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• The oracles for war: or, Great Britain admonish'd to maintain our ancient rights by dint of sword To a new play-house tune. ([London] : Printed for S. Deacon, at the Angel in Gilt-spur-street, [1690?]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Strange histories, of kings, princes, dukes earles, lords, ladies, knights, and gentlemen With the great troubles and miseries of the Dutches of Suffolke. Verie pleasant either to bee read or sunge, and a most excellent warning for all estates. (London : Printed by [i.e. for] William Barley, the assigne of T. M[orley] and are to be sold at his shop in Gracious streete, 1602. Cum priuilegio), by Thomas Deloney (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The fickle northern lass, or, The wronged shepherds resolution ... Tune of, There was a lass in the north country, &c. ([London] : Printed for F. Coles, T. Vere, J. Wright, and Clarke, [1679]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The longing shepherdess: or, Lady lie neer me To the tune of, Lady lie neer me, or, the green ganter. ([London] : Printed for F. Coles, T. Vere, and J. Wright, [1674]), by Richard Guy (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The true loves knot untied. Being the right path, whereby to advise princely virgins how to behave themselves, by the example of the renowned princess, the Lady Arabella, and the second son to the Lord Seymore, Late Earl of Hertford. The the tune of, Frogs Galliards.. (London, : Printed for F.G. on Snow-hill., [ca. 1630]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The fovr-legg'd elder, or, A horrible relation of a dog and an elders maid to the tune of The lady's fall. ([London : s.n., 1647]), by John Birkenhead (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The mock expedition or, The women in breeches A new ballad. (Wapping [i.e. London] : printed for Moll Tarr-breeches, [1695?]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A New narrative of the old plot. A song: to the tune of Russels Farewel. (London : printed for John Moxon, 1684) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A peerelesse paragon, or, few so chast, so beautious or so faire for with my love I think none can compare. To the tune of the mother beguild the daughter. (Printed at London : for Thomas Lambert, [1633]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The complaint of the Shepherd Harpalus, to a new tune. ([London] : Printed for F. Coles, T. Vere and J. Wright, [between 1663 and 1674]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Great Britains ioy, and good news for the Netherlands. By an honourable peace concluded betwixt England and Holland, upon the 9th of February which was proclaimed Holland upon the 24th day with all imaginable joy, and in London upon the 18th day of the same month, the Lord Mayor and Aldermen being present, with the heralds at arms in their formalities with five of the Kings maces, besides my Lord Mayor and many thousands of people thronging to express their joy for so great ... true subjects shall reap thereby. Tune of, Digby's farewel. ([London] : Printed for F. Coles, T. Vere and J. Wright, [between 1663 and 1674]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Little gest of Robin Hood. (London : Printed for Edward White, [ca. 1590?]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Charming amintas:, or, The yieldling virgin to a pleasant new tune. ([London] : Printed for P. Brooksby at the Golden Ball in Pye-corner, [between 1685 and 1688]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A ballad on the gyants in the physick garden in Oxford, who have been breeding feet as long as garagantua was teeth. To the tune of, The counter scuffle ([Oxford : s.n., 1662]), by Edmund Gayton (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A godly warning for all maidens by the example of Gods judgements shewed upon one German wife of Clifton in the county of Nottingham, who lying in child-bed, was born away and never heard of after. The tune is, The ladyes fall. ([London] : Printed for F. Coles, Tho. Vere and W. Gilbertson, [1670?]