house; hunting; james; jamie; john; joy; justice; kill; kind; king; knee; knight; ladie; lady; land; lang; late; law; lay; leave; life; like; little; little john; live; long; longer; look; lord; love; maid; mair; man; mankind; margret; mark; master; meat; meet; men; merry; mind; monk; mote; mother; nae; nay; need; new; noble; nottingham; o willow; o'er; oath; old; pair; pale; patrick; pay; percy; pity; place; poor; porter; pound; pretty; proud; queen; quoth; ready; red; rest; rich; right; robin; robin hood; rode; room; sad; sae; sall; scotland; scots; scottish; sea; set; sheriff; ship; shot; sing; sir; sister; sith; slain; son; song; sore; sorrow; spake; spear; spend; stand; stay; straight; strong; sure; sweet; tale; tanner; tears; thee; thereto; thine; thou; thought; thy; time; town; tree; troth; trow; true; wan; water; way; welcome; wend; white; wife; william; willow; wilt; wind; wine; winter; wis; woe; woman; wood; word; worthy; year; yeomen; yonder; young
- versions: original; plain text
- 33404
- author: None
- title: Wit and Mirth: or Pills to Purge Melancholy, Vol. 6 of 6
- date: None
- words: 50943
- flesch: 95
- summary: [Music] When _Sylvia_ was kind, and Love play'd in her Eyes, We thought it no Morning till _Sylvia_ did rise; Of _Sylvia_ the Hills and the Vallies all Rang, For she was the Subject of every Song. Tune, _Let_ CÆSAR _rejoyce_.
- keywords: ale; away; banter'd; battle; beat; beauty; bed; beer; belly; best; better; bid; black; blind; bliss; blith; blood; blow; body; bold; bonny; boo; bow; boys; brave; break; breast; bright; brooms; call'd; care; cause; charming; charms; chloe; church; city; close; cold; come; company; corinna; cou'd; country; court; coy; crew; cruel; cry'd; cunning; cupid; curse; cælia; damon; day; dear; death; declare; delight; deny; desire; despair; disdain; dog; doings; door; doth; dress; drink; drinking; drums; drunkard; duke; dull; dye; eager; ease; eccles; enjoy; ev'ry; eyes; face; fair; fall; false; farewel; fast; fate; father; favour; fear; feet; fill; fine; fire; fit; flowers; fly; fond; fool; france; free; french; fresh; friends; fye; gay; gentle; glass; god; gods; gold; good; gossip; grace; grant; great; greatest; green; grief; grime; grown; hair; half; hall; hand; happy; hast; haut; head; health; heart; henry; hey; hide; high; home; honest; honour; hope; hostess; houses; hugh; husband; huzza; ise; jack; jealousy; jenny; joan; jockey; john; johnny; jolly; jove; joy; joys; kind; king; kiss; kisses; know; ladies; lady; land; languish; late; laugh; lead; leave; left; length; lies; life; like; liquor; little; london; long; look; lord; lov'd; love; lovers; loving; low; lye; maid; making; man; march; marlborough; married; mars; master; mean; meet; men; merry; mighty; mind; mirth; miss; money; monsieur; morning; morrow; mortal; mother; mrs; music; nature; nay; ne'er; new; night; noble; noon; nose; nymph; o'er; old; page; pain; panting; passion; past; pay; peace; phillis; pity; play; pleasure; poor; power; pox; praise; pray; pretty; pride; prince; prithee; purcell; queen; quoth; rare; ready; reason; red; rest; return; rich; rise; round; royal; rule; run; sad; scorn; sea; second; self; sense; set; sha; shepherd; shine; shot; shou'd; sigh; sir; sleep; small; smile; smock; soft; song; soul; stand; state; stay; store; stout; strephon; sung; swain; sweet; sword; sylvia; talk; taylor; tears; thee; thing; tho; thou; thought; thro; thump; time; tinker; tis; tom; toping; town; trade; treasure; true; trumpets; try'd; tune; turn'd; twas; undone; unkind; us'd; vain; venus; want; war; wars; way; weather; welcome; white; widow; wife; wine; wise; wish; wit; wives; women; wood; wooing; words; work; world; worthy; wou'd; young; youth
- versions: original; plain text
- 35402
- author: Swinburne, Algernon Charles
- title: Poems & Ballads (First Series)
- date: None
- words: 63082
- flesch: 80
- summary: Ah that such sweet things should be fleet, Such fleet things sweet! In sign of sweet things taken hence; Yea, for their sake and in death's favour Things of sweet shape and of sweet savour We yield them, spice and flower and wine; Yea, costlier things than wine or spices, Whereof none knoweth how great the price is, And fruit that comes not of the vine.
- keywords: ache; age; alas; amorous; anither; antiphone; april; arms; ashes; awake; bade; ballad; bare; barren; beat; beautiful; beauty; bed; behold; best; bird; birth; bite; bitter; black; blind; blood; blossom; blown; blue; body; bones; bosom; boy; branches; bread; breast; breath; bride; bright; broken; brows; bud; burden; burning; burns; care; change; cheeks; child; chosen; christ; clear; close; cloven; cold; colour; coloured; cool; corn; cover; cruel; cry; crying; curse; darkness; daughter; dawn; day; days; dead; dear; death; deep; delight; desire; dew; die; dim; dolores; doth; doubt; dove; dramatic; dream; drink; dry; dumb; dust; earth; ease; end; endure; english; ere; evil; eyelids; eyes; face; fail; faint; fair; fairer; fallen; far; fast; fate; father; faustine; fear; fed; feed; feel; feet; fervent; fields; fierce; fiery; filled; fine; fingers; fire; flame; flesh; flight; flower; foam; follow; foot; form; free; friend; fruit; fruitless; félise; gabalus; garden; gate; girdle; glad; glory; god; goddess; gods; gold; golden; good; goodly; grace; gracious; grapes; grass; great; green; grey; grief; grown; growth; hae; hair; half; hands; hard; harsh; hate; hath; head; heart; heaven; heavy; hell; help; hidden; high; hither; hold; holy; honey; hope; hot; hours; house; hurt; iron; joy; keen; kind; king; kiss; kisses; kissing; knees; knowest; labour; lady; land; large; late; laugh; leaf; lean; leaves; left; lest; lie; lies; life; lights; like; likeness; limbs; line; lips; little; live; living; long; look; loose; lord; love; lovers; lust; lute; maiden; makes; man; marvellous; mary; measure; meat; memory; men; mere; merry; mill; mind; mixed; moon; mother; mouth; music; naked; natural; nay; need; new; night; noise; note; o love; ode; open; pain; pale; pass; passage; passion; past; people; perfect; phædra; pity; place; plague; play; pleasant; pleasure; poems; poor; praise; prayer; press; pulse; pure; purple; queen; raiment; rain; reach; red; rest; rhyme; room; root; rose; sad; saith; sake; salt; sand; save; savour; scent; sea; seasons; seed; sense; set; shadow; shaken; shame; sharp; shed; short; shut; sick; sides; sighing; sighs; silver; sin; singing; single; sins; sister; skies; slain; slay; sleep; slow; slumber; small; smite; smooth; snow; soft; son; song; sore; sorrow; soul; sound; space; speech; spirit; splendid; spring; stars; sterile; storm; strange; stream; strength; stricken; strong; subtle; sudden; summer; sun; sunder; sunset; swallow; sweet; sweet lips; sweet love; sweet things; sweeter; swift; sword; tears; teeth; temples; tender; thee; thick; thine; things; thou; thou art; thought; throat; thunder; thy; till; time; token; touch; tree; trod; turn; twain; tyne; vain; veins; venus; verse; vine; voice; wan; warm; waste; watch; water; waves; wax; waxen; ways; weak; weary; weeping; weight; wet; wheat; white; wild; wilt; wind; wine; wings; winter; wise; woman; words; work; world; worth; wot; woven; wrath; wrong; wrought; yea; year; yellow; young
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- 37031
- author: None
- title: English and Scottish Ballads, Volume I
- date: None
- words: 61094
- flesch: 91
- summary: The transformation on which the story turns is found also in Chaucer's _Wife of Bath's Tale_, in Gower's tale of _Florent and the King of Sicily's Daughter_; (_Confessio Amantis_, Book I.) in the ballad of _King Henry_ (page 147 of this volume); and in an Icelandic saga of the Danish king Helgius, quoted by Scott in his illustrations to _King Henry, Minstrelsy_, iii. 274. This ballad was communicated to Sir Walter Scott, (_Minstrelsy_, iii. 195,) by Mr. William Laidlaw, who took it down from recitation.
