Poems About: BALLAD

Repeat that, repeat,
Cuckoo, bird, and open ear wells, heart-springs, delightfully sweet,
With a ballad, with a ballad, a rebound
Off trundled timber and scoops of the hillside ground, hollow hollow hollow ground: read more »

'(Craving from one place to another
For a false death with feathered life) '
Written in a paper-
A cushioned pigeon read more »

Some say I've life to the fullest
and known both good and bad times
Yes, I've lived a full life singing
Whiskey whims, beer ballads read more »

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Standing on one side of the bridge
You on the other
Burned at both ends
of the times we spent with one another read more »

An Englishman born with the great gift of rhyme
He lived in the Yukon in his glorious prime
A master wordsmith of the twentieth century
He glorified Dan Mgrew and Sam Magee. read more »

Your tender blue eyes perform miracles through a break of magic -
To prove science an eternal mystery -
To burn countless colors across Andromeda and the Milky Way -
To sprinkle stars across a moonless palette; all for its gleaming auroras... read more »

Don't sing me 'Slievenamon' or 'Molly Malone' or 'The Banks Of My Own Lovely Lee'
Or 'The Boys Of Wexford' or 'Galway Bay' or even 'The Rose Of Tralee'
I've often heard those songs sung in my young years and the past I do want to forget
They were and are well loved old ballads though tinged with nostalgia and regret read more »

With the best writers of his era Edward Harrington did rate
The farmer's son from Shepparton was a poetic great
He wrote the stirring ballads that poetry lovers love to recite
A poem of his recited at many a poetry night. read more »

As I’ve no hope of returning ever,
Little ballad, lightly, softly,
Go yourself, to Tuscany, read more »

Come, let us sing with a right good ring
(Sing hey for lifting lay, sing hey!)
Of any old, sunny old, silly old thing.
(Sing ho for the ballad of a backblock day!) read more »

As I walked along ivory diamond shores,
Through the endless sands of summer’s floors,
I found myself yearning for an untold romance,
For an unknown ballad to make this heart dance, read more »