Ballads
by William Makepeace Thackeray
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Chapters (93)
- BALLADS
- BALLADS.
- THE CHRONICLE OF THE DRUM.
- ABD-EL-KADER AT TOULON.
- THE KING OF BRENTFORD'S TESTAMENT.
- THE WHITE SQUALL.
- PEG OF LIMAVADDY.
- MAY-DAY ODE.
- THE BALLAD OF BOUILLABAISSE.
- THE MAHOGANY TREE.
- THE YANKEE VOLUNTEERS.
- THE PEN AND THE ALBUM.
- MRS. KATHERINE'S LANTERN.
- LUCY'S BIRTHDAY.
- THE CANE-BOTTOM'D CHAIR.
- PISCATOR AND PISCATRIX.
- THE ROSE UPON MY BALCONY.
- RONSARD TO HIS MISTRESS.
- AT THE CHURCH GATE.
- THE AGE OF WISDOM.
- SORROWS OF WERTHER.
- A DOE IN THE CITY.
- THE LAST OF MAY.
- "AH, BLEAK AND BARREN WAS THE MOOR."
- SONG OF THE VIOLET.
- FAIRY DAYS.
- POCAHONTAS.
- FROM POCAHONTAS.
- LOVE-SONGS MADE EASY.
- WHAT MAKES MY HEART TO THRILL AND GLOW?
- THE GHAZUL, OR ORIENTAL LOVE-SONG.
- THE MERRY BARD.
- THE CAÏQUE.
- MY NORA.
- TO MARY.
- SERENADE.
- THE MINARET BELLS.
- COME TO THE GREENWOOD TREE.
- FIVE GERMAN DITTIES.
- A TRAGIC STORY.
- THE CHAPLET.
- THE KING ON THE TOWER.
- ON A VERY OLD WOMAN.
- A CREDO.
- FOUR IMITATIONS OF BÉRANGER.
- THE KING OF YVETOT.
- THE KING OF BRENTFORD.
- THE GARRET.
- ROGER-BONTEMPS.
- JOLLY JACK.
- IMITATION OF HORACE.
- AD MINISTRAM.
- OLD FRIENDS WITH NEW FACES.
- THE KNIGHTLY GUERDON.*
- THE ALMACK'S ADIEU.
- WHEN THE GLOOM IS ON THE GLEN.
- THE RED FLAG.
- DEAR JACK.
- COMMANDERS OF THE FAITHFUL.
- WHEN MOONLIKE ORE THE HAZURE SEAS.
- KING CANUTE.
- FRIAR'S SONG.
- ATRA CURA.
- REQUIESCAT.
- LINES UPON MY SISTER'S PORTRAIT.
- THE LEGEND OF ST. SOPHIA OF KIOFF.
- TITMARSH'S CARMEN LILLIENSE.
- THE WILLOW-TREE.
- THE WILLOW-TREE.
- LYRA HIBERNICA
- THE PIMLICO PAVILION.
- THE CRYSTAL PALACE.
- MOLONY'S LAMENT.
- MR. MOLONY'S ACCOUNT OF THE BALL.
- THE BATTLE OF LIMERICK.
- LARRY O'TOOLE.
- THE ROSE OF FLORA.
- THE LAST IRISH GRIEVANCE.
- THE BALLADS OF POLICEMAN X.
- THE WOLFE NEW BALLAD OF JANE RONEY AND MARY BROWN.
- THE THREE CHRISTMAS WAITS.
- LINES ON A LATE HOSPICIOUS EWENT.*
- THE BALLAD OF ELIZA DAVIS.
- DAMAGES, TWO HUNDRED POUNDS.
- THE KNIGHT AND THE LADY.
- JACOB HOMNIUM'S HOSS.
- THE SPECULATORS.
- A WOEFUL NEW BALLAD
- THE LAMENTABLE BALLAD OF THE FOUNDLING OF SHOREDITCH.
- THE ORGAN-BOY'S APPEAL.
- LITTLE BILLEE.*
- THE END OF THE PLAY.
- VANITAS VANITATUM.
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