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Ballads

A story told in short rhyming stanzas, usually four lines, with roots in folk song.

Alfred NoyesNoyes Lewis CarrollCarroll Robert BurnsBurns Edgar Allan PoePoe John KeatsKeats
11 poems
A Red, Red RoseO my Luve’s like a red, red rose, Robert Burns Ballad Annabel LeeIt was many and many a year ago, Edgar Allan Poe Ballad Casey at the BatThe outlook wasn’t brilliant for the Mudville nine that day: Ballad Christmas at SeaThe sheets were frozen hard, and they cut the naked hand; Ballad Jabberwocky’Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Lewis Carroll Ballad La Belle Dame sans Merci“O what can ail thee, knight-at-arms, John Keats Ballad The Ballad of the OystermanIt was a tall young oysterman lived by the river-side, Alfred Noyes Ballad The Cremation of Sam McGeeThere are strange things done in the midnight sun Alfred Noyes Ballad The HighwaymanPART ONE Alfred Noyes Ballad The Lady of ShalottOn either side the river lie Alfred Tennyson Ballad The Walrus and the Carpenter“The sun was shining on the sea, Lewis Carroll Ballad