- keywords: againe; akin; alane; alle; als; alsoe; amang; ancient; ane; anon; appendix; arete; arms; arthur; ask; awa; aye; backe; bade; bairn; baith; ballads; bane; bare; bed; bee; behold; bells; belt; ben; bespake; best; betide; better; birds; black; blood; body; bold; bonny; book; border; bore; born; bot; bothe; boun; bour; bower; boy; brave; breast; breath; bredbeddle; bride; bright; british; brittaine; broom; brother; brown; buchan; burd; cam; care; carterhaugh; case; castle; celebrated; century; chamber; champion; character; child; children; christendom; christian; church; clerk; cokwoldes; cold; collection; colvill; common; company; constantine; copies; copy; cospatrick; countrie; country; course; court; cow; cross; cum; curious; cut; dance; danish; dark; daughter; david; day; daye; dead; dear; death; deep; degree; desire; didst; die; doe; door; doth; double; downe; dragon; dree; drink; dry; duke; dwell; dye; earlier; early; earthly; east; edinburgh; edition; editor; eldest; elfin; elfland; ellen; enchanted; england; english; ere; erle; esq; etin; euer; excalibar; eye; face; fair; fairest; fairies; fame; far; fast; fatal; father; fear; feet; ffor; fine; fire; flowers; following; foot; form; forth; fortune; frae; fragment; free; gae; gane; gang; garland; gate; gawaine; gay; gentle; george; german; ghost; gi'e; gie; gift; gin; glad; glasgow; god; goe; gold; golden; good; gowans; gowd; grass; gray; great; green; grene; grey; grief; growe; grundtvig; gude; ha'e; hadna; hae; hair; half; halliwell; hame; hand; harm; hath; haud; haue; head; heart; heaven; hell; henry; herd; hero; high; hill; hir; historical; history; hither; hold; holy; home; honour; horn; horse; husband; hym; hynde; hys; iii; illustrated; illustrations; illustrative; j.o; james; jamieson; janet; john; joy; kai; kay; kempion; kind; king; king arthur; kiss; kisses; kist; knee; knight; known; kyng; ladies; lady; lake; lancelot; land; lang; large; lat; late; lay; league; leave; left; legend; length; life; light; lighter; like; line; little; locks; london; long; lord; love; low; luve; lye; lyle; maid; maiden; mair; man; manner; mantle; manuscript; margaret; mark; married; master; maun; meat; mee; meikle; men; merlin; merry; middle; miles; milk; mind; minstrelsy; missing; modern; morning; mother; motherwell; mouth; museum; music; nae; nane; ne'er; near; nethe; new; noble; noe; non; northern; notes; nowe; nut; o'er; old; oluf; open; original; ouer; page; past; pay; people; percy; pieces; place; plaid; play; pleasant; pleasure; poems; poetical; poetry; popular; porter; pou; present; proper; proud; pu'd; queen; quotation; quoth; rade; ran; recitation; red; reliques; remain; rest; riding; ring; ritson; robert; romance; romantic; rose; rosmer; round; rowland; royal; sad; sae; saint; sair; sake; sall; sark; save; saw; sawe; sayd; sayes; scarce; scho; schuld; scotland; scots; scottish; sea; seas; second; selection; set; sett; seyd; shape; shee; ship; short; sic; sighing; silk; silver; similar; sir; sister; sleep; slew; society; soe; songs; sore; sorrow; soth; sou; stand; standing; stanzas; steed; stone; story; straight; strange; strong; sun; svanè; svenska; swedish; sweet; sword; syde; syne; syr; ta'en; table; tales; tamlane; tane; tell; text; thee; thing; thomas; thou; thought; thrice; thro; thy; time; title; tongue; tradition; tree; true; truth; turn; turn'd; twa; twal; tên; vain; valiant; versions; vile; virgin; volkslieder; vols; volume; von; vpon; wad; wae; waken; warluck; water; way; waye; weary; wee; weel; welcome; west; whan; whare; white; wide; wife; william; wind; winna; wise; wish; witch; withouten; woe; woman; wonder; wood; words; work; world; worm; worthy; wyll; ye'll; ye'se; years; yee; yellow; yett; yon; yone; young; youngest; z]e
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- 37738
- author: None
- title: English and Scottish Ballads, Volume II
- date: None
- words: 62628
- flesch: 93
- summary: Such being the case, the Editor must enter his protest against the conversion of _Gil_ Morrice into _Child_ Maurice, an epithet of chivalry. And saw the fair maid soummin in, _By the bonny mill-dams o' Binnorie_.
- keywords: aff; ain; alane; alas; allen; ancient; andrew; ane o; annet; annie; appendix; arms; auchanachie; auld; away; aye; babe; bairn; baith; ballad; banks o; barbara; barnard; bed; bee; bell; bent; best; betide; better; bid; binnorie; black; bloody; blude; bluid; bluid o; body; bonnie; bonny; book; border; bower; bows; boy; brand; breast; brethren; bride; bright; brother; brown; buchan; burn; cam; castle; chamber; cheek; child; chin; clerk; close; clyde; cock; collection; come; complete; copies; copy; country; cruel; dams o; dance; danish; daughter; davie; day; days; dead; dear; death; deep; different; doe; donald; door; doun; earl; edinbro; editor; edward; eldest; england; english; ere; face; fain; fair; fair lady; far; fast; father; fause; fear; feet; fine; flowers; following; foot; fordie; frae; fragment; free; fyvie; gae; gane; gang; gat; gay; gie; gill; gin; gold; good; gowd; gown; grave; gray; great; green; greenwud; gregory; grey; grinding; gude; ha'e; hadna; hae; hae ye; hair; hame; hand; harp; harpit; hast; head; heart; heavy; helen; herd; high; hill; holland; home; horse; iii; ingram; intill; jamieson; janet; john; johnston; kind; king; kinloch; kirk; kiss; knee; ladie; lady; lammie; lang; late; lay; leave; left; life; light o; like; lily; lindie o; line; lips; little; lochroyan; london; long; look; lord; loud; love; love o; lovers; lye; maidens; mair; maisry; mak; man; margaret; marjorie; master; maun; maurice; mee; meet; men; merry; middle; milk; mill; mill o; milldams; minstrelsy; morice; morn; mother; motherwell; musgrave; nae; nane; ne'er; new; night; north; nut; o bonny; o dear; o father; o lady; o mother; o sister; o wae; o wha; o willie; o'er; old; ony; open; page; pale; penknife; percy; piece; pin; place; play; popular; pray; present; primrose; proper; pu'in; rade; randal; recitation; red; rest; ring; rise; robber; room; rose; rosengord; round; saddle; sae; saint; sair; sall; salton; sang; saunders; scotland; scottish; sea; second; set; ship; shoon; sick; sidie o; silver; sin; sir; sister; slain; sleep; sma; son; songs; sorrow; spak; stand; stanzas; steed; step; stone; story; stream; svenska; swedish; sweet; sweetly; sword; syne; ta'en; taen; tak; tane; tay; text; thee; thine; thomas; thou; thought; thro; thy; tiftie; time; town; tradition; tree; troth; true; turn'd; twa; valley; verses; version; vol; volume; vow; vyet; wad; wae; wan; water; water o; weary; wedding; weel; whan; whare; white; wide; wife; wild; william; willie; win; wind; wine; winna; woman; wood; ye o; ye'll; years; yellow; yon; yonder; young; youngest; zour
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- 38037
- author: None
- title: English and Scottish Ballads, Volume III
- date: None
- words: 66211
- flesch: 91
- summary: ghostly_, _spectral_: 179, hill _seems to be omitted_. heading-hill, _beheading hill_.
