Ballads Collection

Ballad / Twa Corbies
THE TWA CORBIES Two crows plan to dine on the body of a new-slain knight, then o er his white banes, when they are bare, the wind sall blaw for evermair. Date: traditional

The Lady of Shalott setting out on her boat for Camelot
Colour illustration of the Lady of Shalott setting out on her boat for Camelot

BALLAD / CLERK COLVILL
CLERK COLVILL He sees a mermaid bathing in the Wells of Slane, and falls instantly in love with her... but her love is fatal, and he returns home only to die. Date: traditional

BALLAD / THE GARDENER
THE GARDENER The gardener offers the maiden his flowers, but includes a weed, so she rejects him and foretells his death - the new fallen snow to be your smock Date: traditional

The Army Lancers, by H L D Arcy Jaxone
Promotional music sheet for The Army Lancers by H. L. DArcy Jaxone. Arranged on melodies of celebrated Barrack Room Ballads, which were published in 1892

BALLAD SELLER / WHEATLEY
A new love song, only hapenny a piece. A ballad-seller makes a sale. Date: 1796

FRENCH BALLAD SELLER
A French ballad seller demonstrates his work with the help of a young assistant. Date: 18th century

BALLAD SELLER
A girl sells ballads and religious prints while the snowflakes fall around her Date: circa 1840

Yosyp Stadnyk - Ukranian Theatre director and actor
Yosyp Stadnyk (1876-1954) - Theatre director and actor. Stadnyk played over 100 roles, mostly character roles in a realist style, in plays by Mykhailo Starytsky, Marko Kropyvnytsky

Theodor Fontane
THEODOR FONTANE German writer, author of realistic novels, also ballads and books about life in England. Date: 1819 - 1898

John Bagford, Collector
JOHN BAGFORD, shoeamker and book collector, who deserves praise for rescuing ancient ballads, but indignation for destroying countless old books for their title pages. Date: 1650 - 1716

William Ed. Aytoun
WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN Scottish writer, best known for his publication of Scottish lays and ballads. Date: 1813 - 1865

William Ed. Aytoun 2
WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN Scottish writer, best known for his publication of Scottish lays and ballads. Date: 1813 - 1865

WILLIAM HAYLEY 1745-1820
WILLIAM HAYLEY English Poet. Wrote Triumph of Music (1804) and Ballads founded on anecdotes of animals (1805). Date: 1745 - 1820

Balladier
and buy the fair ballads I have in my pack. Street balladier selling his wares. From Old London Cries (1885) Date: 1885

Battalion Ballads from 17th Bat. Highland Light Infantry
Book entitled Battalion Ballads from THE OUTPOST 17th (S) Battalion Highland Light Infantry. This book belonged to 15959 Sergeant W. F. Ritchie. Annotated inside giving details of his time in France

George R. Sims Dagonet Ballads - The Workhouse
An illustration inspired by In the Workhouse: Christmas Day - better known as Christmas Day in the Workhouse - one of the Dagonet Ballads written by George R Sims in 1877

Street music: a blind ballad singer, 1815
A blind chaunter of old ballads, shown here accompanying his voice by playing upon a cat gut string drawn over a tea canister, and tied at both ends with a mop stick. Date: 1815

Ballad / Mars Daughter
EARL MARs DAUGHTER She is carried off to her lover (who lives with her as a dove by day) by a a flight of swans (really her lovers brothers and their men). Date: traditional

Ballad / Bar the Door
GET UP AND BAR THE DOOR Both goodwife and goodman refuse to go and bar the door, and agree that the first one to speak shall do it. Date: traditional

Ballad / Young Bekie 2
YOUNG BEKIE Young Bekie, thrown into prison for daring to love the kings daughter, Burd Isbel, shares it with mice and rats, but she will rescue him. Date: traditional

Ballad / Hynd Horn
HYND HORN The kings daughter gives the beggar a drink, failing to recognise her erstwhile lover, Hynd Horn, but all will end well, I promise you. Date: traditional

Ballad / False Lover
THE FALSE LOVER WON BACK When John tells her he loves another, the fair maid goes after him and by the end hes as deep in love wi her as she was ower again. Date: traditional

Ballad / Erlinton

Ballad / Young Bekie
YOUNG BEKIE The Billy Blind tells Burd Isbel that Young Bekie is getting married that day - to another girl. She quickly dresses and all ends well. Date: traditional

Ballad / Lord Randal
LORD RANDAL O yes, I am poisoned, mother, make my bed soon, for I m sick at the heart, and I fain wald lie down (His true love gave him eels boiled in broth.) Date: traditional

Ballad / Yonge Andrew
YONGE ANDREW He lures the earls daughter with false promises, then strips her of her fine clothes and the money she has stolen for him from her father. Date: traditional

Ballad / Gypsy Laddie
THE GYPSY LADDIE The gypsies cast a spell over the earl of Cashans lady, and she goes off with them and settles for an open air life with the gypsie laddie. Date: 1918

LONG-SONG SELLER
A LONG-SONG SELLER in the streets of London

Ballad Seller / C17
People gather round a popular ballad-seller

Robert W Service
ROBERT W SERVICE English-born Canadian poet, popular for stirring ballads such as The shooting of Dan McGrew

London / Cries / Ballad Sing
A female ballad singer

Drop of Pantomime Water
Illustration to one of the Bab Ballads by W. S. Gilbert entitled A Drop of Pantomime Water, showing how the players might look under a microscope

Ballad Singers
Ballad singers: the man plays the violin and hobbles on his false wooden leg, while the woman sings from the ballad sheets

Street Trades / Ballads
A ballad singer/seller of the London streets : Buy the fair Ballads I have in my pack !

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