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Thomas the Rhymer (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 3.88 — 3,952 ratings — published 1990
Casey at the Bat: A Ballad of the Republic Sung in the Year 1888 (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.06 — 2,737 ratings — published 1888
An Earthly Knight (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.67 — 1,678 ratings — published 2003
Fire and Hemlock (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.95 — 11,232 ratings — published 1985
The Book of Ballads (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.95 — 1,077 ratings — published 2004
Tam Lin (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.84 — 5,832 ratings — published 1991
Lament: The Faerie Queen's Deception (Books of Faerie, #1)
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avg rating 3.66 — 34,037 ratings — published 2008
The Big Treasury of Australian Folklore: Two Centuries of Tales, Epics, Ballads, Myths & Legends (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.40 — 5 ratings — published 1990
Murder Ballads: Illustrated Lyrics & Lore (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.01 — 442 ratings — published 2025
A Bundle of Ballads (Textbook Binding)
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avg rating 2.50 — 6 ratings — published 1959
The Rosewood Casket (Ballad, #4)
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avg rating 4.04 — 3,986 ratings — published 1996
Mad Love, Murder & Mayhem: Favorite English & Scottish Ballads (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.67 — 9 ratings — published
The Silver Dagger: American Murder Ballads (An Anthology of Classic Ballads, War Songs & Shanties)
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avg rating 4.58 — 12 ratings — published
The Ballad of Never After (Once Upon a Broken Heart, #2)
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avg rating 4.48 — 536,831 ratings — published 2022
Leonora: 1796 (Revolution and Romanticism, 1789-1834)
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avg rating 4.08 — 163 ratings — published 1774
The Plays And Poems Of William Cartwright (Paperback)
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avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published 2011
The Burl Ives Song Book (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.29 — 7 ratings — published 1953
Ballads: Grandfather Baldwin's Thanksgiving with Other Ballads and Poems (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.50 — 8 ratings — published 1875
Selected Poems of James K. Baxter (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.97 — 36 ratings — published 2010
The New Penguin Book of English Folk Songs (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.35 — 108 ratings — published 2012
The Ballad of East and West (Unknown Binding)
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avg rating 3.65 — 20 ratings — published
The Ballad of William Sycamore (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.00 — 4 ratings — published
A Ballade of Suicide (Unknown Binding)
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avg rating 4.17 — 6 ratings — published 1915
Lord Randall, A Traditional Border Ballad (ebook)
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avg rating 3.94 — 17 ratings — published
The Wife of Usher's Well, A Traditional Border Ballad (ebook)
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avg rating 3.67 — 15 ratings — published
The Ballad of One-Eyed Mike (Unknown Binding)
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avg rating 3.75 — 4 ratings — published
The Ballad of the Burglar of Babylon (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.00 — 10 ratings — published 1968
Bridal Ballad (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.46 — 152 ratings — published 1837
The Ballad of Reading Gaol (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.28 — 7,925 ratings — published 1898
The Ballad of Reading Gaol and Other Poems (Dover Thrift Editions)
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avg rating 4.12 — 1,916 ratings — published 1896
English Verse , Volume II, Campion to the Ballads
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avg rating 3.11 — 9 ratings — published 1929
Children of Dune (Dune #3)
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avg rating 3.95 — 265,024 ratings — published 1976
The Bridgertons: Happily Ever After (Bridgertons, #1.5-8.5; 8.6)
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avg rating 3.93 — 56,998 ratings — published 2013
Scottish Ballads (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.76 — 17 ratings — published 1996
Electric Eden: Unearthing Britain's Visionary Music (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.20 — 1,032 ratings — published 2010
The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (The Hunger Games, #0)
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avg rating 3.99 — 1,273,686 ratings — published 2020
Along the western road: Bush stories and ballads (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.00 — 1 rating — published
Faith and Fairies: Tales Based on Albanian Legends and Ballads (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.00 — 1 rating — published 2002
Two Penny Ballads and Four Dollar Whiskey: A Pennsylvania Folklore Miscellany (Hardcover)
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avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 1966
Waltzing Matilda Meets Lazy Jack: 50 Australian Ballads, Poems and Rhymes (Paperback)
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avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published 1999
The Merry Ballads of Robin Hood (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.17 — 6 ratings — published 1931
Body, Boots, and Britches: Folktales, Ballads, and Speech from Country New York (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.67 — 9 ratings — published 1940
Ballaade (Unknown Binding)
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avg rating 3.80 — 46 ratings — published 2010
Ballads and Songs: Collected by The Missouri Folk Lore Society (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.50 — 2 ratings — published 1940
Australian Bush Ballads (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.00 — 2 ratings — published
Heroes of Serbia: Folk Ballads Retold (Hardcover)
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avg rating 5.00 — 2 ratings — published 1963
The Spell of the Yukon and Other Verses (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.24 — 1,100 ratings — published 1907
All in the Downs: Reflections on Life, Landscape and Song (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.42 — 86 ratings — published 2018
Bush Ballads of Australia (Hardcover)
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avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 1985
“Sorry to break your fairytale, Little Fox, but ballads don't end happily, and neither do the two of us.”
― The Ballad of Never After
― The Ballad of Never After
“Scotland's contribution to American balladry is a subject which was either glossed over or neglected entirely by Cecil Sharp, the English folklorist and ballad collector, when he came over to the United States in search of traditional song poetry. Over here we are indebted to Sharp and to Miss Maud Karpeles for exploring the back country and helping us find what we had. Their visits were fruitful and their English Folk Songs from the Southern Appalachians is an exemplary work. But it is regrettable that a Scottish folklorist, familiar and in tune with Lowland traditions, was not close at hand to make a few claims of his own.
Somebody needed to suggest that Scotland had as good a claim to half the British ballads Sharp collected in Tennessee, Virginia and North Carolina as England has. Somebody might have suggested that English Folk Songs from the Southern Appalachians is a misleading title - that British Folk Songs would have been more accurate. For, after all, the most authoritative editor in the business, Francis J. Child, had clearly recognised two national traditions in his monumental English and Scottish Popular Ballads, which is the keystone work on which all subsequent studies have been based.”
― Saltire Review 20, Spring 1960
Somebody needed to suggest that Scotland had as good a claim to half the British ballads Sharp collected in Tennessee, Virginia and North Carolina as England has. Somebody might have suggested that English Folk Songs from the Southern Appalachians is a misleading title - that British Folk Songs would have been more accurate. For, after all, the most authoritative editor in the business, Francis J. Child, had clearly recognised two national traditions in his monumental English and Scottish Popular Ballads, which is the keystone work on which all subsequent studies have been based.”
― Saltire Review 20, Spring 1960