- keywords: aff; aft; ain; alane; aldingar; amang; ancient; annie; appendix; arms; auld; awa; awaye; aye; babe; bairn; baith; ballad; bare; bed; bee; belinkin; bells; best; bewick; billie; bird; black; blessing; blood; blude; bluid; body; bonnie; bonny; book; boon; border; bot; boun; bower; boy; boye; braes o; brand; bread; breast; bridal; bride; brother; brown; buchan; burd; burning; call'd; cam; canna; castle; cauline; century; chamber; cheek; child; children; chin; christ; clear; clyde; collection; colvin; come; copies; copy; countrie; court; cruel; cunigund; dale; dame; danish; daughter; day; daye; days; dead; deadly; dear; death; deed; deep; die; dine; dochter; doe; door; doth; doun; downe; drap; draw; drink; duke; earl; edinburgh; edition; editor; eldridge; ellen; emmeline; emperor; end; england; english; ere; erl; estmere; face; fair; fairer; far; fast; father; fause; fayre; fear; feet; fine; fire; flee; following; foodrage; foot; frae; fragment; free; gae; gallows; gane; gang; gay; gentle; german; gi'e; gie; gift; gin; god; goe; gold; good; goss; gowd; grant; grave; gray; great; green; græme; gude; guid; ha'e; hadna; hae; hae ye; hair; half; hall; hame; hamilton; hand; harpe; hath; having; hawk; hay; head; heart; heaven; heavy; help; henry; herd; hie; high; hill; home; honour; horn; horse; hour; hugh; hunting; husband; hye; iii; ile; james; jamieson; jew; john; ken; king; king o; kinloch; kirk; knee; knife; knight; kyng; ladie; lady; lady fair; ladyes; laird; lambert; lamkin; lammikin; land; lang; lap; late; law; lay; lazar; lead; leave; left; legend; letter; lie; life; lift; like; lincoln; linkin; lips; little; live; livingston; long; look; lord; loud; love; low; lye; maid; maiden; mair; mair o; mak; man; manye; margaret; marie; marriage; married; mary; mass; master; maun; mee; meet; men; merry; mickle; middle; milk; minstrelsy; miss; moan; monie; mony; morn; morning; morrow; mother; motherwell; mouth; murder; nae; nane; ne'er; near; new; noble; noroway; north; nourice; nowe; nurse; o ladye; o ye; o'er; offence; owre; page; pale; past; patrick; people; percy; pin; place; play; popular; pretty; prince; proud; queen; quoth; rade; ready; recitation; red; redin; reliques; rest; richard; riding; right; ring; rise; robert; romance; room; rose; round; rung; sad; sae; sail; sair; sake; sall; salt; sang; sayd; sayes; scotland; scottish; sea; seas; second; sell; set; shee; ship; shold; sing; sir; sister; slain; soe; soldan; son; song; sons; sore; spak; spare; spence; spens; stable; stand; stanzas; steed; step; stone; story; stroke; strong; suld; sure; sweet; sword; syne; syr; ta'en; tak; tale; tane; tear; text; thee; thing; thou; thought; thro; thy; time; tongue; town; tradition; tree; true; twa; version; vol; wad; wae; waiting; wan; war; waristoun; water; weary; wedded; weed; weel; weir; welcome; whan; whare; white; wife; william; window; wine; winna; woe; wolde; woman; wood; words; wot; yarrow; ye'll; ye're; years; yellow; yestreen; yon; yonder; young
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- 38416
- author: None
- title: English and Scottish Ballads, Volume IV
- date: None
- words: 57154
- flesch: 92
- summary: _O willow, &c._ 15 _Sing, O the greene willow, &c._ _O willow, &c._ 25 _Sing, O the greene willow, &c._
- keywords: 115; 125; 135; aboyne; adam; ain; amang; ancient; ane; angry; appendix; arms; auld; awa; aye; babe; baby; baillie; baith; ballad; balow; bear; beauty; bed; bednall; bee; beggar; beichan; bessee; best; bid; bird; birk; black; blackwood; blind; blood; body; bonnie; bonny; book; border; bot; bought; bower; boy; brave; bride; brother; brown; brume; buchan; cam; captain; care; castle; cause; chamber; child; children; collection; come; comely; command; companie; company; copies; copy; countrie; court; daughter; day; dead; dear; death; dee; degree; delight; different; dochter; doe; donald; door; doth; douglas; doun; drink; drum; duke; dundee; dye; earl; earl o; easie; end; england; english; ere; eyes; face; fair; fair lady; far; farewell; fast; father; favour; fear; feet; fine; flower; following; foot; fortune; frae; free; friend; gae; gallant; gane; gang; garland; gate; gay; gentle; gentleman; gie; gin; gipsy; glad; glenlogie; god; gold; good; gordon; gowd; great; green; greensleeves; grief; grissel; gude; hae; hair; hall; hame; hand; hard; hath; haud; hazelgreen; head; heart; heir; hie; hielands; high; hills; hold; home; horn; horse; hynd; i'le; iii; ilka; james; jamie; jean; jewels; jock o; johnie; johnny; joy; kind; king; kinloch; knee; knight; laddie; ladies; lady; lady o; laird; laird o; lament; lands; lang; lass; lassie; leave; left; letter; life; like; lillelu; line; little; live; lizie; logie; london; long; look; lord; love; lovely; lovers; maid; mair; makyne; man; mankynde; margaret; married; master; maun; mean; meet; men; merry; milk; mind; minstrelsy; morn; morning; mother; motherwell; mynde; nae; nane; nay; ne'er; near; need; news; noble; northumberland; o'er; ogilvie; open; owre; page; pardon; peggy; percy; phenix; pity; place; play; pleasant; poor; popular; porter; pots; pray; present; pretty; prison; proud; prove; pye; queen; quoth; rade; rantin; read; recitation; red; rest; riding; right; ring; robene; round; saddle; sae; sair; sake; sall; scotland; scottish; sea; second; serving; set; shee; sick; silk; silver; sir; slain; smile; society; soe; songs; sore; sorrow; spak; steed; story; strand; strong; susie; sweet; ta'en; tak; tell; text; thee; thing; thomas; thou; thought; thro; thy; time; tommy; tongue; town; tree; true; true love; truth; turn; twa; twas; versions; vol; vow; wad; wae; wall; walsingham; waly; want; way; weary; wedding; weel; weep; welcome; west; whan; white; wife; william; willow; wilt; win; window; wine; woe; woman; won; wood; word; wot; wrong; wyl; ye'll; ye're; years; yetts; yon; young; youth
- versions: original; plain text
- 39627
- author: None
- title: English and Scottish Ballads, Volume V
- date: None
- words: 84265
- flesch: 91
- summary: stage, 8, _story of the house_? stalle, 16, _place in general_, _room_, _house_. Italic typeface is indicated by _underscores_.
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- 39766
- author: None
- title: English and Scottish Ballads, Volume VI
- date: None
- words: 56619
- flesch: 89
- summary: The tradition of Ettrick Forest bears, that the outlaw was a man of prodigious strength, possessing a baton or club, with which he laid _lee_ (_i. e._ waste) the country for many miles round; and that he was at length slain by Buccleuch, or some of his clan, at a little mount, covered with fir-trees, adjoining to Newark Castle, and said to have been a part of the garden. an honde, 283, _in hand_. anis, _once_.
- keywords: account; adam; adieu; aff; aft; airlie; alas; amang; ancient; ant; appendix; archie; armstrong; auchindown; auld; awa; aye; baith; ballad; band; baron; battle; bear; bed; bespake; best; better; bewcastle; bid; bishop; black; blind; blood; body; bold; bonnie; bonny; book; border; bow; boy; boyd; brackley; brave; braw; broken; brother; brown; buccleuch; buchan; burn; burning; ca'field; call'd; cam; canna; captain; care; carlisle; carmichael; castell; castle; cause; chamber; chief; children; clan; cloak; coat; cock; com'd; come; coming; common; companie; company; content; copy; corn; countrie; country; cow; crichtons; cries; cry; cum; cumberland; day; days; dead; dear; death; deer; dickie; die; different; dodhead; dogs; door; douglas; doun; draw; drie; drink; dun; e'en; earl; east; edinburgh; editor; edom; edward; eldest; england; english; ettricke; eyes; face; fair; false; family; fand; far; farewell; fast; father; fear; fee; feir; fell; feud; fine; fire; flee; foal; followers; following; fool; foot; ford; foreste; foresters; frae; france; free; frendraught; friends; gae; galliard; gane; gang; gar; gate; gay; gaye; gear; gentleman; george; gie; gif; gilderoy; gin; god; gold; good; gordon; goud; gown; grace; graham; grant; gray; great; green; grene; grey; grime; gude; hae; haif; hair; hall; hame; hand; hard; harper; hast; haud; head; heart; help; hem; henry; herd; hero; heved; hie; high; hii; hill; history; hobie; hold; home; hope; horses; host; hounds; house; house o; huere; hughie; hunted; hunting; ilka; inverey; iron; james; jamie; jock; jock o; johnie; johnny; johnstone; jonne; joy; justice; king; kinloch; kinmont; kiss; knee; knight; know; kye; kyng; ladie; lads; lady; laigh; laird; landis; lang; lap; late; leave; lee; left; length; liddel; liddesdale; liege; lieutenant; life; like; line; little; live; lochmaben; long; lord; loud; loup; love; lyfe; mackintosh; macpherson; mae; mair; maitland; mak; man; mangerton; marches; mare; marshal; master; maun; maxwell; mayst; meat; meet; men; merry; middle; miles; milk; minstrelsy; modern; monie; mony; morning; moss; mother; motherwell; muir; murray; museum; mysell; nae; nane; ne'er; near; nevir; newark; news; nobil; noble; north; northumberland; o'er; old; outlaw; ower; owre; page; parcy; pardon; peggy; people; person; peter; piece; place; plunder; pocket; poor; popular; present; prisoner; punds; purpose; queen; quo; quoth; rade; ready; red; reed; ride; riding; right; rise; ritson; river; robert; rookhope; rose; rothiemay; round; royal; sae; sair; sall; scotland; scots; scottish; scroope; sea; set; sheep; shot; shoulder; sic; silly; simmy; sin; sir; sire; sister; slain; slew; smith; son; songs; sooth; sore; speedilie; speir; stable; stand; stanzas; steal; steed; story; stout; strength; subject; suld; sune; sure; sword; syne; ta'en; tak; tale; tane; telfer; thee; thieves; thir; thomas; thou; thro; thy; time; tongue; town; tradition; traitor; tree; trow; true; trust; turn; twa; versions; vol; wad; wae; wallace; wamphray; wan; wanton; warden; water; way; weardale; wedded; weel; weil; wes; west; westmoreland; wha; whae; whan; white; whitfield; wife; william; willie; window; wine; winna; wish; woman; wood; wot; wounded; ye'll; years; yon; yonder; young
- versions: original; plain text
- 41044
- author: None
- title: English and Scottish Ballads, Volume VII
- date: None
- words: 61701
- flesch: 87
- summary: raw, _row_, _rank_; upo' the raw, _in rank of battle_. one's _part_ in a performance, 154; of the _contortions_ of a person hanged, 162; of the _movement of weapons_, 163. peart, _pert_.
