NOTE

'English Songs and Ballads' must not be regarded as 'a choice,' but simply as a bringing together of poetical pieces which are, presumably, well known to the average person,—that is to say, the compiler has endeavoured to illustrate the general taste rather than his own preference.

INDEX OF FIRST LINES

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[About the sweet bag of a bee,][113]
[A chieftain to the Highlands bound,][252]
[Ae fond kiss, and then we sever,][181]
[Agincourt, Agincourt,][78]
[Ah, my swete swetyng,][1]
[Alas! my love, you do me wrong,][17]
[Allen-a-Dale has no faggot for burning,][247]
[All in the Downs the fleet was moor'd,][129]
[All ye woods, and trees, and bowers,][13]
[And did you not hear of a jolly young Waterman,][201]
[An old song made by an aged old pate,][59]
[A parrot from the Spanish main,][261]
[Arm, arm, arm, arm, the scouts are all come in,][16]
[A simple child,][241]
[As I came thro' Sandgate,][196]
[Ask me no more where Jove bestows,][107]
[Ask me no more, the moon may draw the sea,][337]
[A spirit haunts the year's last hours,][330]
[As thro' the land at eve we went,][331]
[A sweet disorder in the dress,][115]
[Attend all ye who list to hear our noble England's praise,][309]
[A weary lot is thine, fair maid,][246]
[A Well there is in the west country,][233]
[A wet sheet and a flowing sea,][267]
[Beauty clear and fair,][14]
[Be it right or wrong, these men among,][39]
[Believe me, if all those endearing young charms,][273]
[Bird of the wilderness,][265]
[Blame not my Lute! for he must sound,][4]
[Blow, blow, thou winter wind,][80]
[Blow high, blow low, let tempests tear,][201]
[Break, break, break,][328]
[Busk ye, busk ye, my bonny bonny bride,][135]
[But are ye sure the news is true,][223]
[Call for the robin-redbreast and the wren,][19]
[Cherry ripe, ripe, ripe, I cry,][116]
[Cold's the wind, and wet's the rain,][20]
[Come all ye jolly shepherds,][263]
[Come, cheerful day, part of my life to me,][92]
[Come, cheer up, my lads, 'tis to glory we steer,][150]
[Come follow, follow me,][126]
[Come into the garden, Maud,][335]
[Come live with me and be my love,][6]
[Come not, when I am dead,][339]
[Come, Sleep, and with thy sweet deceiving,][13]
[Dear is my little native vale,][193]
[Doubt thou the stars are fire,][86]
[Drink to me only with thine eyes,][93]
[Duncan Gray came here to woo,][188]
[Faintly as tolls the evening chime,][269]
[Fair daffodils, we weep to see,][110]
[Fair pledges of a fruitful tree,][110]
[Fair stood the wind for France,][74]
[Fear no more the heat o' the sun,][80]
[Flow down, cold rivulet, to the sea,][338]
[Flow gently, sweet Afton, among thy green braes,][182]
[Follow thy fair sun, unhappy shadow,][93]
[For auld lang syne, my dear,][351]
[Four and twenty bonny boys,][49]
[From Oberon, in fairy land,][97]
[From the white blossom'd sloe my dear Chloe requested,][190]
[Full fathom five thy father lies,][82]
[Gather the rose-buds while ye may,][111]
[God Lyaeus, ever young,][16]
[God prosper long our noble King,][66]
[God save our gracious King,][352]
[Go fetch to me a pint o' wine,][182]
[Go, lovely Rose,][122]
[Good-morrow to the day so fair,][109]
[Good people all, of every sort,][151]
[Go where glory waits thee,][269]
[Green fields of England, wheresoe'er,][342]
[Hame, hame, hame, hame fain wad I be,][266]