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A noble riddle wisele expounded: or, The maids answer to the knights three questions She with her excellent wit and civil carriage, vvon a young knight to joyn with her in marriage. This gallant couple now are man and wife, and she with him doth lead a pleasant life. The tune is Lay the bent to the bonny broom. ([London] : Printed for F. Coles, T. Vere, and W. Gilbertson, [1658-1664]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The Protestants thanks for the downfall of popery, or, Madam popery rocked to sleep (London : Printed for J.C. near Fleet-bridge, 1689) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The Quakers prophesie: or, Strange and wonderful news from Spittle-Fields, humbly dedicated to the Queen of Poland. To the tune of, Then covetousness out of England will run. (London : Printed for Absalon [sic] Chamerlain, in Red-bull Play-house-yard over against the pound in St. John-street; near Clerken-well-green., [1684]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The Round-heads lecture being a true description of a Round-heads conversation, vvhich you may heare in this following relation. ([London] : Printed at London for Francis Coles, in the Old-baily, 1642) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The shepherd's son: or, The faithless nurse. Containing a royal frolick between King Edward the Fourth, and his nobles, at Westminster; as you shall find in this following ditty, taken from ancient writings, for the satisfaction of the world. To the tune of, The royal forrester. Licens'd according to order. (London : Printed for C. Bates, at the Sun and Bible, in Pye-corner, [1685]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Shinkin's misfortune: or, The poor Welsh taylor kidnapt [sic] for stealing a goose, leek and a cock-gelding. To a tune of Teague and Sawney: or, Lilliburlero. Liscensed according to order. ([London] : Printed for J. Deacon at the Angel in Gilt-Spur-Street, [between 1688 and 1690]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Shrowsbury for me: being a song in praise of that famous town, vvhich hath throughout all England gain'd renown. In praise thereof, let every one agree, and say with one accord, Shrowsbury for me. To a delightful new tune: or Shrowsbury for me. ([London] : Printed for J. Wright, J. Clarke, W. Thackeray and T. Passenger, [between 1681 and 1684]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• York and Albany's welcome to England. or, The loyal subjects joy for his most miraculous deliverance To a new play-house tune, much in request. ([London] : Printed for I. Iordan, at the Angel in Guiltspur-street, [168-?]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Pinnyng of the basket. (Imprinted at London : By Henrie Kirkham, and are to be sold at his shop, at the little north doore of Paules, at the signe of the blacke Boye, [1590?]), by T. Rider (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Sir T.J.'s speech to his wife and children ([London : s.n., 1685]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• The lamentable and tragical history of Titus Andronicus. With the fall of his five and twenty sons in the wars of Goths, with the manner of his daughter Lavinia, by the empresses two sons, through the means of a bloody moor, taken by the sword of Titus, in the war; his revenge upon their cruel and inhumane act. To the tune of, Fortune my foe. ([London] : Printed for F. Coles, T. Vere, J. Wright, and J. Clarke, [between 1674-1679]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• The quatorse, or, The sorrowful lamentation of the Preston gentlemen in the press-yard, for the loss of P.W. made by the author, while he was playing at picket ; in imitation of Habby Simson. ([London : s.n., 1685?]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Carpenter (J. Marshall :, 1795), by Hannah More, Samuel Hazard, R. White, and John Marshall (page images at HathiTrust)