- keywords: 135; aberdeen; aberdene; account; act; againe; alas; alive; amang; ambree; ancient; andrew; ane; angus; answer; appendix; argyle; armies; armour; arms; army; array; arrow; author; away; babie; baith; ballad; balls; bane; banner; bare; barton; battell; battle; bear; bed; bee; bent; best; bishop; black; blood; blow; body; bold; bonnie; bonny; book; border; bore; bothwell; bow; bower; boyne; boys; braken; brave; brave lord; break; bridge; bright; broad; brother; browne; bush; cam; cannons; captain; castle; cause; cavalry; chace; chamberlaine; charge; charles; cheviot; chevy; chief; child; chreest; chyviat; clan; claverhouse; close; cold; collection; come; command; company; content; cope; copies; copy; countrie; country; courage; court; covenanters; cromdale; cross; crown; cry; cum; dame; daughter; david; day; daye; days; dead; deadly; dear; death; dee; deep; deer; degree; delaware; die; doe; donald; doth; douglas; doun; drive; dub; duke; durst; dutch; dyd; dye; earl; edinburgh; editor; edward; eleanor; elizabeth; end; enemies; enemy; england; english; englishmen; ere; erle; errol; estates; event; eye; eyes; face; fain; fair; fall; false; fame; family; famous; far; farewell; fast; fate; father; favor; fear; fetch; field; fife; fifth; fight; fighting; fire; fit; flanders; flew; flower; foes; folio; following; foot; forces; fourth; frae; france; francis; fray; free; french; friends; gae; gallant; game; garland; gay; general; gentleman; george; god; goe; gold; golden; good; gordon; grace; grahams; gray; great; greatest; green; ground; gude; hae; half; hame; hand; hang; hard; harlaw; harry; hast; hath; having; haws; hay; head; heart; heavy; hector; henrie; henry; herd; high; highlanders; hill; history; hogg; hold; home; hondrith; honour; hope; horse; horseley; howard; hugh; hume; hunting; huntlie; huntly; husband; hym; hys; iii; ile; ilk; ireland; irish; jacobite; james; jane; jeanie; john; johnie; johnson; joy; kill; kind; king; knee; knight; know; lads; lady; laird; lang; lay; lead; leave; left; letter; lieutenant; life; like; line; little; living; london; long; look; lord; lost; love; maid; main; mair; major; man; manie; march; march'd; marquis; mary; mast; master; mee; men; merchant; merry; mickle; middle; mile; mind; minstrelsy; miss; monmouth; montgomery; montrose; mony; morning; muir; murray; museum; myght; nae; nane; nay; ne'er; near; need; news; noble; north; northumberland; norton; notes; nowe; number; o'er; old; original; otterbourne; page; party; pass; past; patrick; people; percy; person; persã¨; peter; philiphaugh; piece; place; play; pleasant; poetry; point; poor; popular; possession; pray; present; preston; pride; prince; prisoner; proud; prove; queen; quha; quoth; ramsay; reading; rebels; red; reign; relics; reliques; report; rest; retreat; revenge; richard; richt; ring; rise; ritson; river; robert; rosamond; rout; royal; run; ryde; sae; saint; sake; save; saw; sayd; saye; scarce; schall; scotland; scots; scottish; sea; seas; second; sell; set; seton; sett; sharp; sheale; shee; sheriff; ship; shot; sic; sides; simon; sing; sir; sister; skirmish; slain; slaughter; slayne; slew; small; smith; society; soe; soldiers; songs; sonne; sore; sorrow; soth; sovereign; spaniards; spear; speed; stand; stanza; stay; stout; stoutly; straight; strange; strong; stuckley; stukely; subject; sum; sure; sweet; sword; syde; syne; syr; ta'en; tak; tane; tears; tell; tender; thair; thee; ther; thi; thing; thomas; thou; thow; thy; thys; time; title; town; traitor; treason; tree; troth; true; trusty; turn'd; twa; tyll; uppon; valiant; variations; venture; version; victory; view; vol; vow; wan; war; water; weapons; wear; weel; welcome; went; west; westmoreland; wha; whigs; white; widow; wife; william; willie; wis; woe; wold; woman; wood; words; worthy; wound; wyll; wyth; year; yon; yonder; young; yow
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- 41298
- author: None
- title: English Songs and Ballads
- date: None
- words: 75801
- flesch: 91
- summary: Ill is the weather that bringeth no gain, Nor helps good hearts in need. Ill is the weather that bringeth no gain, Nor helps good hearts in need.
- keywords: adieu; agincourt; allen; ancient; anonymous; answer; apace; arms; ask; auld; awa; aye; babes; bade; banks; bare; battle; beat; beauty; bed; beggar; bell; beneath; bessee; best; better; bird; birth; black; blame; blew; blind; blood; blow; blue; boat; body; bold; bonie; bonny; bosom; bow; boy; boys; braes; brave; break; breast; breath; breeze; bride; bright; british; broad; broken; brother; brown; bugle; burning; busk; buy; caller; cam; camelot; cap; care; cast; cause; changed; charles; chase; cheer; child; children; church; clad; clay; clear; close; cloth; coal; cock; cold; come; coming; content; country; courtier; crew; cries; cross; cruel; cry; cuckoo; cum; cup; curse; dale; dance; dark; darling; daughter; day; days; dead; dear; dearie; death; deck; deep; deer; degree; delight; dew; door; dost; doth; douglas; draw; dream; drink; drop; dry; duncan; earl; earth; edward; england; english; ere; erin; evening; eyes; face; fair; faithful; fall; false; fame; far; fare; farewell; fast; fate; father; fear; feet; field; find; fine; fire; flow; flowers; fly; foe; follow; fond; foot; forest; forth; fortune; frae; free; french; friends; friendship; gallant; gang; garden; gate; gay; gentle; gentlemen; george; gilpin; girl; glad; glen; glory; glow; god; gold; golden; good; goose; gown; grace; grass; gray; great; green; greensleeves; grey; grief; grow; gude; guest; hae; hair; half; hall; hame; hand; happy; hard; hark; harm; haste; hath; head; heart; heaven; heavy; heir; henry; hermit; herrin; hey; hid; high; hill; hold; holy; home; honest; honour; hour; house; hugh; humble; husband; inchcape; james; john; john o; jolly; joy; keel; kind; king; kiss; knee; kye; ladies; lady; land; lang; lark; lassie; late; lay; leave; left; length; lie; lies; life; like; lily; linne; lips; little; live; lochinvar; locks; lonesome; long; look; lord; loud; love; lovely; lovers; loving; lucy; lullaby; lute; luve; maid; maiden; main; mair; man; mankind; mariner; marriage; married; mary; master; maun; meat; meet; men; merrily; merry; mind; mist; moon; morning; mother; mountain; music; nae; nanie; native; nature; nay; ne'er; near; neck; need; new; night; noble; noon; nought; o'er; o't; oak; ocean; old; oriana; pain; pale; pass; past; percy; pinder; pipe; pity; place; play; pleasant; poor; power; praise; pray; pretty; proud; prove; queen; quoth; rain; rare; ready; red; rest; rich; ripe; rise; river; robert; robin; rock; rose; round; row; rye; sad; sae; sails; saint; sally; saw; scales; scarce; scorn; scotland; sea; secret; seek; set; shade; shadow; shalott; ship; shore; shroud; sidenote; sigh; silence; silent; silver; sing; singing; sir; sister; sit; sky; slain; sleep; small; smile; snow; soft; soldier; song; sons; sorrow; soul; spake; spears; spirit; spread; spring; stand; stars; state; stay; steed; stone; stormy; stout; stranger; stream; strong; summer; sun; sure; swallow; sweet; sweetest; sweetly; sword; syne; tale; tara; tears; tell; tender; thee; thick; thine; things; thomas; thou; thought; thro; thy; tide; time; tis; tongue; town; traitor; tree; trolollie; trow; true; true love; truth; turn; twas; vain; vale; voice; wad; wall; waly; want; watch; water; waves; way; wealth; weary; weather; wedding; weel; weep; welcome; wend; went; west; wet; wha; wha'll; whistle; white; wide; wife; wild; william; willow; wilt; wind; wine; wings; winsome; winter; wish; woe; woman; won; wood; wooing; words; work; world; wrong; yarrow; year; yellow; yon; yonder; young; youth
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- 42585
- author: None
- title: The Ballads & Songs of Derbyshire With Illustrative Notes, and Examples of the Original Music, etc.
