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The Book of Ballads, edited by Bon Gaultier [pseud.]
by William Edmondstoune Aytoun Theodore Martin
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Chapters (77)
- THE BOOK OF BALLADS
- PREFACE.
- LIST OF EDITIONS of the BON GAULTIER BALLADS.
- CONTENTS.
- L’ENVOY.
- SPANISH BALLADS
- The Broken Pitcher.
- Don Fernando Gomersalez. From the Spanish of Astley’s.
- The Courtship of our Cid.
- AMERICAN BALLADS
- The Fight with the Snapping Turtle; or, The American St George.
- FYTTE FIRST.
- FYTTE SECOND.
- The Lay of Mr Colt.
- STREAK THE FIRST.
- STREAK THE SECOND.
- The Death of Jabez Dollar.
- The Alabama Duel.
- The American’s Apostrophe to Boz.
- MISCELLANEOUS BALLADS
- The Student of Jena.
- The Lay of the Levite.
- Bursch Groggenburg.
- Night and Morning.
- The Biter Bit.
- The Convict and the Australian Lady.
- The Doleful Lay of the Honourable I. O. Uwins.
- The Knyghte and the Taylzeour’s Daughter.
- The Midnight Visit.
- The Lay of The Lovelorn.
- My Wife’s Cousin.
- The Queen in France.
- PART I.
- PART II.
- The Massacre of the Macpherson.
- The Laureates’ Tourney.
- FYTTE THE FIRST.
- FYTTE THE SECOND.
- The Royal Banquet.
- The Bard of Erin’s Lament.
- The Laureate.
- A Midnight Meditation.
- Montgomery.
- Little John and the Red Friar.
- FYTTE THE FIRST.
- FYTTE THE SECOND.
- The Rhyme of Sir Launcelot Bogle.
- ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE PUFF POETICAL
- The Death of Ishmael.
- Parr’s Life Pills.
- Tarquin and the Augur.
- La Mort d’Arthur,
- Jupiter and the Indian Ale.
- The Lay of the Doudney Brothers.
- Paris and Helen.
- A Warning.
- To Persons About to Marry.
- Want Places.
- MISCELLANEOUS POEMS
- The Lay of the Lover’s Friend.
- Francesca Da Rimini.
- The Cadi’s Daughter.
- The Dirge of the Drinker.
- The Death of Duval.
- Eastern Serenade.
- Dame Fredegonde.
- Song of the Ennuyé.
- The Death of Space.
- Caroline.
- To a Forget-Me-Not,
- The Meeting.
- The Mishap.
- Comfort in Affliction.
- The Invocation.
- The Husband’s Petition.
- Sonnet to Britain.
- NOTES.
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