• O yes, o yes, I do cry, the bishops bridle will you buy ([Pomadie : s.n., 1639]), by Tom Mill (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• The Whig's exaltation; a pleasant new song of 82. To an old tune of 41. (London, : Printed by Nath. Thompson, anno Domini, 1682), by Thomas D'Urfey (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A choice collection of 120 loyal songs, all of them written since the two late plots, (viz.) the horrid Salamanca Plot in 1678, and the fanatical conspiracy in 1683. Intermixt with some new love songs with a table to find every song to which is added, an anagram, and an accrostick on the Salamanca doctor (London : Printed by N.T. at the entrance into the Old Spring Garden near Charing-Cross, 1684), by Nathaniel Thompson (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The Whigs hard hear[ts,] the cause of this hard frost An excellent new ballad. To the tune of, Oh London! Th'adst better have built new bordello's, &c. ([London : s.n.]Sold at the entrance into the Old Spring-Garden near Charing-Cross, 1683/4) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A song. On His Majesties birth-day ([Dublin] : Printed by William Weston printer & stationer to the Kings most excellent Majesty, 1694), by John Abell and D. Carney (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Another ballad: called The libertines lampoone: or, The curvets of conscience. To the tune of, Thomas Venner, or 60. / Written by the authour of the Geneva Ballad. (London : Printed for F.K. and Edward Thomas, and are to be sold at his shop at the Adam [and Eve in Little-Brittain], 1674), by Samuel Butler (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A new satyricall ballad of the licentiousness of the times. To the tune of, The blinde beggar of Bednall-Green. (London, : [s.n.], Printed in the year, 1679) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The birth, life, death, wil, and epitaph, of Iack Puffe Gentleman. (London : Printed for T.P., 1642) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The cryes of Westminster. [parts 1-2] Or a whole pack of Parliamentary knavery opened, and set to sale. Come customers, come: pray see what you lack, her's Parliament wares of all sorts in my pack. ([London] : Printed in a hollow-tree, for the good of the state, [1648]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Ratts rhimed to death. Or, The Rump-Parliament hang'd up in the Shambles. (London, : [s.n.], Printed in the year 1660 [i.e. 1659]), by Alexander Brome (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• The anarchie or the blest reformation since 1640. Being a new song, wherein the people expresse their thankes and pray for the reformers. To be said or sung of all the well affected of the kingdome of England, and dominion of Wales, before the breaking up of this unhappy Parliament. To a rare new tune. ([London : s.n., 1648]), by Thomas Jordan (HTML at EEBO TCP)

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• The complete poetical works of Theodore Tilton ... with a preface on ballad-making and an appendix on old Norse myths & fables ... (T. F. Unwin; [etc., etc.], 1897), by Theodore Tilton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Folk-ballads of southern Europe (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1913), by Sophie Jewett and Katharine Lee Bates (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ballads and lyrics of old France (T. B. Mosher, 1896), by Andrew Lang and Thomas B. Mosher (Firm) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Poetic origins and the ballad (The Macmillan company, 1921), by Louise Pound (page images at HathiTrust)
• Popular British ballads, ancient and modern (Dent, 1894), by R. Brimley Johnson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ballads of all nations (Alston Rivers, 1927), by George Borrow, Herbert G. Wright, and R. Brimley Johnson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Laus Veneris, and other poems and ballads. (Carleton; [etc., etc.,], 1868), by Algernon Charles Swinburne (page images at HathiTrust)
• Swinburne's Poems and ballads : a criticism (J.C. Hotten, 1866), by William Michael Rossetti (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les cent ballades, poème du XIVe siècle composé par Jean le Seneschal avec la collaboration de Philippe d'Artois, comte d'Eu, de Boucicaut le jeune et de Jean de Crésecque (Firmin-Didot et cie, 1905), by Gaston Raynaud, approximately 1366-1421 Boucicaut, Jean Crésecque, comte d'Eu Philippe d'Artois, and senechal d'Eu Jean de Saint-Pierre (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kosšovo, heroic songs of the Serbs (Houghton Mifflin, 1920), by Helen Rootham (page images at HathiTrust)