- date: None
- words: 68327
- flesch: 83
- summary: When Apollo thinks fit to handle his lyre_, 206 _When Heaven from Earth had shut out day_, 190 _When Robin Hood was about twenty years old_, 58 Whittaker, 285 WHITTINGTON, SIR RICHARD'S, ADVANCEMENT, 104 Whittington and his Cat, 104 ----------- When little _John_ came, to Gambols they went, both Gentlemen, Yeomen and Cloun;
- keywords: 'em; 104; 143; account; adam; agricultural; ancient; anon; answer; anthonie; arabella; archer; arms; ashborne; aston; aware; away; babington; bache; bad; bakewell; ballad; bank; banquet; battle; bear; beauty; bed; bee; beggar; behold; bell; bessy; best; better; bid; birth; black; blew; blood; blow; body; bold; bones; bonny; boon; bore; bow; brave; brereton; bridge; bright; broad; brother; buck; bull; butcher; buxton; care; castle; castleton; cat; cause; celebrated; century; certaine; chace; chamber; chapel; charles; cheshire; chief; child; choir; church; churchyard; city; clara; clear; close; cobler; cock; cokain; coke; cold; collection; come; command; common; company; complete; cook; copy; cotton; cou'd; country; courage; court; cries; cross; crown; cry; cry'd; curious; cut; daddle; dale; dance; darby; dark; darley; daughter; day; days; dead; dear; death; deer; degree; delamere; derbyshire; devil; devonshire; dickie; die; different; dinner; district; ditty; door; doth; doubt; drunken; duke; durst; dye; earle; earth; edward; england; esq; eye; eyes; face; fair; faithful; fal; fall; fame; family; famous; far; farewell; fast; father; fear; feet; fell; fellow; field; fine; fire; fit; flax; fly; following; fond; foot; footnotes; forest; form; forth; fortune; fox; france; francis; free; french; fresh; friend; frith; future; gallant; game; garland; gate; gay; gentlemen; george; gilbert; gipsies; glory; god; gold; gone; good; goose; grace; great; green; ground; half; hall; hand; handford; happy; hare; hark; harrington; hast; hath; hayfield; head; health; heart; heaven; heir; help; henry; hero; high; hill; holy; home; honest; honour; hood; hope; horn; horses; hours; house; hugh; humphrey; hung; hunting; inn; intent; interesting; jack; james; jesus; john; jolly; journey; joy; kind; king; knee; known; lads; lady; lal; lancaster; land; lane; large; lasses; late; laurel; lay; lead; leave; left; leke; length; let; liberty; lie; life; like; lines; liquor; little; live; living; london; long; look; lord; loud; love; lovely; lye; maid; man; march; mark; marriage; married; mary; master; mayor; mean; meeting; memory; men; merriment; merry; miles; miller; mind; minstrels; money; moor; morning; moss; mother; muse; music; musing; native; ne'er; near; need; neighbours; new; night; noble; nottingham; nottinghamshire; nought; nun; o'er; occasion; oft; old; open; order; original; owne; page; paper; parish; park; parliament; parson; pass; past; pay; payne; peak; pen; people; persons; peverel; pity; place; plain; planting; play; pleasant; pleasure; poor; popular; porter; pounds; praise; present; pretty; prince; print; proud; queen; quoth; raddledum; ram; ramble; ready; reason; red; reliquary; return; rev; reynard; richard; richmond; ride; ring; rise; ritum; river; robin; rocks; rol; rose; royall; run; running; sad; said; saints; sake; samuel; savage; saying; sea; seat; second; seq; service; set; sett; sherwood; ship; shot; shrewsbury; singing; sir; sir john; sir william; sister; skull; sleep; small; society; song; sore; sorrow; soul; sound; south; space; speed; spirit; spondon; squire; staff; staffordshire; stand; stanley; state; stenson; stone; story; stout; straight; strange; strength; strife; strong; sue; summer; sung; sutton; sweet; swift; table; tall; tarry; taste; taylor; tea; thee; things; think; thomas; thornhill; thou; thought; thy; tideswell; time; tinker; tis; tom; torr; tower; town; tradition; tree; tribute; true; trusley; trust; truth; tune; turn; tutbury; twas; tyger; tyme; uncle; unknown; vain; valour; vernon; verses; version; view; village; volume; wall; wantling; weare; welcome; west; whiche; white; whittington; wife; wild; william; wind; wine; wish; woe; wonders; wood; words; work; world; worthy; wou'd; years; yeomen; yonder; yorkshire; young
- versions: original; plain text
- 43691
- author: Hindley, Charles
- title: The History of the Catnach Press at Berwick-Upon-Tweed, Alnwick and Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, in Northumberland, and Seven Dials, London
- date: None
- words: 57598
- flesch: 74
- summary: that he and Mr. Mark Smith [Signature: Mr. Smith.] were both bound on the same day as apprentices to Mr. John Catnach, and that they afterwards worked together as improvers in their trade with:-- It was here--in Monmouth Court, a thoroughfare connecting Monmouth Street with Little Earl Street--that the late eminent Mr. Catnach developed the resources of his genius and trade.
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- 43825
- author: None
- title: English and Scottish Ballads, Volume VIII
- date: None
- words: 62303
- flesch: 95
- summary: ying, _young_. zong, _young_. INDEX.
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- 45241
- author: None
- title: Popular British Ballads, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 1 (of 4)
- date: None
- words: 38557
- flesch: 92
- summary: _trig_, trim.) Some put on the gay green robes, And some put on the brown; But Janet put on the scarlet robes, To shine foremost through the town. (_busk_, dress.)
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- 45242
- author: None
- title: Popular British Ballads, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 2 (of 4)
- date: None
- words: 40386
- flesch: 94
- summary: _shot_, projecting.) (_ben_, in.)
- keywords: abbot; agen; ain; amang; annie; arms; auld; awa; aye; bairn; baith; banks; bed; ben; best; bewick; bird; blood; body; bold; bonny; bower; boy; boys; brave; bread; bride; bright; broom; brother; brown; castle; child; chin; church; cold; come; country; daughter; day; dead; dear; death; deep; die; donald; door; doun; dowie; drink; drum; england; ere; fain; fair; false; far; farmer; fast; father; fear; fee; feet; fine; flowers; foot; frae; free; gae; gallant; gane; gang; gar'd; gates; gay; gie; gin; god; gold; good; gowd; gown; gray; great; green; græme; gude; hae; hair; half; hame; hand; hang; head; heart; henry; high; hill; hind; hold; home; hood; horse; hunting; illustration; ingram; john; johnnie; johnny; kind; king; kinmont; kirk; kiss; knee; lady; lady o; land; lang; leave; left; letter; lie; life; like; linn; little; logie; long; lord; love; low; lowlands; maiden; mair; mak; man; margaret; married; master; maun; meat; men; merry; mind; monk; mony; morning; mother; nae; nane; ne'er; news; night; noble; o ye; o'er; old; place; poor; porter; pretty; queen; ran; red; ring; rise; robin; round; sae; sailing; sair; sea; set; sheriff; ship; shot; sick; sir; sister; slain; son; sons; spake; squire; stay; steed; sun; swear; sweet; ta'en; thee; thomas; thou; thought; thro; till; time; tommy; tongue; town; tree; true; turn; twa; twas; valley; vyet; wad; wadna; wae; water; way; weel; welcome; wha; white; wife; willy; wind; wine; wood; word; yarrow; ye'll; years; yellow; yon; yonder; young
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- 45243
- author: None
- title: Popular British Ballads, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 3 (of 4)
- date: None
- words: 41418
- flesch: 91
- summary: Yet stay, fair lady: rest awhile Beneath this cloyster wall: See through the hawthorn blows the cold wind, And drizzly rain doth fall. Yet stay, fair lady, turn again, And dry those pearly tears; For see beneath this gown of gray Thy owne true-love appears.
