A Book of Ballads, Old and NewGuido Hermann Stempel H. Holt, 1917 - 329 páginas |
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Página ix
... sung Drake's Drum Ivry . • Browning • 185 Noyes Masefield · 187 192 Newbolt . Macaulay · 193 · 194 The Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers in New England . Song of the Cornish Men The Battle of the Boyne After Aughrim • Battle of the Baltic ...
... sung Drake's Drum Ivry . • Browning • 185 Noyes Masefield · 187 192 Newbolt . Macaulay · 193 · 194 The Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers in New England . Song of the Cornish Men The Battle of the Boyne After Aughrim • Battle of the Baltic ...
Página xii
... sung , they slough off their refrain , or change it into something more suitable to reading and recitation . Sometimes the refrain is hummed or , as in No. 278 of Child's collection , whistled . If this humming becomes articulate , it ...
... sung , they slough off their refrain , or change it into something more suitable to reading and recitation . Sometimes the refrain is hummed or , as in No. 278 of Child's collection , whistled . If this humming becomes articulate , it ...
Página xiii
... sung as an accompani- ment to each stanza . Not strictly a refrain , but serving the same musical purpose , is the repetition of lines , as in our version of The Twa Sisters , in Edward , and in The Three Ravens . This , like the ...
... sung as an accompani- ment to each stanza . Not strictly a refrain , but serving the same musical purpose , is the repetition of lines , as in our version of The Twa Sisters , in Edward , and in The Three Ravens . This , like the ...
Página xxii
... sung while the singers were dancing . " We may now inquire why ballads are called popular ballads , as in the title of Child's great work . From Percy on , emphasis was laid more and more on getting the ballads as they were actually sung ...
... sung while the singers were dancing . " We may now inquire why ballads are called popular ballads , as in the title of Child's great work . From Percy on , emphasis was laid more and more on getting the ballads as they were actually sung ...
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... sung mair , " the mother of the Ettrick Shepherd said to Scott . Some of the old ballads are still sung here and there in remote places . But they are dying out , and as they die , there are no new ones to take their place . Child's ...
... sung mair , " the mother of the Ettrick Shepherd said to Scott . Some of the old ballads are still sung here and there in remote places . But they are dying out , and as they die , there are no new ones to take their place . Child's ...
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battle Beichan blood bonny bride Captain Car castle Cheviot Child commonplace Compare cried Cruel Brother dance dance-song daughter dead death dialogue Douglas Tragedy English eyes fair father galloped Gay Goshawk gold Gummere hair hand hath head heart Henry Hind Etin Hind Horn horse incremental repetition Johnie Johnie Armstrong Kemp Owyne King Estmere lady Laily Worm land landlord's leaping and lingering Little John Little Moccasins looked Lord merry moonlight mother narrative Navarre Neckan never night o'er Otterburn Percy poem popular Proud Lady Margaret quoth refrain Reprinted by permission riddle riding rime Robin Hood rode romance says Scotch Scott sings slain song stanza steed stood story STUDY sung Sweet William's Ghost sword ta'en tell thee thou Tlot-tlot tree Twa Sisters wife William word young Young Beichan
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Página 174 - You've fallen cold and dead. My Captain does not answer, his lips are pale and still, My father does not feel my arm, he has no pulse nor will, The ship is...
Página 192 - So we were left galloping, Joris and I, Past Looz and past Tongres, no cloud in the sky; The broad sun above laughed a pitiless laugh, 'Neath our feet broke the brittle, bright stubble like chaff; Till over by Dalhem a dome-spire sprang white, And "Gallop," gasped Joris, "for Aix is in sight!
Página 203 - Amidst the storm they sang, And the stars heard and the sea ; And the sounding aisles of the dim woods rang To the anthem of the free.
Página 202 - Ho! maidens of Vienna; ho! matrons of Lucerne; Weep, weep, and rend your hair for those who never shall return. Ho! Philip, send, for charity, thy Mexican pistoles, That Antwerp monks may sing a mass for thy poor spearmen's souls.
Página 174 - ... rack, the prize we sought is won, The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting, While follow eyes the steady keel, the vessel grim and daring; But O heart! heart! heart! O the bleeding drops of red, Where on the deck my Captain lies, Fallen cold and dead.
Página 207 - OF Nelson and the North Sing the glorious day's renown, When to battle fierce came forth All the might of Denmark's crown, And her arms along the deep proudly shone; By each gun the lighted brand In a bold determined hand, And the Prince of all the land Led them on.
Página 163 - So stately his form, and so lovely her face, That never a hall such a galliard did grace; While her mother did fret, and her father did fume, And the bridegroom stood dangling his bonnet and plume; And the bride-maidens whispered, " 'Twere better by far To have matched our fair cousin with young Lochinvar.
Página 191 - Good speed!" cried the watch, as the gate-bolts undrew; "Speed!" echoed the wall to us galloping through; Behind shut the postern, the lights sank to rest, And into the midnight we galloped abreast.
Página 162 - Oh ! young Lochinvar is come out of the west, Through all the wide Border his steed was the best ; And save his good broadsword he weapons had none, He rode all unarmed and he rode all alone. So faithful in love and so dauntless in war, There never was knight like the young Lochinvar.
Página 203 - The breaking waves dashed high On a stern and rock-bound coast, And the woods against a stormy sky Their giant branches tossed; And the heavy night hung dark The hills and waters o'er, When a band of exiles moored their bark On the wild New England shore.