• Frontier ballads (Doubleday, Page, 1927), by Charles Joseph Finger (page images at HathiTrust)
• Poems and ballads, third series (Chatto & Windus ..., 1889), by Algernon Charles Swinburne, Lowell Kerr, Evelyn Kerr, J. Ogden and Co, Spottiswoode & Co, and Chatto & Windus (Firm) (page images at HathiTrust)
• A lytell geste of Robin Hode, with other ancient & modern ballads and songs relating to this celebrated yeoman to which is prefixed his history and character (Longman, Brown, Green, & Longmans, 1847), by John Mathew Gutch, F. W. Fairholt, Joseph Woodfall Ebsworth, Edward F. Rimbault, Francis Douce, and William Hone (page images at HathiTrust)
• The popular ballad (Houghton Mifflin and company, 1907), by Francis Barton Gummere (page images at HathiTrust)
• Original ballads by living authors. (Masters, 1850), by Henry Thompson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ancient historic ballads. (Printed and sold by D. Akenhead, 1807), by Thomas Percy, John Tait, Thomas Hull, Thomas Bewick, and Robert Lambe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Herder's Werke. (G. Hempel, 1879), by Johann Gottfried Herder, Anton Eduard Wollheim da Fonseca, and Heinrich Düntzer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Stories from famous ballads : for children (John B. Alden, 1885), by Grace Greenwood and Cairns Collection of American Women Writers (page images at HathiTrust)
• The popular ballad. (Dover Publications, 1959), by Francis Barton Gummere (page images at HathiTrust)
• The dramatic element in the popular ballad. (The University of Cincinnati press, 1905), by George Morey Miller (page images at HathiTrust)
• Old time ballads (Ernest Nister ;, 1906), by John Eyre (page images at HathiTrust)
• The book of songs and ballads : comprising a large collection of the best American, Irish, English, and Scotch songs, and a large number of the popular sentimental and comic dialect and humorous ballads and songs of the day. (Hurst, 1900) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Petrarch, and other essays (W. Doxey, 1893), by T. H. Rearden (page images at HathiTrust)
• Reliques of ancient English poetry: consisting of old heroic ballads, songs, and other pieces of our earlier poets; together with some few of later date. (H. Washbourne and co., 1857), by Thomas Percy (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die lieder aller völker und zeiten in metrischen deutschen übersetzungen und sorgfältiger auswahl; nach dem vorbilde von J.G. von Herder's "Stimmen der völker"... (Hamburg, 1880), by Heinrich Grabow (page images at HathiTrust)
• Melodies, duets, trios, songs, and ballads, pastoral, amatory, sentimental, patriotic, religious, and miscellaneous. Together with metrical epistles, tales and recitations. (Published for the author, by Elliot [i.e. Elliott] & Palmer ..., 1830), by Samuel Woodworth, Peter Maverick, and John Rubens Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
• Firmilian (W.J. Widdleton, 1867), by Theodore Martin and William Edmondstoune Aytoun (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die lieder aller völker und zeiten aus 75 fremden sprachen, in metrischen deutschen uebersetzungen und sorgfältiger auswahl. Nach dem vorbilde von J.G. von Herder's "Stimmen der völker". (G. Kramer, 1888), by Hans Grabow (page images at HathiTrust)
• Homeric ballads (John W. Parker, 1850), by Homer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Baby May : home poems and ballads (King, 1875), by W. C. Bennett (page images at HathiTrust)
• Deutscher Liederhort. Auswahl der vorzüglichern deutschen Volkslieder aus der Vorzeit und der Gegenwart mit ihren eigenthümlichen Melodien. (T.C.F. Enslin, 1856), by Ludwig Erk (page images at HathiTrust)
• Jeremy Jollyboy : songster. Containing ... the most popular songs and ballads of every style, and among them are those "specialties" written by or for ... mimic and actor-vocalist (De Witt, 1876), by Sol Smith Russell (page images at HathiTrust)
• The song companion of a Lone Star cowboy; old favorite cow-camp songs ([Santa Fe, N.M., 1919), by Charles A. Siringo (page images at HathiTrust)