- keywords: ----w; alas; alice; ancient; answer; arms; awa; bard; baron; battle; bay; bear; beat; bed; bell; ben; best; better; binnorie; bird; black; blast; blood; blow; blue; boat; body; bold; bonny; bower; boy; brain; brand; breast; breath; breeze; bridegroom; bright; brother; brow; calm; cam; castle; chamber; cheek; child; christabel; clear; close; cold; coming; court; cries; cross; cross'd; cry; curse; cut; dame; dark; daughter; day; days; dead; dear; death; deck; deep; dew; door; doth; dream; drink; earl; earth; ellen; ere; eyes; face; fair; far; fast; father; fear; feet; fell; field; fire; fit; flame; flower; fly; foot; forest; forlorn; forth; frae; free; friar; friend; fro; gae; gallant; gate; gay; gentle; geraldine; ghost; gilpin; gismond; god; gold; golden; good; grass; grave; gray; great; green; grew; grey; grief; gude; guest; hae; hail; hair; half; hall; hand; hath; head; heart; heaven; heavy; helen; hell; hermit; high; hill; holy; home; horse; hour; hung; husband; illustration; imogine; john; joy; keith; king; kirk; knee; knight; lady; laird; land; lang; lay; leaves; left; legs; leoline; lie; life; light; like; limbs; lips; little; lochinvar; long; look; look'd; lord; lorraine; loud; love; lovely; low; maid; maiden; man; margaret; mariner; marriage; mary; mary mother; master; meet; meggan; men; merry; midnight; mind; mist; moment; moon; morning; mother; nautilus; nay; ne'er; near; neck; news; noble; noon; o mother; o'er; oak; ocean; old; page; pain; pale; pass'd; past; pilot; place; play; poor; prayer; proud; queen; quoth; rage; ravelston; red; rest; richard; ride; ring; river; road; rock; roland; rose; round; sad; sae; sail; sang; save; saw; scott; sea; second; set; shine; ship; sigh; sign; silence; silent; silver; singing; sir; sister; skipper; sky; sleep; smile; soft; solitude; song; sore; sorrow; soul; spake; spell; spirit; spread; spring; star; steed; stone; stranger; stream; strong; summer; sun; sure; sweet; tale; tears; tell; tender; thee; thing; thou; thought; thrice; thy; tide; time; tis; tongue; tree; true; turn; turn'd; twas; vain; view; voice; wall; war; water; wave; way; weary; wedding; whistle; white; wide; wife; wild; wind; wine; woe; woman; wood; word; year; yon; young; youth; |the
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- 45244
- author: None
- title: Popular British Ballads, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 4 (of 4)
- date: None
- words: 40872
- flesch: 91
- summary: Aye; guard them with your cannon and your lances-- So of old came martyrs to the stake; Aye; guard them--see the people's flashing glances, For those noble two are dying for their sake. The gipsy's ta'en the frighted child And set him in the wall: There's a bonny game to play, little man, The bonniest game of all.
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- 45939
- author: None
- title: Reliques of Ancient English Poetry, Volume 1 (of 3) Consisting of Old Heroic Ballads, Songs and Other Pieces of Our Earlier Poets Together With Some Few of Later Date
- date: None
- words: 154972
- flesch: 82
- summary: It should also be observed, for the sake of future researches, that without the assistance of the old English interpretations given by Somner, in his _Anglo-Saxon Dictionary_, the Editor of the book never could have discovered that _glee_ signified minstrelsy, or _gligman_ a minstrel. In like manner, William Malmesbury, speaking of a Danish king's assuming the profession of a scald, expresses it by _professus_ mimum; which was another name given to the minstrels in middle latinity.[1109]
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law; laws; lead; learned; learning; leave; left; legend; leicester; leir; leland; length; les; letter; liberty; library; life; like; likely; lincoln; lines; lips; list; literary; literature; little; live; living; lodging; london; long; longer; look; loose; lord; lord percy; lordes; lordship; loue; lov'd; love; lovely; lovers; lowe; lye; lying; mad; maid; maiden; mair; maker; male; malone; man; manner; manuscript; manye; march; marches; margin; marke; marlow; marriage; marrye; marshal; martial; mary; master; materials; maxwell; maydens; meaning; means; measure; meate; mee; meer; meet; memorable; memory; men; menestrel; mention; merchant; merit; merry; metre; metrical; mett; mickle; middle; mighty; milan; mile; mimi; mimus; mind; minstrels; miracles; mirth; miscellanies; miscellany; mither; modern; monarch; money; monks; monmouth; montgomery; months; moore; moral; moralities; morning; motherwell; mrs; mss; multitude; murray; museum; music; musical; musicians; musicke; myght; myne; mysteries; 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press; pretty; pride; priest; prince; princely; principal; prisoner; private; probable; productions; profession; progress; prologue; promise; proof; proper; prose; proud; public; publication; purple; purpose; puttenham; qu'il; quarto; queen; question; quhat; qui; quod; quoth; quæ; raleigh; ralph; ramsay; reader; reading; ready; real; reason; reception; recitation; records; redd; reference; regard; regent; regis; regular; reid; reign; related; relation; religion; religious; reliques; remains; remarkable; remarks; reply; report; representation; resemblance; respect; respectable; rest; restoration; return; rev; revenge; reverend; rewards; rex; rhimes; rhyme; richard; right; ring; rise; ritson; river; robert; robin; rode; roger; romances; romantic; rome; roses; roxburghe; royal; rude; ryde; rymer; s_i_r; sacred; sad; sae; said; saies; sair; sake; sale; samuel; sang; sate; save; sawe; saxon; sayd; saye; says; sayth; scalds; scant; scarce; scene; schall; scho; scil; scotch; scotland; scots; scottish; scottish ballads; scruple; sea; seat; second; secret; sect; seek; select; sense; series; servants; service; set; sett; severe; sex; shakespeare; shame; sharpe; sheale; shee; shepherd; sheriffe; shews; shoote; shooting; short; sidney; sigh; sign; signifies; silver; similar; simple; simplicity; sing; singers; singing; sir; sir john; sir patrick; sister; situation; sixteenth; skelton; skill; slain; slayne; sleep; slew; slight; small; smaller; smith; society; soe; soldan; solemn; somner; songs; sonnes; soone; sore; sorrow; soth; sound; source; space; spanish; speake; species; specimens; speede; spence; spirit; spread; squire; stage; stand; stanzas; stay; steevens; stephen; stock; stode; stories; stout; stow; street; stroke; strong; style; subject; subsequent; successful; successors; suche; sufficient; suit; summer; sundry; superior; superstition; supra; surrey; surtees; suspect; sweet; swete; swords; syde; syr; syren; table; taillefer; taking; talents; taste; teares; tell; tender; 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youth; yow
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- 45940
- author: None
- title: Reliques of Ancient English Poetry, Volume 2 (of 3) Consisting of Old Heroic Ballads, Songs and Other Pieces of Our Earlier Poets Together With Some Few of Later Date
- date: None
- words: 105080
- flesch: 88
- summary: Exale-tation of Ale_, among Beaumont's _Poems_, 8vo. None ever more sincere colde_ bee; 30 _Of comely mien and shape_ hee was, _And tenderlye he_e loved mee.
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- 45941
- author: None
- title: Reliques of Ancient English Poetry, Volume 3 (of 3) Consisting of Old Heroic Ballads, Songs and Other Pieces of Our Earlier Poets Together With Some Few of Later Date
- date: None
- words: 108847
- flesch: 93
- summary: The name Ursine, like that of Orson, is derived from Fr. _Ourson_, the diminutive of _Ours_, a bear (Latin, _ursus_.)] Germ._ c. ii.
