Ballads - a genre of audiobooks on the website knigi-audio.com/en/. Page - 1
Double Sestina - Ye Goatherd Gods - Sir Philip Sidney
Double Sestina - Ye Goatherd Gods - Sir Philip Sidney
- Author: Sir Philip Sidney
- Genre: Poetry / Ballads
LibriVox volunteers bring you recordings of Double Sestina - Ye Goatherd Gods by Phillip Sidney. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for May 5, 2019. ------ Poem is included in the book "Countesse of Pembroke's Arcadia" Ye Goatherd Gods" depicts...
Marmion: A Tale of Flodden Field - Sir Walter Scott
Marmion: A Tale of Flodden Field - Sir Walter Scott
- Author: Sir Walter Scott
- Genre: Ballads
Marmion is an epic poem in six cantos, written in emulation of the ancient Scottish minstrel style which was of such great interest to Scott. Unlike its predecessor, The Lay of the Last Minstrel, this one contains "introductions" to each canto, in...
Grand'ther Baldwin's Thanksgiving, with Other Ballads and Poems - Horatio Alger, Jr.
Grand'ther Baldwin's Thanksgiving, with Other Ballads and Poems - Horatio Alger, Jr.
- Author: Horatio Alger Jr.
- Genre: Ballads
Horatio Alger, better known for his juvenile fiction, also penned some great poetry. His Ballads, including the 8 war poems and his odes, are collected in this volume. - Summary by Carolin...
The Ballad of the White Horse (Version 2) - G. K. Chesterton
The Ballad of the White Horse (Version 2) - G. K. Chesterton
- Author: G. K. Chesterton
- Genre: Single author / Ballads
The Ballad of the White Horse is a poem by G K Chesterton about the idealized exploits of the Saxon King Alfred the Great, published in 1911. Written in ballad form, the work is usually considered an epic poem. The poem narrates how Alfred was able...
Up The Line - Will Carleton
Up The Line - Will Carleton
- Author: Will Carleton
- Genre: Poetry / Ballads / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 10 recordings of Up The Line by Will Carleton. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for February 7th, 2010....
Bars and Shadows: The Prison Poems of Ralph Chaplin - Ralph CHAPLIN
Bars and Shadows: The Prison Poems of Ralph Chaplin - Ralph CHAPLIN
- Author: Ralph CHAPLIN
- Genre: Single author / Ballads
Ralph Chaplin and many other prominent members of the Industrial Workers of the World were imprisoned under the Espionage Act of 1917 as the United States entered World War I. As with Socialist presidential candidate Eugene V. Debs, these activists...
Ballad of the Tempest - James Thomas FIELDS
Ballad of the Tempest - James Thomas FIELDS
- Author: James Thomas FIELDS
- Genre: Poetry / Ballads / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 18 recordings of Ballad of the Tempest by James T. Fields. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for July 4th, 2010....
Lily Of The West - Anonymous
Lily Of The West - Anonymous
- Author: Anonymous
- Genre: Poetry / Ballads / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
"Lily of the West is an Irish folk poem. Some say it is a metaphor for the Irish life after emigrating to America." - Summary by Stav Nisser and Wikipedia....
More Bab Ballads - W. S. Gilbert
More Bab Ballads - W. S. Gilbert
- Author: W. S. Gilbert
- Genre: Ballads
This is a subset of the second collection of Gilbertβs βBab Balladsβ β light verses poking fun at the life and people of his time in Gilbertβs unique βtopsy-turveyβ style. The epitaph on his memorial on the Victoria Embankment in London is βHIS FOE...
A Collection of Ballads - Andrew Lang
A Collection of Ballads - Andrew Lang
- Author: Andrew Lang
- Genre: Ballads
This is a collection of ballads, edited, with an introduction and notes by Andrew Lang. The ballads range widely in style, from the historic to the romantic, from the short to the epic, from Scotland to France. Some of the material is the fabric of...
A Bird in a Gilded Cage - Arthur J. LAMB
A Bird in a Gilded Cage - Arthur J. LAMB
- Author: Arthur J. LAMB
- Genre: Poetry / Ballads / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 12 recordings of A Bird in a Gilded Cage by Arthur J. Lamb. This was the Weekly Poetry project for October 2, 2011. "A Bird in a Gilded Cage" is a song composed by Arthur J. Lamb (lyrics) and Harry Von Tilzer (music)....