• Grigg's Southern and western songster : being a choice collection of the most fashionable songs : many of which are original. (Lippincott, Grambo, & Co., 1851), by John Grigg (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Eolian songster, a choice collection of the most popular, sentimental, patriotic, naval, and comic songs. (U. P. James, 1852) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Captain Cox, his ballads and books; or, Robert Laneham's Letter; whearin part of the entertainment untoo the Queenz Majesty at Killingworth castl, in Warwik sheer in this soomerz progress, 1575, is signified; from a freend officer attendant in the court, unto hiz freend, a citizen and merchaunt of London. (Printed for the Ballad Society by Taylor and Co., 1871), by Robert Laneham and Frederick James Furnivall (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Lieder aller Völker und Zeiten : aus 75 fremden Sprachen, in metrischen deutschen Uebersetzungen und mit Quellenangaben versehen. Nach dem Vorbilde von J. G. von Herders "Stimmen der Völker" (Kramer, 1893), by Hans Grabow (page images at HathiTrust)
• Deutscher Liederhort. Auswahl der vorzüglicheren deutschen Volkslieder, nach Wort und Weise aus der Vorzeit und Gegenwart (Breitkopf und Härtel, 1893), by Ludwig Christian Erk and Franz Magnus Böhme (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ballades and rondeaus, chants royal, sestinas, villanelles, &c., selected by Gleeson White. (W. Scott, limited, 1887), by Gleeson. White (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die lieder aller völker und zeiten aus 75 fremden sprachen : in metrischen deutschen uebersetzungen und sorgfältiger auswahl (G. Kramer, 1890), by Hans Grabow (page images at HathiTrust)
• Piesni raznykh narodov (Univ. tip., 1854), by Nikolai Vasilevich Berg (page images at HathiTrust)
• Aus Heimat und Fremde. Nach- und Umdichtungen. (A. Menzels Buchdruckerei, 1895), by Gustav Legerlotz (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hugues de Lincoln; : recueil de ballades anglo-normande [!] et ecossoises relatives au meurtre de cet enfant commis par les Juifs en MCCLV (Silvestre; [etc., etc.], 1834), by of Lincoln Hugh and Francisque Michel (page images at HathiTrust)
• Six ballads, with burdens, from ms. no. CLXVIII. in the library of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge (Printed for the Percy Society by T. Richards, 1844), by James Goodwin and Corpus Christi College (University of Cambridge) Library (page images at HathiTrust)
• The poems and ballads of Schiller. (Harper & Brothers, 1844), by Friedrich Schiller, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, and Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Here then is love ballads of the XVIth century : being a pleasant collection of choice songs relating to the affections of the heart, and some other themes as written and sung by divers and sundry eminent witts and scholars at weddings, christenings and such like festive occasions for the edification of ladies and gentlemen (Roycroft Printing Shop, 1897), by Roycroft Shop (page images at HathiTrust)
• Robin Hood : ballads and songs relating to that celebrated outlaw ; with anecdotes of his life (Bell and Daldy, 1862), by Joseph Ritson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ancient Spanish ballads; historical and romantic. (John Murray, 1853), by J. G. Lockhart (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ballads and tales (Smith, Elder, 1869), by William Makepeace Thackeray (page images at HathiTrust)
• Schwedische Volkslieder der Vorzeit (F.A. Brockhaus, 1857), by Erik Gustaf Geijer, Ferdinand J. Wolf, Rosa Warrens, and Arvid August Afzelius (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Loyal garland; a collection of songs of the seventeenth century, reprinted from a black letter copy supposed to be unique. (Printed for the Percy Society by Richards, 1850), by J. O. Halliwell-Phillipps (page images at HathiTrust)
• The ballad poetry of Ireland. (J. Duffy, 1845), by Charles Gavan Duffy (page images at HathiTrust)
• Parepa Rosa's "own" English ballads : containing fifteen pieces of the most popular music (R.M. de Witt, 1869), by Henry Tucker, Euphrosyne Parepa-Rosa, and Henry Seibert & Bros (page images at HathiTrust)