[Hang fear, cast away care,][96]
[Hark! now everything is still,][19]
[Hark, hark, the lark at Heaven's gate sings,][88]
[He is gone on the mountain,][245]
[Her arms across her breast she laid,][339]
[Here, a sheer hulk, lies poor Tom Bowling,][200]
[Her eyes the glow-worm lend thee,][108]
[Here's a health unto His Majesty,][129]
[Here's to the maiden of bashful fifteen,][161]
[Hide me, O twilight air,][281]
[Home they brought her warrior dead,][332]
[Ho! why dost thou shiver and shake,][287]
[How should I your true love know,][83]
[I arise from dreams of thee,][283]
[I cannot eat but little meat,][7]
[I come from haunts of coot and hern,][332]
[I come, I come! ye have called me long,][290]
[I knew an old wife lean and poor,][328]
[I lov'd a lass, a fair one,][104]
[I'm lonesome since I cross'd the hill,][224]
[I'm sitting on the stile, Mary,][346]
[In going to my naked bed,][2]
[In good King Charles's golden days,][222]
[In her ear he whispered gaily,][315]
[In the merry month of May,][8]
[In Wakefield there lives a jolly pinder,][37]
[I sprang to the stirrup, and Joris, and he,][343]
[Is there for honest poverty,][178]
[I tell thee, Dick, where I have been,][118]
[It is an ancient Mariner,][202]
[It is the miller's daughter,][340]
[I travelled among unknown men,][243]
[It was a blind beggar had long lost his sight,][24]
[It was a friar of orders gray,][228]
[It was a lover and his lass,][84]
[It was a summer evening,][235]
[It was the frog in the well,][123]
[It was the time when lilies blow,][312]
[I've seen the smiling,][238]
[I wander'd by the brook-side,][347]
[John Anderson, my jo, John,][187]
[John Gilpin was a citizen,][139]
[Kentish Sir Byng stood for his King,][345]
[King Death was a rare old fellow,][280]
[Lassie wi' the lint-white locks,][185]
[Lawn as white as driven snow,][85]
[Lay a garland on my hearse,][14]
[Let me the canakin clink, clink,][86]
[Let the bells ring, and let the boys sing,][15]
[Lithe and listen, gentlemen,][53]
[Long the proud Spaniards had vaunted to conquer us,][63]
[Lord, thou hast given me a cell,][113]
[Love wakes and weeps,][249]
[Maxwelltown braes are bonnie,][130]
[Men of England! who inherit,][263]
[Mine be a cot beside the hill,][193]
[Move eastward, happy earth, and leave,][327]
[My banks they are furnished with bees,][139]
[My heart is sair, I darena tell,][183]
[My heart is wasted with my woe,][320]
[My mind to me a kingdom is,][10]
[My true love hath my heart,][18]
[Napoleon's banners at Boulogne,][259]
[No stir in the air, no stir in the sea,][231]
[Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note,][282]
[Now glory to the Lord of Hosts, from whom all glories are,][305]
[Now, now the mirth comes,][112]
[Now ponder well, you parents dear,][33]
[Now sleeps the crimson petal, now the white,][338]
[Now the hungry lion roars,][89]
[Of all the girls that are so smart,][133]
[Of a' the airts the wind can blaw,][185]
[Of Nelson and the North,][257]
[Oft I had heard of Lucy Gray,][239]
[Oft in the stilly night,][276]
[Oh, call my brother back to me,][292]
[Oh, Mary, go and call the cattle home,][349]
[Oh! the days are gone when Beauty bright,][273]
[Oh, the sweet contentment,][127]
[Oh where, and oh where, is your Highland laddie gone,][197]
[O Jenny's a' weet, poor body,][179]
[O listen, listen, ladies gay,][249]
[O mistress mine, where are you roaming,][84]
