An Excellent Ballad Of George Barnwell, An Apprentice Of London (Anonymous British Poems)
An excellent ballad of George Barnwell, an Apprentice of London, who…thrice robbed his master and murdered his vncle in Ludlow. ...
An excellent ballad of George Barnwell, an Apprentice of London, who…thrice robbed his master and murdered his vncle in Ludlow. ...
When late Protectorship was Canon-Proof,And _Cap-a-pe_ had seiz'd on _Whitehall_-Roof,And next, on _Israelites_ durst look so big,That _Tory-like_, it lov'd ...
DeathThou wealthy man of large possessions here,Amounting to some thousand pounds a year,Extorted by oppression from the poor,The time is ...
Come mourne, come mourne with mee,You loyall lovers all;Lament my loss in weeds of woe,Whom griping grief doth thrall.Like to ...
It fell about the Lammas tide,When the muir-men win their hay,The doughty Douglas bound him to rideInto England, to drive ...
As it fell out on a highe holye daye, As many bee in the yeare,When yong men and maides ...
Ye sportive nymphs who on Parnassus play,Though old as ages, -- young and ever gay!O hither wing from Parna's flow'ry ...
When Troy towne had, for ten yeeres 'past',Withstood the Greekes in manfull wise,Then did their foes encrease soe fast,That to ...
Now ponder well, you parents deare,These wordes which I shall write;A doleful story you shall heare,In time brought forth to ...
Willie stands in his stable door, And clapping at his steed, And over his white fingers His nose ...
Old stories tell how HerculesA dragon slew at Lerna,With seven heads, and fourteen eyes,To see and well discern-a:But he had ...
In the third day of May,To Carleile did comeA kind curteous child, That cold much of wisdome.A kirtle and a ...
JANUARYJanus am I; oldest of potentates; Forward I look, and backward, and belowI count, as god of avenues and gates, ...
You sober-minded christians now draw near,Labour to learn these pious lessons here;For by the same you will be taught to ...
Vanity of vanities, all is vanity--SOLOMON.What are life's joys and gains?What pleasures crowd its ways,That man should take such painsTo ...
Upon a time when Titan's steeds were drivenTo drench themselves beneath the western heaven;And sable Morpheus had his curtains spread,And ...
DeathFair lady, lay your costly robes aside,No longer may you glory in your pride;Take leave of all your carnal vain ...
An old song made by an aged old pate,Of an old worshipful gentleman who had a greate estate,That kept a ...
Will you hear a Spanish lady,How shee wooed an English man?Garments gay as rich as may be,Decked with jewels she ...
When Phoebus had melted the sickles of ice,With a hey down, &c.And likewise the mountains of snow,Bold Robin Hood he ...
ServingmanWell met, my brother friend, all at this highway end,So simple all alone, as you can,I pray you tell to ...
We were hungry, tired and dirty,From our shoulders rifles hung,Our clothes were torn, our faces bronzedBy long hours in the ...
Woe worth, woe worth thee, false Scotlande!For thou hast ever wrought by sleight;The worthyest prince that ever was borne,You hanged ...
Come all you freemasons that dwell around the globe,That wear the badge of innocence, I mean the royal robe,Which Noah ...
In prime of years, when I was young,I took delight in youthful ways,Not knowing then what did belongUnto the pleasures ...
On a dark lonely night on the Crimea's dread shore There had been bloodshed and strife on ...
Let India boast her spicy trees, whose fruit and gorgeous bloom Give, to each faint and languid breez, its rich ...
Forth from my sad and darksome cell, Or from the deepe abysse of hell,Mad Tom is come into the world ...
There was a youthe, and a well-beloved youthe,And he was a squires son;He loved the bayliffes daughter deare,That lived in ...
About Zule, quhen the wind blew cule,And the round tables began,A'! there is cum to our kings courtMony a well-favourd ...
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