• Delle rime di M. Franco Sacchetti; Le ballate e canzoni a ballo, i madrigali e le cacce ... (Franchi e Maionchi, 1853), by Franco Sacchetti and Tipografia Franchi e Majonchi (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Volksharfe : Sammlung der schönsten Volkslieder aller Nationen. (F.H. Hohler, 1838) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The book of ballads (Blackwood, 1874), by Theodore Martin and William Edmondstoune Aytoun (page images at HathiTrust)
• A book of ballad stories (W. Gardner, Darton & co., ltd., 1906), by Mary Macleod and Edward Dowden (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cowboy songs and other frontier ballads (The Macmillan co., 1916), by John A. Lomax (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ballad and dance (John Hopkins Press, 1920), by George Harley McKnight (page images at HathiTrust)
• Herder's Werke : nach den besten Quellen revidirte Ausgabe (G. Hempel, 1800), by Johann Gottfried Herder, A. E. Wollheim da Fonseca, and Heinrich Düntzer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Children's ballads from history and folklore (D. Lothrop & Co., 1886), by Jessie McDermott Walcott, George Foster Barnes, Edmund H. Garrett, Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman, Margaret Junkin Preston, Emma Huntington Nason, Frances A. Humphrey, Edith W. Cook, Louisa T. Craigin, Susan Coolidge, and Clara Doty Bates (page images at HathiTrust)
• The ballad (Secker, 1914), by Frank Sidgwick (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ballads and other poems original and translated (Smith, Elder, 1868), by Edmund Walker Head (page images at HathiTrust)
• Twenty-two and ten. (Kegan Paul, 1881), by Andrew Lang (page images at HathiTrust)
• Freiris tragedie (Reprinted for private circulation, 1888), by Thomas George Stevenson and James Maidment (page images at HathiTrust)
• A népköltészetről és népdalról. (Franklin-Társulat, 1900), by Sándor Imre (page images at HathiTrust)
• The boy's Percy : being old ballads of war, adventure and love (New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, 1882., 1882), by Thomas Percy, Edmund Birckhead Bensell, Sidney Lanier, Peter J. Solomon, Faires & Rodgers Grant, and Charles Scribner's Sons (page images at HathiTrust)
• Old ballads in prose (Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1901), by Eva March Tappan (page images at HathiTrust)
• His lady of the sonnets (Sherman, French & Company, 1915), by Robert Norwood (page images at HathiTrust)
• Firmilian. (Worthington, 1890), by Theodore Martin and William Edmondstoune Aytoun (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ballads of battle and bravery (Harper, 1879), by W. Gordon McCabe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ballads of home ... (Lee and Shepard, 1876), by George M. Baker (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ballads and barrack-room ballads (Macmillan, 1893), by Rudyard Kipling (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ballads and other poems (Macmillan and Co., 1888), by Alfred Lord Tennyson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Duck Creek ballads (H. C. Nixon ..., 1894), by John Henton Carter (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Song of the Rid Square; a historical ballad. (Glasgow, 1883), by George Bannatyne and James Barclay Murdoch (page images at HathiTrust)
• Canti popolari slavi, greci e napoletani. (N. Battezzati, 1883), by Pietro Turati (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ballads and other fugitive poetical pieces, chiefly Scotish, from the collections of Sir James Balfour, knight. ([Printed by A. Lawrie & co.], 1834), by James Maidment (page images at HathiTrust)
• Poetic origins and the ballad (Russell & Russell, 1921), by Louise Pound (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bentley ballads; containing the choice ballads, songs & poems contributed to "Bentley's miscellany". (Bentley, 1861) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The lonely sentinel : ballad (M. Keller, 1864), by M. Keller and C. Henry (page images at HathiTrust)