[O, my luve's like a red red rose,][179]
[O Nanny, wilt thou go with me,][227]
[On either side the river lie,][322]
[On Linden when the sun was low,][262]
[On that deep-retiring shore,][348]
[On the banks of Allan Water,][192]
[Orpheus with his lute made trees,][85]
[O sing unto my roundelay,][174]
[O swallow, swallow, flying south,][340]
[Our bugles sang truce, for the night-cloud had lowered,][253]
[Over hill, over dale,][88]
[O waly, waly up the bank,][132]
[O what can ail thee, knight-at-arms,][286]
[O whistle and I'll come to ye, my lad,][183]
[O, Willie brew'd a peck o' maut,][186]
[O world! O life! O time!][284]
[O, young Lochinvar is come out of the West,][244]
[Pack clouds, away, and welcome, day,][12]
[Pibroch of Donuil Dhu,][248]
[Piping down the valleys wild,][176]
[Proud Maisie in the wood,][251]
[Queen and huntress, chaste and fair,][94]
[Red rows the Nith 'tween bank and brae,][268]
[Rich and rare were the gems she wore,][271]
[Rose cheek'd Laura, come,][92]
[Scots wha hae wi' Wallace bled,][177]
[Shall I, wasting in despair,][103]
[She dwelt among untrodden ways,][243]
[She is a winsome wee thing,][187]
[She is far from the land where her young hero sleeps,][272]
[She stood breast high among the corn,][304]
[She walks in beauty like the night,][280]
[Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more,][87]
[Sing his praises, that doth keep,][16]
[Some asked me where the rubies grew,][111]
[Some talk of Alexander, and some of Hercules,][160]
[Some years of late, in eighty-eight,][117]
[So now is come our joyfullest part,][105]
[So, we'll go no more a-roving,][279]
[Spring, the sweet Spring, is the year's pleasant king,][9]
[Still to be neat, still to be drest,][94]
[Sweet and low, sweet and low,][344]
[Sweet day, so cool, so calm, so bright,][116]
[Sweet Emma Moreland of yonder town,][318]
[Tell me not, sweet, I am unkind,][125]
[Tell me, where is fancy bred,][91]
[The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold,][277]
[The boy stood on the burning deck,][294]
[The breaking waves dashed high,][288]
[The bride cam' out o' the byre,][158]
[The deil cam' fiddlin' thro' the toun,][184]
[The feathered songster chanticleer,][161]
[The fountains mingle with the river,][284]
[The glories of our blood and state,][10]
[The harp that once through Tara's halls,][271]
[The King sits in Dunfermline town,][21]
[The laird o' Cockpen, he's proud an' he's great,][198]
[The lawns were dry in Euston park,][194]
[The minstrel boy to the war is gone,][275]
[There be none of Beauty's daughters,][279]
[There came to the beach a poor exile of Erin,][254]
[There come seven gypsies on a day,][51]
[There is a garden in her face,][91]
[There is not in the wide world a valley so sweet,][272]
[There was a youth, a well beloved youth,][65]
[There was three kings into the East,][190]
[There were three ladies play'd at the ba',][52]
[There were three sailors of Bristol city,][341]
[The splendour falls on castle walls,][331]
[The stars are with the voyager,][304]
[The stately homes of England,][291]
[The time I've lost in wooing,][275]
[They grew in beauty side by side,][293]
[Three fishers went sailing out into the west,][350]
[Tiger, tiger, burning bright,][176]
['Tis the last rose of summer,][274]
[Toll for the brave,][147]
[Turn, gentle hermit of the dale,][152]
