Story-Telling Ballads
Selected and Arranged for Story-Telling and Reading Aloud and for the Boys' and Girls' Own Reading
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STORY-TELLING BALLADS
THE FOREWORD
TEACHERS, STORY-TELLERS, AND BALLADS
YOUTH IN THE BALLADS
HOW THE BALLADS GREW
MAKING A COLLECTION FOR CHILDREN
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
CONTENTS
ILLUSTRATIONS
THE SALT BLUE SEAS
THE STORMY WINDS DO BLOW
SIR PATRICK SPENS
THE DÆMON LOVER
THE MERMAID
PART I
PART II
PART III
A-HARROWING O’ THE BORDER
THE GALLOWAY RAID
THE MORE MODERN BALLAD OF CHEVY-CHASE
PART I
PART II
THE BALLAD OF MEIKLE-MOUTHED MEG
BOLD WILLIE SCOTT
THE RAID
THE GALLOWS OR MARRIAGE
YOUNG WILLIE’S MESSENGER
THE GALLOWS-TREE
BELTED WILL
THE ROBBER BARON
THE TRAP O’ BELTED WILL
THE GRIZZLY DWARF
BRAVE HEARTS AND PROUD
EARL HALDAN’S DAUGHTER
LADY CLARE
PROUD LADY MARGARET
THE FAMOUS FLOWER OF SERVING-MEN
PART I
PART II
COCHRANE’S BONNY GRIZZY
PART I
PART II
THE GREETING OF KYNAST
LAYS O’ FAËRIE
THE FAIRY TEMPTER
ALICE BRAND
I
II
III
THE ERL-KING
THE ERL-KING SPEAKS
THE ERL-KING SPEAKS AGAIN
THE ERL-KING SPEAKS AGAIN
THE FAIRY THORN
LA BELLE DAME SANS MERCI
THOMAS THE RHYMER
THE KELPIE OF CORRIEVRECKAN
PART I
PART II
KILMENY
LAYS O’ WONDER
THE WEE WEE MAN
THE EARL OF MAR’S DAUGHTER
PART I
PART II
KEMP OWYNE
THE LADY OF SHALOTT
PART I
PART II
PART III
PART IV
THE SINGING LEAVES
I
II
III
THE LUCK OF EDENHALL
MAY OF THE MORIL GLEN
PART I
PART II
PART III
THE LAIDLEY WORM O’ SPINDLESTON-HEUGHS
PART I
PART II
PART III
PART IV
MERRY GESTES
A TRAGIC STORY
LITTLE BILLEE
BRIAN O’LINN
DICKY OF BALLYMAN
THE BALLAD OF THE OYSTERMAN
THE CINDER KING
THE FROLICKSOME DUKE; OR, THE TINKER’S GOOD FORTUNE
KING JAMES THE FIRST AND THE TINKLER
KING ALFRED AND THE SHEPHERD
PART I—WHEREIN KING ALFRED FIGHTS FOR HIS DINNER
PART II—WHEREIN KING ALFRED BECOMES A SHEPHERD
PART III—WHEREIN KING ALFRED BURNS THE CAKES
PART IV—WHEREIN KING ALFRED BLOWS HIS BUGLE-HORN
SAD GESTES
THE SANDS OF DEE
FAIR ANNY OF ROCH-ROYAL
PART I
PART II
THE CRUEL SISTER
BARBARA ALLEN’S CRUELTY
SONG: EARL MARCH LOOKED ON HIS DYING CHILD
LORD LOVEL
PRETTY MAYS AND KNIGHTS SO BOLD
THE NOBLE RIDDLE
BLANCHEFLOUR AND JELLYFLORICE
PART I
PART II
GLENARA
THE BEGGAR-MAID
LOCHINVAR
THE GAY GOSS-HAWK
PART I
PART II
PART III
BONNY BABY LIVINGSTON
PART I
PART II
PART III
HYND HORN
YOUNG BEICHAN AND SUSIE PYE
PART I
PART II
THE CHILD OF ELLE
PART I
PART II
PART III
FOR HALLOWEEN AND MIDSUMMER EVE
THE SPELL
THE YOUNG TAMLANE
PART I
PART II
THE WIFE OF USHER’S WELL
SIR ROLAND
THE SKELETON IN ARMOUR
SWEET WILLIAM’S GHOST
THE EVE OF ST. JOHN
PART I
PART II
PART III
ALL UNDER THE GREENWOOD TREE
THE BIRTH O’ ROBIN HOOD
ROBIN HOOD AND LITTLE JOHN
ROBIN HOOD AND CLORINDA
SONG OF THE OUTLAW MURRAY
PART I
PART II
PART III
PART IV
VALENTINE AND URSINE
PART I
PART II
PART III
PART IV
O’ PILGRIMAGE AND SOULS SO STRONG
THE PILGRIM
THE HEART OF THE BRUCE
PART I
PART II
PART III
BARCLAY OF URY
THE TOUCHSTONE
SIR GALAHAD
PILGRIMAGE
THE ROYAL COURT
TRUE VALOUR
PEACE
THE THREE KINGS
APPENDIX
SUGGESTIONS FOR TEACHERS AND LEADERS OF POETRY HOURS
THE BALLADS IN THIS BOOK
PROGRAMME FOR A YEAR OF BALLAD-READING AND STUDY
ONE PERIOD A WEEK FOR FORTY WEEKS
COURSE FOR FORTY WEEKS—ONE PERIOD A WEEK
PROGRAMME FOR AN ENTERTAINMENT
FOR LIBRARIANS AND SOCIAL WORKERS
GLOSSARY AND INDEXES
GLOSSARY
SUBJECT INDEX
INDEX OF FIRST LINES
INDEX OF TITLES AND AUTHORS
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