• The harp that once thro' Tara's Halls : ballad (Boston (17 Tremont Row, Boston) : G.P. Reed, [between 1850 and 1852], 1850), by John Stevenson and Thomas Moore (page images at HathiTrust)
• Abshied von der Sennerinn (Louisville : David P. Faulds, [not before 1855], 1855), by George Linley and Charles Balmer (page images at HathiTrust)
• I have sworn to love thee ever : ballad (New York : Firth, Son & Co., [1863], 1863), by Robert Heller (page images at HathiTrust)
• Christmas hymn (Wm. A. Pond & Co., 1865), by E. Miller and E. H. Chapin (page images at HathiTrust)
• I've just been learning the lesson of life (New York (13 East 14th St., New York) : S.T. Gordon & Son, [1865], 1865), by H. Millard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fig for your "upper ten" girls, with their velvets and satins and laces (New Orleans : A.E. Blackmar, [1866], 1866), by F. W. Smith and Robert Josselyn (page images at HathiTrust)
• Is it a sin to love thee : ballad (D.P. Faulds, 1869), by George Summers (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sound the loud timbrel (Baltimore : G. Willig, 1869), by John Stevenson (page images at HathiTrust)
• It is but a little faded flower (547 Broadway, New York : Wm. A. Pond & Co., [1860], 1860), by J. R. Thomas, H. D. Van Nostrand, and Frederick Enoch (page images at HathiTrust)
• The assassin rode on his fiery steed, his muderous work was done (Published by S. Brainard's Sons, 1865), by J. W. Turner and S. Brainard Sons (page images at HathiTrust)
• The white squall (New York : William Hall & Son, [between 1848 and 1858], 1848), by George Barker and Barry Cornwall (page images at HathiTrust)
• Come wander forth with me : serenade (Samuel C. Jollie, 1850), by Anna M. Heffernan (page images at HathiTrust)
• When I knew you long ago : ballad (Lee & Walker, 1865), by Stephen Glover (page images at HathiTrust)
• My true love has my heart : ballad. (New York : Oliver Ditson & Co., [186-?], in the 1860s), by Jacques Blumenthal (page images at HathiTrust)
• Genevieve's doves : reverie : op. 552 (New Orleans : Blackmar & Co., [1862], 1862), by Théod. von La Hache (page images at HathiTrust)
• O do not blame my saddening heart : ballad (Nashville ; Memphis : Published by J.A. M'Clure, [1862], 1862), by E. O. Eaton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Joys that we've tasted : ballad arranged for the Spanish guitar (F.D. Benteen, 1866), by Samuel Carusi (page images at HathiTrust)
• When I knew you long ago : ballad (Lee & Walker, 1856), by Stephen Glover (page images at HathiTrust)
• The life and exploits of Robin Hood! being an entirely new compilation of the surprising adventures of the celebrated outlaw and his men; together with a critical dissertation on the causes of his popularity and the credibility of his recorded actions. (David Green, 1856), by Wildwood Neville (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Apollo : or, Harmonic miscellany: : containing English, Scotch, & Irish songs, duets, ballads, &c. &c. with the music, accurately printed for the voice, violin, German flute, &c. &c. (Printed for Champante and Whitrow ... and sold by all booksellers, &c., 1814) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pictorial Balladist. (J.C. Moore, 1846), by Joseph Scott Moore and W. G. Standfast (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Oxford book of ballads (Clarendon Press, 1924), by Arthur Quiller-Couch (page images at HathiTrust)
• Home melodist : a collection of songs and ballads. (Boston : Oliver Ditson & Co., [1859], 1859), by Benson Collection of Hymnals and Hymnology (Princeton Theological Seminary) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Forget me not songster. (Nafis & Cornish, 1840), by Benson Collection of Hymnals and Hymnology (Princeton Theological Seminary) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Stories of the Scottish border (T. Y. Crowell & company, 1911), by William Platt and William Platt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Complete poetical works (T. F. Unwin, 1897), by Theodore Tilton (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Serpent Knight, and Other Ballads, by George Borrow, ed. by Thomas James Wise (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Fountain of Maribo, and Other Ballads, by George Borrow, ed. by Thomas James Wise (Gutenberg ebook)