['Twas in the prime of summer time,][295]
[Under the greenwood tree,][81]
[Was this fair face the cause, quoth she,][89]
[Weep no more, nor sigh, nor groan,][15]
[Wha'll buy my caller herrin',][199]
[When all among the thundering drums,][337]
[When all is done and said,][1]
[When Britain first, at Heaven's command,][131]
[When cats run home, and light is come,][319]
[When daffodils begin to peer,][87]
[When daisies pied and violets blue,][83]
[When Hercules did use to spin,][95]
[When icicles hang by the wall,][79]
[When love with unconfined wings,][124]
[When o'er the hill the Eastern star,][189]
[When the British warrior queen,][149]
[When the sheep are in the fauld, when the kye's come hame,][157]
[When this old cap was new,][100]
[When we two parted,][278]
[Where gang ye, thou silly auld carle,][265]
[Where the bee sucks, there lurk I,][86]
[While larks with little wing,][180]
[Who is Sylvia? what is she,][81]
[Why does your brand so drop with blood,][225]
[Why do ye weep, sweet babes? Can tears,][115]
[Why so pale and wan, fond lover,][121]
[With fingers weary and worn,][301]
[Ye gentlemen of England,][125]
[Ye little birds that sit and sing,][11]
[Ye mariners of England,][256]
[You are old, father William, the young man cried,][237]
[You spotted snakes with double tongue,][90]

INDEX OF AUTHORS

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Anonymous—[17,] [21,] [24,][39,] [49,] [51,] [52,] [53,][59,] [63,] [66,] [78,]
[95,] [96,] [97,] [100,][117,] [123,] [126,] [129,] [130,][132,] [160,] [161,] [192,] [196,]
[197,] [222,] [224.]
[Barnard, Lady Anne,][157]
[Beaumont and Fletcher,][13]
[Blake, William,][176]
[Bloomfield, Robert,][194]
[Breton, Nicholas,][8]
[Browning, Robert,][343]
[Burns, Robert,][177]
[Burns, Robert,][351]
[Byron, Lord,][277]
[Campbell, Thomas,][252]
[Campion, Thomas,][91]
[Carew, Thomas,][107]
[Carey, Henry,][133]
[Carey, Henry,][352]
[Chalkhill, John,][127]
[Chatterton, Thomas,][161]
[Clough, Arthur Hugh,][342]
[Cockburn, Mrs.,][238]
[Coleridge, Samuel Taylor,][202]
[Cowper, William,][139]
[Cunningham, Allan,][265]
[Dalrymple, Sir David,][225]
[Dibdin, Charles,][200]
[Drayton, Michael,][74]
[Dufferin, Lady,][346]
[Dyer, Sir Edward,][9]
[Edwardes, Richard,][2]
[Fletcher, John,][14]
[Garrick, David,][150]
[Gay, John,][129]
[Goldsmith, Oliver,][151]
[Hamilton, William,][135]
[Hemans, Felicia,][288]
[Herbert, George,][116]
[Herrick, Robert,][108]
[Heywood, Thomas,][11]
[Hogg, James,][263]
[Holcroft, Thomas,][287]
[Hood, Thomas,][295]
[Houghton, Lord,][347]
[Jonson, Ben,][93]
[Keats, John,][286]
[Kingsley, Rev. Charles,][349]
[Lovelace, Richard,][124]
[Macaulay, Lord,][305]
[Marlowe, Christopher,][6]
[Mickle, William Julius,][223]
[Moore, Thomas,][269]
[Nairne, Lady,][198]
[Nash, Thomas,][9]
[Parker, Martin,][125]
[Percy, Thomas,][227]
[Proctor, B.W.,][280]
[Rogers, Samuel,][193]
[Ross, Alexander,][158]
[Scott, Sir Walter,][244]
[Shakespeare, William,][79]
[Shelley, Percy Bysshe,][283]
[Shenstone, William,][139]
[Shirley, James,][10]
[Sidney, Sir Philip,][18]
[Southey, Robert,][231]
[Still, John,][7]
[Suckling, Sir John,][118]
[Tennyson, Lord,][312]
[Thackeray, William Makepeace,][341]
[Thomson, James,][131]
[Vaux, Lord,][1]
[Waller, Edmund,][122]
[Webster, John,][19]
[Wither, George,][103]
[Wolfe, Charles,][282]
[Wordsworth, William,][239]
[Wyatt, Sir Thomas,][4]