Ballads were originally composed to accompany dances, and so were composed in couplets with refrains in alternate lines.

Early collections of English ballads were made by Samuel Pepys ( 1633 – 1703 ) and in the Roxburghe Ballads collected by Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Mortimer ( 1661 – 1724 ).

For the second class, subjects were to be chosen from ordinary life ... In this idea originated the plan of the ' Lyrical Ballads '; in which it was agreed, that my endeavours should be directed to persons and characters supernatural, or at least Romantic ; yet so as to transfer from our inward nature a human interest and a semblance of truth sufficient to procure for these shadows of imagination that willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.

The Child Ballads were published in five volumes between 1882 and 1898.

Ballads were ritually sung at weddings and funerals, and sung informally for small groups of people at house parties as the food cooked and young children played.

Capitalizing on his victory of the American reality show, his Debut compilation was re-issued, and his second collection was also released in the same year, True Ballads, including some of his solo tracks, most of the cover songs which were already contained in his second studio album, and historical hits from the Spandau Ballet period.

The American folk revival group The Almanac Singers were recruited by Alan Lomax to record several shanties for the 1941 album Deep Sea Chanteys and Whaling Ballads.

Awareness that older kinds of song were being abandoned prompted renewed interest in collecting folk songs during the 1830s and 1840s, including the work of William B. Sandys ' Christmas Carols Ancient and Modern ( 1833 ), William Chappell, A Collection of National English Airs ( 1838 ) and Robert Bell's Ancient Poems, Ballads and Songs of the Peasantry of England ( 1846 ).

Also important were occasional radio shows, such as Lomax ’ s Ballads and Blues, MacColl ’ s Radio-ballads ( 1958 – 64 ) and The Song Carriers ( 1968 ).

Border ballads were a major part of those collected by Francis James Child and make up most of the sixth volume of his ten volume collection of The English and Scottish Popular Ballads ( 1882 – 98 ).

The Arizona Rangers were featured in the song, " Big Iron ", in Western singer Marty Robbins ' album Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs.

The Almanacs also issued two albums of traditional folk songs with no political content in 1941: an album of sea chanteys, Deep Sea Chanteys and Whaling Ballads ( sea chanteys, as was well known, being Franklin Roosevelt's favorite kind of song ) and Sod-Buster Ballads, which were songs of the pioneers.

There are many of his compositions in Good Words, The Sunday Magazine, The Quiver and London Society, but his most important productions made for the Dalziel brothers were illustrations of Oliver Goldsmith, of Jean Ingelow's poems, * Robert Buchanan's Ballads of the Affections, and the Arabian Nights.

Rudyard Kipling published the poem Tommy ( part of the Barrack-Room Ballads, which were dedicated " To T. A.

The relics were not always very ancient, as many of the ballads dated from only the 17th century ( e. g. the Bagford Ballads or The Dragon of Wantley in the Percy Folio ), and so what began as an antiquarian movement soon became a folk movement.

Both ballads were collected in Thomas Percy's Reliques and the first of the ballads in Francis James Child's Child Ballads.

The lyrics were rewritten for clarity by one George Coward, a Carlisle bookseller, and approved by Graves for a book of Cumberland songs titled Songs and Ballads of Cumberland published in 1866.

Ballads were also popular from the late 14th century onwards, including the Ballad of Chevy Chase and others describing the activities of Robin Hood.

The Bagford Ballads were English ballads collected by John Bagford ( 1651-1716 ) for Robert Harley, first Earl of Oxford.

After Harley's death, the Bagford Ballads were obtained by the Duke of Roxburge, and they were finally published at large by the Ballad Society in 1878.

Kipling's Barrack Room Ballads were published in 1892, and Bellamy started setting them to music in 1973.

In 1861, to supplement his income, the younger Gilbert began writing illustrated stories, poems and articles of his own, many of which would later be mined as inspiration for his plays and operas, particularly Gilbert's series of illustrated poems, the Bab Ballads.

It featured many popular Child Ballads of the day, such as " Mary Hamilton " and was recorded in only four days in the ballroom of New York City's Manhattan Towers Hotel.

Beginning in 1999, Monster Ballads, a series of compilation albums that feature popular power ballads, usually from the glam metal genre, capitalized on the nostalgia, with the first volume going platinum.

