Poems About: BALLAD

He never went to college yet few as great as he
Nor to his name he never had a literary degree
He was a Singing Ploughboy he came up the hard way
His songs are sung around the World and his legend lives today. read more »

The Rhymes That Our Hearts Can Read
We are sated of songs that hymn the praise
Of a world beyond our ken;
We are bored by the ballads of beaten ways, read more »

{This is a poetry written with my teenager son in mind.......teenage tantrums at times......vex}


There is a constant ballad read more »

John Manifold was an Australian poet worthy of praise
He helped keep alive the Australian songs of convict days
His original poem 'The Bunyip and the whistling Kettle' remains as an Aussie great
Poem of the twentieth century like all good rhyme poems one that does not have a use by date read more »

He pens and sings his own ballads the Southern Grampians balladeer
And through the famous old shire he is known far and near
At pubs and clubs in Hamilton he often does entertain
A middle aged bush Poet and about him nothing vain. read more »

The great W H Ogilvie was more than one of note
The man from Kelso in Scotland who spent twelve years in Australia Became a legendary poet
His book of poems 'Fair Girls and Gray Horses' made his a celebrated name
His poems by decades have outlived him a testament to his fame. read more »

Sigerson Clifford sung of the The Boys of Barr Na Sraide the happy boys who hunted for the Wran
The boys who grew up to be freedom fighters Who took on the British troops The Black and Tan
He glorified them in his famous ballad the brave young rebels of his Kerry Town
The boys of Caherciveen and Barr Na Sraide to fight for Ireland their claim to renown read more »

FABULOUS LENT RIB
please read notes

F IT LINT, IF, FIN, IN FLINT FILLS FAST FIRST phrase read more »

I recall the poems of Dan O Horgan he was a renowned Duhallow poet
When I was a schoolboy in Millstreet he was one of literary note
He was famous Crinaloo's old Dan O some of his poems living today
Perhaps it should go without saying that with words he did have a way. read more »

Write me a poem,
A short love ballad,
Whose words, though benign
Will somewhat revivify read more »

There'll be a time
When all will hear
The ballads of
All that I fear read more »