• Grimhild's Vengeance: Three Ballads, by George Borrow, ed. by Edmund Gosse and Thomas James Wise (Gutenberg ebook)
• Young Swaigder; or, The Force of Runes, and Other Ballads, by George Borrow, ed. by Thomas James Wise (Gutenberg ebook)
• Tord of Hafsborough, and Other Ballads, by George Borrow, ed. by Thomas James Wise (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Tale of Brynild, and King Valdemar and His Sister: Two Ballads, by George Borrow, ed. by Thomas James Wise (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Song of Deirdra, King Byrge and his Brothers, and Other Ballads, by George Borrow, ed. by Thomas James Wise (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Verner Raven, The Count of Vendel's Daughter, and Other Ballads, by George Borrow, ed. by Thomas James Wise (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Dalby Bear, and Other Ballads, by George Borrow, ed. by Thomas James Wise (Gutenberg ebook)
• Signelil, A Tale from the Cornish, and Other Ballads, by George Borrow, ed. by Thomas James Wise (Gutenberg ebook)
• Ellen of Villenskov, and Other Ballads, ed. by Thomas James Wise, trans. by George Borrow (Gutenberg ebook)
• Child Maidelvold, and Other Ballads, ed. by Thomas James Wise, trans. by George Borrow (Gutenberg ebook)
• Queen Berngerd, The Bard and the Dreams, and Other Ballads, ed. by Thomas James Wise, trans. by George Borrow (Gutenberg ebook)
• The King's Wake, and Other Ballads, by George Borrow, ed. by Thomas James Wise (Gutenberg ebook)
• Mollie Charane, and Other Ballads, ed. by Thomas James Wise, trans. by George Borrow (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Return of the Dead, and Other Ballads, ed. by Thomas James Wise, trans. by George Borrow (Gutenberg ebook)
• Ulf Van Yern, and Other Ballads, ed. by Thomas James Wise, trans. by George Borrow (Gutenberg ebook)
• Proud Signild, and Other Ballads, ed. by Thomas James Wise, trans. by George Borrow (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Nightingale, the Valkyrie and Raven, and Other Ballads, ed. by Thomas James Wise, trans. by George Borrow (Gutenberg ebook)
• Niels Ebbesen, and Germand Gladenswayne: Two Ballads, ed. by Thomas James Wise, trans. by George Borrow (Gutenberg ebook)
• Marsk Stig's Daughters, and Other Songs and Ballads, ed. by Thomas James Wise, trans. by George Borrow (Gutenberg ebook)
• King Hacon's Death, and Bran and the Black Dog: Two Ballads, ed. by Thomas James Wise, trans. by George Borrow (Gutenberg ebook)
• King Diderik and the fight between the Lion and Dragon, and Other Ballads, ed. by Thomas James Wise, trans. by George Borrow (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Expedition to Birting's Land, and Other Ballads, ed. by Thomas James Wise, trans. by George Borrow (Gutenberg ebook)
• Grimmer and Kamper, The End of Sivard Snarenswayne, and Other Ballads, ed. by Thomas James Wise, trans. by George Borrow (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Brother Avenged, and Other Ballads, ed. by Thomas James Wise, trans. by George Borrow (Gutenberg ebook)
• Brown William, The Power of the Harp, and Other Ballads, ed. by Thomas James Wise, trans. by George Borrow (Gutenberg ebook)
• Alf the Freebooter, Little Danneved and Swayne Trost, and Other Ballads, ed. by Thomas James Wise, trans. by George Borrow (Gutenberg ebook)
• The birth, parentage, and education, of Praise-God Barebone. To which is added, an election ballad, or the lamentation of Miss *******. A true but doleful ditty. ([Philadelphia] : Printed [by Andrew Steuart] for Jack Northwester [i.e., Isaac Hunt], at the Sign of the White-Oak in Heart of Oak Street,, MDCCLXVI. [1766]), by Isaac Hunt (HTML at Evans TCP)
• Lawyer's pedigree. (Boston: : Printed and sold [by Zechariah Fowle] below the Mill-Bridge., [1755]), by Jonathan Swift (HTML at Evans TCP)
• The Poor man's advice to his poor neighbours: a ballad, to the tune of Chevy-Chace. (New-York: : Printed [by James Rivington], in the year M.DCC.LXXIV. [1774]) (HTML at Evans TCP)
• A new song. To the tune of The British grenadiers. ([United States : s.n., 1776]), by Jonathan Mitchell Sewall (HTML at Evans TCP)

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