Of the Columbia River Ballads " Roll on, Columbia ", which he set to a modified version of Huddie Ledbetter's " Goodnight, Irene ", was by far the most popular.

Barzaz Breiz ( in modern spelling Barzhaz Breizh, meaning " Ballads of Brittany ": Barz is the equivalent of " bard " and Breiz means " Brittany ") is a collection of Breton popular songs collected by Théodore Hersart de la Villemarqué and published in 1839.

" Sir Patrick Spens " is one of the most popular of the Child Ballads ( No. 58 ), and is of Scottish origin.

Barzaz Breizh, the " Ballads of Brittany ", ( literally, barzaz Breizh = bards of Brittany ) is a collection of Breton popular songs collected by La Villemarqué and published in 1839 ( revised and expanded edition 1845 ).

In the nudie-cartoon anthology Sex to Sexty, which included " Balled-Up Ballads "-- popular tunes with racy lyrics -- the following lines were written for " Marianne ":

Winner was especially popular for his ballads published under the pseudonym of Alice Hawthorne, which became known generically as " Hawthorne's Ballads ".

The humorous Bon Gaultier Ballads remained popular for a long time ; originally contributed to a magazine, they appeared in book form in 1845.

* Barrack-Room Ballads ( 1892, poetry )

Along with other poems in Lyrical Ballads, it was a signal shift to modern poetry and the beginning of British Romantic literature.

In the second edition of Lyrical Ballads, published in 1800 ( see 1800 in poetry ), he replaced many of the archaic words.

While the poem was originally published in the collection of Lyrical Ballads, the 1817 version was published in his collection entitled Sibylline Leaves ( see 1817 in poetry ).

He published poetry collections including Canciones ( Songs ) and Romancero Gitano ( Gypsy Ballads, 1928 ), which became his best known book of poetry.

In the century's first decade, poetry still had a large audience ; volumes of verse published in that time included Thomas Hardy's The Dynasts, Christina Rossetti's posthumous Poetical Works, Ernest Dowson's Poems, George Meredith's Last Poems, Robert Service's Ballads of a Cheechako and John Masefield's Ballads and Poems.

His work inspired poetry by Swinburne — Swinburne's 1886 Poems & Ballads is dedicated to Burne-Jones.

Other works include poetry, as Ballads ( 1779 ) and Iambics ( 1784 ), and other works, such as Plays ( 1787 ) and Travels ( 1791 ); and novels, such as The Island ( 1788 ).

In many respects, their criticism echoes what William Wordsworth wrote in Preface to Lyrical Ballads to instigate the Romantic movement in British poetry over a century earlier, criticising the gauche and pompous school which then pervaded, and seeking to bring poetry to the layman.

He wrote two books of poetry: England's Trust and Other Poems, published in 1841, and English Ballads and Other Poems, published in 1850.

Similarly, William Wordsworth had said that poetry should come from " emotions recollected in tranquility " ( Preface to Lyrical Ballads, emphasis added ).

His three main volumes of poetry, Balade vesele şi triste (" Ballads, Merry and Sad "), Parodii originale (" Original Parodies ") and Migdale amare (" Bitter Almonds "), are a compelling mixture of humor and delicate lyricism.

Wordsworth himself in the Preface to his and Coleridge's Lyrical Ballads defined good poetry as “ the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings ,” though in the same sentence he goes on to clarify this statement by asserting that nonetheless any poem of value must still be composed by a man “ possessed of more than usual organic sensibility has also thought long and deeply ;” he also emphasises the importance of the use of meter in poetry ( which he views as one of the key features that differentiates poetry from prose ).

In the Western tradition, all these elements were thought of as properly different in poetry and prose up to the time of the Romantic revolution, when William Wordsworth challenged the distinction in his Romantic manifesto, the Preface to the second ( 1800 ) edition of Lyrical Ballads ( 1798 ).

A Shot in the Park ( poetry, published in U. S. as Borderline Ballads )

A Choice of Ballads ( poetry )

Most writers have accepted as " Bab Ballads " any poetry ( whether illustrated or not ) that Gilbert contributed to periodicals, not counting poems written or repurposed as operatic lyrics.

Nearly a century after her death her poetic output had been largely forgotten, until the great English poet William Wordsworth praised her nature poetry in an essay included in his 1815 volume Lyrical Ballads.