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sicke; sight; sign; silk; silver; simple; simplicity; sing; single; sir; sister; sit; skill; skin; slaine; slay; sleepe; slew; small; soe; soit; song; sonne; sore; sort; soul; space; spain; spanish; speake; spear; species; specimen; spite; squire; stand; stanzas; staye; steed; step; steward; stiffe; stone; stoode; stories; story; stout; straight; strait; strange; strength; strife; stroke; strong; subject; sudden; summer; sun; sure; sweet; sword; syr; tale; tane; taste; teares; tearne; tell; tender; term; text; thee; thing; thinke; thomas; thou; thought; threw; thrice; thro; thrust; thy; time; tom; tongue; town; tradition; tragedy; translation; tree; troy; true; truth; tune; turn'd; tyrant; ulysses; uncle; ursine; vain; valentine; valiant; ver; verse; version; vid; vii; viii; virgin; viz; voice; vol; vols; volume; vow; vpon; w^{th; wadling; walls; waly; wan; wandering; want; wantley; wanton; ware; warwick; waters; weapon; wear; wedding; weepe; weeping; welcome; welsh; whan; white; whore; 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- versions: original; plain text
- 56625
- author: Sheppard, H. Fleetwood (Henry Fleetwood)
- title: Songs of the West Folk Songs of Devon & Cornwall Collected from the Mouths of the People
- date: None
- words: 65672
- flesch: 89
- summary: Before that Sir Thomas Overbury, in his Character of a Milkmaid, had written: She dares go alone and unfold her sheep in the night, and fears no manner of ill, because she means none: yet, to say truth, she is never alone, she is still accompanied with old songs, honest thoughts, and prayers, but short ones. He had been zealously engaged that winter going about among his ancient musical friends collecting old songs for me, when he caught a chill and died.
- keywords: adam; aged; air; airs; altered; ancient; arscott; aye; b.m; ballad; barleycorn; barrett; bear; bed; beginning; bell; best; better; bill; bird; black; blind; blow; blue; bold; bonny; book; boy; boys; brave; bread; brent; bride; bright; british; broadside; broadwood; broken; broom; bunch; bushes; bussell; c. 4; c.j.s; captain; care; carol; catnach; century; chance; chappell; character; child; chorus; church; circ; cockade; cold; collection; come; copy; cornish; cornwall; cottage; country; court; cow; crown; cry; curious; cut; d'urfey; damsel; dance; dancing; dartmoor; date; daughter; day; days; dead; dear; death; dee; deep; delight; devon; devonshire; dew; different; door; doth; drink; drunken; duke; e'er; earlier; early; edition; end; england; english; esq; evening; eyes; face; fair; fal; fall; false; farewell; farmer; fast; father; feet; fellows; fill; find; fine; fire; flame; flora; flower; folk; follow; fone; fool; footnote; forest; form; fox; free; fresh; furze; gallant; garden; garland; gay; george; gipsies; girl; god; gold; golden; gone; good; goss; got; great; green; grey; grove; h.f.s; hair; half; hall; hand; hard; harvest; hawk; hay; head; heart; henry; high; home; horn; horse; hounds; hour; hunt; hunting; husband; iii; irish; jack; james; jan; john; johnny; jolly; jones; journal; jovial; keenly; kerchief; kidson; kind; king; kiss; known; lady; lands; lane; lass; later; lay; leave; lies; life; like; lily; lips; little; lode; london; long; lord; lost; love; lovers; low; lynn; maid; maiden; making; man; mare; married; mary; melodies; melody; men; merry; miller; mind; miss; mode; modern; money; month; moon; morning; mother; mown; museum; music; musical; new; night; nightingale; north; nutting; o'er; old; old ballad; old man; old song; original; ormond; owl; pair; parish; parker; parsons; parts; paul; pay; peasantry; people; peter; pipe; pity; place; plain; play; plough; ploughboy; plymouth; poor; popular; pray; pretty; printed; queen; rain; red; return; rev; reynard; rhymes; rich; ring; robert; roger; roses; round; roxburgh; run; sad; sailing; sailor; saying; scottish; sea; second; set; setting; shalt; sharp; sheppard; shiny; ship; shore; shot; silly; silver; sing; singers; singing; sir; sleep; snow; somerset; song; sorrow; soul; south; spent; spring; stand; stanzas; stay; story; straw; strawberry; strong; suit; summer; sun; sunday; sure; sussex; sweet; tale; tally; tetcott; thatch'd; thee; thomas; thou; thought; thy; thyme; time; tis; title; tobacco; tom; tommy; town; traditional; tree; trinity; true; tune; turn; twas; uncle; verse; version; vol; vow; walk; way; weather; week; weeping; west; whack; white; wife; william; wilt; wind; window; winter; woman; words; work; world; years; yonder; yorkshire; young
- versions: original; plain text
- 6062
- author: Hay, John
- title: Pike County Ballads and Other Poems
- date: None
- words: 22711
- flesch: 87
- summary: Had we but met in other days, Had we but loved in other ways, Another light and hope had shone On your life and my own. I've heern the tale a thousand ways, But never could git through the maze That hangs around that queer day's doin's; But I'll tell the yarn to youans.
- keywords: abraham; answer; arms; awful; ballads; bar; battle; beauty; belle; ben; best; better; bird; black; blessing; blood; bludso; blue; boys; brave; break; breast; breeze; bright; brow; calm; child; children; clear; clouds; cold; colonel; county; crown; cry; curse; dark; day; days; dead; dear; death; deep; desert; die; dim; door; dreams; earth; east; evening; eyes; face; faint; fair; faith; far; fate; feet; field; fire; flame; flash; flashed; flowers; fond; form; free; freedom; fresh; friend; gain; gay; ghost; girl; git; glad; gloom; glory; god; gold; golden; good; grace; great; grey; hair; half; hands; happy; hay; head; heart; heaven; hell; high; hill; home; honour; hope; horse; hot; hour; jest; jim; john; joy; king; kisses; land; late; laughter; law; lay; leaves; left; liberty; life; light; like; lincoln; lips; little; lives; long; lord; lost; love; lovely; loving; low; luck; man; memory; men; monks; morning; mother; mystery; nature; near; new; o'er; old; order; pain; pale; pass; passion; path; people; pike; place; pledge; power; prairie; prayer; proud; pure; queen; rain; rapture; red; rest; ring; rise; river; room; rose; rosy; round; royal; sad; sea; shade; shine; shirt; shrill; silence; silent; sin; skies; sky; sleep; sleeping; slow; smile; snow; soft; song; soul; sphinx; spirit; stand; star; storm; strong; summer; sun; sunlight; sunset; sure; surprise; sweet; swift; sword; tender; thar; thee; thing; thou; thought; thy; time; true; truth; twilight; united; vague; vain; voice; walls; warm; washington; waves; way; weary; white; wide; wild; wind; wine; winter; wise; woe; woman; world; years; young; youth
- versions: original; plain text
- 7531
- author: None
- title: A Book of Old Ballads — Volume 1
- date: None
- words: 13861
- flesch: 86
- summary: Crazy pacifists, like myself, may find it almost unbearably bitter to think that on each side of various frontiers young men were being trained to sing themselves to death, in a struggle which was hideously impersonal, a struggle of machinery, in which the only winners were the armament manufacturers. Then home rode the abbot of comfort so cold, And he mett his shepheard a going to fold: How now, my lord abbot, you are welcome home; What newes do you bring us from good King John? Sad newes, sad newes, shepheard, I must give; That I have but three days more to live:
- keywords: abbot; adlands; adler; allen; answer; art; arthur; awaye; ballads; barbara; bed; bee; beene; best; better; body; bold; book; boy; boys; brother; christ; colour; court; daughter; day; daye; death; deere; doe; doubt; downe; duke; english; estmere; eyes; face; faire; far; fast; father; fighte; frolicksome; gay; goe; gold; golden; good; grace; great; green; guy; hall; hand; happy; harpe; hath; head; headpiece; heart; heaven; high; home; hood; house; ile; illustration; john; king; knight; kyng; ladye; land; late; liege; life; like; little; long; lord; lost; love; lyric; maide; man; mandalay; mantle; marrye; mee; men; merry; modern; moore; mouth; mrs; music; nay; nowe; old; people; percy; phrase; point; popular; proud; queene; questions; quoth; reade; rest; rich; right; road; robin; rosamonde; rose; round; saies; sayd; saye; shee; sheriffe; shold; single; sir; soe; song; sore; sort; spayne; sweet; thee; thing; thinke; thou; thought; thy; time; tinker; tree; true; tune; war; way; welcome; wife; wood; words; world; worth; writer; young
- versions: original; plain text
- 7532
- author: None
- title: A Book of Old Ballads — Volume 2
- date: None
- words: 10619
- flesch: 89
- summary: Then Gordon swarved the maine-mast tree, He swarved it with might and maine; But Horseley with a bearing arrowe, Stroke the Gordon through the braine; And he fell unto the haches again, And sore his deadlye wounde did bleed: Then word went through Sir Andrews men, How that the Gordon hee was dead. Hadst thou been fond, he had been false, And left thee sad and heavy; For young men ever were fickle found, Since summer trees were leafy.