The Bab Ballads (version 2) - W. S. Gilbert
The Bab Ballads (version 2) - W. S. Gilbert
- Author: W. S. Gilbert
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Poetry / Ballads
The Bab Ballads are a collection of light verse by W. S. Gilbert, illustrated with his own comic drawings. Gilbert wrote the Ballads before he became famous for his comic opera librettos with Arthur Sullivan. In writing the Bab Ballads, Gilbert...
Lara, A Tale - George Gordon, Lord Byron
Lara, A Tale - George Gordon, Lord Byron
- Author: George Gordon Lord Byron
- Genre: Ballads
This powerful poem narrates the fateful return of Count Lara to the British Isles after spending years abroad traveling the orient.Returning to his patrimony with a retinue consisting of one foreign-born page, Count Lara resumes the management of...
Will ye go to the Indies, my Mary? - Robert BURNS
Will ye go to the Indies, my Mary? - Robert BURNS
- Author: Robert BURNS
- Genre: Ballads / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
A LibriVox' Weekly Poetry tribute to Robbie Burns on the upcoming Robbie Burns Day. (January 25)Robert Burns (also known as Robbie Burns, Rabbie Burns, Scotland's favourite son, the Ploughman Poet, Robden of Solway Firth, the Bard of Ayrshire and in...
The Bab Ballads - W. S. Gilbert
The Bab Ballads - W. S. Gilbert
- Author: W. S. Gilbert
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Poetry / Ballads
The Bab Ballads are a collection of light verse by W. S. Gilbert, illustrated with his own comic drawings. Gilbert wrote the Ballads before he became famous for his comic opera librettos with Arthur Sullivan. In writing the Bab Ballads, Gilbert...
The Hunting of the Snark (Version 3) - Lewis Carroll
The Hunting of the Snark (Version 3) - Lewis Carroll
- Author: Lewis Carroll
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Ballads
The Hunting of the Snark - "An Agony in 8 Fits" is typically categorized as a nonsense poem written by Lewis Carroll, the pen name of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson. Written from 1874 to 1876, the poem borrows the setting, some creatures, and eight...
Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads - John Lomax
Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads - John Lomax
- Author: John Lomax
- Genre: Anthologies / Ballads
John Avery Lomax is a towering figure in the field of early American musicology and folklore. Through intensive field work, Lomax built up the core body of work for the Library of Congress Archive. "Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads" is his...
Yvain, or the Knight with the Lion - ChrΓ©tien de Troyes
Yvain, or the Knight with the Lion - ChrΓ©tien de Troyes
- Author: ChrΓ©tien de Troyes
- Genre: Ballads
Yvain, the Knight of the Lion is a romance by ChrΓ©tien de Troyes. It was probably written in the 1170s simultaneously with Lancelot, the Knight of the Cart, and includes several references to the action in that poem. In the poem, Yvain seeks to...
Love & Its Historical Shades: Poetic Expressions of Love Based on Varying Time Periods - Carl Sandburg
Love & Its Historical Shades: Poetic Expressions of Love Based on Varying Time Periods - Carl Sandburg
- Author: Carl Sandburg
- Genre: Anthologies / Ballads
The theme around these poems is how poets expressed their ideas of love as well as the type of language used to convey said love through poetry; it also indirectly highlights how society may perceive love based on how those poets' values may have...
Two Cumberland Ballads - John Stagg
Two Cumberland Ballads - John Stagg
- Author: John Stagg
- Genre: Ballads / Narratives
Two narrative ballads, based on local lore, by the Cumberland poet John Stagg. In 'The Hermit of Rockcliffe', a young fugitive takes refuge with a hermit, hears a bizarre and cautionary tale of what might befall a lusty young man at a masked ball,...
Verses Popular And Humorous (Version 2) - Henry Lawson
Verses Popular And Humorous (Version 2) - Henry Lawson
- Author: Henry Lawson
- Genre: Single author / Ballads
Verses, Popular and Humorous (1900) was the second collection of poems by Australian poet Henry Lawson. It features some of the poet's earlier major works, including "The Lights of Cobb and Co", "Saint Peter" and "The Grog-An'-Grumble-Steeplechase"....
The Norse King's Bridal - Eleanor Mary Smith-Dampier
The Norse King's Bridal - Eleanor Mary Smith-Dampier
- Author: Eleanor Mary Smith-Dampier
- Genre: Ballads
In these translations from the Danish the author attempted to adhere strictly to the metres of the original, however in some, where this was not possible, she developed her own interpretations....
