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Ballads Books

Thomas the Rhymer
Casey at the Bat: A Ballad of the Republic Sung in the Year 1888
An Earthly Knight
Fire and Hemlock
The Book of Ballads
Tam Lin
Lament: The Faerie Queen's Deception (Books of Faerie, #1)
The Big Treasury of Australian Folklore: Two Centuries of Tales, Epics, Ballads, Myths & Legends
Murder Ballads: Illustrated Lyrics & Lore
A Bundle of Ballads
The Rosewood Casket (Ballad, #4)
Mad Love, Murder & Mayhem: Favorite English & Scottish Ballads
The Silver Dagger: American Murder Ballads (An Anthology of Classic Ballads, War Songs & Shanties)
The Ballad of Never After (Once Upon a Broken Heart, #2)
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Casey at the Bat by Ernest Lawrence ThayerThe Book of Ballads by Charles VessThe Ballad of Reading Gaol by Oscar WildeA Treasury of Southern Folklore by B.A. BotkinSinging Family of the Cumberlands by Jean Ritchie
Ballads - Poems that tell stories in song
92 books — 6 voters
Last Night's Fun by Ciaran CarsonClose to the Floor by Mick MoloneySongs of Dublin by Frank Harte50 Irish Fiddle Tunes by Tommy PeoplesBright Star of the West by Sean Williams
Irish Music
30 books — 3 voters

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs by Judi BarrettCasey at the Bat by Ernest Lawrence ThayerPrincess Ballot by Jaymin EveThe Football Player's Obsession by Emma BrayThe Pinballs by Betsy Byars
96 'Balls'
476 books — 25 voters
The Hermit of Siskiyou, or, Twice-Old Man by L.W. MusickBlack Diamonds by John Minnich WilsonYellow Witch; Ballads About Gold by Clyde RobertsonGems from the tailings by Samuel W Smith"Pay Dirt" The Hard Rock Poet's Latest Tales and Ballads abou... by Rufus L. Porter
Dark As A Dungeon (Mining Poetry)
61 books — 1 voter

Curiosities of Street Literature by Charles HindleyLife Turns Man Up and Down by Kurt ThometzThe Lubok by Arthur Shkarovsky-RafféLoving Mad Tom, Bedlamite Verses of the XVI and XVII Centuries by Jack LindsayArguments Against by Rev. B. H. Shadduck
Disposable Library
100 books — 1 voter
Long Lankin by Lindsey BarracloughDreadful Wind and Rain by Isabel GreenbergFire and Hemlock by Diana Wynne JonesThe Perilous Gard by Elizabeth Marie PopeWinter Rose by Patricia A. McKillip
Books Based on Ballads
24 books — 6 voters

Quotes Tagged “Ballads”

Arlene Stafford-Wilson
“ Some of these tales were about the ‘land beneath the waves’. This Irish fable tells of an enchanted world, under the water, and mortals may visit there at dusk, between the rising and the setting of the moon, when the water is still, and reflects like a mirror. They used to call it the ‘gates of glass’. ”
― Arlene Stafford-Wilson, Lanark County Calling: All Roads Lead Home
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M.L. LeGette
“ O sweet, sweet Joanna How torn my heart! O sweet, sweet Joanna Our kiss shall never part! O sweet, sweet Joanna How thine eyes do mine miss! O sweet, sweet Joanna Lushest green now turned to mist! O sweet, sweet Joanna How wicked the under-lord king! O sweet, sweet Joanna Who stole our cherished ring! ”
― M.L. LeGette, The Orphan and the Thief
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