Studies in Folk-Song and Popular Poetry
CONTENTS
Mr. Williams's essays merit a few words of commendation from folk-lorists on this side of the Atlantic as being calculated to interest readers in a subject which is full of profound significance, but against which they may possibly be prejudiced in the degree that science claims it as material for analysis.
For within the last few years folk-lore has been promoted to the rank of a serious study and the Folk-Lore Society of London, aided by its numerous and lusty offshoots, both American and Continental, is busily applying the scientific method to fireside tale, custom, song, and ballad seeking what old philosophies lie at the heart of these, and what they have to tell about intercourse between peoples in the past.
Nevertheless, the folk-lorist treats his subject-matter as tenderly as Isaak Walton bade the angler hook his worm, for he remembers what poetry the song and saga hold, and that laughter and tears are ever young.
These essays range over a wide field, both of space and time. The earlier in arrangement deal with subjects which are purely literary and modern, and justify their presence only in the reasons advanced by the author. But the major number come within the ken of the folk-lorist, and appeal not to him only, but to all who are moved by the passion and sincerity of primitive poetry, in the skill and sympathy with which the varied note of folk-song in East and West is interpreted. In some of the examples, however, notably those from Roumania, Mr. Williams does not sufficiently allow for the modern dress in which the peasant verse is clothed.
EDWARD CLODD.
Oh, fare ye well, my pretty, fair maids,
I'm bound for the Rio Grande!
Ri-o-Rio I
Alfred M. Williams
STUDIES IN FOLK-SONG AND POPULAR POETRY,
With A Prefatory Note By Edward Clodd,
PREFACE
STUDIES IN FOLK-SONG AND POPULAR POETRY.
AMERICAN SEA SONGS.
THE YANKEE MAN-OF-WAR.
THE CONSTITUTION AND THE GUERRIERE.
THE COAST OF PERU.
FOLK-SONGS OF THE CIVIL WAR.
FREEDOM'S GUIDE.
VENGEONS LA PATRIE.
THE BEAUTIES OF CONSCRIPTION.
THE PORT ROYAL DANCE.
CALL ALL.
THE VALIANT CONSCRIPT.
THE SOUTHERN GIRL'S SONG.
ENGLISH AND SCOTTISH POPULAR BALLADS.
LADY NAIRNE AND HER SONGS.
THE LAIRD OF COCKPEN.
JAMIE, THE LAIRD.
THE HUNDRED PIPERS.
CHARLIE IS MY DARLING.
CALLER HERRIN'.
SIR SAMUEL FERGUSON AND CELTIC POETRY.
AIDEEN'S GRAVE.
THE FAIR HAIR'D GIRL.
THE COOLUN.
WILLIAM THOM, THE WEAVER POET.
YTHANSIDE.
WHISPER LOW.
FOLK-SONGS OF LOWER BRITTANY.
CRADLE SONG.
THE FOX GALLANT.
THE SONG OF THE NIGHTINGALE.
THE DITTY OF LOVE.
I WILL BE NEITHER PRIEST NOR MONK.
THE SECRETS OF THE CLERK.
DO NOT MARRY A SAILOR.
THE SONG OF THE OLD SPINNER.
THE WILL OF THE OLD MARE.
THE FOLK-SONGS OF POITOU.
NANON.
THE SHEPHERDESS AND THE GENTLEMAN.
THE FAIR ROSALIE.
THE NIGHT BEFORE MY WEDDING.
JOSEPH.
THE SHEPHERD WHO MAKES LOVE TO ME.
THE FAIR ONE ASLEEP.
IT WAS THE SPRING SIX MONTHS AGO.
THE WINTER IT IS PAST.
THE DESERTER.
THE WIFE OF THE MARINE. 1
SOME ANCIENT PORTUGUESE BALLADS.
DOM YANNO.
THE SHIP CATHARINE.
DON JUAN D'ARMADA.
THE CAPTIVE.
THE FAITHFUL PALADIN.
THE FAIR PRINCESS.
DOM DUARDOS AND FLERIDA.
THE PILGRIM MAID.
THE DEATH-BED MARRIAGE.
DOM ALEIXIO.
DOM PEDRO MENINO.
COUNT NILLO.
HUNGARIAN FOLK-SONGS.
KURIS PISTA.
THE MURDERED YOUTH.
THE THREE BRIGANDS.
THE BELLS OF TARJA.
THE BETROTHED.
POISONED JANOS.
GYURI BANDI.
THE MOTHER AND DAUGHTER.
THE THREE ORPHANS.
BUGA JAKAB.
THE FAIR ILONA.
THE BRIGAND'S WIFE.
THE GIRL AND THE SHEPHERD.
THE THREE SCARFS.
THE LOVELIEST FLOWER OF ALL.
THE LONESOME ONE.
FOLK-SONGS OF ROUMANIA.
THE HEIDUCK'S SONG.
"I AM CONTENT."
THE OUTCAST.
HE THAT TOOK NOTHING.
SPINNING SONG.