- keywords: andrew; away; barton; bednall; bee; beggar; bessee; bicham; blind; bonny; brave; bride; broad; collin; cophetua; daughter; day; dead; degree; doe; dye; end; england; faire; father; free; friar; friend; gallant; gay; god; goe; gold; good; grace; gray; great; green; hand; head; headpiece; heart; heire; holy; horseley; howard; ile; illustration; itt; john; joy; king; knight; lady; land; left; life; like; linne; long; lord; love; maid; maine; man; mast; mee; men; merchant; noble; nowe; oer; pinnace; pretty; quoth; right; sayd; sayes; scales; sea; set; shee; shipp; simon; sir; slaine; soe; sonne; spanish; thee; thomas; thou; thy; time; tree; true; wee; welcome; wife; willoughbey; woe; wold; woman; word; yett; yon; young
- versions: original; plain text
- 7533
- author: None
- title: A Book of Old Ballads — Volume 3
- date: None
- words: 11492
- flesch: 95
- summary: Sir knight, then sayd Sir Lancelett, Bring me that horse-load hither, And lay him downe, and let him rest; Weel try our force together: A tinye boye she mette, God wot, All clad in mantle of golde; He seemed noe more in mans likenèsse, Then a childe of four yeere old.
- keywords: aldingar; armes; art; awaye; backe; baron; bee; bent; better; bird; body; bot; boye; bride; chace; change; chevy; child; christ; clerk; colvill; cow; cowe; cum; dame; daughter; day; deare; doe; doo; doth; douglas; doun; downe; earl; edom; ellen; emmeline; erle; face; fair; false; fast; father; fight; foot; frae; fyer; gae; gay; gill; god; gold; good; gordon; great; grene; hair; hand; head; headpiece; heart; helpe; hide; high; hir; house; illustration; king; knee; knight; ladye; lake; lancelot; lang; lazar; little; lord; loud; love; mair; man; mar; maun; mee; men; mither; morice; nae; neir; noble; noe; north; nowe; owre; page; patrick; percy; play; queene; quoth; ran; rest; round; sae; sair; sall; sayd; shame; shee; sir; slaine; soe; soone; spens; stand; tailpiece; tanner; thee; thine; thou; thy; time; tree; true; waters; wee; white; woe; wolde; yonder; zour
- versions: original; plain text
- 7534
- author: None
- title: A Book of Old Ballads — Volume 4
- date: None
- words: 9409
- flesch: 91
- summary: what news, my puir auld man? Tell men of high condition, That rule affairs of state, Their purpose is ambition, Their practise onely hate; And if they once reply, Then give them all the lye.
- keywords: air; ancient; auld; bailiff; ballad; beg; beggar; bent; bitter; black; blood; body; brown; child; christ; cock; copy; court; daughter; day; dead; dear; death; deir; downe; edward; end; face; fair; folio; frae; gaberlunzie; gaol; glory; god; good; gowd; grave; hae; hand; headpiece; heart; horn; hynd; illustration; islington; john; king; land; lay; leir; letter; life; like; little; long; look; love; lye; man; manuscript; men; mither; nevir; night; noble; old; pain; percy; poor; prison; quhat; quoth; ravens; red; reply; ring; rose; round; sae; scales; sir; sky; sons; soul; sweet; tell; thee; thing; thou; time; tipperary; true; usher; version; wall; way; whan; white; wife; wine; word; wul; zour
- versions: original; plain text
- 7535
- author: None
- title: A Book of Old Ballads — Complete
- date: None
- words: 44890
- flesch: 90
- summary: Then Gordon swarved the maine-mast tree, He swarved it with might and maine; But Horseley with a bearing arrowe, Stroke the Gordon through the braine; And he fell unto the haches again, And sore his deadlye wounde did bleed: Then word went through Sir Andrews men, How that the Gordon hee was dead. Crazy pacifists, like myself, may find it almost unbearably bitter to think that on each side of various frontiers young men were being trained to sing themselves to death, in a struggle which was hideously impersonal, a struggle of machinery, in which the only winners were the armament manufacturers.
- keywords: abbot; aldingar; ancient; andrew; answer; armes; arthur; att; auld; away; backe; ballads; barbara; bare; baron; bed; bednall; bee; beene; beggar; bent; bessee; best; better; bid; bird; black; blind; blood; blue; body; bold; bonny; borne; bow; bower; boy; brave; bread; bride; brother; brown; cam; care; cast; change; cheare; chevy; child; christ; clerk; cold; collin; colour; colvill; comelye; comfort; copy; coud; country; court; cow; cum; dame; dance; daughter; day; daye; days; dead; deadlye; dear; death; deere; degree; deir; doe; doo; doth; doubt; douglas; doun; downe; draw; duke; dye; earl; edom; edward; ellen; emmeline; end; england; english; erle; estmere; eyes; face; fair; fairest; faith; fall; false; far; farewell; fast; father; fayre; fee; feet; fellowe; fighte; fine; fire; foes; folio; foot; frae; free; friar; friend; gaberlunzie; gae; gallant; gang; gaol; gate; gay; gentle; gentleman; gill; gin; glad; god; goe; gold; good; gordon; gowd; grace; gray; great; green; grene; grey; guy; hae; hair; hall; hand; happy; harpe; hast; hath; head; heart; heaven; heire; hell; henrye; hide; high; hill; hir; holy; home; hood; horn; horseley; house; howard; hunt; hye; ile; illustration; john; john o; joy; kind; king; kist; knee; knight; kyng; lady; ladyes; lake; lancelot; land; lang; late; lay; laye; lazar; lead; leave; left; liege; life; like; linne; little; live; london; long; longer; look; lord; lost; loud; love; lovely; lye; lyric; maid; maine; mair; man; mandalay; mantle; manuscript; marching; marrye; master; maun; mee; meet; men; merchant; merry; mickle; mind; mither; modern; morice; mouth; music; nae; nay; neare; need; neir; new; noble; noe; nought; nowe; oer; owre; page; pain; pale; pardon; past; patrick; pence; penny; people; percy; place; play; pleasant; point; poor; pretty; prison; proud; queene; question; quhat; quoth; ran; ranne; reade; red; redd; reply; rest; rich; right; ring; road; robin; rosamonde; rose; round; ryde; sad; sae; sail; sair; sake; sall; sayd; sayes; scales; scotland; scottish; sea; second; seeke; set; sett; shal; shame; shed; shee; shipp; shold; simon; sir; sky; slaine; soe; song; sons; soone; sore; sort; soul; space; spanish; stand; stay; steed; step; stout; straight; strange; strong; sun; sure; sweare; sweet; table; tane; tanner; tears; tell; thee; thing; thinke; thomas; thou; thou art; thought; thy; time; tipperary; tree; true; tune; wad; wall; wan; ware; waters; waye; wedding; wee; weel; welcome; whan; white; wife; william; willoughbey; wilt; wind; wine; wis; wish; woe; wold; woman; wood; word; worst; worth; wot; wul; yard; yett; yon; yonder; young; zour
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- author: Edwards, George Wharton
- title: The Book of Old English Ballads
- date: None
- words: 21664
- flesch: 85
- summary: For as ye look to ither women, I shall do to other men. I come thee till, Said Sir Harry Percye.
- keywords: age; allen; authorship; ballad; banks; barbara; bed; bee; bent; best; better; blood; body; bold; bonny; bow; bower; brave; bride; care; case; chace; charm; chevy; child; clear; cold; come; community; conditions; country; court; dale; daughter; day; dead; dear; death; deep; deere; degree; doe; doth; douglas; dye; english; epic; ere; erle; events; expression; eyes; face; fair; faith; far; fast; father; fear; feeling; feet; field; flower; form; gae; gane; gay; god; good; great; green; grey; gude; guy; hae; hair; hame; hand; hath; head; heart; helen; high; hill; hood; hugh; ile; imagination; individual; james; john; kind; king; kirkconnell; knee; knight; lady; lang; large; lay; leave; life; like; lips; literature; little; long; lord; loud; love; maid; mair; making; man; mankind; margaret; master; mee; memory; men; merry; mind; mony; mother; nae; nay; ne'er; new; noble; noe; noroway; o'er; patrick; people; percy; place; poetry; popular; queene; quoth; rade; ready; red; right; robin; robin hood; rosamonde; rose; sae; sake; sayd; scotland; scots; scottish; sea; sense; shot; sir; slain; soe; songs; sooth; sorrow; stand; stay; story; sure; sweet; ta'en; thee; things; thou; thought; thy; time; town; tree; true; twa; use; verse; waly; water; way; white; william; wind; wine; wold; women; wood; words; yarrow; yon; young
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